Class Catalog

This class examines etymology as a source of creative fascination. Students will create their own etymologies, consider the nature of word connotation in poetry, and explore the narratives and lyrical possibilities within words.

This class will lead students through translating perceptions of the senses into opportunities to enhance psychic access on the page. We’ll build dynamic inner lives for our characters and for readers to form poignant connections with.

How do memoirists keep their voices distinct while honoring the voice of family members? We will read excerpts from memoirs and study their use of interviews, dialogue, letters, speculation, invention, and memory. Come with photos or mementos of the family you wish to write about.

In this workshop, students will write and rewrite their story openings. We will examine various styles across genres to understand how reimagined intros can alter tone, point of view, pace, and more.

Las emociones evocadas en un texto narrativo son memorables y consiguen dejar una impresión duradera en nuestras lectoras y lectores. Por lo tanto, al momento de crear historias poderosas, el objetivo es mostrar las emociones, no simplemente contarlas.

In this class, we’ll look at how to “read like a writer,” create reading lists, build a personal reference library, and know when to narrow and/or expand your focus. You’ll leave class with new reading tools and tactics for improving your writing.

In this generative workshop, we will analyze, write, peer review, and discuss diverse pieces of persona poetry. We will navigate discussions such as cultural appropriation, craft in terms of persona, and more.

Let’s return to the vistas, doorways, and rooms from our former lives to glean the importance of place in story. We’ll examine some fine examples and then generate new work; expect to be surprised by how far your memory stretches.

In this intensive crash course, participants will learn tools to effectively pursue their memoir. We’ll discuss story structure and outlining practice, as well as the six powerful narrative writing techniques to bring a memoir to life.

This workshop will explore unexpected moves in poems–tonal shifts, leaps that move associatively down the page–and investigate interplay between stabilizing and destabilizing forces while engaging the reader in discovery.

This class is will go on a generative, prompt-based journey to explore different ways that dialogue manifests and examine how to get speech out of the body and onto the page.

In this course, memoir author and book coach Ingrid Ricks teaches mindset-changing techniques for conquering psychological obstacles and accountability strategies she employs to finish a manuscript.

This generative workshop offers a series of exercises to help us excavate, wander around, and examine actual places–call it lyric cartography or lyric biography of place. Come prepared to write, drawn, share, and listen.

Every poet must start somewhere—and behind every good writer, is a good reader. Together, we will demystify the idea that poetry is for the select few and explore the art form through the lens of legacy and community.

We've been told that characters must be capable of change, but what about characters whose circumstances leave little room for it? We’ll examine this question through reading, discussions, engaging in writing exercises, and workshop.

This workshop course offers a supportive environment for writers of all genres who create in the military gaze–writing about war, its impact, and military service. This class is offered with pay-what-you-can tuition.

This class will introduce students to workshopping, the craft of fiction writing, and how to build a writing practice. We'll read and discuss published work with guided writing prompts that correspond to our discussions.

This class will explore the nonfiction story through points of view, scene, reflection, and form. Using generative writing, reading, and an introduction to the workshop model, we will investigate our own personal stories.

Nature writing has roots throughout global majority cultures. In this class, we’ll read nature-centered poetry, essays, and fiction with writing prompts derived from practices that attune us to the more-than-human world.

A prominent god in the Hindu pantheon, Vishnu, the preserver, maintains cosmic balance. This generative and analytical class turns to key texts from the mythology and uses them to fuel our own diverse, electric pieces.

Our stories are a means for connection—part reportage and part reflection, personal essays reveal hidden truths about ourselves and our societies. This interactive workshop includes discussion and individual writing sessions.

In this class, students will learn about effective dialogue–natural conversation that advances plot and character depth. With small group exercises and text discussions, students will practice writing a short, dialogue-intensive scene.

For BIPOC, this class offers an overview of the publishing business. We'll discuss subverting the "white gaze", building networks of support, and writing query letters with agents and editors working to change the industry from within.

In this two-session workshop, we’ll do lots of exercises relating to desire and need that serve to strengthen relevant character backstory as well as organic forward motion in your novel or memoir.