Writing Workshop with LW Fellow Hannah Kingsley-Ma June 4

Come by the Library on Thursday, June 4th from 5-7 pm and exercise your writing talents with NYU teacher and Lighthouse Works Fellow Hannah Kingsley-Ma.

DATE: Thursday, June 4, 2026
TIME: 5:00-7:00 pm

For this workshop, we’ll be using fictional foods as a prompt for our writing. Our fictional characters, like ourselves, have to eat. And when they do, we often learn a lot about them: who they share their life with, what sort of things bring them comfort or disgust, what private pleasures they allow themselves, what airs they put on in front of others, how they feel in their bodies, what kind of appetites they stoke.

We’ll be discussing Alice Munro’s short story A Real Life to look how food is used in that particular story, and using that to come up with a writing exercise of our own.

You can use this session for any existing project you might have in progress or as a blank page for something new.

Hannah, a writer and audio producer and current Lighthouse Works Fellow, teaches Creative Writing at NYU. Her work has appeared in The Drift, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, The New Republic, Joyland, ZYZZYVA, The Guardian, and The Best American Short Stories 2025 Collection.

This event is in collaboration with Lighthouse Works.