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National Press 53 Day Online Reading & Conversation
Friday, May 3 (5/3), is National Press 53 Day and the official publication day for the winners of our 2023 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. Join us for an online reading and conversation with First Prize winner Shannon Robinson, author of The Ill-Fitting Skin, and runner-up Garrett Ashley, author of Periphylla, and Other Deep Ocean Attractions. This free event begins at 7PM Eastern and will end at 8PM.
Let’s Write Together! with Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Your Tuesday Lunchtime Workshop! (one hour, online, $10)
Noon to 1PM Eastern Time on ZOOM
Having a hard time finding inspiration and motivation to write? We’ll talk about a piece of writing, Shuly will give you a prompt, and then you will WRITE.
Workshops are on Tuesdays from Noon to 1PM Eastern Time.
“Shuly's ingenious prompts in her Tuesday workshops have led me into many important scenes in my novel and expanded my understanding of craft and creativity. This online community of writers is just wonderful.” —Erika Higgins Ross, winner of a 2023 Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writers Award
"Tuesday is magic, I always get something out of it. I end up with a workable poem almost every time or the start or an idea for a flash." —P.G.
"I love the poems and the prompts. I always come out of the class with a draft I want to continue to develop." —L.V.
"These workshops have been excellent, and they are exactly what I need in the middle of my busy work day." —J.B.
“The uniqueness of Shuly’s selections has been as useful as the prompts themselves to expand my ideas of what craft and form can do. She has shaken out the starts of so many pieces, even when I thought I was in a writing rut. Not to mention she’s a wonderful person and talented writer and teacher. 10/10, highly recommend.” —E.M.
About Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Shuly Xóchitl Cawood is the author of Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough (Press 53) and A Small Thing to Want: Stories (Press 53) and four other books: What the Fortune Teller Would Have Said: Flash Essays, winner of the 2022 Iron Horse Literary Review Prose Chapbook Competition; Trouble Can Be So Beautiful at the Beginning (Mercer University Press), winner of the 2019 Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry; 52 Things I Wish I Could Have Told Myself When I Was 17 (Cimarron Books, 2018); and The Going and Goodbye: A Memoir (Platypus Press, 2017). Shuly earned her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, and her writing has been published in The New York Times, Brevity, The Sun, and others. Shuly also leads writing workshops through Press 53’s High Road Fest Online, including the popular Let’s Write Together!, a one-hour lunchtime workshop at Noon Eastern on Tuesdays. Learn more at shulycawood.com