Reading Groups & Writing Workshops
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Groups+Workshops
The Nightlighters
Monday, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 6, 2025
The Nightlighters is a free, in-person reading group for members of The Center for Fiction! Led by rotating staff members, The Nightlighters read...
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Groups+Workshops
Generative Novel-Writing Intensive: Write the First 50 Pages of Your Novel with Omer Friedlander
Once a week Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT October 6 to December 15, 2025
Online | Stuck with a captivating first sentence but no idea how to continue? Hone your narrative skills—from setting and atmosphere...
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Groups+Workshops
The Great Gatsby at 100 with Kristopher Jansma
4 sessions Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 6 to November 17, 2025
Online | One hundred years after its publication, explore how Fitzgerald’s classic became an American icon—with help from key edits...
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Groups+Workshops
A Year of Toni Morrison: Volume I with Maia Butler
4 sessions Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 7, 2025 to January 6, 2026
Online | Morrison’s novels offer powerful insights into identity, history, and belonging. Dive into her rich worlds to rethink race...
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Reading Hispaniola: Edwidge Danticat and Julia Alvarez with Dr. Norrell Edwards
4 sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 8, 2025 to January 7, 2026
Online | Explore the complex histories and contrasting realities of Haiti and the Dominican Republic through the powerful voices of two...
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Groups+Workshops
Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities with Brad Vogel
5 sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 8 to November 12, 2025
In Person | Discover the lasting impact of Jane Jacobs’s classic critique of top-down planning. A counterpoint to Robert Moses, her...
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Groups+Workshops
James Joyce’s Ulysses with William Mottolese
16 sessions Thursdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 9, 2025 to August 27, 2026
Online | Tackle one of the most influential—and challenging—novels of the twentieth century. Follow Leopold Bloom through a single...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: James Sallis’s Drive: High-Octane Neo-Noir in the Hands of a Poet with Mary Anna Evans
Thursday, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 9, 2025
Online | Called “a perfect piece of noir fiction” by the New York Times, Sallis’s experimental, lyrical, and razor-sharp...
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Groups+Workshops
Writing Without Thinking with Josh Krigman
Sunday, 12:00 pm EDT - 4:30 pm EDT October 12, 2025
In Person | Experiment with automatic writing, the blind contour method, and other ways of writing without thinking as you consider...
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Groups+Workshops
The Journalist and the Subject: Reading Janet Malcolm with Alissa Wilkinson
6 sessions Sundays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT October 12, 2025 to January 25, 2026
In Person | Malcolm’s groundbreaking journalism challenges the boundaries between writer and subject. Read six of her key works and...
We can only offer full refunds if you cancel one week prior to the start of class. After that, before the start date of class, we can offer a 50% refund. We cannot refund day-of cancellations or refund or partially refund the fee once the class has begun.