Workshops & Teaching

White Hart Retreats

From time to time, Dani leads intimate retreats for groups of 5-6 women writers at the beautiful, elegant White Hart Inn in Salisbury, Connecticut. If you are interested in being notified about future retreats please send an email to: workshops14@icloud.com

We will write. We’ll discuss the writing life. We will share our work and learn. We will revise. We will enjoy inspiration, camaraderie and quiet.

Includes
All meals — prepared by chef Paul Pearson
Workshops and Individual conferences with Dani

If you are interested, send a note to: workshops14@icloud.com

Kauai Writers Conference

November 2 -8, 2026

More information here.

Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health - The Stories We Carry Workshop

December 11-13, 2026

More information here.

Sirenland Writers Conference

Workshops in Positano, Italy.

2027 dates TBD

More information here.

Skillshare Online Workshop

Join Dani for her one and only online course!

Writing for Inner Calm: Methods & Exercises

Liese Mayer and Sally Kim at Little, Brown won, at auction, North American rights to Dani’s new memoir Kaleidoscope, about “a profound and sudden upheaval in her late middle age,” and an untitled novel, from Margaret Riley King at WME, for release in fall 2027.

Dani Shapiro wins her second National Jewish Book Award, and her first JJ Greenberg Memorial Award for Fiction, for Signal Fires.

Signal Fires named one of Time Magazine’s 10 Best Fiction Books of 2022 and Must Read Books of 2022

Dani Shapiro Shares Excerpt From Her Upcoming Novel Signal Fires, Her ‘Most Personal Book’ Yet

Read the excerpt in People

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Entertainment Weekly announces Dani’s forthcoming novel – the first in 15 years! – Signal Fires. Knopf will publish in fall 2022.

The paperback edition of Inheritance is an LA Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and San Francisco Chronicle, and National Indie bestseller!

Dani’s podcast, “Family Secrets” launched into the top 10 of all podcasts on Apple! The podcast has over 33 million downloads, and its ninth season launched on November 9, 2023. Its tenth season is currently in production.

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