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Past Workshop Leaders:
Fall 2024: Lauren Wolk
Fall 2023: Bill Roorbach
New York Times Bestselling author Karen Thompson Walker.
Chen Chen
Pulitzer Prize Finalist Hernan Diaz.
2018 WORKSHOP LEADERS:
National Book Award winner Julia Glass and Iowa Writers' Worksop instructor Ethan Canin
Jim Shepard will give a reading and Q&A during CIWR's June Session!
Wells Tower (Fall Session) and Margot Livesey (Summer Session) will be the 2017 workshop leaders. Wells Tower is the author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. Margot Livesey is the author of seven novels and is on permanent faculty at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Anna Noyes, author of "Goodnight, Beautiful Women," will give a reading at Cuttyunk Island Writers' Residency 2017 Fall Session
Emma Cline, New York Times bestselling author of "The Girls," will give a reading at Cuttyunk Island Writers' Residency 2017 Summer Session
National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philibrick will give a reading and talk during the Fall 2017 Session!
Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Harding will give a reading and talk during our Summer 2017 Session!