Events
Please join Michael Shapiro at any of the events listed below and be sure to say hello in person or get a book signed. If you’d like to set up a speaking event, please contact me via the form below.Upcoming Events

Going Public with Personal or Political Work: A Visual and Literary Artist Discussion
December 12, 2019 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM PT Museum of Sonoma County425 Seventh Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 | 707-579-1500 Literary and visual art work can be a natural medium to explore topics...
Michael Shapiro will talk about “The Creative Spark”
Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, 7pm Copperfield’s Books138 N Main St, Sebastopol, Calif. "Michael Shapiro’s finely tuned, informed and intimate interviews strike to the heart of the matter.” ―Tim Cahill,...
Modernism Week, Palm Springs
Saturday, Feb. 22, 10am Modernism Week, Palm Springs Location details to be announced very soon Michael Shapiro moderates a panel on Sunset magazine’s impact on the American West. Launched by...
Prior Events
Creativity: how do we access it, nurture it, and sustain it?
Dec. 2, 2019, 7pm, Left Coast Writers salon Michael Shapiro and Linda Watanabe McFerrin Book Passage bookstore, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, Calif....
Michael Shapiro among authors featured in Best Travel Writing, appears at Book Passage on March 1, 2015, at 4pm
Michael Shapiro will appear as part of a panel of writers whose work is featured in The Best Travel Writing, Vol. 10, published by Travelers' Tales....
Video: Yellowstone with Tim Cahill
A few years ago a producer asked Tim Cahill and me to record an interview at Yellowstone. Here's the 10-minute pilot that came from that weekend in...
BookTV telecast with Jan Morris, Tim Cahill, Isabel Allende and Jeff Greenwald
In 2004, the launch event for my book "A Sense of Place" was a conversation in San Francisco with Isabel Allende, Tim Cahill, Jeff Greenwald and Jan...
Aug. 16-21, 2011: Writing seminar with Tim Cahill on Idaho’s Salmon River
Michael Shapiro is co-teaching an on-river adventure writing workshop on one of America's premier whitewater rivers: The Middle Fork of the Salmon...
Book Passage Travel, Food & Photography Conference
Aug 11-14, 2011, Book Passage Travel Writers Conference, Corte Madera, Calif. Michael Shapiro will serve on panels and sign copies of A Sense of...
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