Rewriting History
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The first price increase on Gate Passes is on Wednesday, March 4! Purchase your tickets by Tuesday, March 3 to get the current and lowest rate.
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How can we integrate the past into fiction? In this flexible workshop, we’ll think through the power of history and historical fiction as a literary form. We’ll discuss how fiction can situate itself in the past without feeling didactic or stuffy. We’ll also leave space to explore the importance of historical fidelity versus fabulation, and what the two different modes offer the reader.
Nishant Batsha
Nishant Batsha is the author of the novels A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2025) and Mother Ocean Father Nation (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2022). He holds a doctorate in history from Columbia University, where he was a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. Originally from Northern California, he now lives in Buffalo, NY with his family.