My Five Things

Live and Online Sunday Night: Join award-winning writer and teacher Andre Dubus III in this live two-hour class and discover the Five Things He’s Learned about writing, revision, and the glorious challenge of bringing your work to its fullest fruition. Learn more and view Andre's personal video invitation at myfivethings.com.

Coming to Five Things on Thursday, June 5th: Film critic, author, and teacher Alissa Wilkinson shares Five Things She's Learned about the Power and Peril of Mythmaking, from Joan Didion. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/alissa-w…

Coming to Five Things on Sunday, June 1st: Award-winning poet, novelist, teacher, and scholar Kaveh Akbar shares Five Things He's Learned about Sacred Poetics. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/kaveh-ak…

Coming to Five Things on Sunday, May 18th: Writer and teacher Maurice Carlos Ruffin shares Five Things He's Learned Too Late about Publishing His First Book. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/maurice-…

Coming to Five Things Wednesday, May 7th: Culture journalist, author and teacher Will Hermes shares Five Things He's Learned about Writing about Music and Musicians. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/will-her…

Coming to Five Things Tuesday, May 6th: Best-selling writer and poet Maggie Smith shares Five Things She's Learned about Creativity – During Times of Upheaval. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/maggie-s…

Coming to Five Things on Sunday, May 4th: Award-winning author and teacher Ann Hood shares Five Things She's Learned about Writing Memoir. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/ann-hood…

Coming to Five Things on Wednesday, April 30th: Author, researcher, nonprofit leader, and MacArthur “Genius” award recipient MT Connolly shares Five Things She's Learned about How To Better Navigate Aging. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/mt-conno…

Coming to Five Things on Sunday, April 27th: Award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Jane Hirshfield shares the Five Things She's Learned about Poems as Fields of Discovery. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/jane-hir…

Coming to Five Things Monday, April 28th: Writer Ingrid Rojas Contreras shares Five Things She's Learned about Creativity – by Writing Through Crisis. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/ingrid-r…

Coming to Five Things Tuesday, April 22nd: Best-selling writer Daniel Handler shares Five Things He's Learned about Creativity – That Turn Out To Be Wrong. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/daniel-h…

Coming to Five Things on Sunday, April 13th: Michael Ruhlman – best-selling writer of more than 30 books of non-fiction, fiction, memoir and cookbooks – shares the Five Things He's Learned about Writing, By Writing about Food. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/michael-…

Coming to Five Things on Sunday, March 30th: Novelist, memoirist, cultural critic, and screenwriter Matthew Specktor shares the Five Things He's Learned about Writing the Self in Memoir and Fiction Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/matthew-…

Coming to Five Things Tuesday, March 25th: Poet and writer Victoria Chang shares Five Things She's Learned about Creativity – by Being an Outsider. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/victoria…

Coming to Five Things Sunday, March 23rd: Best-selling author, essayist, public speaker, lyricist and libretto writer @adamgopnik shares Five Things He’s Learned about the mystery of mastery – and about the ways that our humanity is immeasurably enriched in even the simplest things we set out to master. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/adam-gop…

Coming to Five Things Tuesday, March 18th: poet, author, actress, and director Amber Tamblyn shares Five Things She's Learned about Creativity – and Harnessing Emotion in the Service of Powerful Art. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/amber-ta…

Coming to Five Things Tuesday, March 11th: Celebrated poet, writer, and professor Matthew Zapruder shares Five Things He's Learned about Maintaining a Creative Practice in the Chaos. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/metthew-…

Coming to Five Things Thursday, March 6th: Multi-award-winning writer, editor and performer Joe Randazzo shares Five Things He's Learned about Getting to the Best Ideas, from My Time Leading The Onion. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/joe-rand…

Coming to Five Things Sunday, February 23rd: Celebrated writer and teacher @rebeccamakkai shares Five Things She's Learned about Grasping Point of View – on the Page and in the World. Learn more. Get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/rebecca-…

Coming to Five Things on Sunday, February 16th: Writer, poet, and minister Danté Stewart shares the Five Things He's Learned about The Power of Narrative. Learn more and get ticket: myfivethings.com/class/dante-st…