Class Catalog

Instructor: Margot Leitman. Students will learn to dig inside their own lives to find humorous and relatable material that unifies an audience, with additional focus on getting through the fear of being judged for candor.

Instructor: Deborah Woodard. Visiting local museums, we'll write poems and/or short prose in response to the art we observe, with weekly prompts, class read-arounds, and instructor feedback.

Instructor: Grace Bialecki. Through close readings and sharing their work aloud, students will practice hearing dialogue and identifying techniques to keep their writing emotive and original.

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: Jodie Hollander. For anyone interested in the transformative and healing power of poetry, we'll read, examine, and write effective and powerful poetry addressing grief and pain.

Instructor: Kimberly Lee. For beginner and seasoned writers alike, this generative workshop will serve as a safe haven for exploration and self-expression with engaging prompts designed to awaken your imagination.

Instructor: Andrew Zawacki. Dive into the work of radical midcentury Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, widely recognized for the volatile strangeness of her writing, which pushes language, genre, sexuality, and the experience of self to their limits.

Instructor: Cara Stoddard. Students will generate and share their own nonfiction that spotlights the uniquely queer aspects of familial intimacy.

Instructor: Jennifer Haupt. Students will workshop the first ten pages of their book, learning to balance backstory, present action, and foreshadowing.

Instructor: Anastacia-Reneé. This generative class will explore the work of poets from Furious Flower, the nation’s first academic center for Black poetry, engaging with each poet’s voice, interrogating format and structure, and much more.

Instructor: Rachel Sobel. This course will introduce students to the craft of fiction and the basics of the workshop model.

Instructor: Tina Tocco. This class is geared towards writing for ages 8–12 and offers opportunity for writers to workshop, analyze published work, delve into the revision process, and participate in in-class writing.

Instructor: Anastacia-Reneé. This generative class will explore the work of poets from Furious Flower, the nation's first academic center for Black poetry, engaging with each poet's voice, interrogating format and structure, and much more.

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.