Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Videos
Crime/Scene: Jonathan Santlofer on The Last Mona Lisa with Alison Gaylin
Jonathan Santlofer (Inherit the Dead) opened a new Center for Fiction series on crime fiction with his latest release...
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VideosStory/Teller
Story/Teller: Kia Corthron on Moon and the Mars with Denne Michele Norris
Kia Corthron, the winner of The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, celebrated...
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Groups+Workshops
Crafting Personal Narratives with Zaina Arafat (November 2021)
Monday & Tuesday 7:00 pm EDT - 9:15 pm EDT November 8 to November 9, 2021
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear,”...
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Groups+Workshops
Prose Translation Studio with Daniel Hahn
Once a week Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT October 28 to December 9, 2021
In this studio-style workshop, each participant will bring a (very) short translation of their own to be discussed within the group
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Groups+Workshops
The Hardest Part: Writing Beginnings and Endings with Joe Wilkins (Sold Out) (November 2021)
Monday & Tuesday 5:00 pm EDT - 7:15 pm EDT November 22 to November 23, 2021
Beginnings and endings—in novels, short stories, essays, and memoirs—are hard. An arresting beginning is the writer’s one chance to capture...
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Groups+Workshops
The Craft of the Unputdownable Story: How to Grab a Reader’s Attention and Keep It with Stefan Merrill Block (Sold Out) (November 2021)
Friday - Sunday 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT November 12 to November 14, 2021
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...
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Groups+Workshops
Narrative Truth: How Fiction Can Serve Your Nonfiction with Courtney Zoffness (October 2021)
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...
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Groups+Workshops
Structuring Your Story: Shaping Fiction with Julia Phillips — Sold Out (October 2021)
Once a week Thursdays, 7:30 pm EDT - 9:30 pm EDT October 28 to December 9, 2021
This workshop focuses on structuring a novel or short story around a propulsive plot that is truly satisfying for the reader
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Groups+Workshops
Creating Audio Fiction and Nonfiction with C.J. Farley and Ann Heppermann
Thursday & Friday 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT November 4 to November 5, 2021
Audible Executive Editor C.J. Farley and Audible Producer Ann Heppermann will provide insight into the engaging and creative ways that authors...
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Groups+Workshops
The Invisible Art: Re-seeing Revision with Peter Ho Davies — Sold Out (October 2021)
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”)...
