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
All appearances for The Creative Spark have been postponed due to the coronavirus. I hope to resume events this autumn. In the meantime, enjoy the virtual company of friends and family and curl up with a good book. And please support your local independent bookstores in every possible way.
Prior Events
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...
Modernism Week, Palm Springs
Saturday, Feb. 22, 10amModernism Week, Palm SpringsPlaza Theatre, 128 S. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA Michael Shapiro moderates a panel on...
Michael Shapiro Speaks at College of Marin Friday Afternoon Author Series
Friday, February 28, 20201:00 pm to 2:30 pmCollege of Marin Library 835 College Avenue, Kentfield Learning Center, Second Floor(Near corner of Sir...
Michael Shapiro will speak about The Creative Spark at the Concord Museum & Event Center
Sunday, March 1, 2pmConcord Museum & Event Center, 1928 Clayton Road, Concord Michael Shapiro will speak about The Creative Spark at...
Michael Shapiro will speak about The Creative Spark at Books, Inc. in Mountain View
Wednesday March 4, 7pmBooks Inc.317 Castro St, Mountain View, CA Michael Shapiro will speak about The Creative Spark at Books, Inc. in Mountain...
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...
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...
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...
Get in touch
Please drop me a line. Whether you’re interested in "The Creative Spark" or booking an event, or are a long-lost friend, I’d enjoy hearing from you.