Class Catalog

Instructor: Kaelie Giffel. This class introduces students to recent feminist memoir and life-writing. You'll learn the basics of memoir’s generic conventions, how feminists have used the genre, and its political value. 

Instructor: Carolyne Wright. Explore the relationship between public events and personal transformations: over six weeks, we’ll study works that bear witness to social and political change, then reflect on urgent social contexts of our own.  

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: Kate Carmody. Follow your curiosities and learn to excavate the self in through personal essay reading and writing. Leave with a solid first draft of your own personal essay and a toolkit for many more.  

Instructor: Monika Sengul-Jones. Pack your memories, memorabilia, journal entries, library cards, and beloved dreams. We’ll spend six weeks dissecting various structures of travel essays while writing our own. 

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

Instructor: Monika Sengul-Jones. Finally get your writer newsletter up and running! Learn strategies for engaging your readers, meeting goals, and marketing yourself and your work. Leave with your newsletter set up and an actionable plan for next steps. 

Instructor: Christine Kwon. How are today's poets writing? We'll look at the fresh, innovative writing of poets working today and write based off our readings. This class is open to all, including those new to reading and writing poetry. 

Instructor: Jessica Gigot. What happens when the intimacy and imagery of poetry influence prose? We'll read poets who've crossed over into memoir and practice and write, moving between the two forms. Leave with increased lyricism in your prose.

Instructor: Elise McHugh. Planning to publish a book? Learn the essentials: crafting an elevator pitch, writing effective query letters, and building a strong, cohesive book proposal. Ideal for writers with a completed or in-progress book-length project. 

Instructor: Shankar Narayan. Explore the enchanting world of the ghazal, a lyrical South Asian poetic form celebrated for its elegant lyricism, sharp wit, and heartrending emotion, through close reading and generative writing. 

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.

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

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

Instructor: Shankar Narayan. Explore the ethereal world of the qawwali, an ecstatic form of Sufi devotional music that evokes oneness with the divine. Over four hours, we’ll study qawwalis past and present, then do some inspired writing our own.

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

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

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

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.