Class Catalog

Instructor: Ramon Isao. The short story remains arguably the best medium through which a fiction writer hones their craft, and in this class that's exactly our aim. Read, write, discuss, and critique short fiction with equal parts rigor and vigor.

Instructor: Shankar Narayan. This part-generative, part-analytical course will survey the breadth and reach of South Asian poetry by examining its various forms and movements over the centuries—from ancient Sanskrit religious texts to Urdu political resistance poetry.

Instructor: Nicole Hardy. Focusing on structure, narrative voice, and scene, students will draft, workshop, and revise first person essays. Participants will receive one-on-one editorial advice and leave with a polished essay.

Instructor: Beth Slattery. Using generative writing, reading, and an introduction to the workshop model, we will investigate our own personal stories, exploring craft elements such as points of view, scene, reflection, and form. 

Instructor: Dilruba Ahmed. This extended workshop will focus on various poetic forms with specific craft constraints and/or thematic traditions.

Instructor: Gail Folkins. This generative class explores the expressive, informative, and versatile writing styles of creative nonfiction, with discussion, extensive feedback, and more.

Instructor: Naa Akua. This generative workshop will build on the foundation of Poetry I, with close readings and discussions of work by Audre Lorde, Chen Chen, Andrea Gibson, and more.

Instructor: Jeanine Walker. This introductory course provides a foundation for writing new poems, exploring craft elements such as image, metaphor, form, sound, and more.

Instructor: Carolyn Abram. In this revision-focused course, we'll work on fleshing out and finalizing stories that had previously fizzled out.

Instructor: Katherine Standefer. In this nonfiction class, we'll explore the craft of writing about death, noticing the narrative structures and syntax that effectively hold brutal experiences.

Instructor: Bill Carty. The class will mix workshop (in large and small groups), in-class exercises, weekly take-home prompts, and a discussion of contemporary poems and craft concerns.

Instructor: Joyce Chen. Explore the complexities of transforming grief into affecting art by studying writing that utilizes time, form, and memory.

Instructor: Alma Garćia. Explore the basic craft elements of fiction writing with in-class writing, discussions, readings, and workshopping in a supportive environment.

Instructor: Kascha Semonovitch. This course explores definitions of beauty, theories from feminist and post-colonial perspectives, examining beauty's relationship to literature.

Instructor: Courtenay Hameister. This workshop explores the relationship between humor and sadness, anger, shame, and other vulnerable truths.

Instructor: Marguerite Harrold. In this course we will practice writing persona poems—poems that offer us a chance to experience empathy in new and meaningful ways while recreating our own stories.

Instructor: Taneum Bambrick. This generative course will study poems that enact care, joy, and/or humor while exploring intimacy and the intimate self, focusing on themes of love and relation.

Instructor: Anna Vodicka. Explore the ranges of short-form nonfiction, learn how restraint and constraint can enhance the power of prose, and practice the art of economy in your own micro essays inspired by readings and prompts.

Instructor: Sierra Nelson. Drawing inspiration from scientific, esoteric, and mythological moons, this course takes students through generating, workshopping, and compiling moon-themed chapbooks.

Instructor: Becca Yenser. This generative class explores the flash as a form, specifically examining five elements of flash, with discussion, peer review, and more.

Instructor: Liza Birnbaum. This class will spend eight weeks with the first volume of Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time, close-reading for craft, with discussions and weekly prompts.

Instructor: Scott Driscoll. Explore narrative distance, voice, and psychic distance with readings from Olive Kitteridge and The Best American Short Stories 2022 and in-class exercises.

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

Instructor: Peter Mountford. This workshop is designed to support students complete publication-ready work for fiction writers of any genre, with peer review, craft lectures, and more.