Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Events
The International Library Part II: Translating Traditions / Translating the Book of Genesis
Thursday, 1:30 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT June 15, 2023
A striking example of translation and its many layers—of language, of myth, of tradition—Samantha Schnee’s new English...
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Videos
Sarah Cypher on The Skin and Its Girl with Zaina Arafat
The Center for Fiction welcomed Sarah Cypher for a discussion of her lush and imaginative debut, The Skin and Its Girl...
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Videos
Dave Barry on Swamp Story with Brendan Jay Sullivan
The Center for Fiction was thrilled to welcome the infinitely funny Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and New York Times bestselling author...
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Groups+Workshops
Improve Your Relationship with Writing with Laia Jufresa
Saturday & Sunday 11:00 am EDT - 2:00 pm EDT August 5 to August 6, 2023
Unearth and shift your relationship with writing through sets of exercises and experiments designed to reveal its true needs, desires, and cravings.
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Groups+Workshops
The Sentence Is the Story: A Sentence Workshop with Miciah Bay Gault
Saturday & Sunday 11:00 am EDT - 2:00 pm EDT August 12 to August 13, 2023
Witness the poetic devices at work in prose by dismantling and resurrecting the image, musicality, and the “felt quality” of sound in the...
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Groups+Workshops
How to Find the Through-Line: Writing Memoir and Personal Essay with David McLoghlin
Once a week Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT July 18 to September 5, 2023
Investigate how to extract a defining thread from the raw material of your life by mastering techniques that reveal your narrative voice and craft...
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Groups+Workshops
Fiction, Nonfiction . . . and Autofiction with Eraldo Souza dos Santos
Friday–Sunday July 7 to July 9, 2023
Discover a new genre of writing that blurs the boundaries of fiction and reality through writing prompts and exercises that reveal how autofiction takes shape.
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Groups+Workshops
On Sentiment: How to Effectively Use Emotion in Our Poetry with David McLoghlin
Saturday & Sunday 11:00 am EDT - 2:00 pm EDT July 15 to July 16, 2023
Learn to invoke and navigate emotion without being overly sentimental through the study of famous poets, as well as the techniques they use to...
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Groups+Workshops
Beyond the Flashback: The Art and Science of Memory in Autofiction with Nat Mesnard (July 2023)
Saturday & Sunday 11:00 am EDT - 2:00 pm EDT July 15 to July 16, 2023
In this generative course, explore how the craft of fiction interacts with stories of the past through prompts and discussions centered on the...
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Groups+Workshops
Write Yourself Out of a Corner with Alice LaPlante
Saturday, 12:00 pm EDT - 4:30 pm EDT June 17, 2023
Unlock your creativity and generate fresh and exciting new material in the genre of your choice through learning LaPlante’s art of constraint-based writings.
