Beth Morgan
Beth Morgan is a novelist, screenwriter, manuscript consultant, and fiction teacher. She is the author of the novel A Touch of Jen, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Rumpus best book of the year. Her short fiction has been published in The Iowa Review, The Baffler, and The Kenyon Review online. She received an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow and the recipient of a Lainoff Scholarship. She currently leads in-person writing workshops at Sackett Street Writers in Brooklyn. She owes her existence to Ghost Ranch, since it’s where her parents met!
Upcoming Programs by Beth Morgan
Don’t Work Too Hard! An Advanced Fiction Workshop
The number one thing I hear from my writing students is that they want “accountability”—in other words, they want to be forced to get writing done. And yet, while writing workshops provide helpful deadlines, they can also paralyze creativity. Workshops are often where fiction can start to feel like “work.” Once it’s time to listen to and incorporate feedback, the next stage of writing can feel daunting, and the excitement that led you to produce a piece of work might feel unavailable, or worse, crushed. This class takes as its starting point the idea that writing should never be a […]