Writing Workshop

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and lightning bug--Mark Twain

This workshop is about getting it right: the word, the phrase and the sentence. It is about the art and craft involved in each word and image chosen and the relentless care and occasional leap that getting it right requires. Come with paper and pen.

Amy Bloom is the author of two novels, two collections of short stories, and a nominee for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and numerous anthologies here and abroad. She has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, Slate, and Salon, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. Her first book of nonfiction, Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude, is an exploration of the varieties of gender. A practicing psychotherapist, she lives in Connecticut and teaches at Yale University.

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