Class Catalog

Instructor: Shankar Narayan. Dive deep into the philosophies and practicalities of line breaks and empty space in this three-week craft intensive. Deconstruct conventional wisdom and imagine new possibilities for line breaks and space in your poetry.

Instructor: Kimberly Lee. In this generative writing class, we’ll engage with lost and unusual words, using them to take our writing in new and unexpected directions. Leave with several writing starts and fresh approaches to your creative projects.

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

Instructor: Christie Valentin-Bati. We'll focus on ideas of selfhood: how others see us, how we see ourselves, how we construct or lose ourselves. Featuring: Clarice Lispector, Virginia Woolf, Jamaica Kincaid. 

Instructor: Beth Slattery. Learn to navigate your flavor of procrastination. We’ll learn the whys behind procrastination, write together, and practice strategies to stay on track. Leave with a completed draft of a project you’ve been avoiding. 

Instructor: Mayur Chauhan. Push past the same old, stretch your creative muscles, and get back to the best part of writing: pure play. Experiment with a variety of genres and forms and leave with several drafts of fresh, playful writing.

Instructor: Quetzalli Writes. Does technology excite you? Curious about technical writing? Learn to research, develop, edit, and collaborate on various types of software documentation in this 10-week class. Leave with a portfolio of work.  

Instructor: Joel Heng Hartse. Love a band or artist so much you’ve gotta write about it? Learn various genres of music writing, from album reviews to profiles and thinkpieces. We’ll end the course with a zine-style publication we make together. 

Instructor: Andrew Bell. What can film teach us about writing? Each week we'll read a script, then come together to watch the film and have a lively discussion. We'll look at what makes our favorite films special, and set aside time to share work of our own. 

Instructor: Elise Hooper. Kick off the new year by jumpstarting that novel you’ve always wanted to write. Perfect for writers looking for accountability, encouragement, and dedicated time to be creative.  

Instructor: Darien Gee. Embark on an A-Z journey exploring memory and observation. We'll write about everyday moments, people, places, and things to create a chapbook that illuminates the extraordinary in our lives.

Instructor: Cara Stoddard. Got a life story burning a hole in your brain pocket? Generate (or polish) the first 80-100 pages of your memoir manuscript in this all-levels memoir course. 

Instructor: Steve Almond. Why do some characters leap off the page while others just sit there, collecting dust? Study the character works of masters like Joyce Carol Oates, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison and learn to make your own characters POP! 

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

Instructor: Alma Garcia. Read widely, write lots, and deepen your fiction-writing skills in this intermediate writing workshop. Leave class with a draft of a scene or full story and an understanding of fundamental storytelling. 

Instructor: Rachel Sobel. Struggling to write? Learn to plan and finish projects, cultivate a regular writing habit, and improve your writing in a way that works for you! Leave with a sustainable weekly writing practice and tools to get unstuck. 

Instructor: Samantha Ladwig. Learn to excavate the tension & emotion from your real-life experiences to weave a story that resonates with readers. Leave with the nuts and bolts of a first draft and tools for taking it to finished product.

Instructor: Deborah Woodard. Confront the grotesque and bizarre preoccupations found in our everyday lives. We’ll study the work of Franz Kafka and Rachel Karyo, then find new ways to explore the weird and uncanny in our own writing.

Instructor: Meghan Lamb. Explore bodily interventions—including often-taboo subjects of sex, aging, illness, bodily change, and bodily difference—through reading, discussion, and generative writing. 

Instructor: Nisi Shawl. Learn the art of word-smithing—how we can use names and creative grammar to introduce readers to our invented worlds. We’ll learn various strategies for inventing language and develop semantics for our own spec fic worlds. 

Instructor: Beth Slattery. Find the true heart of your story and decide the best way to tell it in this eight-week workshop. Through reading, workshop, and discussion, we’ll explore techniques to find your personal style and strengthen your writing. 

Instructor: Peter Mountford. Level up your fiction writing this new year! Designed for writers ready to deepen their craft, we’ll cover advanced writing techniques, like POV, narrative distance, scene construction, dialogue, and more.

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: Carolyn Abram. Come one, come all! This workshop is a haven for writers whose work doesn’t fit neatly into “traditional” literary molds. Get feedback on your strangest, most surreal stories in this supportive workshop environment.