Deep Dive Into Dialogue: A Master Class on the Art of What People Say with Karen E. Bender (Zoom) on Saturday, November 8th, 2025

Live Seminar Via Zoom Saturday, November 8th, 2025Class will meet 12PM - 5:00PM Eastern 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. Dialogue is what people say—but how do you use this technique as a writer? In this class, we’ll do a detailed look into how dial