In 1998, after years of book and magazine writing and teaching, Kramer founded a conference for narrative writers and editors. For its first three years, it convened at Boston University and was called Aboard the Narrative Train. In 2001 it traveled across the Charles River. Renamed the Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism, it grew from 600 to 1000 participants and 50 speakers. Kramer directed it for nine years in all, until 2007, and also co-edited the anthology of writing advice listed above, which is distilled from these conferences: Telling True Stories: a Nonfiction Writers Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. Kramer followed the conference back to Boston University in 2010, as Founding Director.
Here are links to the ongoing conferences *insert links* in Bergen, Norway, in Amsterdam, and in London.
Kramer speaks often at writing conferences around the world.
Here are two brief interviews at the Dutch conference, on the questions of when to begin and end a scene, and when to use quotations.
tellingtruestories.net 