Class Catalog

Instructor: Beth Slattery. Learn to navigate your flavor of procrastination. We’ll learn the whys behind procrastination, write together, and practice strategies to stay on track. Leave with a completed draft of a project you’ve been avoiding. 

Instructor: Steve Almond. Why do some characters leap off the page while others just sit there, collecting dust? Study the character works of masters like Joyce Carol Oates, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison and learn to make your own characters POP! 

Instructor: Alma Garcia. Read widely, write lots, and deepen your fiction-writing skills in this intermediate writing workshop. Leave class with a draft of a scene or full story and an understanding of fundamental storytelling. 

Instructor: Rachel Sobel. Struggling to write? Learn to plan and finish projects, cultivate a regular writing habit, and improve your writing in a way that works for you! Leave with a sustainable weekly writing practice and tools to get unstuck. 

Instructor: Deborah Woodard. Confront the grotesque and bizarre preoccupations found in our everyday lives. We’ll study the work of Franz Kafka and Rachel Karyo, then find new ways to explore the weird and uncanny in our own writing.

Instructor: Nisi Shawl. Learn the art of word-smithing—how we can use names and creative grammar to introduce readers to our invented worlds. We’ll learn various strategies for inventing language and develop semantics for our own spec fic worlds. 

Instructor: Peter Mountford. Level up your fiction writing this new year! Designed for writers ready to deepen their craft, we’ll cover advanced writing techniques, like POV, narrative distance, scene construction, dialogue, and more.

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: Carolyn Abram. Come one, come all! This workshop is a haven for writers whose work doesn’t fit neatly into “traditional” literary molds. Get feedback on your strangest, most surreal stories in this supportive workshop environment. 

Instructor: Jasmine Griffin. Perfect for genre-curious writers, this class invites you to experiment with the multitude of genres under the spec fic umbrella: paranormal, horror, magical realism, fabulism, surrealism, absurdism, and more. 

Instructor: Wancy Cho. In this 16-week workshop, we’ll look back on our own extraordinary experiences and practice bringing them to the page. This class includes short weekly readings and discussions but will primarily focus on workshopping.

Instructor: Ruth Joffre. Calling all sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and/or the beautifully weird in-between writers: Ready to buckle down on your WIP? This intensive cohort will give you the structure, support, and community you’ll need to get writing!

Instructor: Stephanie Barbe Hammer. Explore the structure and language of fairy tales and discover how you can use these timeless tales to inspire fresh stories rooted in the everyday moments of your own life. 

Instructor: Olivia Cheng. Explore the role of disgust in contemporary short fiction and how it can be used to reveal deeper truths about life. Leave with new techniques to incorporate the icky, unsettling, and grotesque into your own work.

Instructor: Evan Ramzipoor. Learn to write natural conversations that advance the plot and give us insight into your characters. We’ll read master works and write a short, dialogue-intensive scene in class. 

Instructor: Monika Sengul-Jones. Looking to exercise your writerly muscle? Push yourself to the limit in this fun, high-intensity, fiction generator class. 

Instructor: Steve Almond. Friendships form the most significant relationships in our lives, saving and sometimes sinking us. We’ll look at the work of masters such as Margaret Atwood and Ann Patchett, then put what we’ve learned into practice.

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

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.