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    Gender, Bodies, & Machines: Susan Steinberg & Heidi Kumao On Form — Co-presented with Yaddo

    Thursday, October 24th  at  The Center for Fiction

    Co-presented with Yaddo. An exploration into thematic and formal connections between visual art and fiction for a cross-disciplinary focus on...

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    Writing West: Freeman’s California

    Tuesday, October 22nd  at  The Center for Fiction

    A reading and conversation with Catherine Barnett, Elaine Castillo, Jennifer Egan, Maggie Millner, Catherine Barnett, Xuan Juliana Wang, and editor John Freeman.

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    Well-Read Black Girl Festival Kickoff with Glory Edim & Staceyann Chin

    Friday, October 25th  at  The Center for Fiction
    15 Lafayette Avenue
    Brooklyn NY 11217

    Well-Read Black Girl welcomes world-renowned LGBTQ poet and spoken-word artist Staceyann Chin to the 3rd annual #WRBGFest kick-off party

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    The Story Laboratory with Stefan Merrill Block

    Wednesday, October 23rd - November 27th  at  The Center for Fiction

    This course will provide an encouraging and constructive atmosphere to explore the questions every writer asks: what story to tell?

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2018 Center for FIction Awards

2019 Annual Awards and Benefit Dinner: Tables and Tickets

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Jonathan Santlofer, interviewed by Noreen Tomassi

Jonathan Santlofer, the acclaimed author and beloved teacher at The Center, talks to Noreen Tomassi, our executive director, about his memoir The Widower’s Notebook. Publishers Weekly hails the book as “a quiet stunner of a memoir… the book never loses momentum, thanks in large part to his vivid writing
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