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Here are the places where I regularly teach writing:
- StoryStudio Chicago
I’m Artistic Director at this nonprofit Literary Arts center - The Bennington Writing Seminars
a low-residency MFA program - The Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College
a five-summer program for an MA in Literature - Northwestern University
School of Professional Studies MFA program
Here are some things you can find that I’ve already done:
- Five Things I’ve Learned About: Grasping Point of View (on the Page and in the World) purchase the full class by clicking GET TICKET button at the bottom of the grey box.
- “The Short Story Toolkit: Four Lessons on Form, Content, and Brevity”
at StoryStudio Chicago - The Novelist’s Toolkit class from StoryStudio Chicago
available on-demand - “The Ear of the Story”
lecture given at Tin House; be forewarned that I mix up my Brontes - I post regularly on my Substack on topics including endings and interiority, and I post weirdly specific writing prompts sometimes.
