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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: Gwen E. Kirby

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Wednesday, March 9, 2022
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Add this event to your calendar NOW.  E. Kirby‘s debut collection Shit Cassandra Sawis available from Penguin Books wherever books are sold. She hails from San Diego and is a proud graduate of Carleton College. She has an MFA from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. Currently,

Inside the Writers House: Nell Zink

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Monday, February 28, 2022
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House

You must hear from this fantastic writer, Nell Zink.   Zink left Southern California for eastern Virginia in 1972, aged eight. After completing a B.A. in philosophy at the College of William and Mary, she worked mostly as a secretary, with stints in masonry, technical writing, and translating. In 2000,

Inside the Writers House: Jonathan Evison

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Don't miss this candid conversation with writer Jonathan Evison.  He is the New York Times best-selling author of seven novels, including Small World, All About Lulu, West of Here, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!, Legends of the North Cascade, and Lawn Boy – a sharp-eyed, sidesplittingly funny examination of class divides and white

Inside the Writers House: Lily King

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Friday, December 3, 2021
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Lily King is the award-winning author of five novels. Her most recent novel, Writers & Lovers, was published on March 3, 2020, and her first collection of short stories, Five Tuesdays in Winter, will be released on November 9, 2021. Her 2014 novel Euphoria won the Kirkus Award, The New England Book

Inside the Writers House: Tom Lin

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Friday, November 19, 2021
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

TOM LIN is the author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and a finalist for the 2022 Carnegie Medal for Excellence. It's been compared to the work of Cormac McCarthy, Ray Bradbury, and the Coen Brothers and has been called "striking" and

Inside the Writers House: Arkady Martine

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Thursday, November 18, 2021
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

ARKADY MARTINE is the Hugo Award-winning author of the best selling space opera A Memory Called Empire, which has been called "mesmerizing" (New York Times), "beautiful" (Library Journal, starred), "epic" (Kirkus, starred), "exquisite" (Los Angeles Times), "lavish" (Wall Street Journal), "stunning" (Publishers Weekly, starred), and "awesome" (Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson

Inside the Writers House: Ellen Kushner  

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Thursday, November 18, 2021
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Event Type: Inside The Writers House

Ellen Kushner weaves together multiple careers as a writer, radio host, teacher, performer and public speaker.A graduate of Barnard College, she also attended Bryn Mawr College, and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. She began her career in publishing as a fiction editor in New York City, but left to write her first novel Swordspoint, which

Inside the Writers House: Meg Wolitzer

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Friday, November 12, 2021
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Meg Wolitzer is the The New York Times–bestselling author of The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Wife, which was turned into an Oscar nominated movie, and the young adult novel, Belzhar. Her work has been called "remarkable" (The New York Times Book Review), "genius" (The Chicago Tribune), “wonderful” (Vanity

Inside the Writers House: Rebecca Donner

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Tuesday, November 9, 2021
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Rebecca Donner's new book, All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, was an instant New York Times Bestseller, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year. In this “stunning literary achievement,” Donner chronicles the extraordinary life and brutal death of her

Inside the Writers House: Joshua Henkins

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Monday, November 8, 2021
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Joshua Henkin's new novel, Morningside Heights, was a number one Indie Next Pick, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and one of "2021’s Most Highly Anticipated New Books" (Newsweek). It's been called "emotionally generous, deft, witty, and deeply intelligent" (Boston Globe), "generous, wise, and wry enough to avoid sentimentality" (National

Inside the Writers House Presents: Grady Hendrix

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Tuesday, November 2, 2021
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Grady Hendrix offers her insight on writing and will talk about her latest book, The Final Girl Support Group.   Led by Writers House's very own faculty member Alex Dawson, Inside the Writers House invites you into the homes, offices, and writing rooms of acclaimed authors, providing an inside eye on

Inside the Writers House Presents: Fonda Lee

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Monday, October 18, 2021
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House
We are thrilled to welcome writer Fonda Lee, fantastic writer of The Green Bone Saga. Led by Writers House's very own faculty member Alex Dawson, 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

Inside the Writers House Presents: Ellie Eaton

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Friday, April 23, 2021
9:50 AM - 10:50 AM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Ellie Eaton is a freelance writer, whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Observer, and Time Out. Former Writer-in-Residence at a men’s prison in the UK, she holds an MA in creative writing from Royal Holloway, University of London and was awarded a Kerouac Project residency. Born and raised

Inside the Writers House Presents: R. F. Kuang

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Thursday, April 15, 2021
2:50 AM - 3:50 PM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Rebecca F. Kuang is a Marshall Scholar, Chinese-English translator, and the Astounding Award-winning and Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award nominated author of the Poppy War trilogy. Her work has won the Crawford Award and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. She has an MPhil in Chinese Studies

Inside the Writers House Presents: Nicole Glover

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Wednesday, April 14, 2021
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
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Event Type: Inside The Writers House
Nicole Glover works as a UX researcher in Virginia. She believes libraries are magical places and problems seem smaller with a cup of tea in hand. Her life outside of books include bicycles, video games, and baking the perfect banana bread. The Conductors is her debut novel. She can be

Inside the Writers House presents Haya Alyan

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Thursday, March 11, 2021
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
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Hala Alyan will speak about her poetry and fiction writing. She is the author of the novel Salt Houses, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, as well as the forthcoming novel  The Arsonists' City, and four award-winning

Inside the Writers House presents Karen Tidbeck

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Monday, March 8, 2021
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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Author Karin Tidbeck will share her wisdom and talk about her writing process in creating speculative fiction in two languages. Karin Tidbeck lives and works in Malmö as a freelance writer and translator, and writes speculative fiction in Swedish and English. They debuted in 2010 with the Swedish collection Vem

Inside the Writers House presents Joe Abercrombie

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Friday, March 5, 2021
9:50 AM - 10:50 AM
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The first part of Joe Abercrombie's viking-inspired Shattered Sea series for young and old adults, Half a King, came out in July 2014, when it won the Locus award for best young adult novel.  The other two books, Half the World, and Half a War, followed in January and July 2015. His collection of short fiction, Sharp Ends was

Inside the Writers House presents Catherynne Valente

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Monday, March 1, 2021
6:10 PM - 7:10 PM
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Don't miss this exciting conversation with writer Catherynne M. Valente who will talk about her latest novel, Space Opera. 2019 HUGO AWARD FINALIST, BEST NOVELAmazon describes the book as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets the joy and glamour of Eurovision in bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente's science fiction spectacle, where sentient

Inside the Writers House presents Sylvain Neuvel

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Tuesday, February 23, 2021
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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Come hear from noted author Sylvain Neuvel. He will discuss A History of What Comes Next, which has been described as a "sci-fi thriller reminiscent of Blake Crouch and Andy Weir, blending a fast moving, darkly satirical look at 1940s rocketry with an exploration of the amorality of progress and