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Speakeasy Workshop: Reading Like A Writer
Wednesdays September 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th join me to learn to read like a writer. In this discussion- and lecture-based class, we'll use short assigned texts to become stronger and more engaging writers. This workshop has four sessions. We tend to read as readers and then write as writers, missing out on many of the craft […]
Speakeasy Workshop: Reading Like A Writer
Wednesdays September 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th join me to learn to read like a writer. In this discussion- and lecture-based class, we'll use short assigned texts to become stronger and more engaging writers. This workshop has four sessions. We tend to read as readers and then write as writers, missing out on many of the craft […]
Speakeasy Workshop: Reading Like A Writer
Wednesdays September 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th join me to learn to read like a writer. In this discussion- and lecture-based class, we'll use short assigned texts to become stronger and more engaging writers. This workshop has four sessions. We tend to read as readers and then write as writers, missing out on many of the craft […]
The Porch: The Origins of the Original with Visiting Writer Rebecca Makkai
OnlineWhen we sit down to write, the first words, scenes, characters, conflicts, and settings we come up with are often the least original ones of which we’re capable. Digging past the obvious, the stock (and even the products of the collective unconscious), we might finally arrive at stories that are strikingly new and memorable. In […]
Northwestern Summer Writers’ Conference: The Origins of The Original
The Northwestern University Summer Writers’ Conference is back! This year, the conference is entirely online again so you can join us from anywhere in the world. Details are forthcoming. In the meantime, please save the dates! The conference is hosted by the Northwestern University School of Professional Studies MA in Writing and MFA in Prose and Poetry programs. July […]
StoryStudio Chicago: StoryBoard Presents: Rebecca Makkai in Conversation with Terese Marie Mailhot, Ingrid Rojas-Contreras, Megan Stielstra, Pablo Cartaya, and Dan Chaon
Zoom info in ticket linkStoryBoard Kick Off! Mark you calendars for August 12 at 7 pm CT. StoryStudio Chicago Artistic Director Rebecca Makkai will be in conversation with five of the StoryBoard faculty members in webinar fashion on Zoom, a conversation that will be free and open to the public!
Electric Lit Presents: The Craft of Covid in Fiction
The dynamic, unpredictable nature of the pandemic has forced novelists to become pundits, predicting what the world will look like when their novels are published. They also face unique craft challenges: how do masks affect dialogue, character descriptions, and scene? How do social distancing and quarantine warp relationship dynamics? Rebecca Makkai chose to move the […]
WORDPLAY CLASS: First Page, Last Polish (part of The Loft’s Wordplay festival)
OnlineYour opening is the first thing an agent or editor will read—and you don’t want it to be the last. But you’ve seen your own first page so often that its strengths, flaws, gaps, and even typos are invisible to you now. So often, all we can think to do to polish it up is […]
Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts & Sciences: Chaffee Visiting Writer
Johns Hopkins University Mudd Hall 26 Baltimore, MD 21210 Johns Hopkins University Mudd Hall 26, Baltimore, MD, United StatesThe Mystery of Writing Crime Novels (Ubud Writers and Readers Festival event)
Valley Stage @ Taman Baca Jl Raya Sanggingan Ubud, Kedewatan, Kecamatan Ubud, Kabupaten Gianyar, Bali, IndonesiaTracey Lien is the author of the debut novel All That’s Left Unsaid, which investigates the Vietnamese Australian enclave of Cabramatta in the 1990s and explores the emotional complexity of Vietnamese refugee and Asian Australian experiences. I Have Some Questions for You is a literary murder mystery by Rebecca Makkai, set in an élite boarding […]
