Class Catalog

Instructor: Natasha Moni. Learn from a former editor and author how to examine and respond to rejections and strategize for publication success.

Instructor: Ruth Joffre. This class will introduce students to flash fiction form, such as dribbles, drabbles, and hermit crab forms, and provide space to generate and share new work, with in-class writing prompts and exercises.

Instructor: Kimberly Lee. In this workshop, we'll engage with structured journaling techniques to clarify and organize thoughts while inspiring ideas for writing projects and managing stress.

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: Joe Wilkins. From chain restaurants to cross-country travel, learn to harness the power of place, including its force on communities, in your writing.

Instructor: Kristi Coulter. Learn to skillfully and ethically write about other people in this generative class with lectures, readings, and in-class practice and review.

Instructor: Shankar Narayan. Explore the role of tricksters across mythologies, including South Asian and North American Indigenous traditions, in this part-analytic, part-generative course.

Instructor: Gail Folkins. Explore craft elements such as structure and narrative in this discussion and workshop based class. Each student will have up to two of their essays workshopped.

Instructor: Alexandra Lytton Regalado. Explore the lyric essay across various forms, with class discussion and activities to generate new writing that is formulated and shaped like prose, but moves and sounds like poetry.

Instructor: Beth Slattery. Establish a writing practice and break patterns of procrastination with weekly writing and reading assignments.

Instructor: Susan Meyers. This weekend intensive for memoir or fiction students focuses on creating a compelling story start.

Instructor: Darina Sikmashvili. Explore and write about pleasure via generative exercises and reading discussions, with a focus on discovering the ways pleasure can be derived from craft elements such as setting, character, and sentence style.

Instructor: Ingrid Ricks. Learn how to identify, structure, and develop your personal narrative, with writing assignments and individual coaching sessions with the instructor.

Instructor: Joe Wilkins. In this generative workshop participants will think, discuss, and write about a parental figure in the hopes that all will leave with the beginnings of a personal essay.

Instructor: Jaimie Li. This class will connect our intimate experiences to a broader social history, using a combination of research and in-class writing assignments, towards producing individual stories that reflect a greater sense of where we come from and who we are.

Instructor: Meghan Lamb. Investigate nonfiction strategies and narrative structures—including lists, profiles, braids, and epistolaries—exploring what it means to "exaggerate" without "lying."

Instructor: Peter Mountford. This daytime workshop offers regular deadlines, accountability, strong community, and high-quality feedback and peer review.

Instructor: Monika Sengul-Jones. Visit your inward passages by writing a travel essay about past travels. Pack your memories, memorabilia, journal entries, library cards, and beloved dreams.

Instructor: Claudia Castro Luna. This generative class explores how trees have inspired human consciences, bodies, structures, imaginations, and work. Engage with a variety of texts—letters, essays, music, poetry, to examine our relationships to the tree societies around us.

Instructor: Cedar Sigo. This workshop will investigate various ways of capturing and recording details of the everyday, exploring questions of craft and creativity around voice, tone, inflection, time and chronology, rehearsal versus practice, and more.

Instructor: Christine Hemp. Cultivate your voice, tune in to the "ear" of language, and find a shape for your unique essay in this workshop for the novice and advanced writer alike.

Instructor: Susan Briante. Through readings and exercises, participants will consider the ethics of writing out of and through crisis, taking inspiration from writers confronting violence and climate change, as well as historic and contemporary oppressions, and more.

Instructor: Kate Lebo. How can a recipe tell a story? This generative class will mash up family recipe-writing traditions with poetry, flash fiction, and the personal essay to see what emerges on the other side.

Instructor: Courtenay Hameister. Explore the art of the comic personal essay with close readings, subject matter guidance, humorous writing exercises, peer feedback, and a few laughs.