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Meg Eden Kuyatt

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Meg Eden Kuyatt teaches creative writing at colleges and writing centers. She is the author of the 2021 Towson Prize for Literature winning poetry collection “Drowning in the Floating World” and children’s novels including the Schneider Family Book Award Honor-winning “Good Different,” and the forthcoming “The Girl in the Walls” (Scholastic, 2025). Find her online at megedenbooks.com.

Events with Meg Eden Kuyatt

A dark tree in the foreground before the sky and ridge below. The Heart of the Novel Workshop and Retreat
June 20 - 22, 2025

Get to the heart of your novel! Learn how to discover the guiding light of your project to focus and tighten your drafting and editing processes. We’ll also discuss the essentials of novel structure, and how to discern what to keep and cut in your novel. Bring a novel in progress—or seeds for a new project—to explore through some reflective exercises. Feel free to bring a one-line pitch of your project, as well as a first page and any questions or road blocks you’re hitting with your project for optional sharing.  All writers welcome. For those interested, there will be…