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A one-day writing workshop intensive with Heather Sellers and Dylan Landis, Instructors
Saturday, July 26, 10 am – 5 pm
Greenwich Village, New York
More details here

My story “Rapture and the Fiercest Love,” which ran in The Normal School, can be read here.

Heather Sellers and I are now co-teaching two private, intimate, one-day workshop intensives in NYC this May: one on Creative Focus and one on dialogue, called Talk to Me. For more information, click here.

…is the new title of my story that just ran as She Will Be Flesh in Bomb magazine, and online at Bombsite. (Will appear in the new book, Rainey Royal, forthcoming from Soho Press.)

…is the title of my second book of fiction, just accepted by Soho Press for fall 2014.

“It’s on the hardscrabble desolation of Bradley’s farm, where crops appear to consist of dust and rapeseed, that Riley explores what binds people to one another, and to God.”

My review of Amity & Sorrow, by Peggy Riley, in the New York Times Book Review, April 11, 2013.

“My early drafts are so bad you’d think my only real skill is typing. You’d have to wait a few months to discover it’s revision, too.” Colleen Kolba interviews me for the PANK blog.

Turn off the car radio while you drive, and use that time to inject yourself into a novel-in-progress scene. Lindsay Lusby, assistant director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House in Chestertown, MD, blogged about my visit there and some tips I offered new writers. (The radio tip is courtesy of Jim Krusoe.)

The online journal r.kv.r.y., edited by Mary Akers, has a gorgeous new online presence. So does my story Rose.