Join SmokeLong for 90 minutes with Amy Hempel on July 26th! We can’t wait to talk to one of our heroes in the very brief narrative form. All participants of A SmokeLong Summer 26 and SmokeLong Fitness will automatically receive an invitation to this event, but you can attend even if you’re not participating in SmokeLong’s year-round community workshop. Book HERE.
Amy Hempel has asked for all proceeds from ticket sales to go to the organization Every Last One, dedicated to rescuing dogs in NYC.
Date: July 26th
Time: Noon, NYC. Please check for your particular time zone!
Zoom link sent upon purchase by a human.
Amy Hempel is a recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the United States Artists Foundation, and the Academy of Arts and Letters. She is the author of Sing to It, Reasons to Live, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Tumble Home, and The Dog of the Marriage, and is co-editor of Unleashed. Her stories have appeared in Harper’s, GQ, Vanity Fair, and many other publications, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Her Collected Stories was named by the New York Times as one of the ten best books of 2007, and won the Ambassador Book Award for best fiction of the year. In 2008 she received the REA Award for the Short Story, and in 2009 she received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. She has a B.A. in Journalism from San Jose State University and teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Bennington College and at Stony Brook Southampton. She lives near New York City.
In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This acclaimed community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join us, you will work in a small group of around 15-20 participants to give and receive feedback on flash narratives.