Groups + Workshops
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Groups+Workshops
Unputdownable: How to Grab the Reader's Attention and Keep It with Stefan Merrill Block
Friday—Sunday March 31 to April 2, 2023
Whether it’s literary fiction, a genre novel, or nonfiction, a story’s ability to find a readership comes down to a single essential question...
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Groups+Workshops
Crafting Unforgettable Characters with Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
Friday—Sunday March 31 to April 2, 2023
Great characters remain essential to any work of fiction. They are a combination of writers’ knowledge, skill, and imagination
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Who Is You: Writing Second-Person Stories with Nat Mesnard
Saturday & Sunday 12:00 pm EDT - 3:00 pm EDT April 1 to April 2, 2023
Second-person stories are unique in addressing the reader directly, narrating what “you” see and do. “You stand at the mouth of the cave...
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Speedboat and Sleepless Nights and 1970s New York with Mike Levine
Four Sessions Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT April 4 to April 25, 2023
Renata Adler’s Speedboat (1976) is a time capsule of New York’s literary milieu in the 1970s and a timeless piece of electric prose
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Crossing the Lines: Applying Writing Strategies Across Genres with Dawn Raffel
Once a week Mondays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT April 10 to May 15, 2023
This workshop is for anyone writing literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoir, or hybrid work, and for those who genre-hop
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Your Problems Are Your Solutions: Generative Revision Through Plot with Christopher M. Hood
Once a week Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT April 11 to May 30, 2023
As fiction writers, we all love the flow, when the words race along and we are carried by the momentum. Inevitably, however, come moments when...
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Groups+Workshops
How to Structure the Strange with Rebekah Bergman (Sold Out)
Saturday, 11:30 am EDT - 4:00 pm EDT April 15, 2023
In many ways, our reality has never been more surreal, strange, or dystopian. Technology keeps getting ahead of itself, the world is hurling toward...
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Groups+Workshops
Making Time: A Generative Writing Workshop with Kate Milliken (Sold Out)
Once a week Mondays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT April 17 to May 22, 2023
This course is designed for writers just starting out as well as intermediate writers looking to gain new insight into their process
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Members Only: The Literarians
Wednesday, 12:30 pm EDT - 1:30 pm EDT April 19, 2023
The Literarians is a free monthly discussion group open to members of The Center.
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Groups+Workshops
World and Languages: Writing About Languages, Travels, and Immigration with Jenna Tang
Once a week Wednesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT April 19 to May 10, 2023
Everyone has a journey with their own language(s). Languages are ways we see this world, and they are deeply connected to our stories about family...
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.