The Octopus Moment: How to Create a Story with Reach led by Karen E. Bender, a Zoom Seminar on Wednesday, November 12th, 2025

Live Seminar Via Zoom Wednesday, November 12th, 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. How do you create a story that feels like it exists outside of the story's borders? The feeling of expansiveness in a story is