Author visit events have included readings, class visits, teacher in-service, chapel talks, lectures, and sermon-writing workshops

Many thanks to all who have hosted author visits:

St Olaf College in Northfield, MN

Lutheran Southern Theological Seminary in Columbia, SC

Wagner College in New York City

Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa

Jamestown College in Jamestown, North Dakota

Wartburg Lutheran Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa

Clayton State University in Atlanta, GA

UNC Greensboro, in Greensboro, NC

UNC Chapel Hill, in Chapel Hill, NC

Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL

Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, NC

High Point College in High Point, NC

Sandhills College in Pinehurst, NC

Washington College in Chestertown, MD

The New College in Sarasota, FL

Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA

Waldorf College in Forest City, IA

Luther College in Decorah, IA

Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, TX

Newberry College in Newberry, SC

Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, NC

Roanoke College in Salem, VA

Christ School in Asheville, NC

The Maclay School in Tallahassee, FL

Gaston Day School in Gastonia, NC

The Gilman School in Baltimore, MD

Calvin Christian High School in Grandville, MI

St.Anne's Belfield in Charlottesville, VA

Tandem Friends School in Charlottesville, VA

Albemarle High School in Charlottesville, VA

Skyland Books in West Jefferson and Blowing Rock, NC

The Chelsea Barnes & Noble, Manhattan, NY

McIntyre's Bookstore in Fearrington Village, NC

Eliot Bay Books and Image Magazine in Seattle, WA

The Enchanted Forest Bookstore in Forest City, IA

The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, NC

Sarasota Books and News in Sarasota, FL

The Leon County Public Library

The Enoch Pratt Public Library in Baltimore, MD

St. Stephen Lutheran Church in Tallahassee, FL

St. Mark Lutheran Church in Charlottesville, VA

Lutheran Campus Ministries clergy retreat (Southern Division): keynote address

The Associated Writing Programs conference in Austin, TX

The Southern Festival of the Book in Nashville, TN

The Miami Book Festival

The Lutheran Festival of Writing

The Florida Literary Arts Council

The Virginia Festival of the Book

The United States Embassy and the Lao-American Center in Vientiane, Laos

The United States Embassy and Universitas Surabaya, Indonesia

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Paul Shepherd is co-founder of the Lutheran Writers Project and Lutheran Writers Festival (formerly at Luther College).

He has led writers seminars and retreats for medical students and residents at the University of Virginia, and workshops on writing about grief and writing about faith at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.

More Like Not Running Away was selected a Freshman Read title at Garden Webb University.



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