Class Catalog

Instructor: Sierra Nelson. Over nine months, we’ll deepen our writer-selves by looking to Water for inspiration. Leave with a personal chapbook that pulls together the writing and revisions you’ve generated in class.

Instructor: Mayur Chauhan. Push past the same old, stretch your creative muscles, and get back to the best part of writing: pure play. Experiment with a variety of genres and forms and leave with several drafts of fresh, playful writing. 

Instructor: Peter Mountford. Finish your novel this year in this workshop-focused fiction cohort. Over nine months, you’ll study craft, receive feedback from your peers and instructors, and meet the accountability goals you set for yourself.

Instructor: Ramón Isao. Learn to write stories that break hearts and blow minds in this craft-focused cohort. Read mind-blowing works, dig deep into craft of the short story, and conduct some strange literary experiments of your own. 

Instructor: Miriam Tobin. Write your own full-length play in this yearlong cohort. Through reading, generative writing, and craft discussions, you’ll engage with the playwriting community and learn how to write with performance in mind. 

Instructor: Carolyne Wright. Fallen out of love with your current work in progress? Not sure where to go next with your narrative? Explore strategies to rekindle and sustain the wonder that inspired you to write in the first place. 

Instructor: Karen Finneyfrock. Focus on writing and revising our Young Adult and Middle Grade drafts in a supportive yearlong cohort. We’ll learn the craft of kidlit writing, write a LOT, and receive feedback on our works in progress.

Instructor: Nisi Shawl. Learn the ins and outs of spec fic-specific story structure, craft considerations, and publishing and leave with all the tools you need for your next speculative fiction project.

Instructor: Andrew Bell. In this craft-focused cohort, we’ll spend a year planning, writing, and revising feature-length scripts ready for screenplay competitions, fellowship and grant submissions, and film production. 

Instructor: Corinne Manning. Through individual mentorship and class and small group workshops, build towards a short story collection of your own. Leave with the first 50-100 pages of your collection, and a plan for moving forward.

Instructor: Elise Hooper. Is there a historical figure, an old family story, or history “what if?” that interests you? Learn how to ask questions about the past and write towards a historical fiction manuscript of your own in this yearlong cohort.

Instructor: Noah Zanella. From Sappho and Shakespeare to Audre Lorde and Bruce Springsteen, we’ll read and discuss love in all its fullness, complexity, and urgency. Then, we’ll learn to write about this emotion. 

Instructor: Steve Almond. Investigate what it takes to keep readers on the edges of their seats. Study some of the best scenes ever written and leave learn to raise stakes, improve tension, and keep your reader glued to the page. 

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

Instructor: Dilruba Ahmed. Study how contemporary poets help us understand the mundane in new and celebratory ways. Through reading and writing, we’ll learn new ways to surprise and engage our readers, sustain and/or complicate tension, and more. 

Instructor: Rachel Sobel. Level up your prose in this craft-focused class. Over six weeks, learn to craft sentences that are juicy, lush, and thrilling, but also clear, specific, and stylish. Enter as a sentence simpleton, exit as a prose pro.  

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: 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: 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: 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.