Revealing the human costs of political violence through a compelling blend of history, memory, and imagination.

I am now available to work with students individually to consult on their longer nonfiction projects. I work with writers who are interested especially in formally innovative nonfiction — whether repo...

And authoritarians will put everyone they can inside it.

‘Imagine ruining your life, / I thought, / the ecstasy of that.’ Two poems by Maggie Millner.

Bret Stephens is mad at these books, you should buy them and read them, not just the SCARY PR COPY that triggered him like a snowflake. No, I won’t link this fuckshit here, because I won’t drive tra...

2 Sessions: Saturdays, October 3 + 10 1:00-3:00pm ET Sandy Ernest Allen Master the art of pitching with journalist and editor Sandy Ernest Allen. Sandy is a trans and queer freelance journalist, a...

Work Room recordings to get you back in the swing of things!

Rabih Alameddine, award-winning author of The Wrong End of the Telescope, celebrated the release of his new novel, The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) at The Center for Fictio…

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2 Sessions: Saturdays, October 3 + 10 1:00-3:00pm ET Sandy Ernest Allen Master the art of pitching with journalist and editor Sandy Ernest Allen. Sandy is a trans and queer freelance journalist, a...

Philip Metres reflects on the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11, and how the ark-like embrace of Pharoah Sanders’s “Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah” provided some sanctuary on a day filled with awful, gu...

September 4, 2026 – “The terms ‘mother’ and ‘father’ have the same dominant energy as ‘God’ or ‘the Devil’ in a poem.”