A Time to Talk w/ Tim Tomlinson -
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A Time to Talk is an occasional online reading-and-interview series hosted by New York Writers Workshop co-founder Tim Tomlinson. The series platform is Streamyard, which broadcasts live and simultaneously to the New York Writers Workshop Facebook page and to the New York Writers Workshop YouTube channel. Tim features writers young and old, foreign and domestic, bedazzlingly famous or soon to be, enormously accomplished or working toward that status. A live chat is featured for all the readings; audience participation is encouraged.
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Robin Hemley has published fourteen books of nonfiction and fiction. His awards include fellowships from The Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, three Pushcart Prizes in both fiction and nonfiction, The Independent Press Book Award for his memoir about his older sister Nola, an Editor’s Choice Award from the American Library Association for his book Invented Eden, first place in the Nelson Algren award for fiction from The Chicago Tribune, and many others. He is the Inaugural Director of the Polk School of Communications at Long Island University, and Parsons Family Chair in Creative Writing. His most recent book is Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood. His website is Robinhemley.com.
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Sheila Kohler is the author of ten novels, three volumes of short fiction, a memoir, and many essays. Her most recent novel is Dreaming for Freud, (Penguin) based on the Dora case. Her memoir Once we were sisters is just out with Penguin as well as Canongate in England. She has won numerous prizes including the O.Henry twice and been included in Best American Short Stories most recently in 2013. Her work has been published in thirteen countries. She has taught at Columbia, Sarah Lawrence, Bennington and at Princeton since 2007. Her novel Cracks was made into a film with directors Jordan and Ridley Scott with Eva Green playing Miss G. You can find her blog at Psychology Today under Dreaming forFreud.
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s newest book is Truthtelling, her fourth collection of stories. Her novels include Disturbances in the Field, Leaving Brooklyn, nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award, and Rough Strife, nominated for a National Book Award. She has also written essays--This Is Where We Came In—memoirs: Ruined by Reading and Not Now, Voyager; several collections of poetry, and translations from Italian. She has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. She has taught at many colleges and universities here and abroad, and presently teaches at the Bennington College Writing Seminars. Lynne Sharon Schwartz.com.
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Edmund White has written nearly thirty books, including biographies, memoirs, novels, plays, travel books and a sex manual. He lives in New York. EdmundWhite.com.
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Host Tim Tomlinson is the author of Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire (poetry) and This Is Not Happening to You (short fiction). Recent work appears in About Place Journal, CHILLFiltr Review, Columbia Journal, The Good Life Review, Passengers Journal, Text (Australia), Poet Sounds: An Anthology Inspired by the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, and A Feast of Narrative: Stories by Italian-American Writers. He is a co-author of New York Writers Workshop’s craftbook The Portable MFA in Creative Writing, currently in use on four continents. He’s a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop, and a professor in NYU’s Global Liberal Studies. Visit Tim at timtomlinson.org