Show and Tell: Mastering the Art of Summary in Narrative with Karen E. Bender, a Zoom Seminar on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025

Live Seminar Via Zoom Tuesday, December 2nd, 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. You hear it often in a workshop--show, don't tell! Effective narratives use both showing (using scene) and summary (telling, using