Tim Horvath

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 […]

I'm looking forward to participating in this reading with these amazing writers through Cambridge Writers' Workshop in support of the Black Visions Collective. I'll be sharing a collaborative work with composer/musician Rafaele Andrade from a larger project we've been working on. It will be streaming on Facebook Live--see link below.

Though we're not traveling to Granada this summer for obvious reasons, I'm teaching a couple of classes for the next two Saturdays, 3:30-5:30 EST. Class 2. Hopscotching Across Languages: Drawing Inspiration from Spanish Language Literature in Translation It is a given that writers must learn to read closely, with attention to nuance and craft, to […]