Mimi does readings, talks, panel discussions, and creative writing workshops, live and on Zoom. To arrange a reading, workshop, or author appearance, please contact Mimi Schwartz.
Recent Publications
- Spelling Bee Love
Lilith, Summer 2024 - The Power of Other Voices in Creative
Nonfiction
Assay, Fall 2023 - My Tante Hilda
Ploughshares, Winter 2022-2023 - When the Nazis came, not everyone
divided neatly into ‘good’ neighbors
and ‘bad’
The Boston Globe, April 8, 2021
Events (selected)
2023
Speaker: Creative Nonfiction Group
College Composition and Communication Conference
Chicago, Illinois
2022
Writing Workshop: “Springboards into Writing”
Princeton Adult School
Princeton, New Jersey
Book Talk: “Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited”
Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History
New York, New York
Speaker: Creative Nonfiction Meeting
College Composition and Communication
Chicago, Illinois
Writing Workshop: “From Memory to Memoir”
Institute for Research on Women
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey
2021
Virtual Writing Workshop: “Widening the Lens of Memoir: How Other Perspectives Enrich Our Own”
Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University
Visiting Writer: Lakso Center for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
Juanita College
Huntington, Pennsylvania
Panel Discussion: “Returning Home After the Holocaust”
Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center
Glen Cove, New York
Book Talk: “Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited”
Jewish Family and Children’s Service
“Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited”
Book Signing, Talk, and Q & A
Associated Writing Program Conference
Panel Talk: “When Confession Is Not Enough: Adversity, Art and Remembering Mike Steinberg”
2021 Associated Writing Program Conference
“1930s and Today: What Does It Mean to Be a Neighbor? Lessons from My Father’s German Village”
In Conversation with New Jersey Public Affairs interviewer Ingrid Reed
Princeton, New Jersey Public Library
“Through the Lens of Now” — Book Discussion in conversation with Rivka Weinstein
Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center, Stockton University
“Widening the Lens: Let Other Voices Enrich Your Own”
Creative Nonfiction Foundation
“Telling Your Story Twice: A New Approach to Writing Memoir”
Murphy Writing Seminars at Stockton University
“What’s in a Name?”
2021 CCCC Virtual Annual Convention
2020
Murphy Seminars Writers Series
Virtual Reading (Harrod, Schwartz, Winters)
Creative Writing Sampler Workshop — Memoir
Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway
Gallaway, New Jersey
2019
“Beyond the I: When Memoir Meets History”— Talk & Workshop
Rutgers, The State University
New Brunswick, New Jersey
“The Personal Political Essay” — Panel
Associated Writing Programs Conference
Portland, Oregon
“Meet the Authors” Lunch Series
JCC of Central New Jersey
Scotch Plains, New Jersey
Springboard for Writing Memoir
Princeton Adult School
Princeton, New Jersey
Community Without Walls—Talk & Reading
Johnson Education Center
Princeton, New Jersey
Red and Yellow: One-Act PlayFest
Lawrence Library
Lawrenceville, New Jersey
“Beyond the I: When Memoir Meets History”—Reading & Workshop
Newbury Public Library
Newbury, New Hampshire
Writing Creative Nonfiction Today — OnlineTalk
Thoughtful Book Awards Festival
“Your Story: From Page to Stage”
Two-part Workshop with Mimi Schwartz & Lew Gantwerk
DOVE Residential Center
Pennington, New Jersey
“In and Out: Stories of Belonging and Exclusion”
OnStage Seniors
Princeton Public Library
Princeton, New Jersey
“Widows’ Words” — Readings & Discussion
Labyrinth Books
Princeton, New Jersey
2018
Creative Writing Sampler—Memoir Workshop
Winter Poetry and Prose Getaway
Absecon, New Jersey
Beyond the I: How Research Enlarges Personal Narrative
AWP Conference
Tampa, Florida
When History Is Personal: A Reading and Conversation
Literati Bookstore
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Beyond the I: When Memoir Meets History
Writing Workshop
Princeton, New Jersey
History Meets Memoir: Joint Reading with Mindy Lewis
The Writer’s Voice
New York, New York
Beyond the I: When Memoir Meets History
The Writer’s Voice
New York, New York
Poetry and Memory: The Personal Meets the Political
Cornelia Street Café
New York, New York
When History Is Personal: A Reading
Labyrinth Bookstore
Princeton, New Jersey
Beyond the I: When Memoir Meets History -workshop
New Hampshire Writers’ Project
Southern New Hampshire University
Hooksett, New Hampshire
When History Is Personal: A Reading and Conversation
Abbott Library
Sunapee, New Hampshire
“A Reading, Conversation, and Chance to Write”
Toadstool Bookstore
Peterborough, New Hampshire
Reimagining Memoir
Live Free and Write Workshop
Sunapee, New Hampshire
A Reading and Conversation
Porter Square Books
Cambridge, Massachusetts
When History Is Personal: Visiting Writers Series
Richard Stockton University
Pomona, New Jersey
Luncheon Reading and Q&A
Beth El Synagogue
East Windsor, New Jersey
“Hauntings in Nonfiction” Panel
NonfictioNOW Conference
Phoenix, Arizona
When History Is Personal: Reading, Q&A and Book Signing
California State University
Long Beach, California
A Writing Workshop, “Beyond the I: When History Meets Memoir”
Oberlin Public Library
Oberlin, Ohio
Joint Reading with the poet, Lynn Powell
Oberlin Public Library
Oberlin, Ohio
“Meet the Author Luncheon”
Temple Beth Or
Washington Township, New Jersey
When Memoir Meets History: A Reading and Mini-Workshop
Hopewell Library
Pennington, New Jersey
“When History Is Personal” — Talk/Reading
Congregation Beth Chaim
Princeton Junction, New Jersey
Creative Nonfiction for Academics — Workshop
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey
2017
The Ethics of Writing True
Nonfiction Now Conference
Rekyjavik, Iceland
When Writers Repeat Themselves: New Disguises or Fresh Approaches
Nonfiction Now Conference
Rekyjavik, Iceland
When Memoir Moves Onstage
AWP Conference
Washington, DC
I Didn’t Ask to Be in Your Story: When Real Names Do and Don’t Matter
AWP Conference
Washington, DC
2016
Three Epiphanies of Place: Old Neighborhoods, New Locales
AWP Conference
Los Angeles, CA
If I Die Laughing: What Humor Brings to Memoir
AWP Conference
Los Angeles, CA
From Memory to Memoir
Winter Writers Getaway
Absecon, NJ
The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction
Queensland University
Brisbane, Australia
University Appearances (Selected)
Alma College
American University (Paris, France)
Brandeis National Women’s Club
Columbia College Chicago
Fordham University
Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany)
Oberlin College
Princeton University
Richard Stockton University
Rowan University
University of New Hampshire
University of Pennsylvania
Vermont College
Warren County Community College
Westchester Community College