Playwright in Residence, Fort Lauderdale Children's Theatre, 2004 -- workshops at the Florida Theatre Conference. Writing classes (including fiction and children's book writing) for the Florida Center for the Book. Numerous classroom talks with students in grades 3 - college.

Knotts records on to tape each week as a volunteer reader for Insight for the Blind, including readings of poetry and short stories. This material is submitted to the LIbrary of Congress, which distributes it for free to visually handicapped people around the U.S.

Numerous journalism awards (in broadcasting, newspapers and magazines), two Pulitzer Prize nominations, peer-election to PEN, one of fewer than 100,000 Americans listed in the Marquis "Who's Who in America" and "Who's Who in the World."