Upcoming Events
ContactLise Olsen at Liseolseninvestigates@gmail.com for information on how to schedule an event or online book talk.
Event: Annual TCWLA/TCWLF Grants and Awards Luncheon
Date and Time: Thursday April 20, 2023
Location: Fairmont Hotel in downtown Austin
Description: Lise Olsen will be this year's keynot speaker.
Information: https://tcwla.org/event/grants-and-awards-luncheon
Event: How to Publish a Book, Panel discussion with the Texas Ledes, Austin women journalists' group - Private Event.
Date and Time: Wednesday April 19, 2023
Location: Fairmont Hotel in downtown Austin
Information: https://www.facebook.com/events/1361570661296301//
Previous Event Highlights
Event: Conversationalist at the 26th Annual Table Talk Luncheon
Gender & Sexuality Studies program at the University of Houston.
Date and Time: February 15, 11:00 a.m.- 1:30 p.m.
Location: Hilton Americas, Houston
Information: https://uh.edu/class/ws/Programs/table-talk/
Event: Federal Bar Association, Chicago Chapter
Date and Time: February 1, 2023
Description: Featured speaker, Sexual Misconduct in the Federal Judiciary
Event: Panel Discussion
Date: November, 2022
Description: Panel discussion at the Texas Book Festival in November organized by Texas Institute of Letters president and author Diana Lopez.
Event: Conversation With Steve WeinbergDate and Time: August 18, 2022 at 6:30 p.m.
Description: In conversation with author Steve Weinberg in Columbia, Missouri Skylark Bookshop.
Event: Book Blog Tour
Date and Time: August 3 - 12, 2022
Description: Lone Star Literary Life is hosting a Book Blog Tour for CODE OF SILENCE August 3-12 to celebrate the upcoming paperback release! Read online extras via participating Texas bloggers and sign up NOW to win one of three signed copies via https://www.kristinehallways.blogspot.com/2022/08/code-of-silence-lone-star-book-blog.html
Event: Discussion of the Non-Fiction Book ProcessDate and Time: July 29, 2022
Description: A discussion of the #nonfiction book process with author Rene Steinke during alumni days of FDU MFA - Creative Writing's residency in Madison, New Jersey July 29. (FDU alums/students only).
Event: Conversation
Date and Time: July 18, 2022 at 7:00 p.m.
Description: Olsen in conversation with George Getschow of Texas Institute of Letters at Deep Vellum Books, (COS won TIl's nonfiction book award).
Signed books are still available at the store at 3000 Commerce Street: (469) 781-4881 or visit their website at Deep Vellum Books. Get them while they're hot
Date: June 23 - 27
Description: Lise Olsen spoke and signed books at the Investigative Reporters & Editors conference in Colorado June 23-27. (Code of Silence won IRE's 2022 Book Award.)
Event: San Antonio Book Festival
Date and Time: Saturday, May 21, 2022
Event: Texas Institute of Letters annual conference, El Paso, Texas
Date and Time: Saturday, April 23, 2022
Description: Winner of the 2022 Texas Institute of Letters' Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Nonfiction.
Event: San Diego State University journalism school (via Zoom)
Date and Time: Friday, April 22, 2022
Description: Attention San Diego journalists & SDSU students - join Amy Schmitz Weiss and Arthur Santana for this special, free webinar with investigative journalist Lise Olsen to talk about her book - Code of Silence. ! It's going to be a great discussion!
Event: Power up Your Prose
Date and Time: Monday, March 14, 2022
Description: Six week workshop via Inprint begins Monday, March 14! Sign up here: https://inprinthouston.org/event/power-up-your-prose-with-cool-facts-online-2022-203/
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at 6:30 pm
Description: Houston-based investigatiive reporter and Author Lise Olsen reads from her new book CODE OF SILENCE and continues the conversation about judges, ethics and Texas women who blew the whistle with Mimi Swartz of Texas Monthly, sponsored by Houston Public Library and Brazos Books. Houston Public Library, 500 McKinney St., downtown Houston.
Event: Book Discussion
Location: Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle Washington - via Zoom
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 6:00 pm. PT
Description: Author Lise Olsen, an investigative reporter based in Texas who formerly worked on criminal justice issues in Washington, in conversation with Robert McClure, cofounder InvestigateWest. They will discuss her new book on federal judges, whistleblowers and the secret system that oversees judicial misconduct complaints.
Click here to view the event live on Facebook
Event:Conversation
Location: The Booksmith, San Francisco, California via Zoom
Date and Time: Tuesday, November 2, 2021 at 6:00 pm. PT
Description: Author Lise Olsen in conversation with author and attorney Lara Bazelon - Bad Judges - Facts and Fiction.
Location: Event: Virtual Event
Bookwoman in Austin
Date and Time: Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 7:00 - 8:30 pm. PT
Description: Lise Olsen in conversation with whistleblower Cathy McBroom and Austin-based journalist and author Megan Kimble
Event: Book Reading and Discussion
Location: Politics and Prose, Washington, D.C.
Date and Time: Friday, November 12, 2021 at:
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CST.
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST.
Description: Author and investigative reporter Lise Olsen reads from her new book CODE OF SILENCE and discusses judicial ethics in the age of #metoo with Carrie Johnson, NPR's Department of Justice reporter.
Event: Lise Olsen will speak about her book CODE OF SILENCE Event: Lise Olsen Discusses Her New Book - Code of Silence Event: Book Signing on Galveston Island! Event: A Conversation With Lise Olsen
Date: Thursday, December 2, 2021
Description: Lise Olsen will speak about her book CODE OF SILENCE as part of a panel discussion at the 12th Annual Latin American Conference of Investigative Journalism on Thursday, Dec. 2 on how to investigate sexual harassment and abuse by the powerful from 12- 1 p.m. Central; 1-2 Eastern. Some panelists are gathering in Canelones, Uruguay, but most events can be accessed online.
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Location: Kaneko Gallery with support from The Bookworm, Omaha, Nebraska
Date and Time: Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 3:00 PM.
Description: Author Lise Olsen, originally from Lincoln, discusses her new book Code of Silence at a live event.
Location: Proletariat Gallery (2221 Market St. in the Strand)
Date and Time: Sunday, January 16th, 3 - 6PM.
Description: Lise Olsen and whistleblower Donna Wilkerson on Sunday, January 16 at the Proletariat Gallery (2221 Market St. in the Strand) for personalized signings of CODE OF SILENCE and a reception from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Beginning in mid-January signed copies of Code of Silence will be available at Galveston Bookshop, http://galvestonbookshop.com.
Location: UTEP's Bloomberg Auditorium
Date and Time: Thursday, March 10, 5PM.
Description: Lise Olsen in conversation with Alfredo Corchado at UTEP's Bloomberg Auditorium .Hosted by NAHJ Student Chapter. 
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