Leslie Leyland Fields

 

Appearances and Presentations

As a former professor of English and Creative Writing, and as a conference speaker, Ms. Fields has developed a number of effective and engaging workshops, readings, craft talks, and in-school visits.

Some of the topics include:
  • The Changing Value of Children:  A Personal Look at Global Demographics
  • Creative Nonfiction:  The State of the Art
  • A Guide for the Over-Committed to Creating an Authentic Writing Life
  • Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography
  • Writing the Wild
  • Telling it Straight, Telling it Slant:  Constructing the True Self in Memoir
  • A Room of Your Own and Other Myths of the Writing Life
  • Postmodernism, Narrative and Faith:  A Story of Two Stories
  • Why Your Story Matters


Leslie Leyland Fields

Town

Location

Dates
2009
Lookout Mountain, GA Covenant College
Writer-in-Residence: Creative Nonfiction		 January 15 - 23
Atlanta, GA Peachtree Presyterian Church
Nine Lies of Parenting		 January, TBA
Whidbey Island, WA MFA Residency
Seattle Pacific University
Reading, Workshops, Seminar		 March 15 - 25
2008
Lookout Mountain, GA Covenant College
Writer-in-Residence

 January, March
Whidby Island, WA Seattle Pacific, MFA
Residency		 March 16-26
Atlanta, GA

Peachtree Presbyterian Church

  • Reading: Surviving Grace
  • "What Does It Mean to be Called
  • The Courage to Serve

April 1


11:00 a.m.
1:00 p.m.
Grand Rapids, MI

Calvin College
Calvin Festival of Faith & Writing

 April 17-19
Grand Rapids, MI

Calvin College

  • "Can Christmas Tell the Truth?"
  • "Light at the End of the Tunnel:
    Metaphors of the Writing Process"

April 18

11:15 - 12:15 p.m.

1:45 - 2:45 p.m.
Sante Fe, NM St. John's College
Seattle Pacific University MFA Residency
 July 25 - August 5
Kodiak, AK Kodiak College
Reading: "Passing It On"		 September, TBA
Anchorage, AK "New Psalms for the Journey October, TBA
   

 
2007
Guatemala City The Courage to Teach/The Courage to Learn Seminar January 9
El Salvador The Courage to Teach Seminar January 19
Tegucigalpa, Honduras The Courage to Teach Seminar January 23
San Pedro Sula, Honduras The Courage to Teach Seminar January 25
Houston, Texas Houston Baptist University
"Writing the Mystery"		 March 12
Student Union
For Info: ljclark@hbu.edu
Houston, Texas HBU
Reading:  "Passing it On:  Where Memory Takes us"		 March 13
For Info: ljclark@hbu.edu
Whidbey Island, Washington MFA Residency March 15 - 25
Wheaton, IL Wheaton College
Reading:  "Surviving Grace and Other Mysteries"		 March 28
4:00 p.m.
Wheaton, IL Wheaton College
Lunch with Creative Writing Students:  Inside the MFA		 March 29
Info:  brett.foster@wheaton.edu
Houghton, NY Houghton College
Writing Festival:  Writing a Woman's Life		 April 18 - 20
Sante Fe, NM MFA Residency
Homily: "Eat this Book": "What is Required of Us?"
Reading: Body Double		 July 25-August 5
Kodiak, AK Alaska Ministries
Keynote Speaker: "The Courage to Serve"
Workshops: Incarnational Teaching		 September 28,29
Lookout Mountain, GA

Covenant College
Creative Nonfiction: Finding Our Names

 October 24
12:00, 1:00 pm
Lookout Mountain, GA Covenant College
Dramatic Reading: "Mountains Unmoving"		 October 24
7:00 pm
President's Room
Lookout Mountain, GA Covenant College
An Open Conversation with
Leslie Leyland Fields		 October 25
12 :00 pm
The Blink
 

2006

  
Kodiak, Alaska KVOK Surprise Child Interview February 23
10:00 a.m.
Kodiak, Alaska KMXT Interview February 24
9:15 a.m.
Kodiak, Alaska Reading and Signing:  The Next Page February 24
7:30 p.m.
Atlanta WNIV:  The John Young Show March 7
3:40 p.m. EST
Atlanta WNAMB: Strength for Living March 8
5:00 p.m. EST
Whidbey Island Reading:  Surprise Child March 17
7:30 p.m.
Grand Rapids, MI Calvin Festival of Faith and Writing
Reading:  Surprise Child and Surviving the Island of Grace		 April 20
1:45 - 2:45
Prince Conference Center
Grand Rapids, MI Calvin Festival of Faith and Writing
"Writing Against the Odds"		 April 20
1:45 - 2:45
Prince Conference Center
Grand Rapids, MI Calvin Festival of Faith and Writing
"Writing the Wild"		 April 22
3:45 - 4:45
Meeker Center
Kodiak, Alaska Kodiak College:  Writing for Publication May 3
7:00 p.m.
Room 111
Fort Wayne, IN WBCL May 19
9:05 EST
(Live call-in)
Cedarville, OH WCDR Interview:  Surprise Child
Front Page:  Surprise Child		 May 22
Lewiston, PA "The Larry Wideman Show" June 5
11:00 a.m. EST
(Live call-in)
  Janet Parshall's America (radio)
Call-in Show		 July 11
4:30 - 5:00 p.m. EST
Santa Fe, NM Glen Workshop
Lectures and Readings		 July 27 - August 8
Kodiak, Alaska Kodiak College:  An Evening with Leslie Leyland Fields September 28
8:00 p.m.
Santa Barbara Westmont College
Public Reading, Class Lectures		 November 14, 15
Malibu, CA Pepperdine University
"The Spirit of Art"		 November 17
Library Reading Room
12:00
  2005  
Victoria BC
First Metropolitan Church
Reading:  "Surviving the Island of Grace"
 		 January 22, 2005
7:30 pm
Santa Barbara, CA

Westmont College
Author Talk:  "Reading as a Writer:  Writing as a Reader"

 March 21, 2005
Mon. 12:45
Santa Barbara, CA

Westmont College
Author Talk:  "Telling it Straight, Telling it Slant:  Constructing the True Self"

March 22, 2005
Tues. 10 am - 11 am
Victoria, BC Queenswood Retreat Centre Seminar:
New Psalms for the Journey"
250-477-3822		 March 30, 2005
6:30 - 9:30

Victoria, BC

 First Metropolitan Church
"Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography"		 March 28, 29, 2005
Mon. 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Tues. 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Victoria, BC First Metropolitan Church
"Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography"		 March 29, 30, 2005
Tues. 10 am - 2 pm
Weds. 10 am - 2 pm
Vancouver, BC AWP Conference Panel Presentation:
"Where it's All Too Real:  Alaska's Nonfictional Demands"		 March 31, 2005
12:00 noon
 

Previous Appearances

  

Seattle

Seattle Pacific University
Conference: 
The Narrateable World
 Keynote Speaker:  "Post Modernism, Narrative, and Faith:  A Story of Two Stories"

November 6 - 9
Seatlle Interview on The Dick Staub Show   WGNW November 6
Airs:  Nov. 7, 4-5 PM
Seattle Ravenna Third Place Books November 10
7:00 PM
Eugene, Oregon Barnes and Noble
Oakway Mall		 November 12
Santa Barbara, CA
(For more info, call
Professor Paul Willis
805-565-7174)		 Westmont College
 Poetry Reading:  "The Water Under Fish and Other Living Things"		 February 26
Santa Barbara, CA
 		 Westmont College
 Convocation Speaker:  "Surviving Grace"		 February 27
Astoria, Oregon
(For more info, email: Jenslund@aol.com)		 Fisher Poets Gathering
Prose and Poetry Readings 		February 28
10:45-11:45
Astoria, Oregon Clatsop Community College
Arts and Ideas Series
 "Surviving the Island of Grace:  A Literary Memoir of a working woman in Alaska Fisheries"		 February 28
Performing Arts Center
2:00-3:00
Eugene, Oregon University of Oregon, Eugene
Reading from Surviving the Island of Grace		 March 2
Knight Library
Ocean Side, Florida Radio Show
Snappers Restaurant
WFKZ-FM
The Turtle Club Live Radio Show		 March 11
6:00 pm
 
Tavernier, Florida
305-853-2464		 Cover to Cover Books March 12
7:00 pm
 
Key West, Florida Waldenbooks March 14

2:00-5:00 pm
Kodiak, Alaska KMXT, 100.1 FM Public Radio
Reading:  "Living in the Kingdom of Clean-Enough"		 December 9
9 pm
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