Wednesdays On the Stoop, a series of free programming by Zoom every Wednesday from 4 pm - 5 pm. The sessions are designed to be a constant structure--every Wednesday at 4 you can count on Blue Stoop to plug you into your writing energy with an informal and supportive space.

In this workshop, we will look at the sentence on the micro level, down to how the sound and placement of a word affects meaning. We'll talk about the surprise of the sentence, what DeLillo calls the swing of the sentence, and what makes good, bad, and great sentences, down to the last word. If there's time, we'll look at ways to improve sentences, beyond the functional grammar of the sentence.

Nathan Alling Long's work appears on NPR and in over a hundred publications, including Tin House, Glimmer Train, Witness, and Story Quarterly. His collection, The Origin of Doubt, was a 2019 Lambda Literary Award finalist, and his current manuscript, The Empty Garden, was a semi-finalist for the Iowa Fiction Award. He is also the recipient of a Truman Capote Literary Scholarship, a Mellon foundation grant, and four Pushcart nominations. He lives in Philadelphia, teaches at Stockton University, and can be found at https://blogs.stockton.edu/longn/