Whether you’re writing a novel, story, profile, or memoir, what you learn about your topics depends on what questions you ask—and how you ask them. This fall, Dianne Aprile teaches the six-session multigenre class The Art of the Interview, in…
You’ve heard of authors meeting their agents (or editors) at writers’ conferences, but how does that happen? Boot Camp for Writers’ Conferences with Alice Acheson is a class that will prepare you for upcoming conferences. An independent book marketing…
For four Saturdays in August (8/6–8/27), visual artist and writer Gretchen Bennett and poet and performer Sierra Nelson will be co-teaching a class called Beyond Autobiography: Multi-Disciplinary Experiments—a generative writing class that also draws on other art forms to provide…
Mary Lane Potter‘s eight-session fiction class, Writing Through Revision, begins July 14. Register here. How to Perform a “Shake It Up Baby Now” Revision In my class, Writing Through Revision, we’re going to write a short story through a guided process of…
A sample of Aimee Suzara’s “Poetic Moments: Flashplays and Writing for Performance” workshop on May 28 1. An example of what we will be reading: Since this is a four-hour intensive workshop, we’ll read and view some short plays together by…
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum’s Building the Story will begin May 7. Register now! 1. What we will be reading: We’ll read both a book on craft (the gold standard for fiction writing—Janet Burroway’s Writing Fiction: A Narrative Guide to Craft) and…
Justin Taylor will teach “Vision and Revision,” starting Jan. 28. Register now! There’s no other readerly disappointment quite like something that almost works. The writer clearly has talent, natural as well as honed, and has put substantial time and energy…
A sampler of Jane Wong’s upcoming class, “The Poetry of Memoir,” beginning May 13. 1. An example of what we will be reading: We will read a multitude of different approaches to memoir in verse, including Eduardo C. Corral and…
Samantha Updegrave will teach Let’s Start a Lexicon – The Art of Collecting Words this Saturday, Oct. 3. One day only. Register now! In your writing notebook … 1. What’s your favorite word, or a word that’s following you around…
A reading example: One of the readings we will do is a chapter on “Presence” from Anna Deavere Smith’s book Letter to a Young Artist: Straight up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts. Smith says,” Presence defies the limits of…
Originally I was going to call the class “Hermit Crab Essays” because I was inspired by the strange and wonderful form which is pretty popular right now in literary journals, and which was given this name by Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola…
A colleague of mine at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival tells her students, “If you don’t know the shape of your story, begin by writing a bunch of scenes!” Scenes are the building blocks of narrative, and we’ll be hammering…
1. An example of what we will be reading: We will read a multitude of different line-break styles from poets such as Jack Spicer, Brenda Shaughnessy, Susan Howe, Richard Hugo, Hannah Sanghee Park, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and more. Take a look…
Beginning with the first class of DIY Publishing, we will encourage writers to introduce their books with the prompt “Tell us who you are and what you book is about.” With each session, this introduction will become more natural and…
Hi writers! This is a little taste of what we’ll be doing in my summer class, Creating (Un)likable Characters, which runs Wednesdays, July 8-August 12, at the really likable time of 5-7. First, an example of a story we’ll discuss….
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