Hannah Tinti is co-founder and editor-in-chief of One Story magazine, a journal which has helped launch the careers of writers across the country. Her short story collection, Animal Crackers, has sold in sixteen countries and was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway award. Her first novel, The Good Thief, is published by The Dial Press and Headline. The Good Thief is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, recipient of the American Library Association’s Alex Award and winner of the John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize from The Center for Fiction. Hannah also recently won the 2009 PEN/Nora Magid award for her editorial work at One Story.

Writing Workshop with Gordon Lish

Twelve Mondays from June 7 to August 23, 2010
5-11PM


The Center for Fiction is pleased to announce that author, editor, and renowned writing teacher Gordon Lish will return to The Center to lead a writing class this summer. College credit may be available through the experiential learning division of universities and colleges. 

Applicants must be approved before registering for the course. Applicants are asked to send a five-page, double-spaced writing sample to:

Noreen Tomassi
The Center for Fiction
17 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017

Applications can also be emailed to noreen@centerforfiction.org.

Applications and payment are due by May 15th, 2010.

From 1986 to 1996, Gordon Lish was founder and editor of The Quarterly. He was an editor at Alfred A. Knopf from 1977 to 1995 and fiction editor of Esquire from 1969 to 1977.  He is the author of the novels Dear Mr. Capote, Peru, Extravaganza, My Romance, Arcade, Zimzum, and Epigraph; the short-story collections Mourner at the Door, Selected Stories, Self-Imitation of Myself, Krupp's Lulu, and What I Know So Far; and editor of the anthologies New Sounds in American Fiction, The Secret Life of Our Times: with an introduction by Tom Wolfe, and All Our Secrets Are the Same. Lish has taught imaginative writing at Yale, Columbia, and New York University, and is known for his many years of presenting private classes, each session of which was six to ten and a half hours in duration. No few of Lish's students have gone on to notable careers in writing and teaching.

Gordon Lish's class is not conducted in a regular "workshop" format, but rather in an interactive lecture style. Classes will last for 5 or 6 hours with Lish illustrating points on a blackboard. During each session some participants may be called on to read some portion of their work aloud--maybe a sentence, maybe a whole story and Lish will react to these. Lish's reactions are really focused more on shedding light on the practice of writing for the whole group than on criticism of the particular story.

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