Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Events
Visual Art and Artists in Fiction with Idra Novey, Siri Hustvedt, and Brandon Taylor
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT March 28, 2023
Does art imitate life or does life imitate art? Is a portrait a reflection of the model or the artist? What compels a writer to inhabit the mind...
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VideosThe Art of the Short Story
The Center for Fiction and Harper's Magazine Present the Art of the Short Story: Jai Chakrabarti, Hernan Diaz, and Gunnhild Øyehaug with Joanna Biggs
Acclaimed authors Jai Chakrabarti (A Play for the End of the World), Gunnhild Øyehaug (Knots)...
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Groups+Workshops
Writing Masquerade: The Supernatural and Folklore as Fantasy in Fiction with P. Djèlí Clark (Sold Out)
Saturday, 12:00 pm EDT - 4:30 pm EDT May 13, 2023
Award-winning novelist, P. Djèlí Clark shares his own take on writing fantasy, folklore and magic into fiction as a viable expression of the fantasy genre
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Groups+Workshops
The Utopian Imagination: Creative Worldbuilding with Nat Mesnard
Saturday & Sunday 12:00 pm EDT - 3:00 pm EDT May 6 to May 7, 2023
Before creating plot and character, many writers of science fiction, fantasy, and innovative literary fiction spend hours exploring setting
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Groups+Workshops
The Art of Teleportation: How to Write with a Strong Sense of Place with Laia Jufresa
Saturday & Sunday 11:00 am EDT - 2:00 pm EDT April 29 to April 30, 2023
Writing is a bidimensional medium. Yet good books leave us feeling as if we’ve been somewhere. How is that possible? In this workshop you will...
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Groups+Workshops
On Writing Grief: A Weekend of Writing with Diane Zinna (April 2023)
Saturday & Sunday 12:00 pm EDT - 3:00 pm EDT April 22 to April 23, 2023
I have come to believe that if you can write grief as you truly experienced it, you can write anything. During this warm and intensive two-day...
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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
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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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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Groups+Workshops
Unputdownable: How to Grab the Reader's Attention and Keep It with Stefan Merrill Block (March 2023)
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...
