Now in it its fourth year, Tent: Creative Writing welcomes aspiring and practicing writers to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, to workshop, read, and talk about craft and literary history. Tent: Creative Writing is a free week of workshops, literary seminars, and conversations for twenty writers of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, in their twenties and early thirties, who are curious about connections between Jewishness and contemporary culture. This year’s workshop leaders will be Sam Lipsyte (fiction), Lisa Olstein (poetry), and Eileen Pollack (nonfiction), and the Yiddish Book Center’s academic director Josh Lambert. The… Read Article →
