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Writing Club: Writers on Writing – From Creation to Press
Join us for a collaborative discussion with writers on getting their ideas to paper. Everyone has a different journey and while writing can seem like a solo adventure, there is a whole community of writers that can help us on our writing odyssey.
Lauren Porté-Schwarzfeld will lead our discussion with local authors Lauren Acampora, Jimin Han, Heather Harpham and Nancy Torres on topics ranging from the ups and downs of the creative process to the nitty-gritty path to publishing. The talk will be followed by an opportunity to ask questions and chat with the authors.
About the Authors
Lauren Acampora is the author of four books of fiction: The Wonder Garden, The Paper Wasp, The Hundred Waters, and The Animal Room, a forthcoming collection of linked stories. Lauren’s work has won or been nominated for the GLCA New Writers Award, the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, the Story Prize, and the New England Book Award, and she’s been named an Artist Fellow in Fiction by The New York Foundation for the Arts. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The Paris Review, New England Review, Missouri Review, Guernica, and The New York Times, and will be anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2025. She lives with her family in Katonah.
Jimin Han is the author of A Small Revolution and The Apology, a Barnes and Noble Discover Pick; named a best audiobook of the year by Booklist, a best book of the summer by the LA Times, Vanity Fair, Shondaland, Apple Books and more. Additional writing of hers can be found in Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Catapult, and other publications. She teaches at The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College and community writing centers. Her work has been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts. Dreamt I Found You, her new novel, is forthcoming in April 2026.
Heather Harpham is a writer and theater artist whose fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in The Guardian, Slate, Parents, MORE Magazine, Water~Stone Review and Red Magazine in the UK. Her debut memoir, Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After, was a Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club selection. She teaches in the MFA Writing Program at Sarah Lawrence College, where she is currently the Strachan Donnelley Visiting Professor in Environmental Writing. Heather’s writing also includes works for the stage, primarily six solo plays, the most recent of which, BURNING, toured nationally. Originally from northern California, Harpham now lives in New York, a short walk from the Hudson River, with her family.
Nancy Torres is an elementary educator and meditation guide. She received a B.A. in Corporate Communications from Baruch College, City University of New York, and received an M.A. in Childhood Education and Special Education from New York University. Nancy speaks both English and Spanish and in 2022 she published the children’s book, Say It With Me (Dilo Conmigo). She lives in New York with her husband and their two sons.
About the Moderator
Lauren Porté-Schwarzfeld is the Chief Marketing Officer for Rise Literary, a hybrid publisher and book coaching company. She has spent the past 20 years working in sales, fundraising, and marketing through various industries, realizing that the most powerful part of a storied work history is the wide variety of human connection. In 2025 Lauren was the co-producer of TEDxOjai, featuring 12 speakers through the daylong event in Ojai, CA. She is endlessly curious, a lover of books, travel, and new adventures. Lauren lives in Mt. Kisco, NY.
Purchase Books by the Featured Authors
We love supporting our community and if you’re interested in ordering the authors’ works, Bedford Books has them available for order below (including an option to have the book shipped to you). Limited copies will also be available to purchase via Zelle or Venmo.