Class Catalog

Instructor: Shankar Narayan. Explore the relationship between the mind-body and technology in this reading and generative writing course: What makes us who we are, when AI is drawing closer to thinking as we do? 

Instructor: Geraldine Woods. Explore creative ways to recognize and communicate sensory details in your writing. You’ll leave with a toolkit to translate sights, sounds, smells, and other tactile information into expressive, captivating language. 

Instructor: Steve Almond. Learn how to explore your obsessions on the page without falling prey to self-absorption or sentiment in this reading and generative writing workshop.

Instructor: Elisabeth Blair. Try a dozen (plus one!) approaches to revise your poems. Leave with 13 revised poems, detailed feedback on each, and a robust revision toolkit for any future poems!

Instructor: Carolyn Abram. Revive those dusty first drafts in this revision-focused workshop. Come away with great feedback, a renewed confidence in your writing, and a toolkit for tackling future revisions. 

Instructor: Nicole Hardy. Take your personal essay from idea to polished piece in this 8-week craft workshop. 

Instructor: Anca Szilágyi. Stuck? Get feedback and a fresh perspective on your work in progress in this 10-week online workshop for prose writers of all genres. Leave with thoughtful feedback and a roadmap to push your writing forward.

Instructor: Jeanine Walker. Intimidated yet intrigued by poetry? Learn the foundations of poetry in this fun, beginner-friendly course. Read widely, write a lot, and walk away with a solid grasp on poetry basics. 

Instructor: Christie Valentin-Bati. Explore the beautiful and devastating poetry of Annie Dillard, Jericho Brown, Etal Adnan (and more), who write about personal and political catastrophe, then write your own. 

Instructor: Tara Conklin. Book Lab is a yearlong intensive cohort experience for writers seeking to revise, restructure, rethink, and finalize their book-length manuscript. It is designed to help students cross that elusive finish line of draft to publishable work.  

Instructor: Noah Zanella. Grapple with the mysteries of the world in this six-week reading and writing course. Leave with five new pieces infused with wonder and a clearer sense of what matters most to you. 

Instructor: Leigh Sugar. Erasure poetry is equal parts poetry, visual art, and mad lab experimentation. In this generative reading and writing course, we’ll explore the world of erasure in its infinite possibilities. 

Instructor: Christina Berke. Travel back in time to braces, acne cream, and our precious teen years. Through reading and generative writing, we’ll revisit coming-of-age milestones that our adult selves can look back on with laughter and compassion. 

Instructor: Grace Bialecki. Plan your perfect writing routine—and actually do it! In this 3-hour, sliding scale class, you’ll develop strategies to cultivate a writing practice and help you finish projects in a way that works for your lifestyle.  

Instructor: Beth Slattery. Got a real-life story in you? Develop the tools you need to tell it in this exploratory creative nonfiction writing workshop. Leave with 15 pages of fresh work, feedback on your writing, and the tools to write more.  

Instructor: Rachel Attias. Stir strangeness and surprise: over six weeks, we’ll practice pushing our writing in weird and wild directions, crafting our own surreal realities. Leave with some truly weird and wonderful writing.

Instructor: Dilruba Ahmed. Dive into select poems from Rick Barot's poetry collection, The Galleons. We’ll study how Barot interplays the personal and the political, discuss way he uses craft, & do some writing inspired by his words and strategies. 

Instructor: April Dávila. Learn the foundations of story structure and how you can use it to guide your work in progress in this three-hour sliding scale craft class. 

Instructor: Beth Slattery. Become a time lord: learn to manipulate time and jump forward, backward, between, and even into dreams in this six-week craft workshop. Leave with the ability to move seamlessly between time in your prose writing.

Instructor: Alma Garcia. Got a story that’s bursting to come out? Read widely, write lots, and master the foundations of fiction in this beginner-friendly writing workshop. Leave with a draft of an opening scene and solid grasp of story basics. 

Instructor: Gail Folkins. How do you nerd out and still keep your reader engaged? Learn to incorporate research or knowledge into your storytelling in this eight-week craft course. Leave with two essays, feedback, and next steps. 

Instructor: Ingrid Ricks. Tap into the healing power of personal narrative and write the emotionally-charged story you need to tell. Leave with a seven- to ten-page story and the narrative tools you need to continue your writing journey.

Instructor: Kevin O’Rourke. Learn to close-read any text in this reading course for writers. Over six weeks, explore work across various forms and genres, and leave with a toolkit to translate literary knowledge to your own writing.

Instructor: Deborah Woodard. Dive into the work Lord Byron, the Romantic Era’s most flamboyant poet. We’ll read and discuss his major works, then do some writing of our own. Leave with a fresh perspective on Byron and a short portfolio of new work.