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Conversations and Connections is a one-day conference organized by Barrelhouse in person at American University in Washington, DC on April 18, 2026.

We emailed with our friend Hannah Grieco about her session Writing Wrestling Live, coming to the Barrelhouse conference at American University in DC on April 18, 2026.

The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.

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A Conversation with Novelist Samuel Ashworth By Zach Powers

The story arc is ubiquitous—and often useful—in analyses of plot, but it's only one way we might look at forward progress and the growth/release of tension within a narrative. In fact, the ubiquity of...

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The Writer’s Center welcomes back K.E. Semmel (who was TWC's Publications and Communications Manager about a decade ago!) for a reading and discussion of his debut novel, The Book of Losman, plus…