Writing Workshops

1000 Words: A Communal Writing Event with Jami Attenberg and Hannah Tinti (in-person)

$30

Includes a Copy of 1000 Words

Out of stock

Wednesday, 6:00 pm EDT January 10, 2024

The Center for Fiction

This workshop has reached its capacity. To join the waitlist, please email Randy Winston at [email protected].

In the spring of 2018, New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg faced a looming deadline. Using a bootcamp model, she and a friend made a pact to write 1,000 words a day for two weeks. When realizing how helpful this challenge was, they opened it up to Attenberg’s online community and soon hundreds, then thousands of people followed—and #1000WordsOfSummer was born.

Now, after years of writing together online each summer, the #1000wordsofsummer community finally has the chance to write together in person! In honor of the release of 1000 Words, Attenberg’s collected wisdom about the writing life, we’re hosting a communal writing event for long-time participants and newcomers alike. We’ll write together for forty-five minutes, followed by a talk about craft, motivation, and inspiration with Attenberg and Hannah Tinti. The evening will conclude with a book signing.

Led by

Jami Attenberg

Jami Attenberg

Jami Attenberg has written about food, travel, books, relationships, and urban life for the New York Times magazine, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times (London), the Guardian, and others. She is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books of fiction, including The Middlesteins and All Grown Up, and, most recently, a memoir, I Came All This Way to Meet You. Her work has been published in sixteen languages. She is also the founder of the annual #1000WordsofSummer project, and maintains the popular Craft Talk newsletter year-round. She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Photo Credit: Bryan Tarnowski
Hannah Tinti

Hannah Tinti

Hannah Tinti is the author of the bestselling novel The Good Thief, which won The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the story collection Animal Crackers, a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her latest novel, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, is a national bestseller and is in development for television. She teaches creative writing at New York University’s MFA program and co-founded the Sirenland Writers Conference. Tinti is also the co-founder and executive editor of One Story magazine, which won the AWP Small Press Publisher Award, CLMP’s Firecracker Award, a 2020 Whiting Prize, and the PEN/Magid Award for Excellence in Editing.

Photo Credit: Honorah Tinti

Featured Book

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1000 Words

By Jami Attenberg

Published by Simon & Schuster / Simon Element

PURCHASE

In 2018, novelist Jami Attenberg, faced with a looming deadline, needed writing inspiration. Using a bootcamp model, she and a friend set out to write one thousand words daily for two weeks straight. They opened this practice to Attenberg’s online community and soon hundreds then thousands of people started using the #1000WordsofSummer hashtag to track their work and support one another. What began as a simple challenge between two friends has become a literary movement—write 1,000 words per day without judgment, or bias, or concerns about writer’s block, and see what comes of it.

1000 Words is the book-length extension of this movement. It is about becoming—and staying—motivated, discovering yourself and your creative desires, and approaching your craft from a new direction. It features advice from more than fifty well-known writers, including New York Times bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize winners, and stars of the literary world. Framing these letters are words of wisdom and encouragement, plus specific strategies, from Attenberg on how to carve out a creative path for yourself all year round.

Paired with vibrant word art illustrations, 1000 Words is an accessible and motivational craft book that allows you to open any page and get a quick and fulfilling hit of inspiration.

Featuring Roxane Gay, Bryan Washington, Susan Orlean, Maris Kreizman, Sara Novic, Rumaan Alam, Lauren Oyler, Emma Straub, Christopher Gonzales, Benjamin Percy, Mira Jacob, Laura van den Berg, Carmen Maria Machado, Courtney Sullivan, Rebecca Carroll, Ada Limon, R.O. Kwon, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, Elissa Washuta, Alexander Chee, Maggie Shipstead, Deesha Philyaw, Jasmine Guillory, Kristen Arnett, Attica Locke, Megan Abbott, Min Jin Lee, Lauren Groff, Andrew Sean Greer, Camille Dungy, Megan Giddings, Isaac Fitsgerald, Hannah Tinti, Michael H. Weber, Celeste Ng, Elizabeth McCracken, Will Leitch, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Morgan Parker, Kiese Laymon, Melissa Febos, Alissa Nutting, Liz Moore, Laila Lalami, Megan Mayhew Berman, Rebecca Makkai, Meg Wolitzer, Mychal Denzel Smith, Josh Gondelman, and Dantiel W. Moniz.

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