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Groups+Workshops
Book Adaptations and Hollywood with Phil Cohen (Sold Out) (June 2021)
Friday & Saturday 5:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT June 25 to June 26, 2021
In this workshop, participants will learn what’s behind a studio or streamer’s decision to option a book and the process of adapting...
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Events
National Teen Storyteller Contest: Social and Criminal Justice (Deadline Extended!)
Submissions Accepted May 1 to June 25, 2021
The Center for Fiction is once again partnering with The Decameron Project for a National Teen Storyteller Contest. Young writers, ages 13-18...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
It's a Mystery to Me
Despite some much-needed spring weather to raise spirits the news cycle continues to be overwhelming. It is hard to concentrate on much else...
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Events
Fiona Mozley on Hot Stew with Arianna Rebolini
Wednesday, 6:00 pm EDT May 5, 2021
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2021 by a number of publications, Fiona Mozley’s new novel Hot Stew centers...
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Videos
Trauma and Healing Through Magic in Speculative Fiction
K.M. Szpara (First, Become Ashes), Anita Kopacz (Shallow Waters), Kerstin Hall...
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Videos
Japanese Literature in Translation: Izumi Suzuki’s Terminal Boredom
A panel of Japanese-to-English literary translators joined us to celebrate the launch of science-fiction legend Izumi Suzuki’s...
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Events
How Do Things Work in Publishing Literary Translation?
Thursday, 5:30 pm EDT July 15, 2021
How a person can be a translator for years and still not really know what is ‘standard practice’ for so many things?
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Events
On Revision: Kiese Laymon and Peter Ho Davies
Tuesday, 6:00 pm EDT June 22, 2021
In a convocation address at Lawrence University, Kiese Laymon (Heavy: An American Memoir, How to Slowly Kill Yourself...
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Events
On America: Women, Medicine, and Writing
Thursday, 6:00 pm EDT June 10, 2021
Suzanne Koven, a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Anita Diamant, an author and...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Inside Information
In Brooklyn and Harlem, London and Pakistan, as well as various unnamed locations, these writers combine the personal, psychological and political in their novels