Please join us for a Writer’s Week Craft Talk with special guest Ben Loory at the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program! This event is free and open to the public. 

Ben Loory’s first book, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (Penguin, 2011), was a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program, and his second book, Tales of Falling and Flying (Penguin, 2017), has been named “One of the Best Fantasy Books of All Time” by both Esquire and Good Housekeeping magazines. Loory’s fables and tales have appeared in The New Yorker, Fairy Tale Review, Bomb Magazine, and the Sewanee Review, and been heard on This American Life and the Selected Shorts podcast. They have also been adapted to live theater, short film, chamber music, and dance, and been translated into many languages, including Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, Chinese, Burmese, and Indonesian. Loory is also the author of a picture book for children, The Baseball Player and the Walrus (Dial Books for Young Readers, 2015). He lives and teaches short story writing in Los Angeles.

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