Building Interiority in Characters Using Fantasies and Theories with Karen E. Bender, a Zoom Seminar on Wednesday, October 8th, 2025

Live Seminar Via Zoom Wednesday, October 8th, 2025The class will meet 7PM - 9:00PM EST Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Taught by Karen E. Bender, author of three collections; Refund, which was a Finalist for the National Book Award, shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Story Prize, and Longlisted for the Story prize; The New Order, which was Longlisted for the Story prize; and The Words of Dr. L,  published in May, 2025. Her novels are Like Normal People and A Town of Empty Rooms. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, The Yale Review, The Harvard Review, Story, Guernica, and others, have been reprinted in Best American Short Stories and Best American Mystery stories and won three Pushcart prizes. Get to know Karen in our Meet the Teaching Artist series. Building a character’s interiority consists of many elements, one of which is a character's fantasies, theories and plans. How do