Appearances
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2010
February 25
Pen on Fire Speakers Series with Barbara and memoirist/novelist Dani Shapiro in conversation about her new memoir, Devotion. (Scape Gallery, Corona del Mar)
April 3
Whittier Book Fair (Barbara will moderate a fiction panel)
5 p.m. Los Angeles launch of Orange County Noir, with Barbara, editor Gary Phillips, and more. Mystery Bookstore, 1036 Broxton Ave., L.A. 90024
April 10
Panelist, Literary Orange Writers Conference, UC Irvine. Cllick here for more info.
April 20
Pen on Fire Speakers Series with Barbara and fiction writer and facilitator of the UC-Irvine MFA in Writing, Ron Carlson. (Scape Gallery, Corona del Mar)
April 24
American Society of Journalists and Authors (Awards co-chair.) All journalists and writers, and would-be writers, should attend. More here.
May 15
Book launch at Scape Gallery for Orange County Noir, an anthology published by Akashic Books, in which Barbara has a short story: "Crazy for You."
May 17
Another Orange County Noir event, Laguna Playhouse Moulton Theatre, 3 - 5 p.m., 606 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach, with contributors Mary Castillo, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, and more.
Barbara has appeared at various bookstores and venues up and down the California coast and on the East Coast: Celebration of California Writers Week (Orange, CA), Sisters in Crime-OC chapter and Los Angeles chapter, Our Lady Queen of Angeles (spiritual journaling workshop), Central Coast Writers' Conference (2007), Manuscripts Literary Events Series at the Newport Beach Public Library, Romance Writers of America--San Diego Chapter and Orange County Chapter, Professional Business Women's Conference (Sacramento), Book Passage (Corte Madera), Powell's Books (Portland), West Hollywood Book Fair, Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, The ASJA Annual Writers Conference (New York City), Warwick's (La Jolla), Capitola Book Cafe (Santa Cruz), Dutton's Brentwood Books & Dutton's Beverly Hills, Book Soup (Costa Mesa), Vroman's (Pasadena), Earthsong Books (Del Mar), Barnes & Noble (Santa Monica, Newport Beach, Aliso Viejo), Peppertree Bookstore (Palm Springs), Border's (Mission Viejo, CA; Rancho Mirage, CA; Montgomeryville, PA; Montclair, CA), The Grove (San Diego), UC-Irvine Town & Gown, Southern California Writers' Association, Touissant Center (San Diego), and Roundtable West (Newport Beach), AAUW-Laguna Beach Literary Luncheon and Long Beach Literary Luncheon, AAUW-Glendora authors day, Whittier Writers Club, Palm Springs Book Festival, PEN Women of Palm Springs.
Keynote at the 2005 Writers' One-on-One conference, Chicago; San Diego State University writers conference, 2005.
She has appeared on "Between the Lines," at PBS television broadcast, with Barry Kibrick; The Real Orange, KOCE; Diana Jordan's "Between the Lines" (AP Radio Network), and with VJ Hume (KWXY-AM, FM, Palm Springs). Her own radio broadcast, "Writers on Writing," airs weekly on KUCI-FM.
Co-chair, 2007 American Society of Journalists and Authors Annual Writers Conference and the UCI/ASJA Writers Conference
