
Colleen Kinder
@colleenkinder
Co-founder of @offassignment, Editor of LETTER TO A STRANGER (@algonquinbooks). Words in @nytimes @vqr @AFARmedia @theatlantic
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A week from tonight, my Off Assignment class on Writing About Family begins! We have a few spots left, so sign up now to learn from me & a rock star team of guest authors: Casey Gerald Dani Shapiro 🔥 Maggie Smith Safiya Sinclair offassignment.com/shop/writing-a…



Surprisingly, what @SierraMurdoch remembers most about Tunis during the Arab Spring is the cast of unlikely characters she found at her hotel. This is our final "What I Didn't Say" essay guest edited by Ted Conover and funded by Nat'l Endow f/t Arts: offassignment.com/wids/sierra-cr…



So proud today to publish this "What I Didn't Say" essay by @SierraMurdoch, Pulitzer finalist and author of YELLOW BIRD, about her time at a mysterious Tunis hotel while reporting on the Arab Spring. Thank you to guest editor Ted Conover & Nat'l Endow f/t Arts always: offassignment.com/wids/sierra-cr…

New York City! Join us Oct 21 for our annual Stories & Strangers event! Mohsin Zaidi & Erika Veurink will read their work and participate in a Q&A w Colleen Kinder. Complimentary refreshments & scintillating conversation will be plentiful! 🥂 Tickets: bit.ly/stories-and-st…


My novel THE SLIP is coming 6/3/25 from Simon & Schuster. It’s a big Texas novel about a missing teenage boy and cases of mistaken & fluid identity and the transformative power of boxing, and I can’t wait to share it with you. Please consider preordering today! 🥊







Launching our new Off Assignment column, "Goodbye to that Place," with this stunner of an essay by Leslie Jamison. Please read: short & oh-so-powerful. Writers, if you have your own narrative farewell to a bygone place--start drafting, we'd love to read it. offassignment.com/gttp/leslie-ja…


If you're looking to attend a writing seminar this summer, check out Off Assignment's new series on Writing the Body! Guest authors include SLM contributor @christinajcooke and memoir editor krys malcolm belc, so you know it'll be great. Learn more here: buff.ly/FUxQphC
