Craft on Draft: Fiction in the Real World

When:
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 7:00p -
9:00p

Where:
Trident Booksellers & Café
338 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02115

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Craft on Draft: Fiction in the Real World

How can you address difficult real-world issues in the context of emotionally engaging fiction, especially when those issues are of pressing contemporary concern, such as drug addiction, sexual violence, war, and basic human rights? Join us for a conversation with two authors—Milo Todd and Christine Murphy—who will discuss how their debut novels address such weighty issues while also responding to the dramatic exigencies of gripping fiction. The conversation will be moderated by Tim Weed, whose forthcoming novel involves another contemporary issue that touches us all: the climate. Craft on Draft is a reading series created and managed by alumni of GrubStreet's Novel Incubator program and devoted to great fiction—and the mechanics behind it.

Seating begins at 6:30pm. All books and cafe items will be available for purchase in the room. 

 

 

Christine Murphy, Notes on Surviving the Fire

CHRISTINE MURPHY has lived, worked, and traveled in more than a hundred countries, including living for eleven months in a tent across the African continent and a year as a resident in a Buddhist nunnery in the Himalayas. A trained Buddhologist, Murphy has a Ph.D. in religious studies. When not writing, she can be found on Instagram (@christinemurphyauthor).

 

Milo Todd, The Lilac People

MILO TODD is a Massachusetts Cultural Council grantee and a Lambda Literary Fellow. His work has appeared in Slice Magazine and elsewhere. He is co–editor in chief of Foglifter and teaches creative writing to queer and trans adults.

 

Tim Weed, The Afterlife Project

TIM WEED is the author of three books of fiction, including A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing and Will Poole’s Island. He’s a two-time winner of the Writer’s Digest Annual Fiction Awards and has been shortlisted for the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for a Novel-in-Progress, and many others. His essays and articles have appeared in Writers Digest, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. Tim serves on the faculty of the Newport MFA in Creative Writing.

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