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: 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: Katherine Standefer. Explore the craft of writing about death. We’ll read work by writers writing about death, studying how they navigate difficult, complex subjects. Then, we’ll write our own essays about death.

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: Kate Carmody. Writers can pack a punch in less than 1000 words. We'll study a variety of flash nonfiction pieces by masters of the form then write our own short work. Leave with several starts to a flash nonfiction essay. 

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.