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Lighthouse Writers Workshop	TBA	Virtual

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The Art of Constraints: Setting Limits to Set Ourselves Free 9:00am - 11:00am

How to Work with Narrative Time 9:00am - 11:00am

Where's the Conflict? 9:00am - 11:00am

Hike and Write: Urban Style 9:00am - 11:00am

Memoir: What's Research Got to Do With It? 9:00am - 11:00am

Intense Emotions, Subtle Words 9:00am - 11:00am

Getting Unstuck 9:00am - 11:00am

Beginnings, Middles and Ends: The 9 Parts of Your Story 9:00am - 11:00am

Lunchtime Business Panel: Big Press, Small Press, No Press 12:00pm - 1:00pm

How to Tell Time: Narrative in Poetry 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Orbweaving a Book of Essays 1:30pm - 3:30pm

POV Jumpstart 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Your Dark Materials 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Speculative Nonfiction 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Dance. Write. Repeat. 1:30pm - 3:30pm

How to Self-Publish on a Budget 4:00pm - 6:00pm

The Character Interview: Your Protagonist is Lying to You 4:00pm - 6:00pm

In the Trenches with Historical Fiction 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Dynamic Dialogue 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Writing From Weakness 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Contemporary American Women Poets 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Telling Stories in a Time of Fire: How to Write within the Climate Crisis 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Time and Time and Time Again 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Friday Faculty Reading and Happy Hour: Arvin, Berndt, Henry, Smi... 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Weekend Advanced Workshop Orientation 6:15pm - 6:55pm

Turn the Page with Colorado Matters, featuring Ryan Warner and Rachel Weaver 7:00pm - 8:15pm

Writing Through Chronic Illness and/or Disability: A Reclamation 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Getting Unstuck (Livestream) 9:00am - 11:00am

Lunchtime Business Panel: Big Press, Small Press, No Press (Live... 12:00pm - 1:00pm

True Crimes: The Challenges of Writing Homicide Stories (V) 1:30pm - 3:30pm

How To Be An Author For Hire (V) 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Friday Faculty Reading and Happy Hour: Arvin, Berndt, Henry, Smi... 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Turn the Page with Ryan Warner and Rachel Weaver (Livestream) 7:00pm - 8:15pm

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Lighthouse Writers Workshop	TBA	Virtual

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Two-Day Intensive: The Undeniable Voice—Craft Lessons from Vigil by George Saunders 13 9:00am -
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Two-Day Intensive: The Personal. The Political. The Poetic. 9:00am - 12:00pm

Desire and Power 9:00am - 11:00am

Two-Day Intensive: Plotting Your Course—The Major Turning Points Every Story Needs 9:00am - 12:00pm

Revision is the Doorway to a Poem's (R)evolution 9:00am - 11:00am

Say Less, Mean More: Writing with Subtext 9:00am - 11:00am

Two-Day Intensive: The Visionary Movement 9:00am - 12:00pm

Haunted Landscapes: Writing Place as Presence 9:00am - 11:00am

Queer Creatives Drag Bingo Brunch 10:00am - 11:30am

Two-Day Intensive: Borrowed Structures—Finding Poetic Form in Unexpected Places 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Two-Day Intensive: Your Voice on the Page 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Two-Day Intensive: Strange and Mundane—Pulling the Odd from the Everyday 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Structure through Motif 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Sentence Surgery: Another Live Editing Seminar 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Is My Character An Asshole? 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Literary Ephemera 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Sell Essays That Boost Your Book's Potential 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Literary Swagger: Writing Prose that Makes Readers Take Notice 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Lyric Essay: Gathering Fragments 4:00pm - 6:00pm

I Shot the Sheriff: Writing True/Untrue Confessions 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Unspooling Local Lore: Bringing Your Setting to Life 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Saturday Faculty Reading and Happy Hour: Rivera, Sawyer, O'Grady... 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Visiting Authors Reading: Melissa Broder, Heather Christle, Layli Long Soldier,... 7:00pm - 8:15pm

Advanced Weekend Hybrid Workshop: Games Writers Play with Heather Christle 8:30am - 12:00pm

Advanced Weekend Fiction Intensive: Narrative Movement with Megha Majumdar 8:30am - 12:00pm

Lunchtime Business Panel: Clips and Careers—Editors of Lit Mags,... 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Advanced Weekend Poetry Workshop: Freedom Before the Revolt with Layli Long Soldier 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Advanced Weekend Nonfiction Workshop: Truth in Nonfiction with Ingrid Rojas Contreras 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Advanced Weekend Fiction Workshop: Using Image with Melissa Broder 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Out of Character 4:00pm - 6:00pm

The Creative Act: Finding Flow in Flaw (V) 9:00am - 11:00am

Revision is the Doorway to a Poem's (R)evolution (Livestream) 9:00am - 11:00am

Lunchtime Business Panel: Clips and Careers—Editors of Lit Mags,... 12:00pm - 1:00pm

The Laundry Line (V) 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Rhapsody (V) 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Saturday Faculty Reading and Happy Hour: Rivera, Sawyer, O'Grady... 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Visiting Authors Reading: Melissa Broder, Heather Christle, Layli Long Soldier,... 7:00pm - 8:15pm

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Lighthouse Writers Workshop	TBA	Virtual

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Two-Day Intensive: The Personal. The Political. The Poetic. 9:00am - 12:00pm

Listen to the Work 9:00am - 11:00am

Becoming a Channel 9:00am - 11:00am

Two-Day Intensive: The Visionary Movement 9:00am - 12:00pm

Re/vision: Nurture Your Inner Poetry Editor 9:00am - 11:00am

Two-Day Intensive: The Undeniable Voice—Craft Lessons from Vigil by George Saunders 9:00am - 12:00pm

Two-Day Intensive: Plotting Your Course—The Major Turning Points Every Story Needs 9:00am - 12:00pm

How to Write Sex Scenes without Shame 9:00am - 11:00am

Two-Day Intensive: Strange and Mundane—Pulling the Odd from the Everyday 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Two-Day Intensive: Your Voice on the Page 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Two-Day Intensive: Borrowed Structures—Finding Poetic Form in Unexpected Places 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Are Words Alive? 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Going Out in Style 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Beyond the Laugh: How and Why to Use Humor 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Hike and Write: Urban Style 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Plot: A Conjuror's Guide 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Weeklong Advanced Workshop Orientation 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Lit Fest Kickoff Party 6:00pm - 8:30pm

Advanced Weekend Fiction Intensive: Narrative Movement with Megha Majumdar 8:30am - 12:00pm

Advanced Weekend Hybrid Workshop: Games Writers Play with Heather Christle 8:30am - 12:00pm

Lunchtime Business Panel: Dear Agent 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Advanced Weekend Fiction Workshop: Using Image with Melissa Broder 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Advanced Weekend Nonfiction Workshop: Truth in Nonfiction with Ingrid Rojas Contreras 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Advanced Weekend Poetry Workshop: Freedom Before the Revolt with Layli Long Soldier 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Becoming a Channel (Livestream) 9:00am - 11:00am

Creative Research: Turning Curiosity into Story (V) 9:00am - 11:00am

Lunchtime Business Panel: Dear Agent (Livestream) 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Structure and Alchemy: Writing Climactic Transformations (V) 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Turn your essay into a TEDx Talk (V) 1:30pm - 3:30pm

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Fort Greene Bar	Lighthouse Writers Workshop	TBA	Virtual

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Lit Fest Faculty Reading at Fort Greene Bar: Boland, Hodges, Jia... 8:30pm - 9:30pm

Two-Day Intensive: Finish the Nonfiction Book—Everything but the Pages 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Advanced Structure Lab: Break the Story Free with Dean Bakopoulos 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Bait the Hook: Your First Few Pages 1:30pm - 3:30pm

From Morally Gray to Black: Creating Flawed and Unscrupulous Protagonists 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Novel Whispering 1:30pm - 3:30pm

From Patient to Protagonist: Claiming Agency in Your Own Story 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Squash For Golfers: Line Movement in Prose and Poetry 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Every Sentence an Ocean: Concision and Compression in Flash-Fiction 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Two-Day Intensive: Emotional Truth—Using Fiction to Tell the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth 4:00pm - 7:00pm

Collage as Poetic Practice 4:00pm - 6:00pm

How to Stop Worldbuilding and Start Worldconjuring 4:00pm - 6:00pm

To Flash Back or Not to Flash Back 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Creatures of Impulse: What Fictions Writers Can Learn From TV 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Book Project Showcase: Stolzoff, Torenberg, Yun, Lennon, and Leotaud 4:30pm - 6:30pm

Visiting Authors Reading: Steve Almond, Danielle Evans, Eileen Myles, and Brando... 7:00pm - 8:15pm

Advanced Weeklong Fiction Workshop: Situation and Event with Brandon Taylor 9:00am - 11:30pm

Advanced Weeklong Nonfiction Workshop: Excavation with Andre Dubus III 9:00am - 11:30pm

No Genre/All Genre Generative Lab with Eileen Myles 9:00am - 11:30pm

Advanced Weeklong Fiction Workshop: Intimate Distance with Mat Johnson 9:00am - 11:30pm

Advanced Weeklong Nonfiction Workshop: Find Your Focus with Beth Nguyen 9:00am - 11:30pm

Advanced Weeklong Fiction Workshop: Finding the Subterranean Story with Danielle Evans 9:00am - 11:30pm

Advanced Weeklong Poetry Workshop: Draft Exclusion with Paul Muldoon 9:00am - 11:30pm

Advanced Weeklong Nonfiction Workshop: Shadow Narratives with Rachel Louise Snyder 9:00am - 11:30pm

Advanced Weeklong Nonfiction Workshop: Mapping the Memoir with Emily Rapp Black 9:00am - 11:30pm

Advanced Weeklong Fiction Workshop: Who's Telling Your Story? with Christopher Castellani 9:00am - 11:30pm

Advanced Weeklong Fiction Workshop: The BS Detector with Steve Almond 9:00am - 11:30pm

Advanced Weeklong Generative Fiction Workshop: Starting, or Starting Over with Rebecca Makkai 9:00am - 11:30pm

Lunchtime Business Panel: Through the Fire—Debut Writers on Thei... 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Writing for Young Adults 9:00am - 11:30pm

Lunchtime Business Panel: Through the Fire—Debut Writers on Thei... 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Author Branding for Introverts and Impostors (V) 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Bait the Hook: Your First Few Pages (Livestream) 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Novel Whispering (Livestream) 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Letting the I Ching Help You Write Your Story (V) 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Book Project Showcase: Stolzoff, Torenberg, Yun, Lennon, and Leotaud (Livestream) 4:30pm - 6:30pm

Visiting Authors Reading: Steve Almond, Danielle Evans, Eileen Myles, and Brando... 7:00pm - 8:15pm

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Two-Day Intensive: Finish the Nonfiction Book—Everything but the Pages 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Survey of Interiority 1:30pm - 3:30pm

I Hate You, Too: Writing Antagonistic Relationships 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Advanced Structure Lab: Break the Story Free with Dean Bakopoulos 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Where the Deer and the Antelope (and the Poets) Play: On the Page 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Reader in the Room 1:30pm - 3:30pm

They Can’t Be All Bad, Right? 1:30pm - 3:30pm

The Cutting Room Floor: Late-Stage Revision 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Information Underload: What Each Precious Paragraph Communicates to a Reader 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Write Stronger Scenes: A Checklist 4:00pm - 6:00pm

A Wrinkle in Time: How to Manage Chronology and Structure 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Symbolism and Metaphor: They Aren’t Just for Fiction 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Two-Day Intensive: Emotional Truth—Using Fiction to Tell the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth 4:00pm - 7:00pm

Hook, Line, and Sinker: Exploring Form Via Ruben Ostlund’s Triangle of Sadness 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Black Doubt, Revision, and Faith 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Forms and Functions: Poetic and Otherwise 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Lit Fest Fellows Showcase and Reading 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Visiting Authors Reading: Emily Rapp Black, Mat Johnson, Rebecca Makkai, and Bet... 7:00pm - 8:15pm