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The First Novel Fête

Thursday, 6:30 pm EDT December 3, 2020

A celebratory cocktail hour preceding our Annual Awards Benefit. All are welcome to attend for a suggested contribution of $20.

First Place — The ground is perpetually damp, the buildings creak, and the sun seems more like a hole forced into the sky...

Second Place — If we whispered the name of a dead person, it winked like a friend. If we suppressed our fright and kept quiet...

Third Place — It was a dark and stormy October night in the beautiful state of Wyoming and Farmer Tim was about to go to bed...

Actor David Duchovny performed a dramatic reading from Jess Walter’s outstanding historical novel The...

We were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of editor and writer Daniel Menaker. A few years ago, the writer Dawn Raffel sat down with Menaker...

Tuesday, 7:30 pm EDT November 17, 2020

Leavitt will talk about his new comedic work, Shelter in Place.

Saturday, 1:00 pm EDT - 5:30 pm EDT November 21, 2020

How do we take the sprawl of our lives and distill the right moments to deliver that umph of the most effective stories?

Once a week Saturdays, 2:00 pm EDT - 4:15 pm EDT November 14 to November 21, 2020

An all-levels exploratory course in the most popular prose genre through exercises, lectures, and mini-workshops.

Haunting, scary, spooky, creepy, frightening, gothic, and ghostly—how many ways can we describe the novels that make us shiver, and the stories...