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Off Campus Writers' Workshop - OCWW

Steve Almond - Secrets & Lies: How to write about desire and deceit

  • October 29, 2026
  • 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • REMOTE - ZOOM ONLY

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In an ideal world, we would hold nothing back and tell each other the truth, and only the truth. But that's not how the real world works. Instead, we spend much of our time lying to others, and to ourselves. We lie about little things and big things. We lie to our parents and partners, our co-workers and kids. We also lie by omission, which is to say: we keep secrets. In this class, we'll examine how writers like Sally Rooney, Meg Wolitzer, and Audre Lorde confront these evasions, then confess to some of our own secrets and deceptions.

STEVE ALMOND  is the author of a dozen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. His new novel, All the Secrets of the World, has been optioned for television by 20th Century Fox. He’s the recipient of an NEA grant for 2022 and teaches at Harvard and Wesleyan. His stories and essays have been published in venues ranging from the Best American Short Stories and the Best American Mysteries to the New York Times Magazine. He lives outside Boston with his wife, his three children, and his anxiety.

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