For Adults & Teachers
Jana is an accomplished speaker. She can speak to your group on a variety of subjects. She holds a Masters in Education and can talk about ESL/SEI issues and how to incorporate writing into a fabulous ESL program. As a former Refugee Resettlement Counselor, Jana can speak about the joys of working with refugees. As a former teenage volunteer, she is the quintessential poster child for teenage volunteerism. Jana has spoken about diversity at a variety of Diversity Days at many schools based on her book Weeping Under This Same Moon. She has been keynote speaker to children, teens and counselors affected by terrorism and war.
In addition, Jana has spoken at many churches and synagogues on the spiritual side of writing ~ Writing as a Spiritual Practice.
She is on staff at IS183 Art School in Stockbridge, MA and teaches writing workshops both there and at Arrowhead; Herman Melville’s home in the Berkshires where she is Writer-In-Residence. Jana can teach memoir, journaling, fiction, historical fiction, essays, etc. And, she loves to visit book clubs, either in person or virtually and will happily speak at your book club meeting.
Jana Laiz is an award-winning publisher and can speak on those topics. From self-starter to award-winning publisher with seven books to her credit, several award-winners and two optioned for film, Jana has much to share on this very hot topic.
She is available to speak at your venue. Give her a call!
Jana's Past Appearances~
Panelist
Berkshire Festival of Women Writers
Saltwater Festival
Valley Reads Six City-Wide Reading Program
Questar Library Services
Radio Interviews
WAMC with Joe Donohue & Allen Chartock
WBCR with Barbara & Graham Dean
WBCR with Jeanne Basis
Speaking Engagements
| Keynote Speaker Refugee Work...Going outside one's comfort zone to help others International Rescue Committee, NYC Project Common Bond/Tuesday’s Children, Bryn Mawr College, PA Regis Jesuit High School Diversity Day, Aurora, CO Mackintosh Academy, Denver, CO A Writer's Life White Plains Rotary Club Southern Berkshire Rotary Club College Club, Dalton, MA Harrison High School, Harrison, NY Writing As A Spiritual Practice Zion Lutheran Church, Bronx, NY Unitarian Universalist, Pittsfield, MA Unitarian Universalist, Braintree, MA Church in The Highlands, White Plains, NY Hevreh, Great Barrington, MA Faeries Spoutwood Festival Chautauqua Ghent Ontatio Faerie Festival New York Faerie Festival Maryland Faerie Festival Appearance for Community Reads Award Monterey Reads, Monterey, MA Valley Reads, Stillwater MN Monument Mountain High School, Great Barrington, MA |
Presenter
| San Miguel Writer’s Conference, Mexico Albany Children’s Book Festival Hudson Children’s Book Festival ABA Festival Knoxville, TN Ashley House, Ashley Falls, MA Berkshire Atheneum, Pittsfield, MA Ramsdale Library, Housatonic, MA Mason Library, Great Barrington, MA Sheffield Library Saltwater Irish Festival, Maine Glasgowlands Celtic Festival, Northampton, MA Guelph Ontario Faerie Festival Historic Deerfield Becket Library |
New York Faerie Festival Girl Scouts of New York Words Are Wonderful, Williamstown, MA Lanesborough Elementary School St. Paul High School, MN Regis Jesuit High School, Aurora, CO Ray School, Chicago Curl Up & Read, Pittsfield, MA Papyri Books, Adams, MA Stockbridge Booksellers Open Door Bookstore, Schenectady, NY Bookhouse of Stuyvesant Plaza, Albany Lenox Library Norwich Academy, Norwich, CT Dalton Library, Dalton, MA |
ALA Midwinter Meeting Red Maple Books, Ghent, NY Borders, Pittsfield, White Plains, Holyoke Barnes & Noble, Pittsfield, White Plains Bronx High School Readapalooza, Pittsfield, MA Southwest CT Book Expo BEA, NYC St. Croix Country Day School, USVI Smithville Irish Festival, NJ Susan B. Anthony homestead, Adams, MA Colegio Roosevelt, Lima, Peru Sheffield Senior Center Sea Girt Irish Festival, Maryland Faerie Festival |