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Alicia Mountain: Four in Hand

Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain’s Four in Hand is both formal and experimental, ranging from lyric romantic and familial narratives to blank verses of reconfigured found […]

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Free

Margaret Ray: Good Grief, the Ground

Selected by Stephanie Burt as the winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, Good Grief, the Ground interrogates the everyday violences nonchalantly inflicted onto women through personal, political, and […]

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Free

Stephen Schottenfeld: This Room Is Made of Noise

In this quietly mesmerizing novel, no one, including the protagonist, is ever entirely sure of their motivations. Existing in the liminal spaces between altruism and greed, This Room Is Made […]

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Free – $20

Jessica Q. Stark: Buffalo Girl

Told through personal, national, and cultural histories, Buffalo Girl is a feminist indictment of the violence used to define and control women’s bodies. Interspersed throughout this hybrid work are a […]

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Free

Mahtem Shiferraw: Nomenclatures of Invisibility

Shiferraw calls us to carve out space for the multitudes of selves we carry when we migrate across boundaries of body, language, and land. With momentum, giving name to everything […]

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Free

Kristen Gentry: Mama Said

The linked stories in Mama Said are set in Louisville, Kentucky, a city with a rich history steeped in tobacco, bourbon, and gambling, indulgences that can quickly become gripping and […]

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Free – $20

Jeannine Hall Gailey: Flare, Corona

Against a constellation of solar weather events and an evolving pandemic, Flare, Corona paints a self-portrait of the ways in which we prevail and persevere through health adversities while facing […]

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Free

George Looney: The Visibility of Things Long Submerged

Dripping with Southern gothic flavors, The Visibility of Things Long Submerged gazes at the holy and the obscene while plumbing gritty secrets of the human heart. With swamps, alligators, revival […]

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Free

Adebe DeRango-Adem: Vox Humana

In and through literary experiments with word and sound, utterance and song, Vox Humana considers the different ways a body can assert, recount, and proclaim. Born from the polyphonic phenomenon […]

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Free – $20

Workshops & Master Classes

Ravi Mangla Fiction Workshop: The Sentence as an Event

What makes a powerful sentence? How do you write sentences that worm their way into the ear and propel the reader forward? In this workshop, we'll analyze the anatomy of […]

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$40

Creative Writing & Printmaking: Earth Day with Grequan Carter

Respond imaginatively to a prompt in any genre, then put your inspiration into print. In this workshop at the Riso Club, housed in Rochester’s Visual Studies Workshop, Writers & Books’ […]

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$80

Creative Writing & Printmaking: Concrete Poems & Flash Essays with Anastasia Nikolis

Respond imaginatively to a prompt in any genre, then put your inspiration into print. In this workshop at the Riso Club, housed in Rochester’s Visual Studies Workshop, Writers & Books’ […]

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$80

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SummerWrite 2023

Deaf Lens | Ages: 10-14

More information coming soon for this 2-Week filmmaking camp for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing campers! Camp will be conducted entirely in ASL. Registration will open later in March. Teaching Artist(s): Stacy […]

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Dragons, Dice, & Roleplaying | Teen

Calling all quest seekers! What do collaborative role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons and writing have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as you’ll discover. In this camp, […]

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$322

Percy Jackson | Ages: 8-11

Percy Jackson is mighty with his sword; his creator, Rick Riordan, is mighty with his pen. Experiment with the writing methods Riordan uses to weave a siren spell. You will […]

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$322

Write a Short Play | Ages: 10-13

Do you love theater? Do you have a big imagination? Have you always wished you could see the characters and stories in your head come to life in front of […]

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$161

Becoming a Storyteller | Ages: 8-11

Do you love telling stories? Are you entertained by listening to a good story? Then you probably already are a natural storyteller! In this camp you will practice voice, body […]

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$161

Start Your Story | Ages: 7-9

Are stories constantly running through your imagination? Get your ideas out of your head and onto paper! In this camp we will learn what makes a story interesting by exploring […]

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$161

Building Fantastical Worlds | Ages: 8-11

Have you ever wondered what it’s like living in magical worlds, such as those described in the Harry Potter series, Chronicles of Narnia, and The Borrowers? How do we leave […]

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$161

Musical Theater Book Club | Ages: Teen

Think of this as a book club where, instead of discussing novels, we discuss musicals. From Sondheim to Six, musical theater can be more than just jazz hands and smiles; […]

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$161

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