Class Catalog

This class will radicalize our approach to the personal narrative, intertwining poetry and memoir. We will write lyric essays and explore the braided form that celebrates both personal story and the lyricism of poetry.

In this workshop, we'll cover how to identify themes, outline, and write essays about single issues (750-1,000 words). We'll discuss different forms, finding publications, and how to tailor your writing to publications you admire.

In this process workshop, writers will be invited to reflect on life before and during the pandemic. We'll write from prompts, sharing and discussing our work as a group, toggling between our inner and collective experiences.

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: Ingrid Ricks. 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.

Instructor: Kimberly Dark. Whether you're new to writing or the joy is gone—this class is for you. In each session, we'll experiment with how to relate to the world, make meaning and convey passion through writing.

Instructor: Beth Slattery. 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.

Instructor: Naa Akua. Set your intentions to engage love as a "practice," through writing epistolary poems, journal prompts, and mini memoirs, as well as incorporating meditative techniques and breathing exercises into your routine.

Instructors: Allison Ellis & Amy Bowers. We dream of productive writing sessions but the reality is that tasks often overshadow. (Re)learn to open our eyes, go on local outings, and build a toolkit that turns the world into a dreamy writing office.

Instructor: Lauren Camp. Explore the idea of character through a number of lenses you won't expect—sometimes celebrating ordinary concerns, sometimes finding incredible wisdom outside of ourselves.

Instructor: Beth Slattery. Weekly writing and reading assignments and instructor feedback help us explore why we procrastinate and how to break the cycle. Establish a writing practice and navigate the murky waters of their own procrastination.

Instructor: Sonora Jha. Sometimes you have a story to tell, and you don’t know yet the genre in which it wants to be told. In this yearlong course, you will find your voice, your story, your form.

Instructor: Christine Hemp. This class is for those who want their memoir to have a novel’s urgency, with all the turns and surprises of a narrative arc.

Instructor: Susan Meyers. Writing about real life can be tricky. This class explores memoir and autobiographical fiction to examine how "true" your life stories should be.

Instructor: Shama Shams (Sanjukta). This course is based on Julia Cameron’s book, The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, a series of prompts that focuses on recovering the creative self. We’ll work through the book together in a supportive environment.

Instructor: Steve Almond. One of the central struggles in storytelling is that human beings are, in essence, time travelers. This class will unravel the mysteries of chronology and figure out how to tell your story in a way that thrills readers.

Instructor: Sonora Jha. A yearlong intensive class for writers seeking to revise, restructure, rethink, and finalize a book-length manuscript.

Instructor: j.chavez. Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays is a first-of-its-kind anthology to offer eight plays by trans playwrights to center trans characters. Each week, tackle a script and dive into the state of trans theatre and trans plays

Instructor: Katherine Standefer. Explore the craft of writing about death, noticing the narrative structures and syntax that effectively hold brutal experiences.

Instructor: Peter Mountford. This yearlong class is open to fiction and creative nonfiction writers of all stripes, and is designed to help writers meet creative goals/deadlines, and provide concrete and clear feedback on their work.

Instructor: Ann Hedreen. What motivates many memoir writers is not just the yearning to tell their stories, but all the questions they have about their stories. In this seminar, learn from writers whose questions have shaped their lives and work.

Instructor: Lindsay Newton. In this supportive workshop environment, participants will work with a "Big Five" editor and publishing consultant to learn the pitching process and generate a strategic, ready-to-send query letter to their agent of choice.

Instructor: Kate Lebo. When we're struggling to begin a work of nonfiction, how do we find the right form? In this class, discover how other writers make and break forms, try on different forms you admire, and maybe even invite your own.