Creating Difficult Characters with Karen E. Bender 1-Day Fiction Master Class (Zoom) on Saturday, February 7th, 2026

Live Seminar Via Zoom Saturday, February 7th, 2026Class will meet 12PM - 4:00PM EST 🌍 Class Times by Time Zone: Los Angeles (PST): 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM / Chicago (CST): 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM / New York (EST): 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM / London (GMT): 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM / Berlin (CET): 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button 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 prize