Class Catalog

A fast-paced class that will help writers manage chronology and structure!

Instructor: Nicole Hardy. We’ll read examples from a range of memoirs as we figure out what needs to be in scene versus summary, how to create vivid scenes that don’t bog down, and how to weave in essential backstory.  

Instructor: Shankar Narayan. Explore the ethereal world of the qawwali, an ecstatic form of Sufi devotional music that evokes oneness with the divine. Over four hours, we’ll study qawwalis past and present, then do some inspired writing our own.

Instructor: Sanjukta Shams. Using The Artist’s Way as guide and mentor, learn to reignite your creativity and reconnect with your artist self in this hands-on cohort.

Instructor: Cass Donish. Grief is love with nowhere to go. Learn to write with it, toward it, and through it—without looking away.

Instructor: Beth Slattery. Develop your creative nonfiction toolkit, in this advanced craft workshop. Expect to generate, workshop, and revise up to 20 pages of work.  

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: Nicole Treska & Nora Lange. Learn to shape your lived experience into fiction or nonfiction stories, with readings, craft lessons, and workshopping to bring your family stories to life.

Instructor: Miriam BC Tobin. An ongoing playwriting group for writers who want to share work, learn craft, and connect with other writers.

Instructor: Shankar Narayan. Explore spirit beings from various cultural traditions, draw connections between cultures, and use these mythologies to fuel your own writing this two-session generative intensive.  

Instructor: Emma Stockman. You are the hero of your own story, even when it feels like you’re standing still. Use ‘the journey’ as a journaling framework to find meaning and transformation in your own experiences.

Instructor: Sarah Campbell. A list can be more than just a list. Discover how inventory, advice, and dream lists can unlock new creative possibilities in this playful, generative workshop.

Instructor: Kimberly Dark. Find fresh and exciting ways to connect small moments to broader topics, questions, and themes—including family, culture, nature, and society—in this generative, meaning-making class! 

Instructor: Kaelie Giffel. Ready to publish? This class will guide you through revision, submission strategies, and pitching—so your personal essays find their perfect home.

Instructor: Carolyne Wright. From sonnets to sestinas, discover how poetic forms can spark imagination and elevate your writing. Plus, experiment with inventing some poetic form variations of your own!

Instructor: Lola Rogers. Explore translation as a form of adaptation: experimenting with voice, style, and context to reimagine stories for new audiences.

Instructor: Claudia Castro Luna. From myth to metaphor, trees and plants root our stories in something deeper and older than ourselves. Over eight weeks, we’ll write, reflect, and create with nature as our guide.

Instructor: Camellia Freeman. Open portals to the past, and play with time, space, memory, myth, and imagination to unearth stories waiting to be told. 

Instructor: Maggie Mertens. Love to nerd out over cool facts and obscure topics? Bring your research topics to life through vivid, engaging, and narratively rich prose.  

Instructor: Shankar Narayan. Step into this millennium-long poetic conversation and create your own work inspired by one of the world’s most lyrical literary traditions.

Instructor: Gabriela Denise Frank. Push the boundaries of your creative limits using the power of constraints! Through hands-on experimentation, we’ll spark unexpected, brilliant ideas and emerge with wild, weird and wonderful writing starts. 

Instructor: Gail Folkins. Every place has a story. Explore the intersection of personal narrative, research, and nature writing in this place-based nonfiction workshop.

Instructor: Theo Nestor. Explore the fundamentals of story structure and do activities designed to help you find the shape of your memoir in this two-hour generative craft class.

Instructor: Nat Smith. Theater doesn’t have to play by the rules. Break free from realism and write weird, wildly original plays in this generative, craft-focused course.