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Events
Story/Teller Arts: Joni Mitchell as Muse
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:15 pm EDT March 5, 2025
The Center for Fiction is thrilled to welcome beloved novelist and memoirist Paul Lisicky to discuss Song So Wild and Blue...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
Leaving the World Behind
These five books share propulsive narratives, urging you forward to escape into fiction. A gripping thriller introduces an irresistible, reluctant...
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Book RecsBookstore Picks
All in the Family
Four novels and one essay collection take different approaches to family dynamics. One is written by the son of John Le Carré, who carries on...
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Groups+Workshops
How to Write Page-Turning Fiction with Cleyvis Natera
Saturday, 12:00 pm EDT - 4:30 pm EDT March 22, 2025
Online | Journey through a series of craft insights and writing exercises to better understand narrative tension as a critical aspect...
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Groups+Workshops
Writing a Crime Novel: Getting Started with David Gordon (March 2025)
Saturday & Sunday 1:00 pm EDT - 4:00 pm EDT March 1 to March 2, 2025
Online | Receive the background and encouragement you need to commit to, and solve, your first crime novel with vital lessons on plotting...
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Groups+Workshops
Hearing the Music in Our Writing with Alison Mills Newman (February 2025)
Sunday, 5:00 pm EDT - 9:30 pm EDT February 23, 2025
Online | Explore the voices of great writers from different time periods and styles to uncover their beats, rhythms, and flow
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Groups+Workshops
The What-When-Where-Why-How of Writing Your First Novel with Kate Milliken
Saturday & Sunday 12:00 pm EDT - 3:00 pm EDT February 15 to February 16, 2025
Online | Discover why you are uniquely positioned to tell your story; identify why this story matters; and determine what effect this...
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Groups+Workshops
Haunted: A Two-Day Generative Fiction Workshop with Zeynep Özakat (February 2025)
Saturday & Sunday 12:00 pm EDT - 3:00 pm EDT February 8 to February 9, 2025
Online | Why do we persistently write about certain things and what drives us to write? In this weekend-long intensive, generate work...
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Groups+Workshops
The Mind at Work: From Personal Essay to Lyric Essay with Javier Sinay (February 2025)
Once a week Mondays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT February 3 to March 24, 2025
Online | As Elizabeth Hardwick famously put it, reading an essay is like seeing a “mind at work.” In this course, read different...
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Groups+Workshops
What We Really Mean to Say: Utilizing Poetic Techniques in Prose with Joe Wilkins
Saturday, 3:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT February 1, 2025
Online | Discover how, in attending to language, writers not only find more effective, vivid forms of expression, but also find newer...