Class Catalog

This one-day intensive session will create a plan for every member of the class on how to find a publisher for their completed manuscript.

Through guided and practical exercises, this course will give you the confidence to turn your art into a long-term, successful business.

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: Kimberly Dark. Whether you're new to writing or the joy is gone—this class is for you. In each session, we'll experiment with how to relate to the world, make meaning and convey passion through writing.

Instructor: Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum. This yearlong workshop in short fiction focuses on intensive craft study, identifying and making progress toward individual writing goals, and undertaking the construction of a collection of short fiction.

Instructor: Beverly Aarons. Learn how to create a personalized organizational system that can provide a flexible structure for finishing projects and reaching goals.

Instructor: D.A. Navoti. Get an introduction to business writing concepts to strengthen applications for fellowships, grants, and residencies. This course is specifically for Black, Indigenous, and people of color in any literary form.

Instructor: Lindsay Newton. In this supportive workshop environment, participants will work with a "Big Five" editor and publishing consultant to learn the pitching process and generate a strategic, ready-to-send query letter to their agent of choice.

Instructor: Molly Schaeffer. Combining generative exercises, workshops, and notable examples, this course will investigate the relationship between writers/artists and their notebooks—how notebooks can feed our creative work, even be the creative work itself.

Instructor: Jennifer Perrine. By combining writing prompts with skills derived from embodiment and mindfulness practices, we'll bring our awareness to sensation and emotion, for the benefit of both our writing and our well-being.

Inspired by Brené Brown, this course explores ways of moving through artistic fear to get writing. In addition to discussing vulnerability in our work, we'll use exercises to visualize and approach our projects from new perspectives.

Instructor: Beth Jusino. Agents and publishers are flooded with more queries than ever before. How can you cut through the noise and get noticed? In this class, we'll step back and look at your fiction or nonfiction work with fresh eyes and get publishers to pay attention.

Instructor: Natasha Moni. Thousands of journals and markets are flooded with unsolicited submissions. How does your submission stand out? Develop publication strategies. Leave with tips, links, and a handout on how to nail the right markets.

Instructor: Beth Jusino. What's involved with writing for someone else? This class will explore what it takes to be a ghostwriter or collaborative writer (and what the difference is), and talk the business aspects of writing another person's book.

Instructor: Naa Akua. Adinkra symbols are West African proverbs or messages shown through visual symbolism, created by the Akan people of Ghana. In this class, we will connect with these ancient visual proverbs to see how they influence our modern-day life.

Instructor: Holly Day. In this workshop, we’ll discuss proper manuscript formatting for poetry, fiction, creative fiction, and journalism, and go on to discuss market lists, deciphering writer’s guidelines, dealing with rejection and rejoicing in seeing your work in print.

Instructor: Beth Jusino. Like it or not, marketing is part of a modern author's job description, and it starts long before the book comes out. This four-part self-paced class explores practical and realistic ways for writers to gather a community.

Instructor: Heidi Seaborn. Designed for people who've had another career and are now pursuing writing, students will act on their dreams by setting writing goals and gaining the insights, techniques, and tips to establish their craft.

Instructor: Anca Szilágyi. In this one-day class, we will explore generating new writing from the visual art forms of assemblages and collage by looking at contemporary works available in the Henry Art Gallery's permanent collection.

Instructor: Kimberly Lee. Ekphrastic writing has been described as “taking the visual and transforming it to the verbal.” In this generative workshop, participants will engage with imaginative prompts, exploring images as a source of inspiration.

Instructor: Paulette Perhach & April Dávila. By sharing scientific research and personal experience, this class will explore how secular mindfulness practice helps artists deal with challenges both big and small.

Instructor: Holly Day. During this session, students will be walked through the process of finding old books and textbooks that have been archived online, and the proper way to credit them, if needed, in a bibliography.

Instructor: Liza Birnbaum. How can we delve deeper into texts that feel mysterious, thorny, or complex? In this class, we’ll experiment with hands-on practices—annotation, structural mapping, and more—that open up new understandings of what’s on the page and what might come next.

Instructor: Kimberly Lee. This exploratory workshop is designed to help writers determine their personal thematic by distinguishing which topics resonate most. We’ll engage with imaginative prompts, including an exercise in which participants will analyze their film favorites.