“Jacquelyn Mitchard is an engaging and warm speaker. With humor and humanity, she is able to inspire the audience and touch both your heart and your soul. She has a way of bringing out your best emotions and her spirit and laughter are contagious. When you leave her lecture, you will have a smile on your face and a tear in your eye. She’s wonderful! “
— Jeanne Oates Angulo, Former Chapter President, National Capital Chapter, National Multiple Sclerosis Society
“Once you hear Jackie Mitchard speak, you will never forget her. Thankfully, for her fans, she has a lot to say. Her humanity and her humor shine through in stories of sorrow and joy as she speaks about writing and real life.”
— Alice Hoffman, bestselling author and founder of the Hoffman Breast Center
“Listening to Jacquelyn Mitchard speak is to watch a master at work. Funny, astute, and wise, Jacquelyn appeals to all ages as she brings her decades of public speaking, writing, and presentation skills to the stage. The audience leaves wanting to be her best friend and feeling satisfied that they’ve witnessed true star power.”
—Ann W. Garvin, PhD
“I have heard Jacquelyn Mitchard speak on numerous occasions, from the opening remarks to a group of fellow writers to formal addresses to well-heeled guests. No matter the venue, she never fails to present an amusing, witty, informative and very well executed talk that leaves everyone who hears her wishing they could invite her to dinner for more of the same.”
—Thomas H. Cook, Edgar-award-winning author of The Chatham School Affair
“Jacquelyn Mitchard is the rare speaker and teacher who, all at once, critiques, encourages, and inspires. Her readings and presentations are truly generous, actively opening up an audience and inviting an enveloping and intimate trust and communion between speaker and listeners. Jackie connects with her audiences in astonishing and life-altering ways. Certainly Jacquelyn Mitchard is a gifted writer and novelist. But perhaps more to the point she is an extraordinary person in her abilities to reach out to others in affirmation of the potential for art and stories to change our lives.”
—Mara Adamitz Scrupe, author of the Stevens Poetry Prize manuscript Beast, and Professor of Interdisciplinary Art, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
“Jackie Mitchard is a joy to listen to: energetic, inspiring, and funny as hell. It’s always a treat for me when I get to share the dais with her, because I know I am going to have a spectacular time.”
—Chris Bohjalian, author of Midwives
“I have had the pleasure of listening to Jacquelyn Mitchard speak on several occasions, and find her to be as charismatic in speech as she is in her books. She’s funny, interesting, intelligent, and mesmerizing.”
—Elizabeth Berg, author of Talk Before Sleep
“We were extremely lucky to have Jacquelyn Mitchard as our headliner at the Seaside Writers Conference this year – she charmed a difficult room of children, parents, and adults, with her wit, candor, and generally superlative speaking skills. She is a consummate professional and we would have her back anytime.”
—Matt Bondurant, co-director, the Seaside Writers Conference, author of The Wettest County in the World’ and The Night Swimmer