Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Groups+Workshops
Memoir 101 with Rax King
Once a week Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT June 24 to July 15, 2026
In Person | How do you tell the truth with style? Navigate voice, ethics, and vivid character work, drawing on Mary Karr, David Sedaris...
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Advanced Short Story Workshop with Amy Silverberg
Once a week Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT June 25 to August 13, 2026
Online | Polish or complete at least two short works of fiction through in-depth peer workshops and close readings of stories that illuminate...
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300 Words a Day: Crush Writer’s Block and Build a Habit with Pablo Ottonello
Once a week Mondays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT June 22 to July 27, 2026
Online | Build momentum with the literary diary—a low-pressure, daily practice that keeps you writing in small, doable bursts
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Crushes: The Art of the Swoon with Erica Peplin
Once a week Sundays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT July 12 to August 16, 2026
In Person | To feel overwhelmingly drawn to a person, object, experience, or memory is a fantastic and torturous reason to write
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Events
Celebrating 80 Years of Penguin Classics
Thursday, 7:00 pm EDT June 25, 2026
Join us for an evening celebrating the 80th anniversary of Penguin Classics and its long-standing mission to ignite a universal love of reading...
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In Short: Edwidge Danticat’s “Without Inspection” with Maia Butler
Tuesday, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT August 25, 2026
Online | Six and a half seconds: follow Arnold, an immigrant in Miami, as he relives intimate memories during a tragic workplace fall—set...
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Cover to Cover: Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills with Channelle Russell
Monday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT August 17, 2026
Online | Hell is many different things to many different people. In this explosive interpretation of Dante’s Inferno, it looks...
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In Short: Black Femme Transformation in 'Pemi Aguda's "Manifest" with Magenta Naaku
Saturday, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT August 29, 2026
In Person | A Black femme realizes she isn’t quite herself—someone or something wants control of her body. Uncover the tensions between...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Black Femme Transformation in Eloghosa Osunde's "Grief Is the Gift That Breaks the Spirit Open" with Magenta Naaku
Saturday, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT August 15, 2026
In Person | This vivacious queer story probes the complexities of desire as a Black femme discovers she can shapeshift by inhabiting abandoned bodies
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock with Amanda Lehr
Thursday, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT August 13, 2026
In Person | St. Valentine’s Day, 1900: nineteen girls go on a picnic—three never come back. Inspired by a dream and drafted in less...
