Class Catalog

Instructor: Michele Simms-Burton. This class will delve deep into the structure of Toni Morrison's masterpiece, Beloved, focusing on themes of loss, violence, memory, and healing.

Instructor: Kimberly Lee. Invite play into your writing! Through unusual and imaginative writing exercises, we'll engage all of our senses, experiencing a shift in perspective that will open doorways of inspiration. 

Instructor: Rachel Werner. For writers who also work as arts administrators, copywriters, or digital content creators, this workshop will develop creative communication strategies utilizing fiction techniques and elements of storytelling.

Instructor: Stephanie Hammer. This class is a three-hour playground of generative writing geared toward poets and nonfiction writers who want to tell a story but are terrified of things like "plot," "action," and something called "raising the stakes." 

Instructor: Darien Hsu Gee. As writers, our ancestral history breathes through our bodies and appears on the written page; this class will explore ancestors both known and unknown through micro narratives and prose poems.

In this exploratory camp, students will engage with artistic activities, embark on field trips in-person and virtually, and write to creative prompts all designed to ignite their imaginations. The week will culminate with a reading and/or presentation of student work.

Through guided and practical exercises, this course will give you the confidence to turn your art into a long-term, successful business.

This asynchronous course features online workbooks, including ten essential templates in Word and Excel to kickstart your writing life, and resources professional writers use to get published.

Instructor: Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum. This generative class will explore the techniques and stylistic choices of both old and new masters of craft.

Instructor: Bill Carty. Designed for poets of all experience levels, this class combines writing prompts and readings as well as an introduction to the workshop model.

Instructor: Gabriela Denise Frank. Celebrate summer and the chance to experiment with guided prompts sampling short forms such as flash prose, hermit crabs, "found" pieces, and more.

Instructor: Katherine E. Standefer. This class will excavate the ways authors set up their primary tensions, structures, voice, and more, coming to understand the craft choices that propel a narrative.

Instructor: Dilruba Ahmed. Re-energize your writing with a three-day intensive on forms such as epistolary poems, elegy, villanelle, pastoral/ecopoetry, and odes.

Instructor: Carolyne Wright. Write six poems in six weeks, focusing on poetic types such as elegy, epistle, imitation, ode, panegyric, duplex, and golden shovel.

Instructor: Sonora Jha. Craft that chapter in your memoir where the personal meets the political, that op-ed you have the authority to write, or that cultural critique for a literary journal. 

Instructor: Beth Slattery. Through analysis of texts, discussion, and writing exercises, this one-day class will guide students through finding the equilibrium between amusing and emotional prose.

Instructor: Shelby Handler. In this generative class, we'll befriend summer flowers and experiment with floral prompts that channel unexpected imagery, taking inspiration from Ada Limón, Paisley Rekdal, Ross Gay, and more.

Instructor: Shankar Narayan. In this part-generative, part-analytic class, we'll examine classic Slavic fairytales, discuss their meaning, and create our own fiery pieces.

Instructor: Grace Bialecki. Designed for writers of all genres who want to hone their editing skills and find musicality in their work; we will read our writing aloud, crafting techniques for both developmental and line edits.

Instructor: Kris Waldherr. Learn an overview of the Tarot, easily accessible ways to understand card symbolism, and techniques for utilizing the Tarot for storytelling, insight, and inspiration.

Instructor: Kimberly Dark. This generative workshop will open a number of creative doorways to mine meaning from memories, connecting students' unique perspectives to culture, history, and zeitgeist.

Instructor: Beth Slattery. Study the work of award-winning Irish writer Claire Keegan's concise language and rich storytelling, exploring her style and efficiency using her novella Foster and other stories. 

Instructor: Sonora Jha. In this one-day deep-dive into your characters' truths and lies, we will read and write layers and nuances into your characters and render them fragile, funny, fallible, and ultimately unforgettable.