A beautiful, heart-in-throat night celebrating @sara.lipp & her darkly hopeful novel HIDDEN RIVER, with A.M. Homes as interlocutor. So much love in the room for art that asks challenging questions, and slow process, and a career like Sara’s that is driven by restless passion for literature and connection, and for Sara herself, an inspiration and a joy to collaborate with 💖💖💖
18 years!! Getting married when spring begins means that every anniversary provides a natural opportunity for renewal, rebirth, reimagining. Like a phoenix, sometimes we flame out only to emerge from the ashes knowing and accepting and loving ourselves, each other, and this relationship we hold together, better. And here, now, with fifty on the horizon? I can’t wait to see where we’ll fly in the other half of our life together
As Melissa Febos put it in her essay “In Defense of Navel Gazing,” “Social justice has always depended upon the testimonies of the oppressed.” Now more than ever we need you to write and share the story of your lived experiences, your body, history, identity, family. We need you to put yourself on the page, and @bgresko will help you do so, in The Personal Essay Is Political.
You’ll begin each class with a discussion of published work, drawing out specific techniques and approaches to essay writing as well as inspiration for the bravery it requires to get real with a reader, to fully expose your vulnerable self for a stranger to experience. We’ll talk about the difference between writing as therapy, for the self, and writing for a readership, and how the two often coexist during the writing process. Each class, you’ll have the opportunity to share and discuss work that you wrote.
One student raved, “Brian is a great teacher! They had fantastic readings, cultivated a real community feel in class, and had awesome feedback on our work.”
Find out more and enroll on the classes page of our website.
Come write with us!! Last year @bgresko and I brought a group of talented writers for the first Peitho's Gift Writing retreat with @writing.colab . We're going back Sep 4-11, 2026. Link in the bio
I can promise long slow days writing, breaks to swim in the Mediterranean, the best food of your life, welcoming hosts at a traditional family owned hotel, new writer friends who all have gifts to share with the community, and Brian and I there to support each guest as an artist and a human. I can't promise magic but let's try to conjure some together 💛💛
#writingretreat #writinginspiration #writeyourselfalive #crete
Hey #awpbaltimore, we got swag! Find one of us on the conference center floor to grab a limited edition sticker and help us spread the word about our 9AM Friday panel about how we outline! #awp
I had the privilege of profiling @tkiramadden for @poetswritersinc , an especially meaningful piece for me because (as my former students know!) I so often point writers to T Kira’s incredible work, and teach it, and I found myself deeply moved and mind blown by her debut novel, WHIDBEY. It was a joy to talk with and learn from T Kira again, and I hope my piece illuminates some of the intense and careful emotional, intellectual, imaginative, and radical labor that went into her beautiful book. For a peek behind my own process, I wrote a little about the attention I aspire to bring to my work as interlocutor. The profile is out on newsstands and online now, and my process piece is on my substack, The Creative Accomplice
Late to the game as usual, I started a substack. The Creative Accomplice is an occasional letter about writing, art, and the creative life drawn from my various practices of art making, teaching, curating, and being an active member of the NYC literary community. I’ve already written about falling for an artist scam, how I learned to stop worrying and love writing in a group, the 100 Days of Creative Resistance project, and how my work has always been more for me and my ridiculous juvenile self than an audience, possibly to the detriment of my career. Hope you’ll find them interesting and follow along!
