Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
World and Languages: Writing About Languages, Travels, and Immigration with Jenna Tang (October 2022)
Once a week Wednesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT October 12 to November 2, 2022
Languages represent our perspectives to this world. Languages are our upbringings, memories, and journeys of our lives, and it is worth writing about them
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Finding the Magic in Your Story: Magical Realism and Our Unordinary Lives with Alcy Leyva
Once a week Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT September 29 to November 17, 2022
This course will delve into the ways magical realism can help us navigate the malaise and mundane. And yet, magic is not only used for spectacle
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Groups+Workshops
The Novel Writing Clinic with Keisha Bush (Sold Out) (September 2022)
Once a week Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT September 22 to November 10, 2022
Writing a novel often feels like you are scaling a mountain with no peak. Your climbing gear has worn itself out leaving you with scraped knees and elbows
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Groups+Workshops
Graphic Novels and Comics with Varud Gupta (September 2022)
Once a week Wednesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT September 21 to November 9, 2022
This class is a deep-dive into the visual medium that is exploding today bringing to life everything from superheroes, to political narratives...
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Groups+Workshops
Storytelling and Place with Omer Friedlander
Friday - Sunday November 11 to November 13, 2022
One of the most overlooked elements of storytelling is the setting. A strong sense of place can really guide a story. Any kind of fictional story...
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Groups+Workshops
Birds of Different Feathers: Writing And/As/About Resistance with Eraldo Souza dos Santos (October 2022)
Friday - Sunday October 7 to October 9, 2022
In his essay “Resist, Refuse” (2018), Teju Cole argues that the word “resistance,” once holy, has now become unexceptional
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Groups+Workshops
The Invisible Art: Re-seeing Revision with Peter Ho Davies (September 2022)
Saturday & Sunday 1:00 pm EDT - 4:00 pm EDT September 10 to September 11, 2022
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
Narrative Truth: How Fiction Can Serve Your Nonfiction with Courtney Zoffness (September 2022)
Saturday & Sunday 12:00 pm EDT - 3:00 pm EDT September 10 to September 11, 2022
How can writers make a personal story immersive? Propulsive? Deeply felt? This bootcamp will consider craft techniques essential to fiction writing—salient...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Getting to the Point
Two story collections and one short, short novel appear this week; two books are from Scandinavia; and our narrative nonfiction choice is tied...
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Events
The Center for Fiction Café & Bar Presents SHH! (Saturday Happenings Here!)
Saturday, 5:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT August 20, 2022
Let us entertain you at SHH!, a new variety show presented by The Center for Fiction Café & Bar! Sit back and relax with your beverage...
