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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Alma Garcia. Got a story that’s bursting to come out? Read widely, write lots, and master the foundations of fiction in this beginner-friendly writing workshop. Leave with a draft of an opening scene and solid grasp of story basics. 

Instructor: Kevin O’Rourke. Learn to close-read any text in this reading course for writers. Over six weeks, explore work across various forms and genres, and leave with a toolkit to translate literary knowledge to your own writing.

Instructor: Steve Almond. People think about sex all the time but writers tend to shy away from the subject. In this three-hour craft workshop, learn how to write sex scenes infused with genuine emotion and ecstatic sensation.

Instructor: Holly Day. Overcome your fear of the blank page in this generative short fiction workshop. Throw perfection to the wayside, embrace the creative process, and emerge with a solid short story draft. 

Instructor: Grace Bialecki. Explore the essays and poetry of Ross Gay, known for his work about joy, gratitude, and the simple pleasures of life. Through reading and writing, we’ll learn to employ Ross Gays delightful techniques in our own writing. 

Instructor: Tina Tocco. Kickstart your creativity in this low-stress generative writing class. Each week, we’ll write to a variety of prompts and share our work in a supportive, positive environment. Leave each week with a new piece of writing. 

Instructor: Peter Mountford. Self-taught writer, ready to level up? Read widely, write lots, and master the foundations of fiction in this beginner-friendly writing course. Leave with a short story draft and solid grasp of story basics.