Reading Groups & Writing Workshops
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Ben Lerner's "The Hofmann Wobble" with Matilda Lin Berke
Tuesday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT July 7, 2026
Online | Explore the slippage between life and art, truth and fiction, in this AI-inflected autofiction—and consider what its wobbling...
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Groups+Workshops
Opening Movements: How Great Stories Begin with Doug Jones
Once a week Tuesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT July 7 to August 11, 2026
Online | The opening of a novel or short story is a promise: it establishes tone, rhythm, atmosphere, and urgency
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Groups+Workshops
E. M. Forster’s Summer of Love with Pam Newton
3 Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT July 8 to August 26, 2026
In Person | Unpack the nuances of Forster’s lyrical prose and explore the social tensions that intersected with love and romance in...
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Groups+Workshops
Reading Classic Black Children’s Novels with Gale Greenlee
4 Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT July 8 to September 9, 2026
Online | Enter the world of Black children’s fiction, written by literary luminaries of the past. Dig into a curated collection of...
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Groups+Workshops
Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy with Alaya Dawn Johnson
3 Sessions Saturdays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT July 11 to August 22, 2026
Online | Lilith’s Brood, or the Xenogenesis trilogy, is a masterwork: weird, wild, dangerous, compelling, and philosophically potent
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Groups+Workshops
What the South Knew: Faulkner in the Trump Era with Linda Chavers
4 Sessions Saturdays, 11:00 am EDT - 12:30 pm EDT July 11 to August 22, 2026
Online | Read Faulkner closely—his sentences, structure, and radical formal choices—to better understand Trump’s America and the...
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Groups+Workshops
Franz Kafka’s The Castle with Martha Cooley
4 Sessions Sundays, 11:00 am EDT - 12:30 pm EDT July 12 to August 23, 2026
Online | Published a century ago, this comic, unsettling, and superbly strange novel has a lot to say to readers now about bureaucracy...
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Groups+Workshops
Crushes: The Art of the Swoon with Erica Peplin
Once a week Sundays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT July 12 to August 16, 2026
In Person | To feel overwhelmingly drawn to a person, object, experience, or memory is a fantastic and torturous reason to write
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Groups+Workshops
The Nightlighters
Monday, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT July 13, 2026
The Nightlighters is a free, in-person reading group for members of The Center for Fiction. Led by rotating staff members, The Nightlighters read...
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Groups+Workshops
Crafting Novels on Notecards: Techniques from Nabokov with Jeff Boyd
Once a week Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT July 13 to August 17, 2026
In Person | Writing a novel is like solving a puzzle of one’s own creation. But how do we gather the pieces? Taking a cue from Nabokov...
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