Appearances

UPCOMING "FROM PAGE TO PODIUM" WORKSHOPS "VERSE TO VIDEO" VIA ZOOM VIDEOCONFERENCE! SAT, OCTOBER 3 to MON, OCTOBER 5: Flatiron Writers Room, Asheville, NC. Buy tickets here!

previous appearances

PREVIOUS AUTHOR EVENTS 2016 January 23: Author reading, SHINE Storytelling, Miles Memorial Playhouse, Santa Monica, CA. February 27: Mel was the keynote speaker at the International Women's Writing Guild's 2016 Regional Conference: "California Dreaming," Antioch University, Los Angeles, CA. 2015 March 19: Author reading, SHINE Storytelling, YWCA Westside, Santa Monica, CA. March 26: Author reading & signing, Tulsa Street Elementary School Festival of Books, Granada Hills, CA. April 16: Author reading & signing, Barnes & Noble Del Amo, Torrance, CA. April 26: Author reading & signing, Malaprop's Bookstore, Asheville, NC. September 19: "Teaching Will: What Shakespeare and Ten Kids Gave Me That Hollywood Couldn't" Transformative Language Arts Network: Power of Words Conference: Transformation, Liberation & Celebration Through the Spoken, Written and Sung Word Unity Village, Kansas City, MO October 13: Author reading & signing, Book Warehouse, Vancouver, BC, Canada October 21: Lit Crawl LA, Los Angeles, CA 2014 June: EVE Talk, "Power, Revenge, Love: Why Kids Get Shakespeare" at Women's Voices, Women's Visions Arts & Activism Symposium, Skidmore College, NY. September: Private author reading & signing, Sherman Oaks, CA. October: Author reading & signing, Audrey’s Books, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. October: Book launch, Walgrove Arts Celebration at Walgrove Elementary School, Los Angeles, CA.

PREVIOUS "TEACHING WILL" WORKSHOPS 2014 October: Victoria School of the Arts, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. October: Memorial Composite High School, Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada. 2012 February: St. Francis de Sales School, Sherman Oaks, CA.

PREVIOUS "PAGE TO PODIUM" WORKSHOPS 2019 July: International Women's Writing Guild 42nd Summer Conference, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA. September: Flatiron Writers Room, Asheville, NC. 2018 May 5: Flatiron Writers Room, Asheville, NC. 2017 March 25: International Women's Writing Guild's 2017 Regional Conference: "California Dreaming," Antioch University, Los Angeles, CA. May 20: Flatiron Writers Room, Asheville, NC. July 7-14: 40th Annual IWWG Summer Conference, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA. 2015 March 15: International Women's Writing Guild's 2015 Regional Conference: "California Dreaming," Antioch University, Los Angeles, CA. April 25: Flatiron Writers Room, Asheville, NC. July 24-31: International Women's Writing Guild 2015 Summer Conference, Wisdom House, Litchfield, CT. 2014 April: Flatiron Writers, Asheville, NC. June: "From Page to Podium: Finding Voice & Speaking Out" at Women's Voices, Women's Visions Arts & Activism Symposium, Skidmore College, NY. 2013 May-June: Women's Words Summer Writing Week, University of Alberta Extension; Alberta, Canada. August: International Women's Writing Guild 36th Annual Summer Conference, Drew University, NJ. 2012 June: Saga Seminars, Mabel Dodge Luhan House, NM.