OCB 2026 Writing Workshop with Steve Almond & Beth Ann Fennelly

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Flash Class: Learn to Write Small While Lunching
Flash-Writing Workshop and Lunch
Beth Ann Fennelly and Steve Almond
Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library
401 Bramlett Blvd.

Noon, Friday, March 27, 2026.
(Lunch is free, but registration appreciated)

Steve Almond is the author of a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction, including All the Secrets of the World and the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. His most recent book is Truth Is the Arrow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories. His essays and reviews have been published in venues ranging from The New York Times Magazine to Ploughshares to Poets & Writers, and his short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Mysteries, and Best American Erotica. Almond is the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and cohosted the Dear Sugars podcast with Cheryl Strayed for four years. He teaches at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and lives outside Boston with his family, his debt, and his anxiety.

Beth Ann Fennelly, a 2020 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, was the poet laureate of Mississippi from 2016 to 2021 and teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Mississippi. She’s won grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States Artists, a Pushcart, and a Fulbright to Brazil. Fennelly has published six books, and her newest, The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs, was published in February.

Sponsored by the Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library

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