Events for February 3, 2018
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10:00 am
FREE CRAFT SEMINAR: “Making the Jump: Bringing Characters to Life on the Page”
Join esteemed author RACHEL KADISH for a free fiction craft seminar designed to demonstrate how students receive craft and technique instruction in the Lesley University MFA in Creative Writing Program. Kadish’s seminar will explore how good character development sets plots in motion, commandeers readers’ loyalty, and draws the reader into experiences and emotions otherwise inaccessible. […]
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Writing Romance Today: A panel with authors KRISTAN HIGGINS and SARAH MACLEAN at the Boston Public Library
Leading romance authors KRISTAN HIGGINS and SARAH MACLEAN explore how they write happily-ever-afters when the world can seem a dangerous and scary place. HIGGINS, author of Now That You Mention It, has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, the New York Journal of Books, and Library Journal. Her books have sold millions of […]
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Dire Literary Series
The Dire Literary Series is back with DAVE KEIFABER, CAITLIN MCGILL and ANNA ROSS. DAVE KEIFABER is a Baltimore-based writer whose work, largely essays and speculative fiction, has been published in Front Porch Journal, Battered Suitcase, ULA Redux, The Light Ekphrastic, LOOP, Artichoke Haircut, Welter, and Cobalt, among other places. He is also a regular contributor to […]
Find out more »Did You Know?
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.