David will read from his new book, CORK WARS: INTRIGUE AND INDUSTRY IN WORLD WAR II with other authors in the Reston Reading series for February.

This 3-hour workshop focuses on writing your documentary treatment with exercises to bring out your film’s storytelling strengths, identify audiences (for the film and the treatment), and identify research that leads to narrative. It includes exercises that explore main characters and scene visualization, and concludes with a brief look at loglines that crystallize a film's… Read More »Writing Your Documentary Treatment

David will discuss CORK WARS and its story of three generations of immigration, in conversation with Yukie Ohta, founder of the SoHo Memory Project. There will also be a book signing.

David will give a slide talk and read from his new book, CORK WARS: INTRIGUE AND INDUSTRY IN WORLD WAR II. A book signing will follow.

For members of the BackStory podcast's online book club, we'll have a Livestream to talk about the story and intrigue of Cork Wars. We'll also discuss its historical context. Sign up for BookStory and join us on May 30.

David will give a talk about Cork Wars and international intrigue during World War II at the Osher Lifelong Learning at JHU fall event.

David shares the story and research behind CORK WARS. This talk explores the research process and how you can access these resources yourself. Includes book signing.

"When Trees Are National Security" - a talk about a tree-planting campaign in World War II at the Society of American Foresters 2019 convention in Louisville, KY.

FDR said, “One hundred years from now, my administration will be known for its art, not its relief.” How did that turn out? This talk looks at artists and writers who recorded American life for the New Deal programs. Those artists could stir controversy, and some of their works have been banned by officials and citizens’ committees up to the present. By tracing how these artists and writers cut against the grain of convention, we'll explore art’s power to shift American identities. Copies of my book Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America, now in paperback, will be available for sale and signing afterward. Advance registration required: http://bit.ly/CreativityDT2

Docs In Progress and Women in Film and Video-DC co-host the Documentary Roundtable via Zoom. This evening organized by Docs In Progress will focus on peer feedback with presentations and review of several directors' 'Trailers.' This evening's will invite feedback on, among others, Melchor Marsa's story. There is a $10 fee for the general public.… Read More »Documentary Roundtable: Trailer Night

Docs In Progress, with support from the City of Takoma Park, hosts the Community Stories Film Festival via Zoom, November 20-22, 2020. Celebrate 10+ years of stories of people, places, and events, including a screening of my short documentary, Enemy Alien: Italian-American in Baltimore. The film features one of the family stories in my book… Read More »Community Stories Film Festival

Free virtual screening of Soul of a People: Writing America’s Story, with panel discussion afterward. Hosted online by the Los Angeles Public Library. Visit www.lapl.org/events for more information. This screening is a timely reminder of why the 21st-Century Federal Writers’ Project Act (HR 3054) is gathering support from members of congress and their constituents. Los… Read More »Virtual film screening – Soul of a People: Writing America’s Story

Please join a special night with the editors and writers of the 2021 anthology, This Is What America Looks Like: Poetry and Fiction from DC, Maryland, and Virginia from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. Virtual live readings of original selections from the anthology by poets Laura Shovan, Myra Sklarew, Nancy Naomi Carlson, and Robert Herschbach, and… Read More »Fiction reading – This is What America Looks Like

As people in publishing and journalism lost their jobs during the Great Depression, the WPA started the Federal Writers’ Project. Their mandate became documenting local histories and creating a series of state guide books that changed how Americans viewed history. FDR Library and Museum Director Emeritus Paul Sparrow talks to David about “Soul of a… Read More »Soul of a People, Author Talk with David Taylor

A screening and discussion of Soul of a People: Writing America’s Story will be hosted by the St. Augustine Free Public Library. This program is free and open to the public, and will take place at The Waterworks, 184 San Marco Blvd., which shares a parking lot with the Main Library. Soul of a People… Read More »Film screening – Soul of a People: Writing America’s Story

Join us for an evening of true, personal stories about science. Four storytellers share tales of finding and forming our own version of family through science.

Join a discussion of Personal Narratives in Portraying Maryland Life, in partnership with the Baltimore Museum of Industry. From the oral histories of The Baltimore Book to multimedia portraits seen recently in the Enoch Pratt Library, this will be an informal conversation about documenting Maryland in various forms of personal narrative, and why those stories matter. A… Read More »Personal Narratives in Portraying Maryland Life