The Nuts and Bolts of Writing Stories with Andrew Krivak

Sat May 02 2026 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm UTC-06:00

2200 Pioneer Ave, Cheyenne, WY, United States, Wyoming 82001 | Cheyenne

Laramie County Library System
Publisher/HostLaramie County Library System
The Nuts and Bolts of Writing Stories with Andrew Krivak
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Join Andrew Krivak, author of the One Book, One Laramie County selection The Bear, for a writing workshop designed to help you find your voice and boost your creative confidence. Whether you are dreaming up your first short story or polishing something bigger, this workshop for teen and young adult writers is an opportunity to learn from a celebrated author whose work captivates readers with its clarity, imagination, and emotional depth. Come curious and ready to discover new ways to strengthen your storytelling. Registration is required to attend:
https://lcls.libcal.com/event/16454971
*Please note that this event is for grades 7-12 & ages 18-25
Andrew Krivak is the author of five novels, two chapbooks of poetry, and two works of nonfiction. His 2011 debut novel, The Sojourn, was a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for fiction and the inaugural Chautauqua Prize. He followed The Sojourn with The Signal Flame (2017), a novel The New York Times said evoked “an austere landscape, a struggling family, and a deep source of pain” in Krivak’s fictional Dardan, Pennsylvania. His third novel, The Bear (2020), received the Banff Mountain Book Prize for fiction and is a National Endowment for the Arts Big Read title. Like the Appearance of Horses (2023), returns to the characters and landscape of Dardan. Of the work, Asako Serizawa observed: “Andrew Krivak’s Homeric novel is at once intimate and sweeping, expanding an epic story set into motion in The Sojourn. Tenderly attentive to all that is given and taken by war, Like the Appearance of Horses is a graceful, heroic accomplishment that speaks to the costs of duty when violence is as constant as the Pennsylvania mountains that anchor and separate this indelible family we’ve come to know so personally.” His fifth novel Mule Boy is forthcoming with Bellevue Literary Press in 2026.
As a poet, Krivak has published the chapbooks Islands (1999), and Ghosts of the Monadnock Wolves (2021). He is also author of the memoir A Long Retreat: In Search of a Religious Life (2008), and editor of The Letters of William Carlos Williams to Edgar Irving Williams, 1902-1912 (2009), which won the Louis Martz Prize for scholarly research on William Carlos Williams.
He holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University, an MA in philosophy from Fordham, and a PhD in literary modernism from Rutgers University. Krivak lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.
He is currently the visiting lecturer in creative writing at Harvard University.
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