Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
NEA Big Read: A Lesson Before Dying Reading Group and Workshop for Teens
Once a week Saturdays, 12:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT May 1 to May 22, 2021
An interactive close reading and personal narrative writing workshop for students in grades 10 through 12. Applications closed on March 28, 2021
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Events
A Reading with the 2020 Emerging Writer Fellows
Wednesday, 7:30 pm EDT March 10, 2021
The Center for Fiction 2020 Emerging Writer Fellows come together to share their published writing and works in progress. The Fellowship is offered...
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Fiction, Essays & More
Motherhood and the Birth of a Book: A Q&A with Courtney Zoffness
In her spirited, lyrical debut essay collection, Spilt Milk, Courtney Zoffness (a 2013 Emerging Writer Fellow at The...
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VideosStory/Teller
NEA Big Read: Story/Teller Invitation to Read A Lesson Before Dying
Award-winning author and The Center for Fiction Board member Jacqueline Woodson hosts this special on-demand Story/Teller event...
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Groups+Workshops
Creative Nonfiction with Porochista Khakpour (Sold Out) (April 2021)
Friday - Sunday 2:00 pm EDT - 4:00 pm EDT April 23 to April 25, 2021
An all-levels exploratory course in the most popular prose genre through exercises, lectures, and mini-workshops. We will dive deeply into the...
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Groups+Workshops
Experimental Writing for Non-Experimental Writers with Porochista Khakpour (May 2021)
Saturday & Sunday 2:00 pm EDT - 5:15 pm EDT May 22 to May 23, 2021
What does it mean for writing to be experimental? The great writer Margaret Atwood defines it as writing “that sets up certain rules for itself
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Groups+Workshops
Closer to the Truth: Translating Memory Into Fiction with Debra Jo Immergut (Sold Out) (May 2021)
Once a week Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT May 4 to June 22, 2021
Fiction is an extraordinary machine for distilling deeply personal experience into art. In this generative workshop, we’ll examine how writers...
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Groups+Workshops
Lining Up the Bones of a YA Story with Emily X.R. Pan (Sold Out) (June 2021)
Saturday & Sunday 2:00 pm EDT - 4:15 pm EDT June 5 to June 6, 2021
How do we figure out the right structure for a story? What are the unique facets to consider when we’re writing in the young adult space?
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Groups+Workshops
Crossing the Lines: Mixed Genre Workshop with Dawn Raffel (Sold Out) (April 2021)
Once a week Wednesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT April 21 to May 26, 2021
This workshop is for anyone writing literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoir, or hybrid work, and for those who genre-hop
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Groups+Workshops
Character Motivations: Writing the Short Story with Kate Milliken (Sold Out) (April 2021)
Once a week Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT April 15 to May 20, 2021
The beating heart of every great story is a unique and complicated character. In this generative workshop, we will read like writers, isolating...
