Upcoming Events

  • Interview w/ Carrie Moore: "Make Your Way Home"

    Date and Location TBD

    An interview with Carrie Moore, author of “Make Your Way Home.”

Past Events

  • Interview w/ Lucas Schaefer: "The Slip"

    June 4, 2025 @ Murder by the Book

    An interview with Lucas Schaefer, author of “The Slip.”

  • "They Say" Launch and Celebration

    May 1, 2025 @ MFA Houston

    Young poets, including four of my students, celebrating their first publication with a public reading and reception. Thanks Iconoclast Artists!

  • Place & Personality

    September 7, 2024

    In this generative two-day workshop, we’ll look at examples from short stories, novels, and craft books to discuss strategies for mining character development ideas from our settings. These strategies will be reinforced through generative practice. 


  • August 2024 Writespace Open Mic

    Come read at Writspace’s monthly open mic w/ featured reader Juan Fernando Villagómez.

  • The Illusion of Reality

    When we talk about “realistic” dialogue, we are talking about dialogue that meaningfully deepens our characters, that builds tension, that pushes story forward. Drawing on craft essays, and contemporary examples of dialogue in fiction and non-fiction works, we will learn how to distill our characters' speech to its most essential components and maximize its effect.