Remember, now every purchase you make at Stanza, adds to your frequent buyer account. Every $200 you spend at Stanza, you get a $20 Voucher!

We’re connecting all the systems now, so if you buy online, you can earn vouchers, but we cannot apply them. If you buy the workshop in the shop, you can use your existing vouchers as part of the purchase. We’ll continue to sync stuff, but currently vouchers are in the bookstore POS, not Square. If that’s confusing, email us :)

We’ve heard good things about our current workshop, and we hope everyone is getting what they need out of it.

Moving into 2027, we’re focusing our workshop strategy, and designing workshops specific to where you are in your writing journey.

One thing many, many writers struggle with is getting that first draft done. You get hung up on certain passages, you doubt where things are headed, you try to get it all perfect before you move on. So would it help you have o dedicated period to learn how to let go, TK, move on, and get that draft on paper?

I’m a firm believer in getting it all down, so you can see what shape the story wants to be. It’s going to be messy. It’s going to be bad. In this workshop, you will learn to live with those truths, and move your work ahead.

Taught by novelist and NYU professor Julia Dahl, you will come out with practical tools, inspiration, and accountability you need to make real progress.

This would make a fantastic holiday gift to someone you know wants to advance their writing.

-Mark

Jan 14, 21

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Feb 4, 11 

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Feb 25

Every session 7:00-8:30PM

A public reading TBD

Julia Dahl was born and raised in Fresno, California. In 1994, she stumbled onto the staff of her high school newspaper and has been chasing stories ever since.

Her first novel, Invisible City, is the story of a New York City tabloid reporter investigating the murder of an Hasidic woman from Borough Park. Invisible City was a finalist for the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Award for Best First Novel and was named one of the Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2014. Invisible City also won the Barry, the Shamus, and the Macavity Awards for Best First Novel, and has been translated into eight languages.

The sequel, Run You Down, was published in June 2015, and Conviction, the third book in the Rebekah Roberts series, was published in 2017. New York Magazine called Conviction “a murder mystery for our tumultuous times,” and it was named one of the best books of 2017 by the Boston Globe and LitHub.

Her fourth novel, a stand-alone called The Missing Hours, was published in September 2021. The New York Times called it “a great reckoning with the moment we find ourselves in,” and the book was the September 2021 Oxygen Book Club pick.

Her fifth novel, a stand-alone called I Dreamed of Falling, received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Library Journal, which named it their Mystery Pick of the Month. The book was also selected as the Strand Bookstore’s 2024 October Mystery Pick and one of the Florida Sun-Sentinel’s Best Books of 2024.

Dahl has been a freelance reporter for the New York Post, an associate features editor at Marie Claire, the deputy managing editor of the Crime Report, and a crime and justice reporter for CBSNews.com. Her feature articles have appeared in the Guardian, Fast Company, the Columbia Journalism Review, Business Insider, Seventeen, the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and Salon, among others.

These days, Dahl teaches journalism and advises students at NYU. She also does freelance manuscript editing and coaching, and teaches in-person and online courses for fiction writers.

Dahl has a BA from Yale and masters degrees in creative writing and journalism from The New School and American University, respectively.

After 20 years in New York City, Dahl now lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and son.