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BAR Reading Series
Trident is excited to welcome some of Boston’s most talented adjunct professors for a reading and discussion of their various works. This reading series will serve to highlight the creative writing accomplishments of Boston’s many adjunct professors, an oft overlooked element of this academic city. This event will feature Rebecca Kaiser Gibson, author of Opinel: Poems (Bauhan Publishing), and two other readers to be announced.
Find out more »Craft on Draft
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. What would these novels be without the historical people and events they feature? Hear Michelle Hoover, Emily Ross, and Dawn Tripp discuss how real life events influenced and shaped their latest novels. Craft on Draft is a reading series devoted to great fiction—and the mechanics behind it. Want to get in on the action? Submit a page of your own work (max 250 words) that…
Find out more »Queering Literature: A Pride Panel
Kick off Pride month with a discussion panel about writing queer lives in both fiction and nonfiction with Chris Castellani, Garrard Conley, Kelly Ford, Catherine Guthrie, Brontez Purnell, and Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich. Chris Castellani, Grub's Artistic Director, is the author of three novels: A Kiss from Maddalena, The Saint of Lost Things, and All This Talk of Love. In addition, he has contributed essays on creative writing to numerous anthologies, including Naming The World, Now Write!, and others. Garrard Conley, Grub's…
Find out more »Craft on Draft Presents A WRITER’S VOICE – HOW TO DEVELOP YOURS AND YOUR CHARACTERS
Voice. It’s what every agent and editor is looking for and what reels readers in. Join Belle Brett (Gina in the Floating World), Stephanie Gayle (Idyll Hands) and Brendan Matthews (The World of Tomorrow). Want in on the action? Submit a page of your own voice-filled fiction (max 250 words). One lucky winner will have their entry read and discussed by the authors, receive a GrubStreet pint glass + drink, and have their piece and an interview published on the…
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.