Groups + Workshops
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Groups+Workshops
Detours and Dead Ends: On the Value of Wonder and Wandering in Crime Fiction with William Boyle
Once a week Wednesdays, 1:00 pm EDT - 3:00 pm EDT September 29 to November 3, 2021
When people think of crime fiction, they often think of severe plotting, mysteries that need solving, and puzzles pieced together as a narrative unfolds
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Groups+Workshops
Children’s Books: Writing, Illustrating, and Understanding the Industry with Katie Yamasaki (In Person)
Once a week Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT September 29 to November 17, 2021
In this course, students will develop a children’s book that they both author and illustrate. Whether they have a story currently being developed...
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Groups+Workshops
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Petrolio with Rebecca Falkoff and Joseph Perna (Online Only)
4 Sessions Mondays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT October 4 to December 6, 2021
This reading group will be dedicated to a careful reading of Petrolio (1992), the visionary posthumous work by the prolific poet, novelist...
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Groups+Workshops
Character Development: Challenging the Binary with Wayétu Moore
Wednesday & Thursday 10:00 am EDT - 12:15 pm EDT October 6 to October 7, 2021
Heroes sin, and villains are occasionally good. Struggles of good versus evil are happening within, so why not write our characters that way?
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Groups+Workshops
KidsWriting Genre Workshops: Fall 2021
Once a week Saturdays, 11:30 am EDT - 1:00 pm EDT October 9 to October 30, 2021
Designed for young writers, ages 9-12, these writing workshops will focus on fostering creativity in a fun, encouraging environment
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Groups+Workshops
Reading Alice Walker with Dr. Regina A. Bernard, Ph.D. (Online Only)
4 Monthly Sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 14, 2021 to January 6, 2022
In 1982, Alice Walker published The Color Purple—a novel about girlhood, family, identity, feminism, power, heartbreak and so much more
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Groups+Workshops
The Invisible Art: Re-seeing Revision with Peter Ho Davies
Saturday & Sunday 2:00 pm EDT - 4:15 pm EDT October 16 to October 17, 2021
Writers from Ernest Hemingway (“The only kind of writing is rewriting”) to Khaled Hosseini (“Writing for me is largely about rewriting”)...
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Groups+Workshops
Members Only: The Literarians
Wednesday, 12:30 pm EDT - 2:00 pm EDT October 20, 2021
The Literarians is a free monthly discussion group open to members of The Center.
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Groups+Workshops
Criminal Minds: How to Craft Compelling Psychological Suspense with Alison Gaylin
Friday - Sunday 2:00 pm EDT - 4:00 pm EDT October 22 to October 24, 2021
Some of the most evocative, page-turning and best-selling crime fiction in the past few years has been psychological suspense — that subsection...
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Groups+Workshops
Narrative Truth: How Fiction Can Serve Your Nonfiction with Courtney Zoffness
Saturday & Sunday 2:00 pm EDT - 5:00 pm EDT October 23 to October 24, 2021
How can writers make a personal story immersive? Propulsive? Deeply felt? This bootcamp will consider craft techniques essential to fiction writing—dramatic...
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.