• On-demand offerings? No. Our daily prompts, deadlines calendar, live streams, recordings of events, and other on-demand resources, are available whenever it works for you. No need to register to take advantage of them. 
• Free online events? Yes. When you register for our free online offerings, like our Wilder Words Readings, Student Open Mic readings and panel discussions, it helps us anticipate attendance and adjust our bandwidth needs accordingly. It also enables us to send you a link to a recording of the event afterwards, just in case you weren’t able to attend the event.
• Paid offerings? Yes. You have to register and pay for our paid offerings, like our educational workshops and classes, and Creative Community offerings, in order to secure your spot.

• For our free events, no. You can register anytime right up to the beginning of the event.
• For our paid events, yes. You have to register by midnight the day before an educational offering or other paid offering begins. 

The feedback we received most in preparing for the online re-boot was that our online workshops were too expensive. We listened to your input and have created a tiered pricing system that provides price points for most budgets. For more detail, please visit our catalog. If our paid offerings are still too expensive for you, we invite you to apply for a scholarship.

Yes, in addition to the cost of tuition, there is an additional $25 registration fee for all paid educational offerings. There is no registration fee added to the Creative Community events or any of our free events.

Flexible payment plans are available to every student. To use our payment plan option, please proceed with registration as usual and select “Payment Plan” on the second page of our registration form when asked about your Payment Method. You will then be prompted to select payment dates and payment amounts in the fields that appear. Please plan for your tuition to be paid in full three days before the start of your workshop.

Since we are now offering a tiered pricing system, we won’t typically offer discounts on a regular basis. But be sure to sign up for our newsletter to learn about occasional discounts. 

• Yes! We offer scholarships, many of which are co-sponsored by notable writing organizations like Cave Canem, the Institute for American Indian Arts, Kundiman, Lambda Literary, Zoeglossia and others. Our scholarship program is consistently growing. Check our scholarship page for more details and new developments.

Payment is fully refundable more than 14 days prior to the paid educational offering start date. Registrations canceled less than 14 days prior to the start date cannot be refunded, although students may request a transfer to another workshop in the same session.

Yes. You may use your workshop/class payment receipt (received via email) as proof of registration.