Class Catalog

Instructor: Camellia Freeman. Open portals to the past, and play with time, space, memory, myth, and imagination to unearth stories waiting to be told. 

Instructor: Rachel Attias. Some stories can’t be told in just a few thousand words. Learn how to expand your ideas into long, layered short fiction in this generative, craft-focused workshop.

Instructor: Holly Day. Overcome your fear of the blank page in this generative short fiction workshop. Throw perfection to the wayside, embrace the creative process, and emerge with a solid short story draft.

Instructor: Maggie Mertens. Love to nerd out over cool facts and obscure topics? Bring your research topics to life through vivid, engaging, and narratively rich prose.  

Instructor: Shankar Narayan. Step into this millennium-long poetic conversation and create your own work inspired by one of the world’s most lyrical literary traditions.

Instructor: Gabriela Denise Frank. Push the boundaries of your creative limits using the power of constraints! Through hands-on experimentation, we’ll spark unexpected, brilliant ideas and emerge with wild, weird and wonderful writing starts. 

Instructor: Gail Folkins. Every place has a story. Explore the intersection of personal narrative, research, and nature writing in this place-based nonfiction workshop.

Instructor: Theo Nestor. Explore the fundamentals of story structure and do activities designed to help you find the shape of your memoir in this two-hour generative craft class.

Instructor: Nat Smith. Theater doesn’t have to play by the rules. Break free from realism and write weird, wildly original plays in this generative, craft-focused course.

Instructor: Marci Cancio-Bello. Explore poetry’s role in witnessing, processing, and reshaping haunting material in this one-day generative class.

Instructor: Elise McHugh. Mystified by the world of publishing? Learn the publishing options available to you & your manuscript in this three-week publishing intensive. Walk away with a plan to take your manuscript from submission to book deal.

Instructor: Grace Bialecki. Stop overthinking and start submitting! Get the tools, structure, and support to finally send your work out into the world.

Instructor: Ramon Isao. Crazy times call for crazy stories. Enter a supportive space for like-minded lunatics to study writing that relies less upon the usual molecules of story: plot, character, interiority, and even syntax.  

Instructor: Carolyn Abram. You wrote a novel—now let’s make it shine. This hands-on revision workshop will help you to tackle your next draft with clarity and confidence.

Instructor: Naa Akua. Love is a practice. Through meditation, writing, and discussion, we’ll explore how to bring more love—of self and others—into our creative lives.

Instructor: Ruth Joffre. A single moment can hold an entire world. Learn the art of flash fiction and leave with three new stories in this fast-paced, generative class. 

Instructor: Ann Hedreen. Memoir characters should feel as real on the page as they do in life. Learn how to craft vivid, unforgettable people in this character crash course.

Instructor: Tina Tocco. Take the guesswork out of submissions! Learn how to research and submit your short work to literary journals and magazines with confidence. 

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: Beth Slattery. Turn fear into fuel and fill the blank page—this class helps writers push past doubt, build confidence, and generate 25 pages toward their project.

Instructor: Susan Nguyen. From joy to rage, grief to desire—AAPI writers are telling powerful stories. Join us to read, discuss, and create writing that resists and reclaims.

Instructor: Kimberly Lee. Explore the seven principles of sleight of hand, then apply it to your writing! Perfect for new writers wanting to subvert, surprise, and delight their readers, and for writers looking to make writing feel like magic again. 

Instructor: Deborah Woodard. Let art be your muse as you write poetry and prose in response to exhibits across the city.

Instructor: Danielle Hayden. Break into freelance writing with confidence—learn how to craft pitches, connect with editors, and get your work published in newspapers, magazines, and online.