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Print under the Palms: of days & presses gone 31 Jul 2013 | 05:56 pm
Players are going to play, and writers are going to write, but once upon a time writers depended upon an arsenal of heavy machinery and skilled technicians to bring their words to readers’ eyes. Herew...
Daniel Menaker to teach Humor Workshop 31 Jul 2013 | 02:58 am
Daniel Menaker will teach “The Art of Comic Writing” in Key West in January 2014. Photo by Chip Cooper. We are very happy to announce that Daniel Menaker will rejoin our writers’ workshop faculty for...
James Gleick 30 Jul 2013 | 10:20 pm
James Gleick is the author of the national bestseller, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. His first book, Chaos, was a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist and led to collaborat...
Daniel Menaker 30 Jul 2013 | 08:50 pm
Focus This workshop will cover humor in writing in all its forms, with a concentration on short comic pieces, such as the New Yorker‘s Shouts and Murmurs column and barnesandnoble.com’s humor feature...
Final Chapter Keynote is Elizabeth George 10 Jul 2013 | 07:45 pm
Elizabeth George, #1 New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Inspector Lynley mysteries. Following on yesterday’s announcement that Sara Paretsky will deliver the keynote address for “Ch...
Chapter One Keynote is Sara Paretsky 10 Jul 2013 | 02:57 am
Sara Paretsky, the New York Times #1 bestselling author and creator of V.I. Warshawski, the groundbreaking leading woman of American crime fiction. We are excited to announce the selection of Sara Pa...
Jonathan Santlofer 25 Jun 2013 | 01:19 am
Jonathan Santlofer is a writer and artist. He has published five novels, including the bestselling “The Death Artist,” numerous short stories, edited several anthologies and is the Director of the Cen...
Mary Morris 25 Jun 2013 | 01:09 am
Mary Morris is the author of 14 books—six novels, including Revenge, three collections of short stories, and four travel memoirs, including most recently The River Queen. Her numerous short stories an...
Priority Deadline for Scholarships is June 30 18 Jun 2013 | 01:24 am
Fewer than thirteen days remain to meet the priority deadline for applications to our Scholarship Program. Teachers, librarians, and writers who would not otherwise be able to attend the seminar and/o...
Gopnik on Crime-Lit, Hiaasen, & ‘Florida Glare’ 14 Jun 2013 | 11:26 pm
The New Yorker‘s annual summer fiction issue features a brilliant article by Adam Gopnik on the current ‘state’ of crime fiction—the focus of our forthcoming seminar, “The Dark Side”—and what it revea...
