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The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction is pleased to present another writing workshop with author, Diane Williams this September and October. Fine-grained attention to the drama of the sentence is offered — as well as to the drama of the whole text. First look to NOON or to Williams’s own fiction to consider if you share the aesthetic values represented.

8 Sessions
Tuesdays: September 15th through November 3rd
6:30pm–8:30pm
$500; Special financial needs considered
For more information, please call
212-755-6710 or email info@mercantilelibrary.org

Diane Williams’ most recent book is IT WAS LIKE MY TRYING TO HAVE A TENDER-HEARTED NATURE. Her fiction appears frequently in a variety of magazines including, Harper’s Magazine, Bomb, Conjunctions, McSweeney’s, and The Brooklyn Rail. She is the editor of the acclaimed, prize-winning literary annual NOON which she founded in 2000. She was co-editor of StoryQuarterly for twelve years. She is considered the foremost advocate of the genre dubbed flash fiction and has been called by Jonathan Franzen “…one of the true living heroes of the American avant-garde.” Winner of three Pushcart Prizes, she has taught creative writing at both Bard College and Syracuse University and has been an invited reader at colleges and universities nationwide.