Instructor: Kaelie Giffel. This class introduces students to recent feminist memoir and life-writing. You'll learn the basics of memoir’s generic conventions, how feminists have used the genre, and its political value.
Class Catalog

Instructor: Kaelie Giffel. This class introduces students to recent feminist memoir and life-writing. You'll learn the basics of memoir’s generic conventions, how feminists have used the genre, and its political value.
Instructor: Carolyne Wright. Explore the relationship between public events and personal transformations: over six weeks, we’ll study works that bear witness to social and political change, then reflect on urgent social contexts of our own.
Instructor: Stephanie Barbe Hammer. Explore the structure and language of fairy tales and discover how you can use these timeless tales to inspire fresh stories rooted in the everyday moments of your own life.
Instructor: Grace Bialecki. In this three-hour craft class, we’ll use the novel synopsis as a tool to clarify and revise your novel. We’ll study clear, compelling, and effective synopses, explore various synopsis structures, then practice crafting our own!
Instructor: Olivia Cheng. Explore the role of disgust in contemporary short fiction and how it can be used to reveal deeper truths about life. Leave with new techniques to incorporate the icky, unsettling, and grotesque into your own work.
Instructor: Kate Carmody. Follow your curiosities and learn to excavate the self in through personal essay reading and writing. Leave with a solid first draft of your own personal essay and a toolkit for many more.
Instructor: Monika Sengul-Jones. Pack your memories, memorabilia, journal entries, library cards, and beloved dreams. We’ll spend six weeks dissecting various structures of travel essays while writing our own.
Instructor: Ansley Clark. Explore eroticism through the lens of pleasure and resistance in this six-week generative writing class. We’ll study erotic poems and short stories from contemporary writers, then write some poems of our own.
Instructor: Miriam BC Tobin. An ongoing playwriting group for writers who want to share work, learn craft, and connect with other writers.
Instructor: Cara Stoddard. Cultivate a habit of turning their attention to the changing of the seasons by keeping a phenology journal. Expect to come away with two new essay starts and a toolbox of fresh techniques.
Instructor: Kristi Coulter. Whether you’re untangling office dynamics, celebrating ambition, or finding humor in workplace chaos, this class will help you transform your work-life experiences into memorable, impactful stories.
Instructor: Monika Sengul-Jones. Finally get your writer newsletter up and running! Learn strategies for engaging your readers, meeting goals, and marketing yourself and your work. Leave with your newsletter set up and an actionable plan for next steps.
Instructor: Evan Ramzipoor. Learn to write natural conversations that advance the plot and give us insight into your characters. We’ll read master works and write a short, dialogue-intensive scene in class.
Instructor: Christine Kwon. How are today's poets writing? We'll look at the fresh, innovative writing of poets working today and write based off our readings. This class is open to all, including those new to reading and writing poetry.
Instructor: Teré Fowler-Chapman. Engage with your inner child through creative writing and personal storytelling. We'll read and write toward healing and emerge with tools that will help us foster lifelong grace and a more profound sense of self.
Instructor: Jessica Gigot. What happens when the intimacy and imagery of poetry influence prose? We'll read poets who've crossed over into memoir and practice and write, moving between the two forms. Leave with increased lyricism in your prose.
Instructor: Monika Sengul-Jones. Looking to exercise your writerly muscle? Push yourself to the limit in this fun, high-intensity, fiction generator class.
Instructor: Elise McHugh. Planning to publish a book? Learn the essentials: crafting an elevator pitch, writing effective query letters, and building a strong, cohesive book proposal. Ideal for writers with a completed or in-progress book-length project.
Instructor: Nicole Hardy. Every writer of memoir stresses out about the gaps in their memories; we’ll see how authors handle this problem in their work and apply the techniques to our works-in-progress.
Instructor: Shankar Narayan. Explore the enchanting world of the ghazal, a lyrical South Asian poetic form celebrated for its elegant lyricism, sharp wit, and heartrending emotion, through close reading and generative writing.
Instructor: Steve Almond. Friendships form the most significant relationships in our lives, saving and sometimes sinking us. We’ll look at the work of masters such as Margaret Atwood and Ann Patchett, then put what we’ve learned into practice.
Instructor: Miriam BC Tobin. An ongoing playwriting group for writers who want to share work, learn craft, and connect with other writers.
Instructor: Jeanine Walker. Learn the art of performing poetry aloud in this one-day craft-focused class. We'll study readings by contemporary poets and hone our ears for sound and rhythm. This class includes an invitation to read at a class reading.
Instructor: Nicole Hardy. We’ll study seamless narrative flashbacks and use them as guides to writing our own. We’ll talk about the purpose of flashbacks: how, when, where, and why delving into the past can move a story.