Mastering Sense of Place: a Multigenre Craft Seminar on Setting with Robert Anthony Siegel (Zoom), Tuesday, November 11th, 2025

Live Seminar Via Zoom Tuesday, November 11th, 2025Class will meet 7PM - 9PM Eastern Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Instructor Robert Anthony Siegel is the author of a memoir, Criminals, and two novels, All Will Be Revealed and All the Money in the World. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian Magazine, The Paris Review, The Drift, The Oxford American, and Ploughshares, and has been anthologized in Best American Essays 2023, O. Henry Stories 2014, and Pushcart Prize XXXVI. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan, a Mombukagakusho Fellow in Japan, a Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a Paul Engle Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. Setting is the physical world your characters inhabit, the place where their stories play out. The temptation is to treat it like a simple container for the action, a stage set, but tru