Class Catalog

Instructor: Kimberly Lee. In this generative writing class, we’ll engage with lost and unusual words, using them to take our writing in new and unexpected directions. Leave with several writing starts and fresh approaches to your creative projects.

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

Instructor: Christie Valentin-Bati. We'll focus on ideas of selfhood: how others see us, how we see ourselves, how we construct or lose ourselves. Featuring: Clarice Lispector, Virginia Woolf, Jamaica Kincaid. 

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: 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: Quetzalli Writes. Does technology excite you? Curious about technical writing? Learn to research, develop, edit, and collaborate on various types of software documentation in this 10-week class. Leave with a portfolio of work.  

Instructor: Joel Heng Hartse. Love a band or artist so much you’ve gotta write about it? Learn various genres of music writing, from album reviews to profiles and thinkpieces. We’ll end the course with a zine-style publication we make together. 

Instructor: Andrew Bell. What can film teach us about writing? Each week we'll read a script, then come together to watch the film and have a lively discussion. We'll look at what makes our favorite films special, and set aside time to share work of our own. 

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

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: Meghan Lamb. Explore bodily interventions—including often-taboo subjects of sex, aging, illness, bodily change, and bodily difference—through reading, discussion, and generative writing. 

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: Sarah Dalton. Practice writing, drawing, and creative collaboration techniques developed by Lynda Barry to explore what she calls the Unthinkable Mind or Image World. 

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: Sally Ashton. Let’s read through the 2024 edition of Best American Poetry together! We’ll discuss our faves and the parts we don’t get. We'll also have optional writing prompts. Readers of all levels welcome – bring a curious mind! 

Instructor: Anastacia-Reneé. Perfect for new and emerging poets, this intensive will introduce you to the poetry genre. Through close reading and workshopping, you’ll learn poetry fundamentals in a supportive cohort environment. 

Instructor: Shankar Narayan. Dive into the rich space of writings about the forest—from scientific papers to ancient poetry, from global mythology to spells—to inspire our own creative practices. Leave with new pieces, ideas, and community.

Instructor: Theo Nestor. Need to market your book but unsure of how to build your audience? Learn easy and manageable ways to approach email lists, social media, and websites. You'll leave with concrete skills to put into practice right away. 

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: Andrew Bell. Learn the importance character and conflict have in any scene– whether you're writing film, TV, theatre, or prose. We'll study great characters, work on characters of our own, and write and workshop scenes at the end of the day. 

Instructor: Elizabeth Villamán. Take your character from flat and forced to complex, authentic, and unforgettable in this craft-focused class. We’ll explore the emotional and psychological transformations that drive our characters—and our narrative.