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Groups+Workshops
How to Publish Translation Writing with Bruna Dantas Lobato
Saturday & Sunday 12:00 pm EDT - 3:00 pm EDT October 14 to October 15, 2023
Discover how to pitch and publish your translated work by preparing a translation sample, learning to revise your work, planning a submission strategy, and more.
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Groups+Workshops
Georges Perec's Life: A User's Manual with Evan James
Once a week Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 17 to December 19, 2023
Georges Perec constructs a kaleidoscopic compendium of human experience and a formally playful literary puzzle in Life: A User’s Manual...
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Groups+Workshops
Members Only: The Literarians
Wednesday, 12:30 pm EDT - 1:30 pm EDT October 18, 2023
The Literarians is a free monthly discussion group open to members of The Center.
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Groups+Workshops
Creating a Book Marketing Plan: How to Authentically Promote Your Book and Engage Your Community with Eleanor Whitney
Saturday & Sunday 11:00 am EDT - 2:00 pm EDT October 21 to October 22, 2023
Learn about the publishing process and create a plan to connect with your readers and communicate effectively in order to promote your book.
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Groups+Workshops
Literary Truth: How to Write Immersive Nonfiction with Courtney Zoffness
Saturday & Sunday 12:00 pm EDT - 3:00 pm EDT October 21 to October 22, 2023
Examine techniques essential to fiction writing, and see how they can strengthen and enrich narrative nonfiction.
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Groups+Workshops
Members Only: The Nightlighters
Monday, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 23, 2023
The Nightlighters is a free, in-person reading group for members of The Center for Fiction! Led by rotating staff members, The...
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Groups+Workshops
Acts of Seduction: Women Edited by Gordon Lish with Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo
Four Sessions Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 23, 2023 to January 8, 2024
Gordon Lish, a fiction editor at Esquire and later a book editor at Knopf, became notorious for his significant interventions to the work of many...
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Groups+Workshops
Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls with Mike Levine
Once a week Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 24 to November 14, 2023
“Hysterically funny and incredibly moving” (Mel Brooks), Dead Souls follows a man buying serfs who have died in the time...
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Groups+Workshops
Femme Fatale: Villain or Antihero? with Hilary Davidson
Five Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 25, 2023 to January 17, 2024
The femme fatale has become a staple of hardboiled crime fiction, often portrayed as a conniving, cruel woman who uses her beauty and sexual charms...
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Groups+Workshops
Writing About Social Issues: Writing with Conscience with Kavita Das
Once a week Thursdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT October 26 to December 7, 2023
Focus on responsibly addressing complex societal matters, exploring the writer’s role as a witness and catalyst for change through lessons...
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.