Walking the Dead
ByShortly after Mao’s ascent in China, a young girl trails behind the traditional, monthly parade of the dead in the hope that she will find her mother and finally hear her parting words.
Wrecker
ByIn Tamara Dean’s quietly moving “Wrecker,” Rena crashes her car en route to an extramarital tryst in Toledo and is helped by Hector, a lumbering tow-truck driver of few words. Their brief time together causes Rena to reconsider the tryst, but it also leads to even tougher choices about what is forgivable and what is not.
Meet our Debutantes
This year at our Literary Deburtante Ball we’ll be celebrating nine writers who published their first book in the last year.
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Join us as we celebrate nine Literary Debutantes and Distinguished Alum Tania James.
Thursday, April 27th, 2023
7:30 pm–10:30 pm
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Locker Room Talk
ByIn the new issue of One Teen Story, a teen attempts to reconcile what they see in the mirror with the way their fellow teammates assess their own bodies.
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Take your short story draft to the next level in this online class on the revision process.
March 23rd – 27th
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July 23rd – 30th
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The Remains
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Meet the winners of our One Teen Story contest
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