READINGS FOR THE WORDS OF DR. L!
The Words of Dr. L is out in the world and upcoming events are listed here:
Miami Book Fair
Sunday, Nov. 23, 11 am
Panel with Allison King, Stuart Nadler and Ruben Reyes Jr.
Book Club Bar: What’s New at the Stony Brook MFA program: New Faculty, New Books, reading with Susan Minot, Robert Lopez, Eskor Johnson, Dawnie Walton and Alison Fairbrother
Oct. 28, 8 pm, Book Club Bar, 197 East. 3td st., NY, NY
CLASSES
NEW! NYCWriting Intensive, an in person multigenre writing workshop in NYC, taught by me and Robert Anthony Siegel!
Robert and I taught a weekend workshop August 8-10 in Midtown Manhattan, where we discussed student manuscripts (either fiction or nonfiction) up to 25 pages, generated new work, had a craft talk and a publishing panel. Our next one will the weekend of JANUARY 23-25, 2026. We will meet for introductions 5-7 pm Friday January 23, and then meet 9 to 4 pm on January 25 and 25. Email me at karenebender1@gmail.com for more info
I’ll be teaching online classes via Writing Workshops this fall!
Upcoming:
Building Interiority in Characters Using Fantasies and Theories, through Writing Workshops,: October 8, 7-9 pm EST via zoom:
Building Interiority in Characters Via Perceptions, through Writing Workshops, October 15, 7-9 pm EST via zoom:
Deep Dive into Dialogue through Writing Workshops, Nov. 8, 12-5 pm EST over zoom:
The Octopus Moment: How to Tell a Story with Reach, through Writing Workshops, Nov. 12, 7-9 pm EST via zoom:
Show and Tell: Summary, through Writing Workshops, December 2, 7-9 pm EST via zoom:
Show and Tell: Scene, through Writing Workshops, December 9 7-9 pm EST via zoom:
Exploring First Person Point of View: Saturday, January 17, 2026, 12-5 pm EST through Writing Workshops via zoom:
Creating Difficult Characters: Saturday, February 7 2026, 12-4 pm, through Writing Workshops via Zoom:
Email me at karenebender1@gmail.com for more information these workshops, or if you want information on my writing coaching or private manuscript consults.
Robert and I will be co-teaching our NYCWriting Intensive again the weekend of January 23-25 in Midtown Manhattan. The class, open to both fiction and nonfiction writers, will meet 5-7 pm Friday eve January 23 and then 9 am to … Continue reading →
Goodreads includes The Words of Dr. L on this list of 96 great collections published in the last three years. You can see the whole list here.
“The smooth prose of these stories escorts us towards soft, barbed realiza- tions: loss, isolation, and new starts do not require catastrophic change in order to occur, they are ahead of us no matter what.” Lilith magazine reviews The Words … Continue reading →
I’m honored to join the faculty of the Warren Wilson low-residency MFA program for the July, 2016 residency; you can see the full list of faculty here.