Class Catalog

Instructor: Evan Ramzipoor. Learn to write natural conversations that advance the plot and give us insight into your characters. We’ll read master works and write a short, dialogue-intensive scene in class. 

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: Teré Fowler-Chapman. Engage with your inner child through creative writing and personal storytelling. We'll read and write toward healing and emerge with tools that will help us foster lifelong grace and a more profound sense of self.

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: Monika Sengul-Jones. Looking to exercise your writerly muscle? Push yourself to the limit in this fun, high-intensity, fiction generator class. 

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: Nicole Hardy. Every writer of memoir stresses out about the gaps in their memories; we’ll see how authors handle this problem in their work and apply the techniques to our works-in-progress.

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.

Instructor: Jeanine Walker. Learn the art of performing poetry aloud in this one-day craft-focused class. We'll study readings by contemporary poets and hone our ears for sound and rhythm. This class includes an invitation to read at a class reading.

Instructor: Nicole Hardy. We’ll study seamless narrative flashbacks and use them as guides to writing our own. We’ll talk about the purpose of flashbacks: how, when, where, and why delving into the past can move a story.

Instructor: Ingrid Ricks. Gain the tools you need to structure, outline and bring your memoir to life. This class includes a 30-minute individual coaching session with the instructor. 

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

Instructor: Nicole Hardy. We’ll read examples from a range of memoirs as we figure out what needs to be in scene versus summary, how to create vivid scenes that don’t bog down, and how to weave in essential backstory.  

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.