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Young Writers Program
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Lit Fest, Fiction, Play/Screenwriting
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Young Writers Program
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Lit Fest
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Lit Fest
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Young Writers Program
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Young Writers Program
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Lit Fest, Nonfiction
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Young Writers Program
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Poetry
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Lit Fest
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Young Writers Program
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Young Writers Program, Community Engagement, Poetry
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Young Writers Program
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Young Writers Program, Poetry
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Young Writers Program
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Lit Fest, Fiction, Nonfiction
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Fiction
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Poetry
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Lit Fest, Fiction
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Fiction
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Lit Fest
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Young Writers Program, Community Engagement
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Lit Fest
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Young Writers Program, Community Engagement
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Fiction, Nonfiction
John Freeman
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Young Writers Program, Hybrid, Nonfiction
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Young Writers Program
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Lit Fest
Rita Gabis
Nonfiction, Poetry
Whitney Gaines
Young Writers Program
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Lit Fest
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Publishing/Career, Lit Fest
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Publishing/Career
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Nonfiction
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Fiction, Nonfiction
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Play/Screenwriting
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Lit Fest, Poetry
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Teow Lim Goh
Lit Fest
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Publishing/Career, Lit Fest
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Publishing/Career, Fiction
Chris Grillot
Play/Screenwriting
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Fiction
Oso Guardiola M.F.A.
Fiction
Clemintine Guirado
Fiction
Evelyn Hampton
Fiction
Victoria Hanley
YA/Children's, Publishing/Career, Fiction, Nonfiction, Process
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Young Writers Program, Fiction
HR Hegnauer
Publishing/Career, Poetry
Jason Heller
Lit Fest, Nonfiction
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Fiction
Michael Henry
Nonfiction, Process, Poetry
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Fiction, Nonfiction
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Poetry
Sheila Heti
Lit Fest, Fiction
Twanna LaTrice Hill
Young Writers Program, Community Engagement
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Fiction, Nonfiction
Hermione Hoby
Fiction
Angie Hodapp
Publishing/Career, Fiction
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Nonfiction
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Lit Fest
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Poetry
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Poetry
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Lit Fest, Process
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Nonfiction
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Lit Fest
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Fiction
Nur Ibrahim
Fiction, Nonfiction
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Publishing/Career, Lit Fest
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Publishing/Career, Fiction
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Poetry
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Fiction, Nonfiction, Process
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Community Engagement
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Lit Fest
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Poetry
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Fiction
Kerrie Joy
Hybrid, Fiction, Community Engagement, Poetry
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Young Writers Program
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Publishing/Career
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Nonfiction
Kirby Kim
Publishing/Career, Lit Fest
Katie Kitamura
Lit Fest, Fiction
Steve Knopper
Publishing/Career, Nonfiction
Alyse Knorr
Nonfiction, Poetry
Azar Kohzadi
Young Writers Program, Community Engagement
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Publishing/Career, Process, Poetry
Kateri Kramer
Young Writers Program
Erika Krouse
Reading, Publishing/Career, Lit Fest, Fiction, Nonfiction, Process
Kelly Krumrie
Fiction, Poetry
Amitava Kumar
Lit Fest
Gretchen Kurtz
Nonfiction, Poetry
Rachel Kushner
Fiction
Halo Lahnert
Young Writers Program
Helen Elaine Lee
Fiction
Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Hybrid, Poetry
Hillary Leftwich
Fiction, Poetry
Daniel Levine
Fiction
William Henry Lewis
Hybrid, Fiction
Henry Lien
YA/Children's, Fiction
Chip Livingston, MFA
Hybrid, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Manny Loley
Poetry
Jesaka Long
Young Writers Program
BK Loren
Fiction, Nonfiction
Kathryn Lorenzen
Publishing/Career
Alexander Lumans
Reading, Hybrid, Fiction, Nonfiction
Sheryl Luna
Poetry
T Kira Madden
Lit Fest
Rebecca Makkai
Lit Fest, Fiction, Nonfiction
Marianne Manzler
Young Writers Program, Nonfiction, Community Engagement, All Levels
Jonathan Marcantoni
Play/Screenwriting, Community Engagement
Radha Marcum
Publishing/Career, Poetry
Lauren Markham
Nonfiction
Peter Markus
Lit Fest
Julia Marquez-Uppman
Young Writers Program, Nonfiction
Vanessa Mártir
Fiction, Nonfiction
Mark Mayer
Young Writers Program, Reading, Hybrid, Fiction, Nonfiction, Process, Poetry
Robert McBrearty
Fiction
Will McCance
Lit Fest
Melissa Lucero McCarl
Play/Screenwriting
Theodore McCombs
Robin McLean
Fiction
Sara Megibow
Publishing/Career
Christopher Merkner
Reading, Fiction, Nonfiction, Process
Melanie Merle
Community Engagement
Claire Messud
Lit Fest, Fiction
Wayne Miller
Publishing/Career, Lit Fest
Malinda Miller
Young Writers Program
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Lit Fest
Poupeh Missaghi
Hybrid, Fiction
Juan J. Morales
Lit Fest, Poetry
Courtney E. Morgan
Fiction, Community Engagement
Jesse Morse
Reading, Poetry
Melinda Moustakis
Fiction
Ladane Nasseri
Nonfiction
Sandra Newman
Lit Fest
Diana Khoi Nguyen
Hybrid, Poetry, All Levels
Idra Novey
Fiction
Alissa Nutting
Lit Fest
Kimberly O'Connor
Young Writers Program, Poetry
Cindy Juyoung Ok
Cipriano Ortega
Community Engagement
Nadia Owusu
Lit Fest, Nonfiction
Tanja Pajevic
Nonfiction, Process
Karen Palmer
Fiction, Nonfiction
Emily Pérez
Young Writers Program, Poetry
Alexandre O. Philippe
Publishing/Career, Lit Fest, Nonfiction, Play/Screenwriting, Process, All Levels
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Hybrid, Fiction
Caitlin Plante
Young Writers Program
Joseph Ponce
Young Writers Program
Emilly Prado
Nonfiction
Alison Preston
Young Writers Program
Anna Qu
Fiction, Nonfiction
Khadijah Queen
Reading, Publishing/Career, Hybrid, Nonfiction, Poetry
Susannah Rasbid
Young Writers Program, Fiction
Amanda Rea
Young Writers Program, Fiction, Nonfiction
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Publishing/Career, Lit Fest
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Publishing/Career, Hybrid, Process, Poetry
Elizabeth Robinson
Publishing/Career, Poetry
Joey Roditis
Young Writers Program, YA/Children's
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Nonfiction
Jessica Roeder
Reading, Hybrid, Fiction, Nonfiction, Process, Poetry
Tracy Ross
Nonfiction
David J. Rothman
Reading, Publishing/Career, Nonfiction, Poetry
Theresa Rozul Knowles
Young Writers Program
Selah Saterstrom
Hybrid, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Joy Roulier Sawyer
Reading, Publishing/Career, Nonfiction, Process, Poetry
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
Fiction, Nonfiction
Kimberly Sewell
Young Writers Program, Fiction
Jenny Shank
Reading, Publishing/Career, Lit Fest, Fiction, Nonfiction, Process, All Levels
Akhil Sharma
Lit Fest
Rikha Sharma Rani
Nonfiction
Maw Shein Win
Lit Fest
Joey Siara
Play/Screenwriting
Joan Silber
Fiction
Emily Sinclair
Hybrid, Fiction, Nonfiction
Morgan Sjogren
Nonfiction
Jenee Skinner
Fiction
Eric Smith
Publishing/Career
Suzi Q. Smith
Poetry
Patricia Smith
Lit Fest, Poetry
Mark Springer
Process
Angelique Stevens
Nonfiction
Simone Stolzoff
Mariah Stovall
Publishing/Career, Lit Fest
Cynthia Swanson
Lit Fest
Nafeesa Syeed
Nonfiction, Community Engagement
Jenny Taylor-Whitehorn
Play/Screenwriting
Michelle Tea
Fiction, Nonfiction
Abby Templeton
Young Writers Program
Asha Thanki
Fiction
Ken Thompson
Young Writers Program
Helen Thorpe
Nonfiction
Kay Tolchin Dr.
Nonfiction
Jacinda Townsend
Fiction
Addie Tsai
Lit Fest
Seth Brady Tucker
Hybrid, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Todd Tuell
Lit Fest
Tiffany Quay Tyson
Young Writers Program, Fiction
Devin Urioste
Young Writers Program
Vauhini Vara
Fiction, Nonfiction
Denise Vega
YA/Children's, Publishing/Career, Process
Julie Vick
Lit Fest
Bridget Visser
Play/Screenwriting
Grace Wagner
Poetry
Lynn Wagner
Reading, Process, Poetry
Gail Waldstein
Young Writers Program
Chris Walker
Nonfiction
Taté Walker
Poetry
Rachel Walker
Lit Fest
Genevieve Walker
Nonfiction, Poetry
Andrea Wang
YA/Children's, Publishing/Career
Joel Warner
Publishing/Career, Nonfiction
Rachel Weaver
Publishing/Career, Lit Fest, Fiction, Nonfiction, Process, All Levels
David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Fiction
Rachel Werner
Nonfiction, Community Engagement, Poetry
Charles Westerman
Young Writers Program
Benjamin Whitmer
Fiction, Nonfiction
Diana Whitney
YA/Children's, Poetry
Tanaya Winder
Poetry
Kathryn Winograd
Nonfiction, Poetry
Monika Woods
Publishing/Career, Lit Fest
Jennifer Wortman
Reading, Hybrid, Fiction, Nonfiction, Process
David Wroblewski
Fiction, Process
Erika T. Wurth
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Assetou Xango
Young Writers Program
Paula Younger
Fiction
Miss Zarah
Community Engagement
Anna Zumbahlen
Young Writers Program
