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Groups+Workshops
Book Adaptations and Hollywood with Phil Cohen
Saturday & Sunday 1:00 pm EDT - 4:00 pm EDT May 21 to May 22, 2022
In this workshop, participants will learn what’s behind a studio or streamer’s decision to option a book and the process of adapting a book...
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Pleasantview: Beauty and Brutality with Celeste Mohammed
Wednesday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT June 8, 2022
For one evening only, join the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival and The Center for Fiction as we present an in-house book discussion of Pleasantview...
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Groups+Workshops
The Art of Compression: A Class in Flash Fiction with Dawn Raffel
Wednesday & Saturday June 8 to June 11, 2022
What can a writer learn from compression? In a word, everything. Short works allow us to examine in a granular way how we make art out of language
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NEA Big Read: Virtual Book Discussion of Beloved for Adults with Dana A. Williams
2 Sessions: 6/11 & 6/25 Saturdays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT June 11 to June 25, 2022
Toni Morrison’s Beloved reflects a wide range of concerns in the American imagination. Morrison asks us to reimagine...
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The Transit Between Everything: Translation and Creative Writing with Bonnie Chau
Once a week Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT June 14 to August 2, 2022
“Say I bend, I love, I stretch, I break. // Say I bend language translation, I love language translation, I stretch language translation...
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Groups+Workshops
Members Only: The Literarians
Wednesday, 12:30 pm EDT - 1:30 pm EDT June 15, 2022
The Literarians is a free monthly discussion group open to members of The Center.
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Groups+Workshops
To Render Human: On Blackness and Implications of Persona in Poetry with Cheswayo Mphanza
Once a week Mondays, 5:30 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT June 20 to July 25, 2022
In Black Skin, White Masks, Fanon proclaims, “I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to...
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Groups+Workshops
Poetry and Translation with Erín Moure
Once a week Wednesdays, 4:00 pm EDT - 6:00 pm EDT June 22 to July 27, 2022
Over the six weeks we’ll create a relaxing and intriguing online group workspace to discuss poems that participants want to translate
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Groups+Workshops
World and Languages: Writing About Languages, Travels, and Immigration with Jenna Tang
Once a week Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT June 23 to July 28, 2022
Languages represent our perspectives to this world. Languages are our upbringings, memories, and journeys of our lives, and it is worth writing about them
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Groups+Workshops
Writing the Apocalypse: Cataclysmic Cartography as Narrative Design with Dianca London Potts
Once a week Thursdays, 4:00 pm EDT - 6:00 pm EDT June 23 to July 28, 2022
What can exploring “the end” offer us as storytellers? Throughout this course, participants will traverse a wide-range of multi-genre narratives...
We can only offer full refunds if you cancel one week prior to the start of class. After that, before the start date of class, we can offer a 50% refund. We cannot refund day-of cancellations or refund or partially refund the fee once the class has begun.