Upcoming
Contact Tim about scheduling talks, workshops, or travel programs.
April 20, 2024, 10:30am-1:30pm — “Novel Architecture” (GrubStreet online – Zoom)
May 10 – 12, 2024 — “Storytelling to Save the World: the Fiction of Climate Apocalypse” — Muse & the Marketplace, Boston (exact date & time tk)
May 18, 2024, 10:30am-1:30pm — “Novel Revision Series: Killer Openings” (GrubStreet online – Zoom)Past Events
March 8 – 16, 2024 — Cuba Writers Program
February 19 – 23, 2024 — San Miguel Writer’s Conference, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
January 26, 2024 — Show and Tell in Fiction, GrubStreet (Zoom)
January 6 – 14, 2024 — The Newport MFA in Creative Writing, Winter Residency
December 15, 2023 — Point of View in Fiction, Part II: Degrees of Omniscience, GrubStreet (Zoom)
November 28 – December 6, 2023 — Friends’ Trip to Cuba
November 3, 2023 — Point of View in Fiction, Part I: POV & Psychic Distance, GrubStreet (Zoom)
October 25, 2023 — Climate Change and Our Writing Craft: A Discussion with Drinks (GrubStreet instructor training – Seaport HQ)
October 13-15, 2023 — Brattleboro Literary Festival
October 21, 2023 — Beyond Conflict: Sources of Narrative Drive in Fiction, GrubStreet (Zoom)
September 28, 2023 — “A Playground for Empire: Historical Perspectives on Cuba and the U.S.A.” Vermont Humanities Council Speakers Bureau (illustrated lecture), Pittsfield Library, Pittsfield, VT
September 16, 2023 — The Divine Specific: Descriptive Writing in Fiction, GrubStreet (Zoom)
August 4, 2023— Fictional Characters II: Heroes & Villains, GrubStreet (Zoom)
July 7, 2023 — Fictional Characters I: Creating Unforgettable Characters, GrubStreet (Zoom)
June 24 – 28, 2023 — The Newport MFA Summer Residency, Newport, RI
June 24, 2023 — “Finding Inspiration and Creativity in Fly Fishing” (with artist Samantha Aronson), Bookstock: Green Mountain Festival of Words, Woodstock, VT
June 15, 2023 — In Conversation with Danielle Trussoni, Nantucket Book Festival
June 2, 2923 — Novel Revision Series: Symphonic Endings, GrubStreet (Zoom)
May 13, 2023 — Novel Architecture, GrubStreet (Zoom)
May 5, 2023 — Novel Revision Series: Killer Openings, GrubStreet (Zoom)
April 10 – 17, 2023 — The Art & Cuisine of Oaxaca, Mexico (Brattleboro Museum & Art Center)
March 25, 2023 — “What’s Your Novel ‘About’?“, GrubStreet (Zoom)
March 4, 2023 — “Finding Your Literary Voice,” GrubStreet (Zoom)
February 14 – 19, 2023 — San Miguel Writers’ Conference, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
January 7 – 15, 2023 — Newport Winter Residency in Havana, Cuba
December 10th, 2022, Novel Revision Series: Image Systems — GrubStreet (Zoom)
November 30 – December 8, 2022 — Private Trip to Cuba: Havana, Cienfuegos, Playa Larga
November 5th, 2022, Novel Revision Series: Descriptive Writing — GrubStreet (Zoom)
October 13 – 16, 2022 – Brattleboro Literary Festival
October 7, 2022, Backstory & Flashback — GrubStreet (Zoom)
October 1, 2022, Sentence-Level Music III: Making Sentences that Sing —The Skills (Zoom)
September 24, 2022, Sentence-Level Music II: Sentence-Level Suspense & Cumulative Syntax The Skills (Zoom)
September 17, 2022, Sentence-Level Music I: The Core Qualities of Great Sentences —The Skills (Zoom)
September 10, 2022, Fiction’s Inner Landscape — GrubStreet (Zoom)
August 6th, 2022, Point of View in Fiction, Part II: Degrees of Omniscience — GrubStreet (Zoom)
July 18 – 22, 2022 — “Heroes & Villains in Fiction,” Grub Street YAWP (Young Adult Writer’s Program)
July 9, 2022 — Point of View in Fiction, Part I: POV & Psychic Distance — GrubStreet (Zoom)
June 27 – July 3, 2022 — Newport MFA Summer Residency
June 4, 2022 — Novel Architecture — GrubStreet (Zoom)
June 2, 2022, Groton Public Library: “Cuba: Playground for Empire” – (virtual illustrated lecture)
May 25, 2022, Pangyrus Anthology “Underlying Conditions,” Launch Party & Reading (Zoom)
May 21, 2022 — Scene, Summary, and Dialogue in Fiction — GrubStreet
May 14, 2022 — Beyond Conflict: Sources of Narrative Drive in Fiction — GrubStreet
May 13, 2022 — Brattleboro Literary Festival Literary Cocktail Hour: A Conversation with Ben McGrath (“Riverman”)
April 2, 2022 — Fictional Characters II: Heroes and Villains— GrubStreet
March 5, 2022 — Fictional Characters I: Creating Unforgettable Characters — GrubStreet
February 26, 2022 — “Novel Revision Series: Symphonic Endings” — GrubStreet
January 22, 2022 — “Novel Revision Series: Killer Openings” — GrubStreet
January 4 – 9, 2022 — Newport MFA Winter Residency — Newport, Rhode Island
December 11, 2021 – “Interiority: Fiction’s Inner Landscape” – GrubStreet (LIVE at the Seaport)
November 20, 2021 – “Novel Revision Series: Descriptive Writing” – GrubStreet
November 13, 2021 – “Technique in Historical Fiction, Part II” – Grub Street
November 6, 2021 – “Technique in Historical Fiction, Part I” – Grub Street
October 30, 2021 – “Finding Your Literary Voice” – Grub Street
October 2, 2021 – “Novel Revision Series: What’s Your Novel ‘About’? – Grub Street
September 17, 2021 “Omniscience” – Grub Street
August 14, 2021 — “Sentence-Level Music II: Making Sentences That Sing” – Grub Street
July 17, 2021 — “Novel Revision Series: Scene, Summary, & Dialogue” – Grub Street
July 10, 2021 — “Sentence-Level Music I: Core Principles of Great Sentences” – Grub Street
June 5, 2021 — “Novel Revision Series: Dramatic Structure” – Grub Street
May 22, 2021 —“Beyond Conflict: Sources of Narrative Drive in Fiction” – Grub Street
April 22, 2021
“Writing in the Age of the Climate Crisis” (with Julie Carrick Dalton) The Muse and the Marketplace
April 10th, 2021 — “Novel Revision Series: Image Systems” -Grub Street
March 13th, 2021 — “Novel Revision Series: Backstory & Flashback” – Grub Street
March 6th, 2021 — “Interiority: Fiction’s Inner Landscape” – Grub Street
February 13th, 2021 — “Omniscience” – Grub Street
January 29th, 2021 — “Fictional Characters II: Heroes & Villains” – Grub Street
January 23rd, 2021 — “Novel Revision Series: POV and Psychic Distance” – Grub Street
January 15th, 2021 — “Fictional Characters I: Creating the Cast” – Grub Street
January 8, 2021
Literary Cocktail Hour, a conversation with William Souder, author of Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck – sponsored by the Brattleboro Literary Festival
January 2 – 10, 2021
Newport MFA in Creative Writing Winter Residency
December 19, 2020
“Novel Revision Series: Symphonic Endings” Grub Street
November 14, 2020
“Novel Revision Series: Killer Openings” Grub Street
October 15 – 18, 2020
Brattleboro Literary Festival, Brattleboro, VT
October 10, 2020
“Novel Revision Series: Descriptive Writing & Image Systems.” Grub Street
September 19, 2020
“Novel Revision Series: Dialogue & the Scene.” Grub Street
September 16, 2020, 7pm
EVERYWHERE STORIES On the Air (Sponsored by Press 53)
September 15, 2020
WILL POOLE’S ISLAND reissue: paperback & audio editions
August 1, 2020 –“Technique in Historical Fiction.” Grub Street – (REMOTE)
July 18, 2020
“Sentence Level Music.” Grub Street – (REMOTE)
July 11, 2020
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Point of View & Voice” (REMOTE)
June 20 – 28, 2020
The Newport MFA in Creative Writing – Summer Residency (REMOTE)
June 12, 2020
May 30, 2020
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Interiority & Backstory” REMOTE!
April 18, 2020
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Dramatic Structure & Narrative Drive” REMOTE!
March 21, 2020
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Concept, Premise, Theme” REMOTE!
January 25, 2020
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Cast of Characters”
January 22, 2020
“Thunderbolt: True History of a Scottish Highwayman in 19th Century Vermont” – Putney Public Library (Sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council Speakers Bureau)
January 4 – 12, 2020
Newport MFA Winter Residency in Cuba: Havana & Playa Larga
December 7, 2019
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Killer Openings & Symphonic Endings”
November 9, 2019
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Fictional Love Stories”
October 25, 2019, 7PM
Belmont Books Writer’s Craft Series: Climate Fiction and Writing the Anthropocene (with Julie Carrick Dalton & Sonya Larson)
October 18 – 20, 2019
Brattleboro Literary Festival
October 12, 2019
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Dialogue & the Scene”
September 23 – October 3, 2019
National Geographic Expeditions: Douro River Cruise, Portugal & Spain
September 7, 2019
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Point of View & Voice”
August 1 – 4, 2019
Cape Cod Writers Center Conference, Hyannis, MA. “Fiction’s Inner Landscape”; “Beyond Conflict: Sources of Narrative Drive.”
July 27, 2019
Grub Street: “Technique in Historical Fiction“
July 13, 2019
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Interiority & Backstory“
June 22 – 30, 2019
Newport MFA in Creative Writing, June Residency
June 8, 2019
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Descriptive Writing & Image Systems“
June 6, 2019
Boston Lit Crawl, “A Little Box of Yes.” (Storymatic)
May 18, 2019
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Dramatic Structure & Narrative Drive“
May 2 – 10, 2019
Cuba Writers Program, Havana & Playa Larga
April 15 – 23, 2019
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in Cuba: 13th annual Havana Art Biennial
April 5 – 7, 2019
The Muse & The Marketplace, Boston, MA. “Interiority in Fiction”; “Image Systems.”
March 27 – 30, 2019
AWP Conference, Portland, Oregon. Cuba Writers Program: Reading. Green Writers Press Book Signing: A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing.
February 23, 2019
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Sentence-Level Music“
January 26, 2019
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Killer Openings & Symphonic Endings“
January 5 – 13, 2019
Newport MFA in Creative Writing, January residency
December 15, 2018
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Dialogue & the Scene“
December 13, 2018
Brattleboro Words Project, 118 Main Street, Brattleboro. “The Round Schoolhouse & the Legend of ‘Thunderbolt’: History, Fiction, & Early Brattleboro Publishing”
December 8, 2018
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Fictional Love Stories”
November 7 – 18, 2018
National Geographic Expeditions: Exploring Patagonia
November 2, 2018
Historical Writers of America Conference, Providence, RI: “Point of View in Historical Fiction”; “World Building in Historical Fiction”
October 27, 2018
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Cast of Characters”
October 12 – 14, 2018
Brattleboro Literary Festival
September 29, 2018
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Point of View & Voice”
September 7, 2018
Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers (RMFW) Colorado Gold Conference, Denver: “Essentials of Voice in Fiction.”
August 27, 2018
Cornelia Street Café, New York City: Cuba Writers Program public reading
August 22, 2018
GrubStreet Open House: Student & Instructor Reading
August 18, 2018
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Interiority, Backstory, & Flashback”
July 21, 2018
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Descriptive Writing & Image Systems”
June 22 – July 1, 2018
Newport MFA inaugural residency
May 14 – 22, 2018
Cuba Writers Program
May 5, 2018
Grub Street: “Technique in Historical Fiction”
April 20, 2018
Green Writers Press Reading & Earth Day Book Launch (launching paperback of A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER & FLY FISHING). Next Stage Art Project, Putney, VT.
April 14, 2018
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Dramatic Structure & Narrative Drive”
April 6 – 8, 2018
Muse & the Marketplace, Boston. “Dreams, Visions, & Hallucinations in Fiction.” “Beyond Conflict: Sources of Narrative Drive in Fiction.” “Essentials of Backstory & Flashback.”
March 18 – 27, 2018
Cuba Off the Beaten Track (with Brattleboro Museum & Art Center)
March 3, 2018
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Zeroing in on Genre & Theme”
February 17, 2018
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Sentence-Level Music”
January 15 – 25, 2018
National Geographic Expeditions: Exploring Patagonia
December 16, 2017
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Killer Openings & Symphonic Endings”
November 26 – December 4, 2017
Contemporary Art in Cuba (with Eric Aho)
November 6 – 16, 2017
National Geographic Expeditions: Exploring Patagonia
November 4, 2017
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: “Minor & Supporting Characters”
October 21, 2017
Northern Woodlands Conference, Fairlee, Vermont. Discussion of place in fiction & readings from A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER & FLY FISHING
October 19, 2017
Vermont Humanities Council Lecture, Thompson Senior Center, Woodstock, VT: “A Playground for Empire: Historical Perspectives on Cuba and the U.S.A.”
October 12 – 15, 2017
Brattleboro Literary Festival: Short Story Showcase
October 7, 2017
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: Dialogue & the Scene
October 1, 2017
Tattered Cover Bookstore, Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colorado
September 21 – 24, 2017
Historical Writers of America Annual Conference, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM
September 19, 2017
Phoenix Books, Burlington, Vermont: Green Writers Press reading
September 16, 2017
Burlington Book Festival, Burlington, Vermont
August 28, 2017
Cornelia Street Café, New York City: Cuba Writers Program Reading with Ann Hood, Alden Jones, and Michael Ruhlman
August 26, 2017
Grub Street: Fictional Love Stories
July 26, 2017
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center: “Nantucket: Art, Literature, and the Sea.”
July 22, 2017
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: Point of View & Voice
July 5 – 11, 2017
Featured Expert, National Geographic Student Expeditions in Cuba: Trinidad, Santa Clara, & the northern coast
July 1, 2017
New Hampshire’s Toadstool bookstores: Keene (11AM) & Peterborough (2PM). Reading from A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER & FLY FISHING
June 29, 2017
Harvard Book Store, Cambridge. MA. Discussion & reading from A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER & FLY FISHING (with Crystal King & FEAST OF SORROW)
June 24, 2017
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: Interiority, Backstory & Flashback
June 22, 2017
Mitchell’s Book Corner, Nantucket, MA. 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM. Book signing: A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER & FLY FISHING & WILL POOLE’S ISLAND
June 14, 2017
Bixby Library, Vergennes, VT. Vermont Humanities Council Lecture: “A Playground for Empire: Historical Perspectives on Cuba and the U.S.A.”
May 27, 2017
Orvis Flagship Store, Manchester, VT. A joint Orvis/Northshire Bookstore event, 11AM – 2PM: A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER & FLY FISHING
May 20, 2017
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: Descriptive Writing & Image Systems
May 16, 2017
The Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury, VT. Reading from A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER & FLY FISHING (with Dede Cummings of Green Writers Press)
May 13, 2017
– Stratton Mountain School, Stratton. Vermont Humanities Council Lecture: “A Playground for Empire: Historical Perspectives on Cuba and the U.S.A.”
May 5 – 7, 2017
Grub Street’s The Muse and The Marketplace Conference, Boston. Craft Talk: “Essentials of Voice”
April 27 – May 5, 2017
Cuba Writers Program: Havana & Cienfuegos (with Ann Hood, Michael Ruhlman, & Alden Jones)
April 15, 2017
Grub Street Novel Revision Series: Dramatic Structure & Narrative Drive
April 7, 2017
Green Writers Press Spring Book Release Party, Next Stage, Putney, VT
March 10 – 19, 2017
Green Writers Press Cuba: Havana, Trinidad, Cienfuegos, & The Coast
February 11, 2017
Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Sentence-Level Music”
January 15, 2017
“Writers Resist,” Brattleboro, Vermont
January 10, 2017
Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Killer Openings & Symphonic Endings”
December 10, 2016
Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Dialogue & the Scene”
November 28 – December 6, 2016
Art and Culture of Cuba: Havana, Cienfuegos, Trinidad. Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
October 22, 2016
Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Point of View & Voice”
October 14-16, 2016
Brattleboro Literary Festival
September 17, 2016
Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Interiority, Backstory, & Flashback”
September 16, 2016
Landgrove Historic Association, VT. Vermont Humanities Council Lecture: “A Playground for Empire: Historical Perspectives on Cuba & the USA”
August 27, 2016
Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Descriptive Writing & Image Systems”
July 30, 2016
Bookstock Lit Festival, Woodstock, VT: “Will Poole’s Island: The Making of an Historical Novel.”
July 21, 2016
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center: “The Life and Times of Francisco de Goya.”
July 16, 2016
Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Dramatic Tension & Narrative Structure”
July 6 – 15, 2016
Featured Expert
National Geographic Student Expeditions: Santa Clara & Havana, Cuba
June 25, 2016
Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Zeroing in on Genre & Theme”
May 21, 2016
Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Killer Openings & Symphonic Endings”
May 10 -18, 2016
First Annual Cuba Writers Program (with Alden Jones & Ann Hood)
May 8, 2016
Brooks Memorial Library, Brattleboro, VT. Vermont Humanities Council Lecture: “A Playground for Empire: Historical Perspectives on Cuba and the U.S.A.”
April 29 – May 1, 2016
Teaching Scholar, Muse and The Marketplace Conference (GrubStreet), Boston. Lectures: “What’s Your Book ‘About’?” & “Fiction’s Inner Landscape”
April 2, 2016
Rockingham Public Library, Bellows Falls, VT. Vermont Humanities Council Lecture: “A Playground for Empire: Historical Perspectives on Cuba and the U.S.A.” (Listen to an audio recording of this lecture here.)
March 26, 2016
Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Dialogue & the Scene”
March 7 – 15, 2016
Private Cuba Trip (Brattleboro Museum & Art Center)
Havana, Trinidad, Playa Larga
February 26, 2016
Grub Street, Boston: “Novel Revision Series: Minor & Supporting Characters”
February 25, 2016
Brattlleboro Museum and Arts Center: 7pm Lecture: “Georgia O’Keeffe: American Visionary”
January 25, 2016
Book and history talks: Will Poole’s Island. The Laurentian Club of Canada (& combined Mont Tremblant book clubs)
December 27, 2015 – January 8, 2016
Featured Expert
National Geographic Expeditions: Exploring Patagonia
December 6 – 14, 2015
Featured Expert
National Geographic Expeditions: Cuba
November 14 – 22
Private Cuba Trip (Brattleboro Museum & Art Center)
Havana, Trinidad, Playa Larga
November 1 – 9
Private Cuba Trip (Creative Travel Arts)
Havana, Trinidad, Cienfuegos
October 17, 2015
Book and writing talk: Will Poole’s Island
Monadnock Writers’ Group Speakers Program
September 17 – 27, 2015
Featured Expert
National Geographic Expeditions: Northern Spain by Private Rail
September 3, 2015
Brattlleboro Museum and Arts Center Lecture: “Hemingway in Spain & Cuba”
July 18 – 24, 2015
Guest Author
Writing in Prague program (Putney Student Travel)
July 12 – 17, 2015
“Life Stories: Creative Adventurers, Adventurous Creators” (5-part lecture series)
All-Star 2 Family Conference
Star Island, Isles of Shoals, NH
May 1 – 3, 2015
Talk on “Voice and Dialog in Historical Fiction”
GrubStreet’s Muse & The Marketplace Conference, Boston, MA
April 24 – 26, 2015
Talks on the Jungian Shadow in YA Fiction and Image Systems in Fiction
New England Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators Conference. Springfield, MA
March 18, 2015
Reading from WILL POOLE’S ISLAND (with Warren Wilson Alumni): Cambridge Boat Club, Cambridge, MA
March 8, 2015
Book and history talk: Willow Dell Historical Association, “The Barn.” South Kingstown Land Trust, RI
November 30, 2014
Reading & Book Talk: Duxbury Free Library, Duxbury, Massachusetts
November 22, 2014
Book Signing: World Eye Bookshop, Greenfield, MA
October 25, 2014
Book Talks/Signings: The Toadstool Bookshops in Peterborough and Keene, NH
October 23, 2014
Signing: Bank Square Books, Mystic, Connecticut
October 4, 2014
Book Talk & Reading: Brattleboro Literary Festival, Brattleboro, Vermont
September 20, 2014
Book Talk: Burlington Book Festival, Burlington, Vermont
September 7, 2014
Official Book Launch and Reading, WILL POOLE’S ISLAND
Next Stage Arts Project, Putney, Vermont
August 23, 2014
Signing: Nantucket Bookworks, Nantucket, Massachusetts
August 5, 2014
Reading & Signing: Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut
June 21, 2014
Signing: Nantucket Book Festival: “Under the Tent: Local and Notable Authors in the Atheneum Garden.”
The Atheneum Garden, downtown Nantucket, MA
May 2, 2014
Grub Street’s Muse and the Marketplace 2014, Boston, MA
“Narrative as Time Machine: World-Building in Historical Fiction”
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