Instructor: Lily Meyer
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
April 13, 15, 17
11am - 1pm (EST)
Online via Zoom

Just about anyone who grows up with stories grows up with love stories. Maybe it's "Cinderella," maybe it's Anna Karenina, maybe it's the tale of your own parents' meeting -- but the tale of love is hard to get away from. How, then, can a writer who wants to tell a love story make it feel fresh and new? And how can we interrogate and steer clear of the tropes of love that we want to avoid in life as well as on the page? In this three-session workshop, which will include discussion, short readings, and generative exercises, we will explore tools and techniques for learning from the tradition of literary love stories while making sure our own are our own. 

Lily Meyer is a translator, a critic, and the author of the novels The End of Romance (Viking, 2026) and Short War (Deep Vellum, 2024). She is also a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Her stories and translations can be found in The Dial, The Drift, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, and many other journals, and her essays and criticism appear in outlets including Bookforum, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review.