I’ll be teaching online classes via Writing Workshops and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival this spring. Upcoming ones:
I’m teaching a series for Writing Workshops: Building Interiority for Characters. In each one, we’ll look at a different strategy to create interior worlds for your characters.
Building Interiority through a Character’s Memory will be May 8, 7-9 pm EST via zoom through Writing Workshops:
Email me at karenebender1@gmail.com for more information these workshops, or if you want information on my writing coaching, private manuscript consults or help with MFA applications.
My novel, “Like Normal People,” was included in Susan Straight’s map of 1,001 novels to read to find the real America. You can see the list here. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-05-28/american-novels-1001-literary-geography-map-states
Huffington Post includes “The New Order” on list of Fall books to read
02 Sep 2018
The Huffington Post included my story collection, “The New Order,” in a list of books to read that are coming out in Fall, 2018. You can see the list here.