The cost of lunch is included for participants registered for at least one Institute workshop.

A limited number of lunches will be available for purchase on site that same day.

Crafts and Craft: A happy hour conversation series on the writing craft
Wind-down and refresh after an immersive day of writing workshops with a craft beer as you explore different aspects of writing with our craft talk series.

A Thermodynamic Story with Thomas Pierce
Stick a cold spoon in a hot bowl of soup, and the spoon heats up.  Any successful story—even a quiet, plotless one—is, in some essential way, a hot bowl of soup.  The atoms and molecules contained within it vibrate and bounce and careen.  They exist in a state of high entropy.  Enter the reader, our cold spoon.  In this craft talk, we’ll consider fiction as a transfer of energy.