I'm excited to be running a couple of sessions at New Hampshire Writers' Day, always one of my favorite literary events of the year. This year, I'll be focusing on short stories, as described below. The day should launch in style with the morning keynote address from Mitchell S. Jackson, author of The Residue […]
Really looking forward to gathering with 24 other local authors at the Portsmouth Public Library for this event. As you can see, we will replace our bodies with our books for the occasion! There's also a children's literature event going on concurrently at Strawberry Banke for those who are freaked out by our book […]
I'll be reading from my story "Partial Instructions for the Game" to help celebrate the release of Outlook Springs #2.
Cambridge Writers' Workshop at Upshur Street Books: A Reading Cost: Free The Cambridge Writers' Workshop will be hosting their annual offsite reading at Upshur Street Books on February 10th from 5 to 6:45. The address of the actual reading will be Third Floor, 4200 9th St NW Washington DC 20011. This is above Slim’s Diner […]
I'll be doing the following session with Jodi Paloni: The Short Story: Know Your Arc Tim Horvath and Jodi Paloni In this workshop, we'll deconstruct award-winning short stories by masters of the form to examine how conflict and structure converge to yield a story's pulse. We’ll examine the techniques they used to build tension […]
I'm so excited to be a Teaching Scholar at the 2017 Muse and Marketplace, where I'll be offering a session called "Sounds Like a Book: Voice, Rhythm, and the Music of Prose." Here's a description of the event: Audiobooks are more popular than ever, partly because they fit into our lifestyles, but also because great […]
I'll be doing a session entitled"How to Write Long--But Not Long-winded--Sentences." Here's an overview: In our attention-span-challenged times, it takes a certain nerve to write long sentences, yet the 2017 Man-Booker Longlist includes Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, which revels in them, and Mike McCormack's Solar Bones, which consists of a single book-length sentence. How do […]
I'm thrilled as ever to be teaching a class at the Muse and the Marketplace 2019 on "Essentials of Style." Here's an overview of what we'll do that hour: Gustave Flaubert suggested that "...there is no such thing as subject—style in itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.” Okay, Flaubert might have gone […]