Events

Upcoming Events:

Sunday 10/19. I’m Teaching a Class on Setting and Worldbuilding For The Kauai Writers Conference Online

So, short notice, but this is happening! I’m going to be teaching my first workshop on Setting and World Building. Hope you can tune in. Link below.

Here’s the description:

What does it take to immerse your readers in a world that feels real, that they can see, smell, taste and imagine for themselves? World building happens in all genres of writing—not just sci-fi, fantasy or historical fiction. Lisa will present the importance and impact of grounding your work in place and some techniques for conveying a rich immersive world on the page. Lisa will share examples from authors of various genres, as well as her own process in recreating her 1970’s Upper West Side childhood—the setting for her most recent novel, MIRROR ME.

Lisa will present key elements of world building, like sensory exploration, relevant current events, history and geography. Attendees will also tackle some setting-related prompts.

KWC Online invites you to join author Lisa Williamson Rosenberg this Sunday at 7pm ET, 4pm PT, 1pm Hawaiian to learn about her personal approach to setting and world-building.

Here’s the link you need to join the session:
Sunday: Lisa Williamson Rosenberg

Past Events:

September 2025

Provincetown Book Festival, September 19-21.

Where I’ll be joining award-winning author Ruben Reyes! Click the link below to get tickets.

Provincetown Book Festival

October 2025

New Hampshire Book Festival, October 3-4, 2025

I’ll be joining an amazing lineup of authors, not to mention being in New England during peak fall foliage!

More details coming soon!

Chicago area:

Secret World Books, August 9th at 7pm

I’ll be there with author, mentor and fabulous bookseller, Gayle Brandeis, for a MIRROR ME book event.

Secret World Books
1774 2nd St
Highland Park, Illinois 60035

2025 StoryBoard Conference & Festival, August 14th

Super excited to announce that I will be among Conference & Festival Fellows!

Here’s the roster of fellows along with details about our reading:

Kat Tang

Beth Uznis Johnson

Lisa Low

Dionne Ford

Genevieve Deguzman

Ashley Honeysett

Lisa Williamson Rosenberg

These seven writers will each be reading their work.

You can meet and mingle with these seven individuals during the upcoming StoryBoard Festival, August 16-17 at the Newberry Library. Get your ticket: https://www.storystudiochicago.org/writers-festival-2/

Montclair Literary Festival: 4/26/25

I’ll be talking about MIRROR ME, on Saturday, April 26th at 11:15 am at Montclair State University, University Hall, rm 1030 along with fellow authors, Rachel Lyon and Elizabeth Harris. Moderated by Camille Adams. Details below.

The Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival is so special to me and has been for so many years. This amazing collaboration between our fantastic local bookstore Watchung Booksellers, the Montclair Public Library and Succeed2gether, the local nonprofit that supports children’s educational access and excellence, features authors from all over the world with new books to share and fascinating conversations.

I’ll be talking about MIRROR ME, on Saturday, April 26th at 11:15 am at Montclair State University, University Hall, rm 1030 along with fellow authors, Rachel Lyon and Elizabeth Harris. Moderated by Camille Adams. Details below.

On March 29th, be sure to catch me at the Lehigh Valley Literary Festival at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA along with fellow authors, Chuck Wendig and Aggie Blum-Thompson (moderator t.b.d.)

Our featured panel is: Thrilling Fiction: Is this The End? Saturday, 3/29 at 4:15 p.m. (Signing at 5.)

More details to come!

Announcing Mirror Me’s Official Book Launch Event!!

So honored to be back at my beloved local bookstore: Watchung Booksellers, in conversation with my wonderful friend, the brilliant author, Judith Lindbergh. Details below. Click here to register for the event. Hope to see you there!

So thrilled to announce that Mirror Me is an Amazon First Reads pick for the month of November! If you are a Prime member, you can download the ebook free (to your Kindle or Kindle app) up until the official publication date of December 1.

There is a chill in the air, candy corn on sale at CVS, an abundance of unruly pumpkins blocking the south entrance to ACME, and a handful of last year’s Sexy Pizza Rat costumes out on the clearance rack at Party City. The perfect time to talk about SUSPENSE WRITING!

I’m pleased to be a co-presenter along with authors Liz Alterman, Libby Cudmore, and Laura Sims at The Writers Circle’s upcoming event: The Thrill of Suspense: Four Authors on the Art of Crafting Spine-Tingling Fiction, on Sunday, October 27, at Calvary Episcopal Church: 31 Woodland Ave, Summit, NJ 07901.

Click this link for details and to register. https://bit.ly/ThrillofSuspenseTWC

I cannot say how excited, humbled, honored and all that good stuff I am to be attending my first #AWP conference this year as a member of not one but two different panels alongside some amazing, dynamic and enormously accomplished women. Thank you to organizers @brittalive and @ahkim.writer for giving me this chance to participate. Thrilled to be joining @chloekbenjamin @gullyprincess @yaelgoldsteinlovewrites and of course @brittalive about Sustaining Mental Health as a writer; as well as @ahkim.writer @lydiakang @jenqiii and my friend @jeanaliciaelster (thank you for recommending me!) about the journey to publication. Swing by to check out our talks if you’ll be in KC!