RIVERHEAD FREE LIBRARY, 330 Court Street, Riverhead, N.Y. Tuesday, April 15, 2008. 6:30-8:30 p.m. WRITING WORKSHOP: ON YOUR WAY TO GETTING PUBLISHED. Award-winning novelist, lecturer, photographer and outdoor writer Robert Banfelder will conduct A writing workshop for the novice as well as the intermediate. The highlights of his informal, non-intimidating talk will focus on sentence structure, tricks of the trade to make your prose sing, writing models, and ways to approach an article, short story, or a full length novel. As an added bonus, Bob's publicist will be present to share tips on securing an agent/publisher. A signing of his novels will follow the workshop.

SOUTHOLD FREE LIBRARY, Sunday, April 27, 2008.Main Road, Southold, N.Y. 2-4 p.m. WRITING WORKSHOP FOLLOW-UP FOR THE INTERMEDIATE. At the request of participants in the March 2nd writing workshop, award-winning novelist Robert Banfelder will conduct an in-depth follow-up workshop for the intermediate writer. SOUTHOLD FREE LIBRARY, March 2, 2008. WRITING WORKSHOP: ON YOUR WAY TO GETTING PUBLISHED. A writing workshop for the beginner and intermediate,

Off the Cuff, Cablevision Channel 20. Host Enzo Maganozzi. Originally aired Saturday, November 17, 2008, 7:30 p.m. A discussion of Donna and Robert Banfelder's experiences with the criminal justice system as well as their fishing exploits on the Peconic Bays of Long Island.

Off the Cuff, Cablevision Channel 20. Host Enzo Maganozzi. Originally aired, Saturday, November 10, 2007, 7:30 p.m. A discussion of Robert Banfelder's novels: No Stranger Than I, The Author, and The Teacher and how the author develops his characters. Directed by Jeanine Magnozzi.

Literally Speaking, Cablevision Channel 20. Host Elva Victoria. Sunday, November 4 and 11, 2007, 8 a.m. A reading from Robert Banfelder’s novel, The Teacher, as well as a discussion of his other novels and outdoors nonfiction writing. Directed by Enzo Magnozzi.

Riverhead Free Library, October 10, 2007. Lecture, book talk and signing re The Autho, The Teacher, and No Stranger Than I. The discussion included a history of serial killers, a reading of excerpts from his novels, and comments on the writing, editing and publication process.

Riverhead Country Fair, October 7, 2007. Guest of Riverhead Free Library.

Hampton Bays Public Library, May 24, 2007. This talk included FBI profiling as it relates to serial killers, the Justin Barnes thriller series, and the writing process.

The Clubhouse Restaurant at Indian Island Riverhead, April 25, 2007. A Reason To Kill? This talk included the phenomenon of the serial killer, the Robert Shulman trial, and media research concerning serial killers. Search the author for this book event on YouTube www.youtube.com.

Westhampton Free Library, November 4, 2006. Lecture, book talk and signing re The Teacher. The discussion included a history of serial killers, reading of excerpts from The Teacher, and comments on the writing, editing and publication process, as well as anecdotes re the author’s experiences as a spectator on a serial killer death penalty case.

Riverhead Free Library, October 21, 2006. Lecture, book talk and signing re The Teacher. The discussion included a history of serial killers, reading of excerpts from The Teacher, and comments on the writing, editing and publication process, as well as anecdotes about the author’s experiences as a spectator on a serial killer death penalty case.

Riverhead Country Fair, October 8, 2006. Book signing at East End Arts Council.

Southold Free Library, June 29, 2006. Lecture and book signing re newly released psychological thriller, The Teacher, and the publication and writing process.

Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center, Ward’s Island, N.Y. August 26, 1999. Banfelder was invited by Dr. Bruce H. David, Clinical Director, to speak before psychiatrists and students regarding the Robert Shulman serial killer trial, which Banfelder attended every day for a period of fifteen months in Riverhead, N.Y. He lectured on the trial, fiction and nonfiction writing as it pertained to his psychological thrillers as well as the author’s expository writings concerning our criminal justice system. He was given an extensive tour of the facility; that is, both male and female quarters, crash rooms, et cetera, for the express purpose of building verisimilitude into his novel (presently in manuscript form), Trace Evidence. Note: The Robert Shulman serial killer trial was the first death penalty case on Long Island in a quarter of a century.

Addressed Creative Writing classes at C.E.R.C., Great Neck, N.Y. March 1991.