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Groups+Workshops
Advanced Story Workshop with Emily Nemens (September 2024)
Once a week Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT September 23 to November 4, 2024
Online | Prepare your short fiction for publication, exploring micro and macro approaches to revision—from making scene-slashing edits...
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Events
A Final Reading with The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil 2023–2024 Emerging Writer Fellows
Thursday, 6:00 pm EDT October 17, 2024
The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil 2023–2024 Emerging Writer Fellows come together to conclude their cohort year and share their works in progress
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Events
Celebrating James Baldwin’s Centennial: Invoking the Women in Baldwin’s Fiction
Friday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:15 pm EDT September 27, 2024
The Center for Fiction is proud to celebrate 100 years of James Baldwin at the 2024 Brooklyn Book Festival with a conversation...
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Events
On America: Countering the Myths and Stereotypes About Rural America
Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT September 25, 2024
This event has been postponed.
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Juan Rulfo's "Pedro Páramo" with Sam Rutter
Thursday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT November 14, 2024
In Person | A book so good Gabriel García Márquez couldn’t sleep until he’d read it twice, Juan Rulfo’s “Pedro...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw" with Sheridan Hay
Thursday, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 31, 2024
In Person | Exactly how frightening is Henry James’s most popular ghostly short story, “The Turn of the Screw” (1898)?
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Stanley Ellin’s "The Moment of Decision" with Art Taylor
Tuesday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT October 1, 2024
Online | Brooklyn-born author Stanley Ellin received two Edgar Awards and four additional nominations for his short stories in Ellery...
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Groups+Workshops
Revisiting Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with Ana Klimchynskaya
2 Sessions Mondays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT October 21 to October 28, 2024
Online | This two-session group will revisit a beloved science fiction classic: Frankenstein. There’s always much to say...
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Groups+Workshops
The Inner Worlds of Clarice Lispector with Thais Vitorelli
3 Sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 15 to December 10, 2024
Online | Dive deep into the rich and introspective universe of Clarice Lispector through three of her most profound works: Near...
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Groups+Workshops
Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai with Lee Konstantinou
5 Sessions Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT October 10 to December 5, 2024
Online In 2018, New York magazine declared The Last Samurai the best book of the twenty-first century