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Inside the Writers House" invites you into the homes, offices, and writing rooms of acclaimed authors, providing an inside eye on their working life and a level of intimacy often lacking in more formal settings. An obvious reference to the televised Actor's Studio seminar, "Writers House" interviews are likewise craft focused, but strive for an earthy spontaneity unencumbered by prepared queries and index card cues. Visits are conversational and plastic, largely molded by (and dependent on) audience questions. In addition to the conversation, most visits include short readings, writing prompts, show-and-tell sessions, and house/apt tours. Chances are you'll meet their pets (and look inside their refrigerators).

In the last eight years, students have visited with almost 200 authors in dozens of different cities. Internationally, they've talked with Eoin Colfer in Dublin, Mariana Enriquez in Buenos Aires, Yewande Omotoso in Johannesburg, Garth Greenwell in Sofia, Karin Tidbeck in Stockholm, Kevin Barry in Sligo, and Daisy Johnson in Oxford. Stateside, they've talked with Maurice Ruffin in New Orleans, Karen Russell in Portland, Chigozie Obioma in Lincoln, Tommy Orange in Oakland, Susan Orlean in Los Angeles, Tom Perrotta in Belmont, Jeff VanderMeer in Tallahassee, and Eowyn Ivey in Palmer, Alaska (as well as more local, across-the-river luminaries like Jennifer Egan, Victor LaValle, Lev Grossman, and André Aciman).

Inside the Writers House: Nada Alic

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Tuesday, November 22, 2022
5:40 PM - 6:40 PM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Los Angeles based writer, artist, and creator Nada Alic has advice to offer writers young and old. Her debut story collection, BAD THOUGHTS was released on July 12t 2022 with Vintage Books. It's a New York Times Editors' Choice Pick and was featured in The Cut, NYLON, Harper's Bazaar, BOMB,

Inside the Writers House: Sarah Gailey

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Thursday, November 17, 2022
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House
This writer should not be missed. Sarah Gailey is a Hugo Award Winning and Bestselling author of speculative fiction, short stories, and essays. They have been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards for multiple years running. Their bestselling adult novel debut, Magic For Liars, was published by

Inside the Writers House: GennaRose Nethercott

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Wednesday, November 16, 2022
3:50 PM - 4:50 PM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Don't miss this opportunity to learn about writing from GENNAROSE NETHERCOTT,  author of the novel THISTLEFOOT (Knopf Anchor/PRH 2022) and The Lumberjack’s Dove (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2018), selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series. Her other recent projects include the narrative song collection Modern Ballads, and Lianna Fled

Inside the Writers House: Alma Katsu

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Friday, November 11, 2022
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Hear the inside secrets of writing from a spy writer extraordinaire. Alma Katsu’s books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal, been featured in the NY Times and Washington Post, been nominated and won multiple prestigious awards, and appeared on numerous Best Books lists including NPR,

Inside the Writers House: Paul Tremblay

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Get ready to learn about horror writing from one of the best.  Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of Survivor Song, The Cabin at the End of the World, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, the

Inside the Writers House: Oscar Hokeah

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House
This is your chance to hear about the writing life of Oscar Hokeah. Hokeah holds an M.A. in English from the University of Oklahoma, with a concentration in Native American Literature. He also holds a B.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), with a minor

Inside the Writers House: Alex Jennings

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Friday, October 28, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House
We are so lucky to host this next amazing guest for Inside the Writers House. Alex Jennings is a writer/editor/teacher/poet living in New Orleans. He was born in Wiesbaden (Germany) and raised in Gaborone (Botswana), Tunis (Tunisia), Paramaribo (Surinam) and the United States. He constantly devours pop culture and writes

Inside the Writers House: Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

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Wednesday, October 26, 2022
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Come hear great advice from writer Oleysa Salnikova Gilmore, author of The Witch and the Tsar. Olesya Salnikova Gilmore was born in Moscow, Russia, raised in the US, and graduated from Pepperdine University with a BA in English / political science, and from Northwestern University School of Law with a JD.

Inside the Writers House: Ray Nayler

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Friday, October 21, 2022
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House
RAY NAYLER'S brand new, spellbinding debut, THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA has already been called "a first-rate speculative thriller, by turns fascinating, brutal, powerful, and redemptive" (Jeff VanderMeer, The Southern Reach Trilogy), "poignant... mind-expanding" (Washington Post), "wondrous" (Slate), "masterful... fascinating... well-wrought... a taut exploration of human?and inhuman?consciousness... a knockout" (Publisher's

Inside the Writers House: Stephen Graham Jones

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Friday, October 21, 2022
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author of nearly thirty novels and collections, and there’s some novellas and comic books in there as well. Stephen’s been an NEA recipient, has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction, the LA Times Ray Bradbury Prize, the Mark Twain American

Inside the Writers House: Jason Rekulak

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Monday, October 17, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Jason Rekulak worked for many years as Publisher of Quirk Books, an independent press based in Philadelphia. His debut novel THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTRESS was translated into 12 languages and became a finalist for the Edgar Award. He is represented by Doug Stewart at Sterling Lord Literistic and by Rich Green

Inside the Writers House: K-Ming Chang

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Tuesday, October 11, 2022
5:40 PM - 6:40 PM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Join us for this amazing opportunity to get to know this young and accomplished writer.   K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice novel BESTIARY

Inside the Writers House: Clay McLeod Chapman

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Wednesday, October 5, 2022
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Second floor, Rutgers Barnes and Noble Bookstore
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Clay McLeod Chapman is the author of the novels Whisper Down the Lane, The Remaking, and miss corpus, short story collections nothing untoward, commencement and rest area, as well as The Tribe middlegrade series: Homeroom Headhunters, Camp Cannibal and Academic Assassins. Ghost Eaters, a new supernatural horror novel, hit shelves

Inside the Writers House: Jenni Fagan

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Friday, April 29, 2022
3:40 PM - 4:40 PM
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This will be an event you will not soon forget.  Jenni Fagan was born in Scotland. She graduated from Greenwich University and won a scholarship to the Royal Holloway MFA programme. She has just completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh. A published poet and novelist, she has won

Inside the Writers House: Holly Black

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Friday, April 22, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Get ready for a wild and imaginative ride with Holly Black.  Black is the number one New York Times bestselling author of over thirty fantasy novels for kids and teens. She has been a finalist for an Eisner Award and the Lodestar Award, and the recipient of the Mythopoeic Award, a

Inside the Writers House: Samantha Hunt

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Friday, April 22, 2022
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
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(Photo credit: Nina Subin) This is a writer you don't want to miss.  Samantha Hunt is the author of The Dark Dark: Stories, and three novels. Mr. Splitfoot is a ghost story. The Invention of Everything Else is about the life of inventor Nikola Tesla. The Seas, Hunt’s first novel,

Inside the Writers House: Amor Towles

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Thursday, April 14, 2022
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House

(Photo Credit: Dmitri Kasterine) Born and raised in the Boston area, Amor Towles graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. Having worked as an investment professional for over twenty years, he now devotes himself full time to writing in Manhattan, where he lives with his

Inside the Writers House: Khan Wong

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Wednesday, March 23, 2022
3:50 PM - 4:50 PM
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Khan Wong: a writer whose work will take you to amazing places. In past chapters of life, Khan has published poetry and played cello in an earnest folk-rock duo. As an internationally known hula hoop teacher and performer, he’s toured with a circus, taught workshops all over the world, and produced

Inside the Writers House: Morgan Thomas

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Wednesday, March 23, 2022
5:40 PM - 6:40 PM
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(Photo Credit: Ezra Carlsen) Morgan Thomas will not fail to appeal.  Morgan Thomas’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, the Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, The Yale Review, Electric Literature, and StoryQuarterly, where their story won the 2019 Fiction Prize. They are the recipient of a Bread Loaf Work-Study Grant,

Inside the Writers House: Peng Shepherd

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Thursday, March 10, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Peng Shepherd will knock amaze and stun. Shepherd was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where she rode horses and trained in classical ballet, and has lived in Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York, and Las Vegas. Her first novel, The Book of M, won the 2019 Neukom