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In this self-guided online course, Hannah Tinti shares techniques and exercises that she’s developed over the past two decades as an editor and teacher to help bring your writing to the next level. You’ll examine the foundation of your story, shore up the framework of your plot, plumb the emotions and backstories of your characters, sharpen dialogue and point of view, and refine your language and theme.  By the end of the course you’ll have new skills, a helpful to-do list, and pages of new material to move your revision in the right direction. This class can be taken at any time, on your own schedule. For more information, visit one-story.com.

Published in January 2023 with Bellevue Literary Press, Your Hearts, Your Scars is a book about life, loss, chance and gratitude, written by Adina Talve-Goodman and edited by Sarika Talve-Goodman and Hannah Tinti.

Adina Talve-Goodman was born with a congenital heart condition and survived multiple operations over the course of her childhood, including a heart transplant at age nineteen. In these seven essays, she tells the story of her chronic illness and her search for meaning and love, never forgetting that her adult life is tied to the loss of another person—the donor of her transplanted heart.

Whether writing about the experience of taking her old heart home from the hospital (and passing it around the Thanksgiving table), a summer camp for young transplant patients, or a memorable night on the town, Talve-Goodman’s writing is filled with curiosity, humor, and compassion. Published posthumously, Your Hearts, Your Scars is the work of a writer wise beyond her years, a moving reflection on chance and gratitude, and a testament to hope and kindness.

Read Hannah Tinti’s introduction to Adina’s work at LitHub. You can learn more about Adina Talve-Goodman here and purchase a copy of Your Hearts, Your Scars here.

“Lovers of the short story, rejoice! There’s something for everyone in this anniversary collection . . . makes the argument that time and again, it is stories that save us.” —Booklist

Published in March 2022 with Algonquin Books, in partnership with Selected Shorts, Small Odysseys captures the spirit of the long-time radio show & live performance series in print for the first time.

From 2010-2013, Hannah Tinti was the literary commentator on Selected Shorts, chatting with host Isaiah Sheffer about short stories each week on Public Radio. Now, in collaboration with Selected Shorts and Symphony Space, Tinti has helped bring together 35 new stories by authors featured on the program, as well as up and coming new voices.

The anthology features an introduction from Hannah Tinti, a forward by Neil Gaiman, and pieces by authors Rabih Alameddine, Jenny Allen, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Aimee Bender, Marie-Helene Bertino, Jai Chakrabarti, Patrick Cottrell, Elizabeth Crane, Michael Cunningham, Patrick Dacey, Edwidge Danticat, Dave Eggers, Omar El Akkad, Lauren Groff, Jacob Guajardo, A.M. Homes, Mira Jacob, Jac Memc, Etgar Keret, Lisa Ko, Victor LaValle, J.Robert Lennon, Ben Loory, Carmen Maria Machado, Juan Martinez, Maile Meloy, Joe Meno, Susan Perabo, Helen Phillips, Namwali Serpell, Rivers Solomon, Elizabeth Strout, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jess Walter, and Weike Wang.

For longtime fans of Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts, as well as readers of anthologies like Best American or magazines like One Story, this wide-ranging collection celebrates the wildly diverse world of short fiction, and offers stories that are in turn striking, generous, provocative, joyful–and on every page extraordinary. You can purchase a copy of Small Odysseys here.

In this five day class, One Story co-founder Hannah Tinti will delve into the creative process with special guests Ruth Ozeki, Dani Shapiro, and Min Jin Lee. Each day will feature inspiring, generative exercises and in-depth conversations about the best ways to overcome roadblocks and get sparks flying on the page. Tinti and her guests will give tips on their own unique approaches for stirring the imagination, sharing their personal stories of trial, error, and success. Three sessions will be live conversations. There will also be daily discussion boards for students to connect with other writers from around the globe about the best ways to keep the creative flame alive.

Class runs February 17-21, 2022. Students can take the course at any time & will have access until March 17. For complete details & signup go here.

Forthcoming in March 2022 with Algonquin Books, and published in partnership with Selected Shorts, Small Odysseys captures the spirit of the long-time radio show & live performance series in print for the first time.

From 2010-2013, Hannah Tinti was the literary commentator on Selected Shorts, chatting with host Isaiah Sheffer about short stories each week on Public Radio. Now, in collaboration with Selected Shorts and Symphony Space, Tinti has helped bring together 35 new stories by authors featured on the program, as well as up and coming new voices.

The thirty-five stories in this volume will be honored in a full-day event at the time of publication, performed live in New York and streamed in real time all over the globe.

For longtime fans of Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts, as well as readers of anthologies like Best American or magazines like One Story, this wide-ranging collection celebrates the wildly diverse world of short fiction, and offers stories that are in turn striking, generous, provocative, joyful–and on every page extraordinary. You can pre-order a copy of Small Odysseys here.

Hannah wrote an essay about loss and Saint Anthony for the online journal THE KEEP THINGS.

Hannah has a new short story (“Park & Play”) featured in The Nicotine Chronicles, an anthology edited by Lee Child and published by Akashic Books. To order a copy, go here. To listen to a sample of the audio book, go here.

Paste Magazine ranked The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley #32 out of the top 40 novels of the past decade:

“Nine years after her debut novel, The Good Thief, was published, Hannah Tinti released another masterpiece. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley explores a captivating father-daughter relationship, weaving the pair’s saga through two narrative timelines. The first follows a young girl named Loo as she comes of age in a small Massachusetts town; the second reveals her father’s past through twelve stories chronicling the events that led to his twelve bullet wounds. Tinti’s narrative takes on a mythic quality with each bullet, nodding to the Twelve Labors of Hercules with hidden Easter eggs. The result is a mesmerizing literary thriller that counts down to the final gunshot.” —Frannie Jackson

Red Ink is a quarterly series curated and hosted by Michele Filgate at Books are Magic, focusing on women writers, past and present. The conversation “Authenticity” took place in April 2019 and featured Hannah Tinti, along with Mira Jacob (Good Talk), Jennifer Pastiloff (On Being Human), Deborah Landau (Soft Targets), Grace Talusan (The Body Papers), and moderator Michele Filgate.

“Storytelling is about letting other people into the room and bringing other people along with you. And to do that, you have to give all the details.”-Hannah Tinti

To read a complete transcript of the conversation, go here.

Hannah Tinti: Next Level Writing

November 18-25, 2019

DEADLINE TO APPLY: Sept. 26, 2019

CLASS DESCRIPTION:

The solution to a piece of writing is always hidden just beneath the surface. In this editorial-focused workshop, we will dig deep, giving close reads to a piece of your writing (10-25 pages, max 6,000 words) and exploring each layer, from the seed of the idea that first inspired you to the places where you’re feeling lost or stuck. Together we’ll identify the strengths and weaknesses, shore up the structure, identify patterns and find ways to bring your work to the next level. We’ll also stretch and find new skills through craft lectures and writing exercises that will stretch your imagination and foster your creativity, using the unique setting to inspire us. This class will be limited to 6 people and will also include one-on-one sessions. My goal is for each student to leave re-energized, with a host of new ideas and pages, as well as a concrete plan to re-approach their work. The focus will be fiction, both long and short form, though non-fiction/memoir writers are also welcome.

To find out more about this course and Hedgebrook, visit: www.hedgebrook.org