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National Teen Storyteller Contest: Classic Myths, Reimagined

Submissions Accepted May 10 to June 10, 2024

The Center for Fiction invites young writers, ages 13-18 to submit their best work for our National Teen Storyteller Contest

We celebrated a magnificently rich imagining of one of Harlem’s most turbulent and triumphant life stories in Diane Richards’s debut...

We are thrilled to have welcomed The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowship alumnus, Jiaming Tang, to celebrate...

Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT July 10, 2024

Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, acclaimed author of Blue and Powder Necklace, joins The Center for Fiction to discuss...

Monday, 7:00 pm EDT June 17, 2024

In-person tickets to this event are sold out. Register for the livestream above.The Center for Fiction welcomes Rachel Cusk...

Monday, 7:00 pm EDT September 23, 2024

This event has been canceled.

Wednesday, 7:00 pm EDT May 29, 2024

The Center for Fiction is thrilled to welcome Emmy award-winning author, lawyer, and television host Sunny Hostin

The novels this week play with time in different ways—one a follow-up to a prize-winning book from Eastern Europe, another a much-anticipated...

The Center for Fiction was thrilled to have welcomed one of America’s most inventive and profound playwrights, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins...

The Center for Fiction welcomed Nell Irvin Painter, esteemed historian and the New York Times bestselling author of...