Wednesday Reader Bundle (lunch + craft talks)

12:30 p.m.: Literary luncheon with readings by Angela Flournoy & Ilya Kaminsky (lunch included)

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2:30 p.m.: Craft talk series with Porochista Khakpour & Moriel Rothman-Zecher

Continue your immersive experience by hearing nationally renowned authors explore various elements of the craft of creative writing.

The Business of Writing: A Craft Talk with Porochista Khakpour
In this craft talk, Porochista Khakpour discusses literary citizenship and how to survive your first “serious” attempts to get published.

On Writing Younger Protagonists in Adult Fiction with Moriel Rothman-Zecher
In many literary novels that are geared toward adults but centered around teenage characters, various devices are used to clarify that the narrator or protagonist should be understood as older —32, say, or 40, or 79— and thus as being in possession of a more serious or mature perspective as they look back on their younger self. In this craft talk, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, whose debut literary novel, Sadness Is a White Bird, centers around a friendship among three teenagers, and is told from the perspective of a nineteen year-old narrator, will discuss the cases in which there is literary, tonal, and perhaps even ethical benefit to be had in allowing younger characters and narrators to “speak for themselves” in adult fiction, and how these characters can be written authentically, without sacrificing the eloquence, wisdom, complexity and nuance sometimes provided by the mediating device of older narrators looking back.