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In this virtual book launch event hosted by the Writer’s Center, Zahid Rafiq reads from his debut short story collection, The World With Its Mouth Open (Tin House, 2024), and discusses his experiences living in Kashmir in a conversation with Emily Fridlund. Rafiq’s book is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this virtual event, Sofia Samatar reads from and discusses her book Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life (Soft Skull Press, 2024), and the chaos and strangeness of writing with Zach Powers, novelist and artistic director at the Writer’s Center.
In this event at the Writer’s Center, John Vercher reads from his third novel, Devil Is Fine (Celadon, 2024), and discusses how surrealist and absurdist fiction can be a vehicle to greater truths in a conversation with author Chet’la Sebree.
Brent Ameneyro introduces this 2021 installment of transatlantic conversations between U.S. and U.K. Latinx poets featuring Francisco Aragón and Leo Boix for Curated Conversation(s): A Latinx Poetry Show, a collaboration between the Writer’s Center, Un Nuevo Sol, Poet Lore, and Letras Latinas. For more from Aragón, the director of Letras Latinas, read this Q&A from the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
“I write to ask questions and to inquire, not declare.” In this Virtual Craft Chat hosted by the Writer’s Center, poet Sarah Ghazal Ali reads from her debut collection, Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024), and discusses her use of the ghazal form, the architecture of her book, and the inspirations she drew from the Qur’an in a conversation with Poet Lore editor Emily Holland.
In this virtual craft talk, Patricia Lockwood reads from her debut novel, No One Is Talking About This (Riverhead Books, 2021), and talks about her writing process and how her poetry influences her prose writing with Zach Powers, novelist and director of communications at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
