Class Catalog

Instructor: Tara Campbell. This generative class will explore three ways of unlocking new stories: crafting narratives from common expressions, gleaning horror from unfinished business, and using deliberate paradoxes.

Instructor: Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet. In this three-hour workshop, we'll explore the relationships between poems and their titles, discuss several intriguing examples, then play with techniques for titling our own work.

Instructor: Catherine Carmody. Read and review example essays to learn and apply how writers combine pop culture, cultural criticism, and personal narrative into personal essays.

Instructor: Kimberly Dark. This generative workshop will open a number of creative doorways to mine meaning from memories, connecting students' unique perspectives to culture, history, and zeitgeist.

Instructor: Kristi Coulter.  This technique-focused class will examine the benefits and application of present-tense in memoir, including lecture, close analysis of published examples, practice time, and the opportunity for informal sharing and feedback. 

Instructor: Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet. In this workshop, we'll use guided meditation, visualization, and writing exercises to identify and soften our own particular versions of resistance and to reconnect with the parts of us that use language to create. 

Instructor: Greg November. This generative one-day workshop is all about things, stuff, items—creating a world on the page through the power of ordinary items that evoke passions, fears, dreams, and all manner of big, big ideas.

Instructor: Christie Valentin-Bati. This course will look at the long, poetic tradition of using the lyric to externalize the deepest and most intimate parts of ourselves, reading and generating work in response to Virginia Woolf, Delmira Agustini, Jericho Brown, and others.

Instructor: Ruth Joffre. This class will ask students to envision fantastical and futuristic environments and invent new selves deeply rooted in landscape, reading and studying contemporary speculative fiction about the environment, including climate fiction, sci-fi, and fantasy.

Instructor: Jose Hernandez Diaz. This generative class will examine the way celebrate, venerate, and remember with odes, reading memorable and evocative odes from Pablo Neruda, Anne Sexton, and Kevin Young.

Instructor: Noah Zanella. This class will look at the potential of the journal as a crucial component of a writer's practice, reading from the journals/diaries of Franz Kafka, Joanne Kyger, George Oppen, and more, engaging in various journaling practices and using this material to generate stories, poems, or essays.

Instructors: Midge Raymond, John Yunker. For all writers who wish to collaborate on prose writing, learn to research, write, edit, and pitch as a team.

Instructor: Rachel Kapelke-Dale. In this class, we'll discuss techniques for finding agents who are a great fit for your work: both what to do and what not to do.

Instructor: Dilruba Ahmed. This workshop will explore unexpected moves in poems—tonal shifts, syntax disruption—and investigate the interplay between stabilizing and destabilizing forces while engaging the reader in discovery.

Instructor: Monika Sengul-Jones. Learn to use the tried-and-true staple of internet communication—email newsletters—to pilot ideas, publish supplementary writing to published works, share professional accomplishments, and connect with readers. 

Instructor: Alli Parrett. Explore elements of craft that translate real life moments into captivating stories on the page, examining excerpts from Brandon Taylor's Real Life and more.

Instructor: Zain Shamoon. This class is dedicated to the role of storytelling in finding relief from distress; students will learn how to use storytelling for personal and communal reclamation.

Instructor: Nicole Treska. This class will dive into the craft of story structure, examining the construction of scenes and stories, the components of a chapter, and narrative throughlines in book-length work. 

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.

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