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 in Characters Using Fantasies and Theories July 9, 7-9 pm EST via zoom:
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
“What It Means to Be a Writer in the Time of Trump” in Huffington Post
18 Nov 2016
I have some thoughts on this subject, as do many other writers whose work I love, in this piece in the Huffington Post. You can read the article here.