Upcoming
"Sandi Wisenberg gave a terrific presentation to our students on writing, publishing, editing, and, more generally, making a career as a writer. The students remarked afterwards how helpful they found her, and how honest and compelling they found her discussion with us to be." J. A. Bernstein, associate professor, The Center for Writers, University of Southern Mississippi, graduate class on publishing, Spring 2023 (online)
"Sandi Wisenberg's talk was humorous, insightful and revealing."--Irina Ruvinsky, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, professor, "Illness as Metaphor" class, Spring 2022
UPCOMING EVENTS & APPEARANCES (all times are local unless otherwise indicated):
Thursday, February 16, 2023, 4-5:30pm Central, University of Missouri-Kansas City (on Zoom). I'm speaking on humor in cancer narratives as part of the UMKC Marilyn T. and Byron C. Shutz lecture series, "Healing in Times of Strife: Therapeutic Dialogue through Art, Pedagogy, and Writing." The very cool Monica Prince, choreopoems scholar, will be joining me. Click here to register.
March 9-11, 2023, Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference, Seattle. I'll be staffing the Another Chicago Magazine table much of the time, Table T1718 by the food and beverage sellers. Come for the free Tootsie Rolls, stay for conversation.
6pm Thursday, March 9, 2023, University Bookstore, University of Washington, 4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105. I'm leading a free, low-stress workshop on writing home from 6 to 6:30p. Then I'm reading with dynamic author Ronit Plank, podcaster and author of the fiction collection Home is a Made-Up Place ("poignant" and "melancholy"--Kirkus).
2pm Friday, March 10, 2023, Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference, Seattle; signing The Wandering Womb at the UMass Press table T203
evening tba, Thursday, March 23, University of Scranton
6pm, March 25, 2023, Bookwoman Bookstore, 5501 N. Lamar #A-105, Austin, TX, with Debra Monroe reading from her latest book, It Takes a Worried Woman ("smart, edgy essays"--Marion Winik, Minneapolis Star Tribune)
10-noon, Sunday, April 2, Brunch book talk, Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture, College of Charleston; April 3 class visit, Jews, Gender & Sex
7pm Tuesday, April 11, 2023, Women & Children First Bookstore, 5233 N. Clark St., Chicago. Reading of The Wandering Womb accompanied by interlocutor Aimee Levitt
noon Central Sunday, April 23, 2023, Literary Modiin (online)
PODCASTS, dates tba: Let's Talk Memoir with Ronit Plank, I'm a Writer But with Alex Higley and Lindsay Hunter, New Books Network: Literature with G.P. Gottlieb, Bet Debora-Jewish Women's Perpectives with Norli Lappin-Eppel
Past events:
University of Southern Mississippi, 2023 (online)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022
Park Ridge (IL) Public Library, 2022 (online)
Chicago Printers Row Book Fair, workshop on catching memory, 2019
Elgin (IL) Community College, Writers Center Reading Series, 2002, 2019
University of Tampa low-residency MFA Program, 2015
Brown University, Great Brown Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series, 2013
Houston Jewish Book Fair, 2001, 2002, 2009
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Bankhead Visiting Writers Series, 2009
Creighton University, 2009
University of Iowa, Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine conference (keynote), 2008
Grand Valley State University, 2008
Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI, 2008
Columbia College Chicago, Creative Nonfiction Week, 1998, 2002, 2006
Texas A&M University, Women's & Gender Equity Resource Center, 2006; Center for Humanities Research, 2001
Purdue University, Cancer Culture & Community workshop, 2007; Jewish Studies Lecture Series, 2001 and 2004
University of Minnesota, Mankato, Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer 2005
Lafayette College; Easton, Pennsylvania, Closs Writer in Residence, 2004
Drew University, 2003
Western Michigan University, 2001, 2003
Miami Book Fair International, 2002
University of Miami, 2002
College of DuPage (IL), 2002
American Literature Assn., Jewish-American and Holocaust Literature Symposium, 2002
Northwestern University Center for the Writing Arts, 2002
Association for Women Journalists, Chicago, 2002; Dallas, 2002
Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live, 2002
Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas, Women's Education Series, 2002
Skokie (IL) Public Library, 2002
Arlington Heights (IL) Memorial Library, 2002
Ela Area Public Library District, Lake Zurich, IL, 2002
Off Campus Writers' Workshop, Winnetka, IL, 2002
Jewish Book & Culture Fair, Milwaukee, 2001
University of Houston-Clear Lake, Women's Studies, 2001
Loyola University, Chicago, 1993 and 2001
Millikin University, Decatur, IL, 2001
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Women and the Holocaust program, 2000
American Medical Writers Association, Chicago chapter, 2000