9 writers from the Center for Fiction Writers Studio presents a reading of works-in-progress.
About the Writers:
Rachel Isaacs Allen is a Punjabi-American writer, educator, and organizer from Southern California. She writes typewriter poetry for the Poetry Society of New York and organizes the TBR Reading Series promoting debut and independent authors.
Lauren Belski is the author of the short story collection Whatever Used to Grow Around Here and the novel Dark Enough. She is the editorial director of Under the BQE Press and teaches 7th Grade.
Heidi Diehl is the author of the novel Lifelines and a lecturer at Brooklyn College. She's working on a new novel about AM radio, flags, and betrayal.
Stefan Forbes is a screenwriter and multiple Emmy-nominated director who made Hold Your Fire, which won the Library of Congress Better Angels Award and a Doc NYC Grand Jury Prize, and was nominated for an Emmy and the Humanitas Prize. He also directed Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, which The Washington Post called "One of the greatest political movies ever.” Boogie Man won the 2009 National Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Documentary, the George S. Polk Award for Excellence in Journalism, the IDA Emerging Filmmaker Award, and was nominated for the 2008 WGA Award for Best Theatrical Documentary.
John Glassie has been published by The Believer, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The Paris Review and elsewhere. His nonfiction book, A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change was a New York Times Book Review "Editors' Choice" selection.
Kate Hughes is a freelance writer, former Copy Director at Vogue, and the poet behind the "The Loveworn Label" chapbook. She did her MFA in poetry studies at The New School and completed an Artist Residency on Governors Island.
Seth Kaufman is a novelist, bestselling ghostwriter, and recovering musician. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker.com, Sassy, and the Barnes and Noble Review. He is the author of The King of Pain and The Seductive Lady Vanessa of Manhattanshire. He recently completed a novel about William Tyndale, the first translator of the Bible into English.
Emmanuel Ossei-Kufour, Jr. is a film and TV director and screenwriter. He most recently directed on the upcoming Muhammad Ali biopic series The Greatest for Amazon. He is writing and will direct the feature film The Good Father for Macro Studios, an excerpt of which will be read tonight. His episodic directing credits include: Shogun (FX), Welcome To Derry (HBO), The Terror: Devil In Silver (AMC+), Scott Free, Before (Apple) and others. His debut feature BLACK BOX for Blumhouse and Amazon was a New York Times Critics Pick. Emmanuel is 1st generation Ghanaian-American and speaks Japanese.
Julia Lichtblau is a bilingual (French/English) writer whose work explores migration, exile, and belonging. Her writing has appeared in the French literary journal Volutes, The American Scholar, Narrative, The Florida Review, The Common and elsewhere. She was a financial journalist in New York and Paris for BusinessWeek and Dow Jones. She’s reading from The Poisoneress/L’Empoisonneuse, a hybrid, bilingual text about the extinct Parisian branch of her Viennese Jewish family.