Reading Groups & Writing Workshops
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Groups+Workshops
How She Wrote: Generative Exercises Inspired by Shirley Jackson with Melissa Lozada-Oliva
Saturday & Sunday 1:00 pm EDT - 4:00 pm EDT August 1 to August 2, 2026
In Person | With addictive plots, a fascination with the occult, and witty dialogue, Jackson’s work is eternal, capturing the terror...
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The Art of Travel Writing with Matt Ortile
Once a week Sundays, 12:00 pm EDT - 2:00 pm EDT August 2 to August 23, 2026
Online | Study contemporary travel pieces to generate ideas and build tools for telling immersive stories that balance narrative voice...
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Agatha Christie's Poirot and Marple with Mary Anna Evans
4 Sessions Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT August 3 to September 14, 2026
Online | Read Agatha Christie’s first and final Poirot and Marple novels to see how two of fiction’s most enduring outsiders observe...
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A Year of Henry James: Volume II with Sheridan Hay
Once a week Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT August 5 to August 26, 2026
Online | Read four of James’s most enigmatic short works as a way of tracing his growing fascination with ambiguity, secrecy, and consciousness—and...
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I, You, They: Mastering Point of View with Philip Anderson
Once a week Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT August 6 to September 10, 2026
Online | Consider the different uses of various points of view, and experiment with voice across first, second, and third person to...
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Groups+Workshops
The Art of the Review with Alissa Wilkinson
Saturday & Sunday 11:00 am EDT - 2:00 pm EDT August 8 to August 9, 2026
Online | Learning to write a good review can open doors for any writer. Approach the review as a genre of creative writing, tackling...
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In Short: Joyce Carol Oates’s “How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again” with Art Taylor
Monday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT August 10, 2026
Online | Delve into this thematically rich, formally daring portrait of adolescence, alienation, and violence as a teenage girl moves...
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Groups+Workshops
Writing Girlhood with Anika Jade Levy
Once a week Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT August 10 to September 21, 2026
In Person | Girlhood: one of literature’s richest and most unstable subjects. Sharpen your language, develop new pages, and examine...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock with Amanda Lehr
Thursday, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT August 13, 2026
In Person | St. Valentine’s Day, 1900: nineteen girls go on a picnic—three never come back. Inspired by a dream and drafted in less...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Black Femme Transformation in Eloghosa Osunde's "Grief Is the Gift That Breaks the Spirit Open" with Magenta Naaku
Saturday, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT August 15, 2026
In Person | This vivacious queer story probes the complexities of desire as a Black femme discovers she can shapeshift by inhabiting abandoned bodies
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