Class Catalog

Instructor: Molly Schaeffer. This class will examine elements of attention, drawing from various media: writing, film, music, and the natural world, and experiment with generative exercises, freewriting, and discussion.

Instructor: Beth Slattery. This class will build on fundamentals in Creative Nonfiction I with additional focus on structure and narration, investigating traditional and nontraditional forms, including memoir, lyric essay, and more.

Instructor: Gail Folkins. This class will be a mix of craft discussion and workshop to hone your essays with a focus on the key elements of structure and narrative. 

Instructor: Bella Bravo. Each week students will discuss a story about motherhood and freewrite on experiences of mothering, being mothered, or matrilineal loss. 

Instructor: Beth Slattery. Deep-dive into the revision and workshop methodology while creating a strong community of writers, with extensive opportunity for feedback and generation of new work.

Instructor: Kamala Puligandla. In this generative workshop, we’ll discuss the craft components that make a compelling, contemporary, queer love story, including narrative arc, perspective, and the kinds of love that don’t get enough attention.

Instructor: Leora Fridman. This generative workshop will look at contemporary writers considering the body in various states of need to write into our own reckonings with care and vulnerability.

Instructor: Katherine Standefer. In this 6-hour intensive, writers will identify potential "centers of gravity" in their material, and pinpoint their work's central questions, considering narrative arc, repetition, and more.

Instructor: Charles Mudede. This class introduces writers to philosophical ways of thinking and writing about what is always arriving: the future.

Instructor: Kate Lebo. This class considers how writers today imagine the voices of plants to reach for new language, insight, and emotion. We'll read plant-voiced poems and write our own poems or essays.

Instructor: Sasha LaPointe. This class will radicalize our approach to the personal narrative, intertwining poetry and memoir. We will write lyric essays and explore the braided form that celebrates both personal story and the lyricism of poetry.

Instructor: Meghan Lamb. This course will examine the methodology of writing about bodily experiences and explore the merits of engaging deeply and precisely with sex, aging, illness, and more.

Instructor: Kristi Coulter. This generative class blends seminar-style lecture, weekly readings, informal feedback sessions, and flexible prompts as a portal to writing about the workplace.

Instructor: Aimee Suzara. This class will focus on poetry by Asian American writers in the United States, engaging with and considering themes of belonging, otherness, homeland and loss, racism and immigration, and more.

Instructor: Darien Gee. This generative workshop will focus on archetypes with the goal of creating a finished chapbook draft.

Instructor: Holly Day. Learn how to compile a bibliography from sources including online and physical collections of newspaper archives, library special collections, photo banks, and more, with info on tracing source material and tips for staying organized.

Instructor: Ingrid Ricks. With individual coaching sessions, learn how to identify structure and tap into the healing power of writing personal narrative.

Instructor: Piper Lane. In this generative course, we’ll examine practical issues of the collective first person and narrative distance, with short discussions, writing prompts, and writing time.

Instructor: Jose Hernandez Diaz. This workshop explores surreal and strange prose poems, with readings, sample prompts, and insight into the improvisation and editing process.

Instructor: Elizabeth Mayorca. This class explores familial memoir, with readings and guided prompts for in-class writing.

Instructor: Anca Szilagyi. This workshop will explore the creative process and examine the relationship between writing and visual art.

Instructor: Sabra Boyd. Whether you're working toward your first byline, or you want to improve your acceptance rate, this class will help you develop strong pitches, build relationships with editors, and negotiate contracts. 

Registration dates:

December 5: Scholarship Donation Day (Learn more.)

December 6: Member registration opens

December 13: General registration opens

Instructor: Dilruba Ahmed. This mixed-genre class will explore "hermit crab" forms for our poems, prose, and prose poems, using the language and architecture of borrowed forms.