Nahid with students at Antioch Writers Conference

Nahid giving talk in a classroom

Teaching

Teaching schedule for 2010, more will be listed later

JANUARY
NEW YORK CITY (MANHATTAN)
The New School University, School for General Studies (continuing Education)
Teaching: Advanced Fiction Workshop, building Full Characters
NWRW 4329 A CRN: 3287
(open to personal memoir writing as well as fiction writing)
Term: Spring 2010, starting January 26, Tuesday, for fifteen sessions
Class 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm
Open to credit and non-credit
66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011
Info:
212 229 5620
http:/​/​www.newschool.edu/​studentservices/​registrar/​

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APRIL
NEW JERSEY, Wayne
April 17th, Saturday, 2:30-4:00
Teaching memoir workshop
William Paterson University
Atrium 216
300 Pompton Road
Wayne, NJ 07470
Phone:(973) 720-2254; (973) 720-3067
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JUNE
MA, Boston
June 14–18
Teaching Advanced Fiction Workshop: Write, Revise, Polish
all applications are considered (tuition $250, subsidized by their grant)
William Joiner Center
at University of Massachusetts Boston
100 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125-3393
617-287-5000
Info: 617.287.5850
http:/​/​www.joinercenter.umb.edu/​Writers_Workshop.html

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AUGUST
VERMONT, Montpelier
August 9-15
Teaching: novel writing workshop
Postgraduate Writers' Conference
Vermont College of Fine Arts, 36 College St., Montpelier, VT 05602; 866-934-VCFA;
Info:
Phone:(802) 828-8835
www.vermontcollege.edu/​post-graduate-writers-conference
Vermont College of Fine Arts, offers a summer conference dedicated to advanced writers seeking to recharge, reconnect, and nourish their creative development. The Postgraduate Conference is open to all experienced writers but the majority have MFA degrees.
Along with the menu of Conference events, participants enjoy the amenities of downtown Montpelier, just a few minutes’ walk from the College, as well as the beauty and recreational opportunities of the surrounding countryside and Green Mountains.
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AUGUST
NEW YORK CITY (MANHATTAN)
August 31-December 20, 2010
Class 6:00 pm - 7:50 pm (Tuesdays)
Teaching Advanced Fiction Workshop, Building Full, Real Characters
The New School University, School for General Studies (continuing Education), (open to both credit and non-credit)
NWRW 4329 A CRN: 3287
Term: Fall 2010
66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011
Info:
212 229 5620 (registrar)
212 229 5611 (writing dept.)
http:/​/​www.newschool.edu/​studentservices/​registrar/​
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PREVIOUS universities I taught at:
BARNARD COLLEGE and YALE UNIVERSITY, for several years.

PREVIOUS conferences I taught at:
PARIS SUMMER WRITERS WORKSHOP, WRITERS IN PARADISE, ANTIOCH WRITERS CONFERENCE, GENEVA WRITERS CONFERENCE, PROVINCETOWN FINE ARTS WORK CENTER SUMMER WRITING PROGRAM, CENTRUM WRITERS CONFERENCE, TAOS SUMMER WRITERS CONFERENCE, MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE WRITERS CONFERENCE, SOUTHAMPTON COLLEGE WRITERS COFERENCE, IOWA UNIVERSITY SUMMER WRITERS FESTIVAL, ASPEN WRITERS CONFERENC, RUTGERS-CAMDEN WRITERS CONFERENCE, WILLIAM PATTERSON WRITERS CONFERENCE

SHORT STORY
INTERVIEW, PERSIAN GIRLS, JUMPING OVER FIRE, FOREIGNER, MARRIED TO A STRANGER, HEARTS DESIRE
MEMOIR
PERSIAN GIRLS (Penguin) AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK
REVIEW: NPR: The World, selected as ONE OF THE BEST FOUR BOOKS OF the year, by Christopher Merrill, Director of Iowa International Writing program: "If you want to know what it was like to grow up in Iran this is the book to read. Rachlin, the author of five previous works of fiction, including the much acclaimed Foreigner, begins her story at the age of nine, when she was taken away from the only mother she had ever known—her aunt, as it happens—and returned to a family in which the prospects of her becoming a writer were, at best, dim. But her portrait of the artist in an Islamic country on the verge of dramatic change is filled with light."
NOVELS
JUMPING OVER FIRE (available in paperback)
"If, as Aristotle reminds us, we are our desire, then who are we if the object of our desire is forbidden? What becomes of us if we are born in one world yet long for another? These are just two of the complex and difficult questions Nahid Rachlin explores and ultimately illuminates in this brave, engrossing, and timely novel. I recommend it highly!"--Andre (Dubus III),author of House of Sand and Fog, and In the Bedroom
FOREIGNER (Available in paperback)
"... a rare intimate look at Iranians who are poorer and less educated... I have read (this book) four times by now, and each time I have discovered new layers in it. The voice is cool and pure. Bleak is the right word, if you will understand that bleakness can have a startling beauty."
--Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review
SHORT STORIES

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