Writers’ Workshop graduate Jonathan Blum will read from his highly anticipated short story collection, The Usual Uncertainties, published by Rescue Press. In precise, elegant prose, these stories follow characters and communities often consigned to the edge of the frame: a community college dropout, a geriatric care manager, a square dance bar mitzvah, a Scrabble club, an entrepreneurial Thai immigrant, and a South Florida country club.

Blum is  the author  of the novel Last  Word, and his ...

Writers’ Workshop visiting faculty members, Tracie Morris and Kevin Brockmeier, will read from their work on Sunday, November 10th in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at 8pm.

Tracie Morris is a writer, sound poet, critic, scholar, bandleader, actor and multimedia performer. She is the author of Intermission, Chap-T-her Won, handholding: 5 kinds, Rhyme Scheme, and was co-editor, with Charles Bernstein, of BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing. Her sound installations have been presented at...

Writers’ Workshop graduate Carmen Maria Machado will read from In the Dream House, published by Graywolf Press. Author Garth Greenwell will join her to talk about the book.   “Wrought with alarming premonition, propulsive rhythm, and a trove of folkloric archetypes, Machado’s genre-crushing memoir is a meditation on the eclipse of knowledge and intuition by the narcotic light of a destructive bond that feels like love.”—Melissa Broder

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other...

Benjamin Percy will read from Suicide Woods, published by Graywolf Press.  "An addictive mix of gritty crime fiction and otherworldly horror. . . . Percy's prose is exacting, finely tuning the atmospherics that give the collection such an eerie overall feeling. . . . Suicide Woods is a testament to Percy's skill as a writer. He takes no shortcuts in eliciting thrills. The collection is by turns provocative and terrifying."--Shelf Awareness

Benjamin Percy is the author of the werewolf novel Red...