FAWC Online Past Offerings
Kevin McLellan
Writing Accountability Group (WAG) – January 2026
January 6 to January 27, 2026
Tuition: $0
Tuesdays, January 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th at 5pm to 6pm (Eastern) Are you looking for a supportive community to encourage you–while you encourage them–to write more
Writing Accountability Group (WAG) – January 2026
January 6 to January 27, 2026
Tuition: $0
Tuesdays, January 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th at 5pm to 6pm (Eastern) Are you looking for a supportive community to encourage you–while you encourage them–to write more
Laura Cresté
Writing Accountability Group (WAG) – December 2025
December 2 to December 23, 2025
Tuition: $0
December 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd at 5pm to 6pm (Eastern) Are you looking for a supportive community to encourage you–while you encourage them–to write more, more
Writing Accountability Group (WAG) – December 2025
December 2 to December 23, 2025
Tuition: $0
December 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd at 5pm to 6pm (Eastern) Are you looking for a supportive community to encourage you–while you encourage them–to write more, more
Laura Cresté
Writing Accountability Group (WAG) – November 2025
November 4 to November 25, 2025
Tuition: $0
Tuesdays on November 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th at 5pm to 6pm (Eastern) Are you looking for a supportive community to encourage you–while you encourage more
Writing Accountability Group (WAG) – November 2025
November 4 to November 25, 2025
Tuition: $0
Tuesdays on November 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th at 5pm to 6pm (Eastern) Are you looking for a supportive community to encourage you–while you encourage more
Laura Cresté
Writing Accountability Group (WAG) – October 2025
October 1 to October 29, 2025
Tuition: $0
October 1st, 8th, 22nd, and 29th at 5pm to 6pm (Eastern) Are you looking for a supportive community to encourage you–while you encourage them–to write more
Writing Accountability Group (WAG) – October 2025
October 1 to October 29, 2025
Tuition: $0
October 1st, 8th, 22nd, and 29th at 5pm to 6pm (Eastern) Are you looking for a supportive community to encourage you–while you encourage them–to write more
Vanessa Hua
Art & Activism
November 3 to November 7, 2025
Tuition: $0
November 3rd-7th at 7pm-9pm (Eastern) Stories can inspire a change in thinking, and a change in action—illuminating issues and opening the way for more people more
Art & Activism
November 3 to November 7, 2025
Tuition: $0
November 3rd-7th at 7pm-9pm (Eastern) Stories can inspire a change in thinking, and a change in action—illuminating issues and opening the way for more people more
Bushra Rehman
Two Truths & a Lie: Writing Memoir & Autobiographical Fiction - in partnership with Kundiman
December 6 to December 7, 2025
Tuition: $0
December 6th & 7th at 11am-2pm (Eastern) Writing from life can be a tricky business. There are people to protect, faulty memories of events, and more
Two Truths & a Lie: Writing Memoir & Autobiographical Fiction - in partnership with Kundiman
December 6 to December 7, 2025
Tuition: $0
December 6th & 7th at 11am-2pm (Eastern) Writing from life can be a tricky business. There are people to protect, faulty memories of events, and more
Laura Shabott
Ninth Street Women: a Generative Experience
October 5 to October 5, 2025
Tuition: $0
Sunday, October 5th at 10am-12pm (Eastern) For this two hour art-making create-a-thon, you will select an artist from Mary Gabriel’s Ninth Street Women book to more
Ninth Street Women: a Generative Experience
October 5 to October 5, 2025
Tuition: $0
Sunday, October 5th at 10am-12pm (Eastern) For this two hour art-making create-a-thon, you will select an artist from Mary Gabriel’s Ninth Street Women book to more
Pete Hocking
Q&A for Painting Life/Painting Your Life in 9 Months
September 4 to September 4, 2025
Tuition: $0
Thursday, September 4th at 6pm (Eastern). Join us for a Q&A with Pete Hocking about his upcoming offering Painting Life/Painting Your Life in 9 Months. more
Q&A for Painting Life/Painting Your Life in 9 Months
September 4 to September 4, 2025
Tuition: $0
Thursday, September 4th at 6pm (Eastern). Join us for a Q&A with Pete Hocking about his upcoming offering Painting Life/Painting Your Life in 9 Months. more
Pete Hocking
Painting Life/Painting Your Life in 9 Months
October 14 to June 16, 2026
Tuition: $0
There are 10 openings for this 9 month workshop. And, there is NO application process. Just click the RESERVE MY SPOT button to register. This workshop more
Painting Life/Painting Your Life in 9 Months
October 14 to June 16, 2026
Tuition: $0
There are 10 openings for this 9 month workshop. And, there is NO application process. Just click the RESERVE MY SPOT button to register. This workshop more
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
"Miss You. Would Like to _______ with you." Composting Missing & Memory into Generative Practice
December 13 to December 14, 2025
Tuition: $0
December 13th & 14th at 12pm-3pm (Eastern) What a difficult beautiful pleasure it can be to make missing a practice. I miss my grandmother, my more
"Miss You. Would Like to _______ with you." Composting Missing & Memory into Generative Practice
December 13 to December 14, 2025
Tuition: $0
December 13th & 14th at 12pm-3pm (Eastern) What a difficult beautiful pleasure it can be to make missing a practice. I miss my grandmother, my more
Tim Green & Katie Dozier
How to Haibun: Writing in Leaps with Bounds
October 11 to October 12, 2025
Tuition: $0
October 11th & 12th at 2pm-5pm (Eastern) Dating back to Basho in 17th-century Japan, haibun uses haiku to make prose leap off the page. In more
How to Haibun: Writing in Leaps with Bounds
October 11 to October 12, 2025
Tuition: $0
October 11th & 12th at 2pm-5pm (Eastern) Dating back to Basho in 17th-century Japan, haibun uses haiku to make prose leap off the page. In more
Lena Wolff
Color Studies: Developing Palettes
September 27 to November 8, 2025
Tuition: $0
Saturdays at 1pm-3pm (Eastern) on Sept 27th, Oct 11th, Oct 25th, and Nov 8th This workshop was designed for anyone interested in taking their color more
Color Studies: Developing Palettes
September 27 to November 8, 2025
Tuition: $0
Saturdays at 1pm-3pm (Eastern) on Sept 27th, Oct 11th, Oct 25th, and Nov 8th This workshop was designed for anyone interested in taking their color more
Marie Howe & Pádraig Ó Tuama
On Prayer - Marie Howe & Pádraig Ó Tuama in Conversation - a FAWC Scholarship Fundraiser
September 14 to September 14, 2025
Tuition: $0
Sunday, September 14th at 4pm (Eastern Standard Time) Rumi wrote, “Prayer is an egg./ Hatch out the total helplessness inside.” Great friends and poets Marie more
On Prayer - Marie Howe & Pádraig Ó Tuama in Conversation - a FAWC Scholarship Fundraiser
September 14 to September 14, 2025
Tuition: $0
Sunday, September 14th at 4pm (Eastern Standard Time) Rumi wrote, “Prayer is an egg./ Hatch out the total helplessness inside.” Great friends and poets Marie more
Annell López
The Short Story: Generative Writing & Craft Intensive
September 2 to September 23, 2025
Tuition: $0
Tuesdays from 7pm-9pm (Eastern) on September 2nd, 9th, 16th, and 23rd. Through a combination of generative exercises, readings, discussions, and workshop, we will explore the more
The Short Story: Generative Writing & Craft Intensive
September 2 to September 23, 2025
Tuition: $0
Tuesdays from 7pm-9pm (Eastern) on September 2nd, 9th, 16th, and 23rd. Through a combination of generative exercises, readings, discussions, and workshop, we will explore the more
Susanna Sonnenberg
Groundwork: The First Draft of Your Memoir in 9 Months
September 10 to May 29, 2026
Tuition: $0
APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED for this offering. This is an immersive class that asks you to make a contract with yourself, your fellow writers, and your more
Groundwork: The First Draft of Your Memoir in 9 Months
September 10 to May 29, 2026
Tuition: $0
APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED for this offering. This is an immersive class that asks you to make a contract with yourself, your fellow writers, and your more
Angela Cappetta
Finding Your Edge: the Art of the Photo Project
August 23 to August 24, 2025
Tuition: $0
9am-12pm (Eastern) on August 23rd and 24th. Do you need help with portfolio development or refining an ongoing project? “Finding Your Edge” will offer great more
Finding Your Edge: the Art of the Photo Project
August 23 to August 24, 2025
Tuition: $0
9am-12pm (Eastern) on August 23rd and 24th. Do you need help with portfolio development or refining an ongoing project? “Finding Your Edge” will offer great more
Laura Shabott
Ninth Street Women: a Seminar
September 6 to September 27, 2025
Tuition: $0
Saturdays from 10am-11am (Eastern) on September 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th. Mary Gabriel’s esteemed book Ninth Street Women is the inspiration and source material for more
Ninth Street Women: a Seminar
September 6 to September 27, 2025
Tuition: $0
Saturdays from 10am-11am (Eastern) on September 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th. Mary Gabriel’s esteemed book Ninth Street Women is the inspiration and source material for more
Tim Green & Katie Dozier
Harnessing the Future: How to Publish in the 21st Century & Beyond
August 27 to August 27, 2025
Tuition: $0
Wednesday, August 27th from 6pm-8pm (Eastern). The world is changing more rapidly than ever, and the economic realities of literature seem increasingly bleak—but big changes more
Harnessing the Future: How to Publish in the 21st Century & Beyond
August 27 to August 27, 2025
Tuition: $0
Wednesday, August 27th from 6pm-8pm (Eastern). The world is changing more rapidly than ever, and the economic realities of literature seem increasingly bleak—but big changes more
Jenny Xie
Unique & Imitable: On Poetic Style
August 25 to August 29, 2025
Tuition: $0
August 25th-29th from 11am-1pm (Eastern). “Style keeps things going and keeps them from falling apart,” proposes Jeff Dolven in Senses of Style. In what ways more
Unique & Imitable: On Poetic Style
August 25 to August 29, 2025
Tuition: $0
August 25th-29th from 11am-1pm (Eastern). “Style keeps things going and keeps them from falling apart,” proposes Jeff Dolven in Senses of Style. In what ways more
Jen Levitt
The Good Thief: Writing Poems Inspired by Marie Howe’s Lyric Narratives
October 7 to October 28, 2025
Tuition: $0
Tuesdays from 7pm-9pm (Eastern) on October 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th. Marie Howe’s New and Selected Poems won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize—let’s read it together! more
The Good Thief: Writing Poems Inspired by Marie Howe’s Lyric Narratives
October 7 to October 28, 2025
Tuition: $0
Tuesdays from 7pm-9pm (Eastern) on October 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th. Marie Howe’s New and Selected Poems won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize—let’s read it together! more
Laura Cresté
Writing Accountability Group (WAG) - September 2025
September 3 to September 24, 2025
Tuition: $0
Wednesdays from 5pm-6pm (Eastern) on September 3rd, 10th, 17th, and 24th. Are you looking for a supportive community to encourage you–while you encourage them–to write more
Writing Accountability Group (WAG) - September 2025
September 3 to September 24, 2025
Tuition: $0
Wednesdays from 5pm-6pm (Eastern) on September 3rd, 10th, 17th, and 24th. Are you looking for a supportive community to encourage you–while you encourage them–to write more
Laura Cresté
Writing Accountability Group (WAG) - August 2025
August 6 to August 27, 2025
Tuition: $0
Wednesdays from 5pm-6pm (Eastern) on August 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th. Are you looking for a supportive community to encourage you–while you encourage them–to write more
Writing Accountability Group (WAG) - August 2025
August 6 to August 27, 2025
Tuition: $0
Wednesdays from 5pm-6pm (Eastern) on August 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th. Are you looking for a supportive community to encourage you–while you encourage them–to write more
Valerie Acosta-Gonzalez
Gel Printed Journals & Mindful Journaling - a Mission Belonging Workshop
August 4 to August 25, 2025
Tuition: $0
Mondays from 5pm-6pm (Eastern) on August 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th. In this 4-week workshop we will learn different gel printing techniques such as layering more
Gel Printed Journals & Mindful Journaling - a Mission Belonging Workshop
August 4 to August 25, 2025
Tuition: $0
Mondays from 5pm-6pm (Eastern) on August 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th. In this 4-week workshop we will learn different gel printing techniques such as layering more
Valerie Acosta-Gonzalez
Make Your Own Gel Printed Journal - a Mission Belonging Workshop
July 29 to July 29, 2025
Tuition: $0
Tuesday, July 29th from 6pm-8pm (Eastern). Join me for an introductory workshop on basic gel printing and binding techniques to make simple journals. We will more
Make Your Own Gel Printed Journal - a Mission Belonging Workshop
July 29 to July 29, 2025
Tuition: $0
Tuesday, July 29th from 6pm-8pm (Eastern). Join me for an introductory workshop on basic gel printing and binding techniques to make simple journals. We will more
M.P. Carver
Cut, Shape, Shine: a Summer Program Extension Workshop
August 23 to September 13, 2025
Tuition: $0
Saturdays from 10am-12pm (Eastern) on Aug 23rd and 30th, Sept 6th and 13th. Whether you are looking for big picture feedback or line edits, this more
Cut, Shape, Shine: a Summer Program Extension Workshop
August 23 to September 13, 2025
Tuition: $0
Saturdays from 10am-12pm (Eastern) on Aug 23rd and 30th, Sept 6th and 13th. Whether you are looking for big picture feedback or line edits, this more
Susanna Sonnenberg
Q&A for Groundwork: The First Draft of Your Memoir in 9 Months
July 10 to July 10, 2025
Tuition: $0
Thursday, July 10th at 6pm (Eastern). Join us for a Q&A with Susanna Sonnenberg about her upcoming offering Groundwork: The First Draft of Your Memoir more
Q&A for Groundwork: The First Draft of Your Memoir in 9 Months
July 10 to July 10, 2025
Tuition: $0
Thursday, July 10th at 6pm (Eastern). Join us for a Q&A with Susanna Sonnenberg about her upcoming offering Groundwork: The First Draft of Your Memoir more
Pete Hocking
Painting Between Place & Memory: a Summer Program Extension Workshop
July 7 to August 31, 2025
Tuition: $0
Mondays from 7-9pm (Eastern) on July 7th and 21st, August 4th and 18th. A continuation of the June 2025 workshop at FAWC, these sessions will more
Painting Between Place & Memory: a Summer Program Extension Workshop
July 7 to August 31, 2025
Tuition: $0
Mondays from 7-9pm (Eastern) on July 7th and 21st, August 4th and 18th. A continuation of the June 2025 workshop at FAWC, these sessions will more
Elissa Altman
Do I Have the Right to Tell My Story? — LIVE
April 26 to April 26, 2025
Tuition: $225
LIVE via ZOOM: 12-3pm (Eastern) on April 26th — Does fear of public or private response to your story hobble your ability to write it more
Do I Have the Right to Tell My Story? — LIVE
April 26 to April 26, 2025
Tuition: $225
LIVE via ZOOM: 12-3pm (Eastern) on April 26th — Does fear of public or private response to your story hobble your ability to write it more
Susanna Sonnenberg
Where to Begin: How to Start Your Memoir
February 3 to February 28, 2025
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS It’s so confusing: in the vast experience of a life lie the compelling themes of narrative and story, but how to choose? How to more
Where to Begin: How to Start Your Memoir
February 3 to February 28, 2025
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS It’s so confusing: in the vast experience of a life lie the compelling themes of narrative and story, but how to choose? How to more
Kristina Marie Darling
The Fine Art of Book Publicity - LIVE
March 17 to March 21, 2025
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 11am-1pm (Eastern Time) Kristina Marie Darling, editor-in-cheif of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly, will walk students through the basics of book publicity more
The Fine Art of Book Publicity - LIVE
March 17 to March 21, 2025
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 11am-1pm (Eastern Time) Kristina Marie Darling, editor-in-cheif of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly, will walk students through the basics of book publicity more
Ruben Quesada
Writing Through the Silence: Reclaiming Your Voice After a Creative Block
March 3 to March 7, 2025
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) Creative lulls can be frustrating, but they are also opportunities for reinvention. This course is designed for writers emerging from more
Writing Through the Silence: Reclaiming Your Voice After a Creative Block
March 3 to March 7, 2025
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) Creative lulls can be frustrating, but they are also opportunities for reinvention. This course is designed for writers emerging from more
Melissa Febos
The Art of Navel Gazing: a Generative Seminar — LIVE
March 15 to March 15, 2025
Tuition: $150
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) — Do you suspect the most urgent story you have to tell is your own, but fear that writing a more
The Art of Navel Gazing: a Generative Seminar — LIVE
March 15 to March 15, 2025
Tuition: $150
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) — Do you suspect the most urgent story you have to tell is your own, but fear that writing a more
Carl Phillips
Pattern & Surprise: a Generative Workshop - LIVE
February 24 to February 28, 2025
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 12pm-2pm (Eastern Time) For this workshop, we will look at poems that I’ll provide and use them as models for how poems more
Pattern & Surprise: a Generative Workshop - LIVE
February 24 to February 28, 2025
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 12pm-2pm (Eastern Time) For this workshop, we will look at poems that I’ll provide and use them as models for how poems more
Dorianne Laux
Finger Exercises for Poets: the Discrete Line – LIVE
February 24 to February 28, 2025
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) The will of the line, the carefulness of it, the pleasure, the choices and options, the decision. The separate-ness of more
Finger Exercises for Poets: the Discrete Line – LIVE
February 24 to February 28, 2025
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) The will of the line, the carefulness of it, the pleasure, the choices and options, the decision. The separate-ness of more
Jess T. Dugan
Professional Practices for Visual Artists: Building & Sustaining a Career — LIVE
February 15 to February 15, 2025
Tuition: $225
LIVE via ZOOM: 12-3pm (Eastern) on February 15th — Being an artist requires not only producing compelling work, but also possessing the professional skills necessary more
Professional Practices for Visual Artists: Building & Sustaining a Career — LIVE
February 15 to February 15, 2025
Tuition: $225
LIVE via ZOOM: 12-3pm (Eastern) on February 15th — Being an artist requires not only producing compelling work, but also possessing the professional skills necessary more
Didi Jackson
How to Write a Great Love Poem - LIVE
February 10 to February 14, 2025
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 5pm-7pm (Eastern) If love is one of the most important subjects a poet could write about, then why is it so hard more
How to Write a Great Love Poem - LIVE
February 10 to February 14, 2025
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 5pm-7pm (Eastern) If love is one of the most important subjects a poet could write about, then why is it so hard more
Joan Kwon Glass
Basement Hymns: Writing Unexpected Poems of Praise - LIVE
February 17 to February 21, 2025
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) How can bold or surprising images and language serve as tools for writing unexpected, unforgettable poems? How might we flip more
Basement Hymns: Writing Unexpected Poems of Praise - LIVE
February 17 to February 21, 2025
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) How can bold or surprising images and language serve as tools for writing unexpected, unforgettable poems? How might we flip more
Kelle Groom
Obsession, Memory, & Image: a Memoir Workshop - LIVE
February 3 to February 7, 2025
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern Time) Nathalie Sarraute said, “Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.” Of course this is the goal of memoir as more
Obsession, Memory, & Image: a Memoir Workshop - LIVE
February 3 to February 7, 2025
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern Time) Nathalie Sarraute said, “Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.” Of course this is the goal of memoir as more
Ann Hood
Kick Start Your Novel: How to Begin the Story You Want to Tell - LIVE
January 27 to January 31, 2025
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) In this 5 day Zoom workshop, we will discuss strategies for getting your novel started and how best to begin more
Kick Start Your Novel: How to Begin the Story You Want to Tell - LIVE
January 27 to January 31, 2025
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) In this 5 day Zoom workshop, we will discuss strategies for getting your novel started and how best to begin more
Andrea Lawlor
Sprint Workshop with Andrea Lawlor - LIVE
October 20 to October 20, 2024
Tuition: $150
Utopian Writing: a Generative Seminar — LIVE via ZOOM: 12-2pm (Eastern) on October 20th — How do we bring creativity to our political imagination and more
Sprint Workshop with Andrea Lawlor - LIVE
October 20 to October 20, 2024
Tuition: $150
Utopian Writing: a Generative Seminar — LIVE via ZOOM: 12-2pm (Eastern) on October 20th — How do we bring creativity to our political imagination and more
Stephen Kuusisto
The Art of Listening: a Generative Workshop - LIVE
October 21 to October 25, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) Join blind poet and memoirist Stephen Kuusisto as he talks about what it means to be a “literary listener.” Kuusisto more
The Art of Listening: a Generative Workshop - LIVE
October 21 to October 25, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) Join blind poet and memoirist Stephen Kuusisto as he talks about what it means to be a “literary listener.” Kuusisto more
Jennifer L. Knox
Intersections of Comedy & Poetry - LIVE
October 21 to October 25, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) Laughter is a powerful social response that transforms ME feelings into WE experiences. It motivates humans (and even animals) to more
Intersections of Comedy & Poetry - LIVE
October 21 to October 25, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) Laughter is a powerful social response that transforms ME feelings into WE experiences. It motivates humans (and even animals) to more
Tyler Mills
Radical Revision: Preparing Poems for Publication
November 18 to December 13, 2024
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS So you have a draft. What now? This class is geared to helping you rip open the seams of your more
Radical Revision: Preparing Poems for Publication
November 18 to December 13, 2024
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS So you have a draft. What now? This class is geared to helping you rip open the seams of your more
Kelle Groom
Obsession, Memory, & Image: a Memoir Workshop - LIVE
October 7 to October 11, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern Time) Nathalie Sarraute said, “Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.” Of course this is the goal of memoir as more
Obsession, Memory, & Image: a Memoir Workshop - LIVE
October 7 to October 11, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern Time) Nathalie Sarraute said, “Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.” Of course this is the goal of memoir as more
Jennifer Franklin
The American Sonnet: Writing Small Poems That Pack a Big Punch - LIVE
November 18 to November 22, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 3pm-5pm (Eastern Time) In this class, we will read, study, and discuss the craft elements of American sonnets—less structured, more musical, and more
The American Sonnet: Writing Small Poems That Pack a Big Punch - LIVE
November 18 to November 22, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 3pm-5pm (Eastern Time) In this class, we will read, study, and discuss the craft elements of American sonnets—less structured, more musical, and more
Emily Nemens
Revising Yourself & Others - LIVE
December 9 to December 13, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6:30pm-8:30pm (Eastern Time) We’ll look at strategies for revising prose beyond the workshop, managing different kinds of self-editing with an eye toward more
Revising Yourself & Others - LIVE
December 9 to December 13, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6:30pm-8:30pm (Eastern Time) We’ll look at strategies for revising prose beyond the workshop, managing different kinds of self-editing with an eye toward more
Martha Collins
Beyond I Love You: Sentence & Line - LIVE
December 2 to December 6, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 4pm-6pm (Eastern Time) Through the reading of published poems and daily writing prompts, this workshop will explore syntactic strategies for getting beyond more
Beyond I Love You: Sentence & Line - LIVE
December 2 to December 6, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 4pm-6pm (Eastern Time) Through the reading of published poems and daily writing prompts, this workshop will explore syntactic strategies for getting beyond more
Airea D. Matthews
The Visual Poem - LIVE
October 28 to November 1, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 10am-12pm (Eastern Time) We cannot escape the fact that we live in a visual culture. As culture shifts, so do the possibilities more
The Visual Poem - LIVE
October 28 to November 1, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 10am-12pm (Eastern Time) We cannot escape the fact that we live in a visual culture. As culture shifts, so do the possibilities more
Sean Singer
Line-by-Line
October 14 to November 8, 2024
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS I will guide students in a close reading of 4 existing poem drafts—giving careful attention to line-by-line edits. Students will generate one new poem more
Line-by-Line
October 14 to November 8, 2024
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS I will guide students in a close reading of 4 existing poem drafts—giving careful attention to line-by-line edits. Students will generate one new poem more
Erin Adair-Hodges
The Home Stretch: Bringing Your Novel Into the World - LIVE
October 14 to October 18, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7-9pm (Eastern Time) Join former fiction acquisitions editor Erin Adair-Hodges in a discussion about the book acquisition and publishing process—all with an more
The Home Stretch: Bringing Your Novel Into the World - LIVE
October 14 to October 18, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7-9pm (Eastern Time) Join former fiction acquisitions editor Erin Adair-Hodges in a discussion about the book acquisition and publishing process—all with an more
Daisy Fried
Writing the Political Poem
November 4 to November 8, 2024
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS What makes a poem political? What makes a political poem good? Is it harder or easier, at this moment in history, more
Writing the Political Poem
November 4 to November 8, 2024
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS What makes a poem political? What makes a political poem good? Is it harder or easier, at this moment in history, more
Nova Ren Suma
Crafting the Young Adult Novel
November 11 to December 6, 2024
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS This workshop is for those who are writing a YA novel of any genre, at any stage in the process, seeking more
Crafting the Young Adult Novel
November 11 to December 6, 2024
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS This workshop is for those who are writing a YA novel of any genre, at any stage in the process, seeking more
Nathan McClain
To Click or Not to Click: on How to Close a Poem - LIVE
December 9 to December 13, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 3-5pm (Eastern Time) What does it mean for a poem to have “earned” its ending? And how do we craft poems that more
To Click or Not to Click: on How to Close a Poem - LIVE
December 9 to December 13, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 3-5pm (Eastern Time) What does it mean for a poem to have “earned” its ending? And how do we craft poems that more
Marcus Jackson
Voice, Image, & Ekphrasis: Exploring Intersections of Poetic & Photographic Structures
July 15 to July 19, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 2-4pm (Eastern Time) This generative workshop will explore the composition styles and the exchanges between poetry and visual art (mostly photography), with more
Voice, Image, & Ekphrasis: Exploring Intersections of Poetic & Photographic Structures
July 15 to July 19, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 2-4pm (Eastern Time) This generative workshop will explore the composition styles and the exchanges between poetry and visual art (mostly photography), with more
Abeer Hoque
Writing Personal Statements & Applying for Grants
August 12 to August 16, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 3pm-5pm (Eastern Time) Are you confused, embarrassed, or scared about writing an artist’s statement? Are you unsure about how to apply for more
Writing Personal Statements & Applying for Grants
August 12 to August 16, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 3pm-5pm (Eastern Time) Are you confused, embarrassed, or scared about writing an artist’s statement? Are you unsure about how to apply for more
Martha Rhodes
The Order of Telling: from Title to First Line, to Next Line... What We Reveal & When
July 15 to July 19, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 12pm-2pm (Eastern Time) Ordering within a poem, ordering poems within a manuscript, can be difficult. We’ll look at how the writers in more
The Order of Telling: from Title to First Line, to Next Line... What We Reveal & When
July 15 to July 19, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 12pm-2pm (Eastern Time) Ordering within a poem, ordering poems within a manuscript, can be difficult. We’ll look at how the writers in more
Khadijah Queen
Mining Speculative Futures: Reading Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower as Writers
July 8 to July 12, 2024
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS: As we continue to face international crises related to climate change, war, plague, social unrest, and the rise of pseudo-religious authoritarian more
Mining Speculative Futures: Reading Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower as Writers
July 8 to July 12, 2024
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS: As we continue to face international crises related to climate change, war, plague, social unrest, and the rise of pseudo-religious authoritarian more
Keetje Kuipers
Sprint Workshop with Keetje Kuipers - LIVE
August 6 to August 6, 2024
Tuition: $225
“O let me, please”: How (& Why) to Write the Sexiest Poems of Your Life — LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-9pm (Eastern Time) on August 6th more
Sprint Workshop with Keetje Kuipers - LIVE
August 6 to August 6, 2024
Tuition: $225
“O let me, please”: How (& Why) to Write the Sexiest Poems of Your Life — LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-9pm (Eastern Time) on August 6th more
Kim Addonizio
The Sonnet: An Introduction
July 8 to July 12, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 11am-1pm (Eastern Time) As a free verse poet, do you feel a bit…insecure…when it comes to meter, rhyme schemes, and that ubiquitous, more
The Sonnet: An Introduction
July 8 to July 12, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 11am-1pm (Eastern Time) As a free verse poet, do you feel a bit…insecure…when it comes to meter, rhyme schemes, and that ubiquitous, more
Dorianne Laux
Sprint Workshop with Dorianne Laux - LIVE
July 19 to July 19, 2024
Tuition: $225
Finger Exercises for Poets — LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern Time) — on July 19th Poet Dorianne Laux will lead participants in writing prompts, or more
Sprint Workshop with Dorianne Laux - LIVE
July 19 to July 19, 2024
Tuition: $225
Finger Exercises for Poets — LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern Time) — on July 19th Poet Dorianne Laux will lead participants in writing prompts, or more
Jenny Xie
Ekphrastic Encounters
June 24 to June 28, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 2pm-4pm (Eastern Time) The ekphrastic poem—one provoked by or in response to a work of art—derives energy from the friction and affinities more
Ekphrastic Encounters
June 24 to June 28, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 2pm-4pm (Eastern Time) The ekphrastic poem—one provoked by or in response to a work of art—derives energy from the friction and affinities more
Alysia Abbott
The Call Is Coming from Inside the House
July 22 to July 26, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 1pm-3pm (Eastern Time) All family stories are ghost stories. There are the ghosts of our relatives and loved ones, now passed, and more
The Call Is Coming from Inside the House
July 22 to July 26, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 1pm-3pm (Eastern Time) All family stories are ghost stories. There are the ghosts of our relatives and loved ones, now passed, and more
Kristina Marie Darling
Book Publicity for Every Writer
June 10 to July 5, 2024
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS This course will walk students through the basics of book publicity for poetry collections, fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid genre books, and chapbooks. We will more
Book Publicity for Every Writer
June 10 to July 5, 2024
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS This course will walk students through the basics of book publicity for poetry collections, fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid genre books, and chapbooks. We will more
Craig Morgan Teicher
Sonnet Days
July 29 to August 2, 2024
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS: Sonnets are like those mysterious architectural structures that are miraculously vaster on the inside than the view from outside could possibly more
Sonnet Days
July 29 to August 2, 2024
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS: Sonnets are like those mysterious architectural structures that are miraculously vaster on the inside than the view from outside could possibly more
Brendan Constantine
"All this useless beauty..." - a Poetry Workshop
June 10 to June 14, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 1pm-3pm (Eastern Time) “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion…” —Francis Bacon, 1597 Brendan Constantine presents more
"All this useless beauty..." - a Poetry Workshop
June 10 to June 14, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 1pm-3pm (Eastern Time) “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion…” —Francis Bacon, 1597 Brendan Constantine presents more
Tyler Mills
Poems That Travel—A Writing Residency at Home
June 17 to June 21, 2024
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS: Have you ever thought, “I’d love to do a writing residency, but I don’t have time, or am not able to more
Poems That Travel—A Writing Residency at Home
June 17 to June 21, 2024
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS: Have you ever thought, “I’d love to do a writing residency, but I don’t have time, or am not able to more
Melissa Studdard
Your Own Fire: Writing the Poems That Only You Can Write
July 29 to August 2, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 8:30pm-10:30pm (Eastern Time) You cannot, you cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do more
Your Own Fire: Writing the Poems That Only You Can Write
July 29 to August 2, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 8:30pm-10:30pm (Eastern Time) You cannot, you cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do more
Alexander Chee
On Maurice, E. M. Forster's Posthumous Gay Novel
June 18 to June 18, 2024
Tuition: $75
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-7:30pm (Eastern Time) In preparing for my essay about Forster and Maurice in The New Republic a few years ago, I dove more
On Maurice, E. M. Forster's Posthumous Gay Novel
June 18 to June 18, 2024
Tuition: $75
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-7:30pm (Eastern Time) In preparing for my essay about Forster and Maurice in The New Republic a few years ago, I dove more
Eileen Myles
The Perpetual Present of Etel Adnan
June 4 to June 4, 2024
Tuition: $75
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-7:30pm (Eastern Time) Please join me in reading the book-length poem, The Arab Apocalypse, written in 1980 by Etel Adnan, artist and more
The Perpetual Present of Etel Adnan
June 4 to June 4, 2024
Tuition: $75
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-7:30pm (Eastern Time) Please join me in reading the book-length poem, The Arab Apocalypse, written in 1980 by Etel Adnan, artist and more
Victoria Redel
Chronicle of a Death Foretold—Prefiguration, Augury, Dream: the Novel as Spiral
May 21 to May 21, 2024
Tuition: $75
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-7:30pm (Eastern Time) Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez is a marvel, a 128 page novella that loops through more
Chronicle of a Death Foretold—Prefiguration, Augury, Dream: the Novel as Spiral
May 21 to May 21, 2024
Tuition: $75
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-7:30pm (Eastern Time) Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez is a marvel, a 128 page novella that loops through more
Nick Flynn
The Woman in the Dunes—A Metaphor that Transforms as it Moves through Time
May 7 to May 7, 2024
Tuition: $75
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-7:30pm (Eastern Time) The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe sets up an impossible (or at least unlikely) conceit, then commits more
The Woman in the Dunes—A Metaphor that Transforms as it Moves through Time
May 7 to May 7, 2024
Tuition: $75
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-7:30pm (Eastern Time) The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe sets up an impossible (or at least unlikely) conceit, then commits more
Nick Flynn, Victoria Redel, Eileen Myles, Alexander Chee
Books That Matter: The Entire Series
May 7 to May 7, 2024
Tuition: $250
24PearlStreet is excited to announce Books That Matter, a new series of online events that will appeal to anyone who loves books. Each event features more
Books That Matter: The Entire Series
May 7 to May 7, 2024
Tuition: $250
24PearlStreet is excited to announce Books That Matter, a new series of online events that will appeal to anyone who loves books. Each event features more
Stephen Kuusisto
Writing the Body in Trouble: on Embodiment, Crisis, & Creativity -- POSTPONED to FALL 2024
March 4 to March 29, 2024
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS: This four week writing workshop is taught by award winning poet and memoirist Stephen Kuusisto who has written widely about disability more
Writing the Body in Trouble: on Embodiment, Crisis, & Creativity -- POSTPONED to FALL 2024
March 4 to March 29, 2024
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS: This four week writing workshop is taught by award winning poet and memoirist Stephen Kuusisto who has written widely about disability more
Carmen Maria Machado
Sprint Workshop with Carmen Maria Machado - LIVE
January 24 to January 24, 2024
Tuition: $225
Stories That Stand Still — LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-5pm (Eastern) on January 24th — In this talk, we’ll explore the craft of writing fiction that more
Sprint Workshop with Carmen Maria Machado - LIVE
January 24 to January 24, 2024
Tuition: $225
Stories That Stand Still — LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-5pm (Eastern) on January 24th — In this talk, we’ll explore the craft of writing fiction that more
Anders Carlson-Wee
Where Poetry Begins: The Art of the First Line - LIVE
March 4 to March 8, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern Time) The first line of any poem is the handshake with your reader. How do you grab their attention? Establish more
Where Poetry Begins: The Art of the First Line - LIVE
March 4 to March 8, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern Time) The first line of any poem is the handshake with your reader. How do you grab their attention? Establish more
Ananda Lima
Ides of March, Rites of Spring: Writing Weather & Seasons - LIVE
March 25 to March 29, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern Time) How do weather and the seasons interact with our bodies? What do they tell us about time, our connection more
Ides of March, Rites of Spring: Writing Weather & Seasons - LIVE
March 25 to March 29, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern Time) How do weather and the seasons interact with our bodies? What do they tell us about time, our connection more
Krysten Hill
Say It Like You Mean It: Writing & Performing Dynamic Poems - LIVE
March 18 to March 22, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 3pm-5pm (Eastern Time). Any writer, regardless of genre or form, benefits from practicing methods to help them perform their work well. As more
Say It Like You Mean It: Writing & Performing Dynamic Poems - LIVE
March 18 to March 22, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 3pm-5pm (Eastern Time). Any writer, regardless of genre or form, benefits from practicing methods to help them perform their work well. As more
Erin Adair-Hodges
A Book, By Hook and/or Crook: Bringing Your Novel into the World
March 11 to March 15, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern Time) So, you’re writing a novel—congrats! But…what now? If it’s good, it will find a home, and if it doesn’t, more
A Book, By Hook and/or Crook: Bringing Your Novel into the World
March 11 to March 15, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern Time) So, you’re writing a novel—congrats! But…what now? If it’s good, it will find a home, and if it doesn’t, more
Sean Singer
Revision & Possibility - LIVE
February 19 to February 23, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-3pm (Eastern Time) The Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez believed that we can never revise our lives, but revision opens the possibility more
Revision & Possibility - LIVE
February 19 to February 23, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-3pm (Eastern Time) The Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez believed that we can never revise our lives, but revision opens the possibility more
Melissa Studdard
To Whom It May Concern: an Epistolary Poetry Workshop - LIVE
January 29 to February 2, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 8pm-10pm (Eastern Time) The moon did not become the sun. It just fell on the desert in great sheets, reams of silver more
To Whom It May Concern: an Epistolary Poetry Workshop - LIVE
January 29 to February 2, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 8pm-10pm (Eastern Time) The moon did not become the sun. It just fell on the desert in great sheets, reams of silver more
Leila Chatti
Poetry is Fun! How to Banish Writer’s Block, Overcome Fear, & Recover Your Original Spark - LIVE
March 18 to March 22, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern Time) In the course of pursuing publication or a career built around writing, many writers find themselves frustrated, anxious, or more
Poetry is Fun! How to Banish Writer’s Block, Overcome Fear, & Recover Your Original Spark - LIVE
March 18 to March 22, 2024
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern Time) In the course of pursuing publication or a career built around writing, many writers find themselves frustrated, anxious, or more
Melissa Febos
Sprint Workshop with Melissa Febos - LIVE
June 22 to June 22, 2024
Tuition: $150
The Art of Navel Gazing: a Generative Seminar — LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) on June 22nd — Do you suspect the most urgent story more
Sprint Workshop with Melissa Febos - LIVE
June 22 to June 22, 2024
Tuition: $150
The Art of Navel Gazing: a Generative Seminar — LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) on June 22nd — Do you suspect the most urgent story more
Craig Morgan Teicher
Poem as Diary: A Generative Workshop
February 26 to March 1, 2024
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS The diary has long been a durable form in poetry–poets like Robert Creeley, A . R. Ammons, Lucille Clifton, and more
Poem as Diary: A Generative Workshop
February 26 to March 1, 2024
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS The diary has long been a durable form in poetry–poets like Robert Creeley, A . R. Ammons, Lucille Clifton, and more
Rebecca Seiferle
Your Interior Journey
February 5 to March 1, 2024
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS In this workshop we’ll write about defining moments, charged bits of experience. These often intersect with other experiences—political or social—from the stories that others more
Your Interior Journey
February 5 to March 1, 2024
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS In this workshop we’ll write about defining moments, charged bits of experience. These often intersect with other experiences—political or social—from the stories that others more
Allison Joseph
Keeping Busy: Writing Through Dry Spells, Blocks, & Boredom
December 11 to December 15, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm (Eastern Time) In this workshop, I will share tricks and exercises that keep me writing when everything else in my world more
Keeping Busy: Writing Through Dry Spells, Blocks, & Boredom
December 11 to December 15, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm (Eastern Time) In this workshop, I will share tricks and exercises that keep me writing when everything else in my world more
Leila Chatti
Poetry is Fun! How to Banish Writer's Block, Overcome Fear, & Recover Your Original Spark
November 6 to November 10, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern Time) In the course of pursuing publication or a career built around writing, many writers find themselves frustrated, anxious, or more
Poetry is Fun! How to Banish Writer's Block, Overcome Fear, & Recover Your Original Spark
November 6 to November 10, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern Time) In the course of pursuing publication or a career built around writing, many writers find themselves frustrated, anxious, or more
Ananda Lima
Ekphrastic Writing
November 27 to December 1, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern Time) Join us for a week of immersion in ekphrastic writing (writing about, or inspired by, art). We will read more
Ekphrastic Writing
November 27 to December 1, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern Time) Join us for a week of immersion in ekphrastic writing (writing about, or inspired by, art). We will read more
Martha Rhodes
Revision & Discovery: a Poetry Workshop
December 4 to December 8, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 3pm-5pm (Eastern Time) Revision, for me, is part of the generative process. We keep writing until we feel that the poem is more
Revision & Discovery: a Poetry Workshop
December 4 to December 8, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 3pm-5pm (Eastern Time) Revision, for me, is part of the generative process. We keep writing until we feel that the poem is more
Elissa Altman
Permission, Intimacy, & Voice
November 6 to December 1, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS Annie Dillard once said, You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and more
Permission, Intimacy, & Voice
November 6 to December 1, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS Annie Dillard once said, You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and more
Paul Guest
Poetry & Apocalypse
December 11 to December 15, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS How do we write poems about this moment, about right now, about global warming and walls and guns and oceans filled with plastic? How more
Poetry & Apocalypse
December 11 to December 15, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS How do we write poems about this moment, about right now, about global warming and walls and guns and oceans filled with plastic? How more
Jason Schneiderman
Writing the Sonnet in the 21st Century
December 4 to December 8, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm (Eastern Time) Half a millennium after entering English, the sonnet retains its fascination for poets in the Anglophone world, even as more
Writing the Sonnet in the 21st Century
December 4 to December 8, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm (Eastern Time) Half a millennium after entering English, the sonnet retains its fascination for poets in the Anglophone world, even as more
Dorianne Laux
Finger Exercises for Poets
December 4 to December 8, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm (Eastern Time) Write new poems and receive in-depth feedback from poet Dorianne Laux. Poet Dorianne Laux will lead participants in five more
Finger Exercises for Poets
December 4 to December 8, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm (Eastern Time) Write new poems and receive in-depth feedback from poet Dorianne Laux. Poet Dorianne Laux will lead participants in five more
Melissa Studdard
To Whom It May Concern: an Epistolary Poetry Workshop
November 27 to December 1, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 8:30pm-10:30pm (Eastern Time) The moon did not become the sun. It just fell on the desert in great sheets, reams of silver more
To Whom It May Concern: an Epistolary Poetry Workshop
November 27 to December 1, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 8:30pm-10:30pm (Eastern Time) The moon did not become the sun. It just fell on the desert in great sheets, reams of silver more
Cleyvis Natera
The Art of the Story
November 27 to December 1, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements In this generative fiction workshop, writers will—by the end of our time together—complete a single story that showcases mastery of perspective, more
The Art of the Story
November 27 to December 1, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements In this generative fiction workshop, writers will—by the end of our time together—complete a single story that showcases mastery of perspective, more
Chloe Garcia Roberts
Writing the Liminal: Lyric Essays, Prose Poems & Hybrid Texts
November 13 to December 8, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS Are you a writer who finds literary genre definitions outdated, boring, and counterintuitive? Are you drawn to reading authors whose more
Writing the Liminal: Lyric Essays, Prose Poems & Hybrid Texts
November 13 to December 8, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS Are you a writer who finds literary genre definitions outdated, boring, and counterintuitive? Are you drawn to reading authors whose more
Curtis Bauer
Writing the Event: a Generative Poetry Workshop
November 13 to November 17, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS “Everything is an event for those who know how to tremble…” wrote the French poet and judge Jean Follain (translated more
Writing the Event: a Generative Poetry Workshop
November 13 to November 17, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS “Everything is an event for those who know how to tremble…” wrote the French poet and judge Jean Follain (translated more
Jennifer Franklin
"Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?" Writing Intensity in the Short Poem
November 13 to November 17, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS What is the age-old attraction of the short poem for poets and readers alike and how can we learn, through our examination of a more
"Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?" Writing Intensity in the Short Poem
November 13 to November 17, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS What is the age-old attraction of the short poem for poets and readers alike and how can we learn, through our examination of a more
Keetje Kuipers
A Poetics of Humility: Writing Worm-Level Poems
October 30 to November 3, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 2pm-4pm (Eastern Time) Writing a poem is always a vulnerable undertaking, but it becomes an even more delicate and dangerous act when more
A Poetics of Humility: Writing Worm-Level Poems
October 30 to November 3, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 2pm-4pm (Eastern Time) Writing a poem is always a vulnerable undertaking, but it becomes an even more delicate and dangerous act when more
Jennifer L. Knox
The Intersection of Comedy & Poetry
October 23 to October 27, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS Comedy and poetry have much in common. They both transform highly subjective sensory experiences into transcendent social responses. And they both create surprise—the Yahtzee more
The Intersection of Comedy & Poetry
October 23 to October 27, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS Comedy and poetry have much in common. They both transform highly subjective sensory experiences into transcendent social responses. And they both create surprise—the Yahtzee more
Nathan McClain
Duck, Duck, ______: Patterns & So On
October 23 to October 27, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 7pm-9pm (Eastern Time) Recent Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Carl Phillips, has written, that “at the end of the day, poetry is patterned language.” more
Duck, Duck, ______: Patterns & So On
October 23 to October 27, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 7pm-9pm (Eastern Time) Recent Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Carl Phillips, has written, that “at the end of the day, poetry is patterned language.” more
Rebecca Seiferle
The Poem's Intention
October 16 to November 10, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS Often, a poem has its own intentions that are at odds with the intentions of the poet. The poet will begin the poem with more
The Poem's Intention
October 16 to November 10, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS Often, a poem has its own intentions that are at odds with the intentions of the poet. The poet will begin the poem with more
Kristina Marie Darling
Collaboration, Social Justice, & Professional Empowerment: a Workshop for Writers & Artists
October 9 to December 1, 2023
Tuition: $750
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Collaborations inevitably lead creative practitioners to reflect on their own voice, aesthetic choices, and their subject position, expanding one’s sense of more
Collaboration, Social Justice, & Professional Empowerment: a Workshop for Writers & Artists
October 9 to December 1, 2023
Tuition: $750
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Collaborations inevitably lead creative practitioners to reflect on their own voice, aesthetic choices, and their subject position, expanding one’s sense of more
Ann Hood
How To Write a Kick-Ass Essay
October 9 to November 3, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS In this workshop, we will work together on turning your unfinished essay, your idea for an essay, or your good but not good enough more
How To Write a Kick-Ass Essay
October 9 to November 3, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS In this workshop, we will work together on turning your unfinished essay, your idea for an essay, or your good but not good enough more
Rebecca Morgan Frank
Poetry Book (or Chapbook) Bootcamp
June 26 to June 30, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Are you building or revising a poetry book or chapbook? Whether you are at the early stages of ordering a manuscript more
Poetry Book (or Chapbook) Bootcamp
June 26 to June 30, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Are you building or revising a poetry book or chapbook? Whether you are at the early stages of ordering a manuscript more
Melissa Studdard
Your Own Fire: Writing the Poems Only You Can Write - LIVE
July 31 to August 4, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 8:30pm-10:30pm (Eastern) “You cannot, you cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, more
Your Own Fire: Writing the Poems Only You Can Write - LIVE
July 31 to August 4, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 8:30pm-10:30pm (Eastern) “You cannot, you cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, more
Reif Larsen
Voice Matters: a Fiction Workshop - LIVE
July 24 to July 28, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 10am-12pm (Eastern) We all know that feeling of encountering a strong narrative voice on the page. We are infected by its singularity, more
Voice Matters: a Fiction Workshop - LIVE
July 24 to July 28, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 10am-12pm (Eastern) We all know that feeling of encountering a strong narrative voice on the page. We are infected by its singularity, more
Allison Joseph
Keeping Busy: Writing Through Dry Spells, Blocks, & Boredom - LIVE
July 24 to July 28, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) In this workshop, I will share tricks and exercises that keep me writing when everything else in my world seems more
Keeping Busy: Writing Through Dry Spells, Blocks, & Boredom - LIVE
July 24 to July 28, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) In this workshop, I will share tricks and exercises that keep me writing when everything else in my world seems more
Melissa Febos
Sprint Workshop with Melissa Febos - LIVE
June 10 to June 10, 2023
Tuition: $150
Nonfiction Forms Lab: A Generative Seminar – LIVE via ZOOM: 11am-1pm (Eastern) on June 10th. Conventional essay forms offer us familiar containers in which to more
Sprint Workshop with Melissa Febos - LIVE
June 10 to June 10, 2023
Tuition: $150
Nonfiction Forms Lab: A Generative Seminar – LIVE via ZOOM: 11am-1pm (Eastern) on June 10th. Conventional essay forms offer us familiar containers in which to more
Paul Lisicky
Sprint Workshop with Paul Lisicky – LIVE
June 27 to June 27, 2023
Tuition: $225
On Urgency: A Memoir and Creative Nonfiction Workshop – LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern) on June 27th. Together, we’ll discuss four very short passages from more
Sprint Workshop with Paul Lisicky – LIVE
June 27 to June 27, 2023
Tuition: $225
On Urgency: A Memoir and Creative Nonfiction Workshop – LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern) on June 27th. Together, we’ll discuss four very short passages from more
Nick Flynn
Sprint Workshop with Nick Flynn - LIVE
August 19 to August 19, 2023
Tuition: $225
Memoir as Bewilderment – LIVE via ZOOM: 9am-12pm (Eastern) on August 19th. In The Unnamable, Beckett offers this: “Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll more
Sprint Workshop with Nick Flynn - LIVE
August 19 to August 19, 2023
Tuition: $225
Memoir as Bewilderment – LIVE via ZOOM: 9am-12pm (Eastern) on August 19th. In The Unnamable, Beckett offers this: “Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll more
January Gill O'Neil
Tiny Miracles & Everyday Wonders: a Poetry Workshop - LIVE
July 17 to July 21, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) Making room for beauty and randomness may seem like an indulgence in our writing. But attending to our astonishments—the tiny more
Tiny Miracles & Everyday Wonders: a Poetry Workshop - LIVE
July 17 to July 21, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) Making room for beauty and randomness may seem like an indulgence in our writing. But attending to our astonishments—the tiny more
Carmen Maria Machado
Sprint Workshop with Carmen Maria Machado - LIVE
June 6 to June 6, 2023
Tuition: $225
Stories That Stand Still – LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern) on June 6th. In this talk, we’ll explore the craft of writing fiction that doesn’t more
Sprint Workshop with Carmen Maria Machado - LIVE
June 6 to June 6, 2023
Tuition: $225
Stories That Stand Still – LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern) on June 6th. In this talk, we’ll explore the craft of writing fiction that doesn’t more
Deborah Jackson Taffa
Using Elements of Poetry to Improve Your Prose
July 17 to August 11, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS In this workshop, we will discuss how prose narratives can benefit from poetic techniques, how expanding the use of poetic principles—from metaphor to repetition, more
Using Elements of Poetry to Improve Your Prose
July 17 to August 11, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS In this workshop, we will discuss how prose narratives can benefit from poetic techniques, how expanding the use of poetic principles—from metaphor to repetition, more
Elissa Altman
Permission, Intimacy, & the Heart of the Story
June 5 to June 30, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Annie Dillard once said You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and say, more
Permission, Intimacy, & the Heart of the Story
June 5 to June 30, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Annie Dillard once said You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and say, more
Maggie Smith
Five Days, Five Poems - LIVE
July 17 to July 21, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) In this generative poetry workshop we’ll create and share new work, experimenting with a wide variety of subject matter and more
Five Days, Five Poems - LIVE
July 17 to July 21, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) In this generative poetry workshop we’ll create and share new work, experimenting with a wide variety of subject matter and more
Martha Rhodes
The Memorable Poem - LIVE
July 24 to July 28, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-3pm (Eastern) Not every poem has to be from the deepest terrains of our souls. But every poem has to be, wants more
The Memorable Poem - LIVE
July 24 to July 28, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-3pm (Eastern) Not every poem has to be from the deepest terrains of our souls. But every poem has to be, wants more
Oliver de la Paz
Humming—Finding & Sustaining Momentum in Poetic Sequences
June 12 to June 16, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS From invention to revision, this generative workshop will attend to the possibilities of creating new work that is in tune with more
Humming—Finding & Sustaining Momentum in Poetic Sequences
June 12 to June 16, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS From invention to revision, this generative workshop will attend to the possibilities of creating new work that is in tune with more
Ananda Lima
Ekphrastic Writing - LIVE
August 7 to August 11, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern) This class will be a week of immersion in ekphrastic writing (writing about or inspired by other art). We will more
Ekphrastic Writing - LIVE
August 7 to August 11, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern) This class will be a week of immersion in ekphrastic writing (writing about or inspired by other art). We will more
Dorianne Laux
Finger Exercises for Poets: the Discrete Line - LIVE
August 7 to August 11, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) The will of the line, the carefulness of it, the pleasure, the choices and options, the decision. The separate-ness of more
Finger Exercises for Poets: the Discrete Line - LIVE
August 7 to August 11, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) The will of the line, the carefulness of it, the pleasure, the choices and options, the decision. The separate-ness of more
Chloe Garcia Roberts
Writing the Liminal: Lyric Essays, Prose Poems, & Hybrid Texts
July 10 to August 4, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Are you a writer who finds literary genre definitions outdated, boring, and counterintuitive? Are you drawn to reading authors whose work more
Writing the Liminal: Lyric Essays, Prose Poems, & Hybrid Texts
July 10 to August 4, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Are you a writer who finds literary genre definitions outdated, boring, and counterintuitive? Are you drawn to reading authors whose work more
Brendan Constantine
A Tendency to Exist: A Generative Workshop on Time - LIVE
June 19 to June 23, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern) It has been said that atoms do not exist in time but rather show a “tendency” to exist. Much the more
A Tendency to Exist: A Generative Workshop on Time - LIVE
June 19 to June 23, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern) It has been said that atoms do not exist in time but rather show a “tendency” to exist. Much the more
Joanne Dugan
Writing Pictures: Combining Text & Image - LIVE
June 12 to June 16, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 3pm-5pm (Eastern) It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text yields surprising more
Writing Pictures: Combining Text & Image - LIVE
June 12 to June 16, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 3pm-5pm (Eastern) It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text yields surprising more
Tyler Mills
Radical Revision: Preparing Poems for Publication
June 5 to June 30, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS So you have a draft. What now? This class is geared to helping you rip open the seams of your poems more
Radical Revision: Preparing Poems for Publication
June 5 to June 30, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS So you have a draft. What now? This class is geared to helping you rip open the seams of your poems more
Kristina Marie Darling
Professional Empowerment Across Genres & Disciplines: How to Successfully Pitch, Promote, & Fund Your Creative Projects
June 19 to August 11, 2023
Tuition: $750
ASYNCHRONOUS This workshop will walk students through the basics of writing convincing and persuasive pitches; crafting applications to fellowships, residencies, and grants; promoting their creative more
Professional Empowerment Across Genres & Disciplines: How to Successfully Pitch, Promote, & Fund Your Creative Projects
June 19 to August 11, 2023
Tuition: $750
ASYNCHRONOUS This workshop will walk students through the basics of writing convincing and persuasive pitches; crafting applications to fellowships, residencies, and grants; promoting their creative more
Martha Collins
Making Stanzas Work for You! - LIVE
June 19 to June 23, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) Through the reading of published poems, we’ll explore various lengths and kinds of stanzas (from one-line stanzas on) as well more
Making Stanzas Work for You! - LIVE
June 19 to June 23, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) Through the reading of published poems, we’ll explore various lengths and kinds of stanzas (from one-line stanzas on) as well more
Joseph O. Legaspi
I Must Confess - LIVE
June 26 to June 30, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern) Why does confessional poetry get a bad rap? Arguably, aren’t all poems confessional, revealing of truths? This workshop aims to more
I Must Confess - LIVE
June 26 to June 30, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern) Why does confessional poetry get a bad rap? Arguably, aren’t all poems confessional, revealing of truths? This workshop aims to more
Abigail Chabitnoy
Notes on the Assembly - LIVE
January 23 to January 27, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 3pm-5pm (Eastern) Santayana proposes “the great function of poetry is to repair to the material of experience, seizing hold of the reality more
Notes on the Assembly - LIVE
January 23 to January 27, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 3pm-5pm (Eastern) Santayana proposes “the great function of poetry is to repair to the material of experience, seizing hold of the reality more
Dorothea Lasky
Things Seen in Flowers: Poetry & the Occult Spring - LIVE
March 6 to March 10, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 8pm-10pm (Eastern) Roses, daisies, pansies, violets, sunflowers, lilies, buttercups, poppies, and peonies. Flowers are things that many poets use in their poems more
Things Seen in Flowers: Poetry & the Occult Spring - LIVE
March 6 to March 10, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 8pm-10pm (Eastern) Roses, daisies, pansies, violets, sunflowers, lilies, buttercups, poppies, and peonies. Flowers are things that many poets use in their poems more
Tyler Mills
Poems that Travel--A Writing Residency at Home
February 6 to March 3, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Have you ever thought, “I’d love to do a writing residency, but I don’t have time, or am not able to more
Poems that Travel--A Writing Residency at Home
February 6 to March 3, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Have you ever thought, “I’d love to do a writing residency, but I don’t have time, or am not able to more
Cleyvis Natera
The Art of the Short Story
January 16 to January 20, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements In this generative fiction workshop, writers will—by the end of our time together—complete a single story that showcases mastery of perspective, more
The Art of the Short Story
January 16 to January 20, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements In this generative fiction workshop, writers will—by the end of our time together—complete a single story that showcases mastery of perspective, more
Chloe Garcia Roberts
Crossing Borders & Subverting Genre: the Lyric Essay
January 23 to February 17, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Have your poems ever felt jealous of scientific essays, investigative journalism, instruction manuals, business correspondence, or religious texts to name a more
Crossing Borders & Subverting Genre: the Lyric Essay
January 23 to February 17, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Have your poems ever felt jealous of scientific essays, investigative journalism, instruction manuals, business correspondence, or religious texts to name a more
Leila Chatti
Praise in Hard Times - LIVE
February 20 to February 24, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 3pm-5pm (Eastern) “Come, see real flowers of this painful world.” – Basho It can be difficult, in these trying times, to make more
Praise in Hard Times - LIVE
February 20 to February 24, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 3pm-5pm (Eastern) “Come, see real flowers of this painful world.” – Basho It can be difficult, in these trying times, to make more
Ananda Lima
Ekphrastic Writing - LIVE
February 20 to February 24, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) This class will be a week of immersion in ekphrastic writing (writing about, or inspired by, art). We will read more
Ekphrastic Writing - LIVE
February 20 to February 24, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) This class will be a week of immersion in ekphrastic writing (writing about, or inspired by, art). We will read more
Elisa Albert
Practice Makes Perfect: Writing & Rewriting
February 13 to March 10, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Sometimes we know precisely how we want a piece of writing to unfold; sometimes we’re fumbling in the dark. Either way, more
Practice Makes Perfect: Writing & Rewriting
February 13 to March 10, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Sometimes we know precisely how we want a piece of writing to unfold; sometimes we’re fumbling in the dark. Either way, more
Dorianne Laux
The Syllable & the Line - LIVE
March 6 to March 10, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) All poets are interested in patterns. When we hear a poem, we often love it as much for the patterns more
The Syllable & the Line - LIVE
March 6 to March 10, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) All poets are interested in patterns. When we hear a poem, we often love it as much for the patterns more
Elissa Altman
Intimacy, Permission, & the Heart of the Story
January 30 to February 24, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Annie Dillard once said, “You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and say, more
Intimacy, Permission, & the Heart of the Story
January 30 to February 24, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Annie Dillard once said, “You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and say, more
Martha Collins
Growing the Poem - LIVE
February 13 to February 17, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) Through the reading of published poems and daily writing prompts, we’ll explore strategies for developing fragments and stalled beginnings into more
Growing the Poem - LIVE
February 13 to February 17, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) Through the reading of published poems and daily writing prompts, we’ll explore strategies for developing fragments and stalled beginnings into more
Joanne Dugan
Writing Pictures: An Exploration of Text and Image
February 6 to March 3, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text yields surprising more
Writing Pictures: An Exploration of Text and Image
February 6 to March 3, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text yields surprising more
Curtis Bauer
Translation & Theft—Looking Out to Write What Is Within: A Generative Workshop
January 30 to February 3, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS This is a generative workshop in which we will read poems and short prose in multiple English translations beside the original more
Translation & Theft—Looking Out to Write What Is Within: A Generative Workshop
January 30 to February 3, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS This is a generative workshop in which we will read poems and short prose in multiple English translations beside the original more
Melissa Studdard
To Whom It May Concern: An Epistolary Poetry Workshop
February 13 to March 10, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS “The moon did not become the sun. It just fell on the desert in great sheets, reams of silver handmade by more
To Whom It May Concern: An Epistolary Poetry Workshop
February 13 to March 10, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS “The moon did not become the sun. It just fell on the desert in great sheets, reams of silver handmade by more
Keetje Kuipers
The Pleasures of Peril: Writing Poems on the Brink
January 30 to February 24, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS What does it mean to be risky on the page? To not just write towards the things that scare us, more
The Pleasures of Peril: Writing Poems on the Brink
January 30 to February 24, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS What does it mean to be risky on the page? To not just write towards the things that scare us, more
Ann Hood
How to Write a Kick Ass Essay
February 6 to March 3, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS In this workshop, we will work on turning your unfinished essay, your idea for an essay, or your good but not good enough essay more
How to Write a Kick Ass Essay
February 6 to March 3, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS In this workshop, we will work on turning your unfinished essay, your idea for an essay, or your good but not good enough essay more
Erika Wurth
Structuring Your Novel
February 27 to March 3, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS A lot of MFA programs and creative writing classes in general focus on, when comes to fiction, the short story. But most folks are more
Structuring Your Novel
February 27 to March 3, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS A lot of MFA programs and creative writing classes in general focus on, when comes to fiction, the short story. But most folks are more
Kristina Marie Darling
Perfecting the Book: A Workshop for Full-Length Poetry Manuscripts
January 16 to March 10, 2023
Tuition: $750
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS This workshop will provide detailed feedback on individual poems, as well as offer students a variety of strategies for sequencing, structuring, more
Perfecting the Book: A Workshop for Full-Length Poetry Manuscripts
January 16 to March 10, 2023
Tuition: $750
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS This workshop will provide detailed feedback on individual poems, as well as offer students a variety of strategies for sequencing, structuring, more
Sarah Rose Nordgren
What's the Big Idea? Ambitious Poems in Uncertain Times
October 31 to November 25, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONONOUS How can poetry help us to process and respond to uncertainty? How might it teach us to grieve as well as heal? To counter more
What's the Big Idea? Ambitious Poems in Uncertain Times
October 31 to November 25, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONONOUS How can poetry help us to process and respond to uncertainty? How might it teach us to grieve as well as heal? To counter more
Susanna Sonnenberg
Against Silence: Finding Your Way into Memoir
October 24 to November 18, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS Open to writers at all levels, “Against Silence” is a rigorous class that will help you pinpoint those particularly sticky and elusive subjects that more
Against Silence: Finding Your Way into Memoir
October 24 to November 18, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS Open to writers at all levels, “Against Silence” is a rigorous class that will help you pinpoint those particularly sticky and elusive subjects that more
Erin Belieu
Vision & Revision - LIVE
December 5 to December 9, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) In this workshop we will look at poems generated by prompts I share with you that are designed to extend more
Vision & Revision - LIVE
December 5 to December 9, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) In this workshop we will look at poems generated by prompts I share with you that are designed to extend more
Deborah Jackson Taffa
The Many Voices of Creative Nonfiction
November 14 to December 9, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS In this course, we will engage in creative nonfiction with an eye to its shapeshifting possibilities. We will read a lyric essay, a braided more
The Many Voices of Creative Nonfiction
November 14 to December 9, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS In this course, we will engage in creative nonfiction with an eye to its shapeshifting possibilities. We will read a lyric essay, a braided more
Elissa Altman
Permission & the New Memoirist: Story Ownership & Truth-Telling
October 24 to November 18, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements Who am I to tell my story? The writing of memoir often begins with the daunting questions of permission, story ownership, more
Permission & the New Memoirist: Story Ownership & Truth-Telling
October 24 to November 18, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements Who am I to tell my story? The writing of memoir often begins with the daunting questions of permission, story ownership, more
Chloe Caldwell
Mastering the Kaleidoscope Essay - LIVE
December 5 to December 9, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern) Looking at events from multiple angles can be dangerous in “real life” though in writing it is illuminating and compelling. more
Mastering the Kaleidoscope Essay - LIVE
December 5 to December 9, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern) Looking at events from multiple angles can be dangerous in “real life” though in writing it is illuminating and compelling. more
Melissa Studdard
Your Own Fire: Writing the Poems That Only You Can Write
November 28 to December 2, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements The poems and poets we love most are often unfettered, unique, and unabashedly themselves. But writing such poems takes courage—to mine more
Your Own Fire: Writing the Poems That Only You Can Write
November 28 to December 2, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements The poems and poets we love most are often unfettered, unique, and unabashedly themselves. But writing such poems takes courage—to mine more
Chloe Garcia Roberts
Crossing Borders & Subverting Genre: the Lyric Essay
November 14 to December 9, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS Have your poems ever felt jealous of scientific essays, investigative journalism, instruction manuals, business correspondence, or religious texts to name a few? Or conversely more
Crossing Borders & Subverting Genre: the Lyric Essay
November 14 to December 9, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS Have your poems ever felt jealous of scientific essays, investigative journalism, instruction manuals, business correspondence, or religious texts to name a few? Or conversely more
Brendan Constantine
The Art of Getting It Wrong – LIVE
October 31 to November 4, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) Blinded by the blank page? Poet Brendan Constantine presents a special week-long edition of his generative workshop “The Art of more
The Art of Getting It Wrong – LIVE
October 31 to November 4, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) Blinded by the blank page? Poet Brendan Constantine presents a special week-long edition of his generative workshop “The Art of more
Martha Collins
Saturday Sprints with Martha Collins - LIVE
November 5 to November 5, 2022
Tuition: $225
A Handful of Quick Starts LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern) This workshop will begin with a very short brainstorming exercise to help you identify or more
Saturday Sprints with Martha Collins - LIVE
November 5 to November 5, 2022
Tuition: $225
A Handful of Quick Starts LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern) This workshop will begin with a very short brainstorming exercise to help you identify or more
Leah Umansky
Lost + Found: a Generative Poetry Workshop Using Found Pieces
October 17 to November 11, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements This workshop will focus on found texts to guide our minds into discovering new phrases of language we normally wouldn’t use more
Lost + Found: a Generative Poetry Workshop Using Found Pieces
October 17 to November 11, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements This workshop will focus on found texts to guide our minds into discovering new phrases of language we normally wouldn’t use more
Gayle Brandeis
Write Your Memoir Like an Animal
October 17 to November 11, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements In the 4th century, Saint Augustine wrote, “The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it more
Write Your Memoir Like an Animal
October 17 to November 11, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements In the 4th century, Saint Augustine wrote, “The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it more
Brian Turner
September Sprints with Brian Turner - LIVE
October 6 to October 6, 2022
Tuition: $225
Global Voices: A Workshop Focusing on 4 Poetic Approaches LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern) In this workshop, we’ll meet and learn from the work of more
September Sprints with Brian Turner - LIVE
October 6 to October 6, 2022
Tuition: $225
Global Voices: A Workshop Focusing on 4 Poetic Approaches LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern) In this workshop, we’ll meet and learn from the work of more
Joanne Dugan
The Image & the Word: a Collaborative Workshop for Writers & Photographers
October 24 to November 18, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text yields surprising results more
The Image & the Word: a Collaborative Workshop for Writers & Photographers
October 24 to November 18, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text yields surprising results more
Reif Larsen
Voice Matters: a Fiction Writing Workshop - LIVE
November 28 to December 2, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 10am-12pm (Eastern) We all know that feeling of encountering a strong narrative voice on the page. We are infected by its singularity, more
Voice Matters: a Fiction Writing Workshop - LIVE
November 28 to December 2, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 10am-12pm (Eastern) We all know that feeling of encountering a strong narrative voice on the page. We are infected by its singularity, more
Dorianne Laux
September Sprints with Dorianne Laux - LIVE
September 22 to September 22, 2022
Tuition: $225
The Controlling Image LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-5pm (Eastern). Acclaimed for her own hybrid lyric-narrative long poems that explore wide-ranging experience, from working-class America to sex more
September Sprints with Dorianne Laux - LIVE
September 22 to September 22, 2022
Tuition: $225
The Controlling Image LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-5pm (Eastern). Acclaimed for her own hybrid lyric-narrative long poems that explore wide-ranging experience, from working-class America to sex more
Joseph O. Legaspi
I Must Confess - LIVE
December 12 to December 16, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) Why does confessional poetry get a bad rap? Arguably, aren’t all poems confessional, revealing of human experiences and truths? This more
I Must Confess - LIVE
December 12 to December 16, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) Why does confessional poetry get a bad rap? Arguably, aren’t all poems confessional, revealing of human experiences and truths? This more
Tyler Mills
Radical Revision: Preparing Poems for Publication
October 31 to November 25, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements So, you have a draft. What now? This class is geared to helping you rip open the seams of your poems more
Radical Revision: Preparing Poems for Publication
October 31 to November 25, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements So, you have a draft. What now? This class is geared to helping you rip open the seams of your poems more
Ann Hood
How to Write a Kick-Ass Essay
November 7 to November 11, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements In this workshop, we will work all week on turning your unfinished essay, your idea for an essay, or your good more
How to Write a Kick-Ass Essay
November 7 to November 11, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements In this workshop, we will work all week on turning your unfinished essay, your idea for an essay, or your good more
Rebecca Morgan Frank
Poetry Book (or Chapbook) Bootcamp
November 7 to November 11, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements Are you shaping or revising and reshaping a poetry book or chapbook? Whether you are at the early stages of ordering more
Poetry Book (or Chapbook) Bootcamp
November 7 to November 11, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements Are you shaping or revising and reshaping a poetry book or chapbook? Whether you are at the early stages of ordering more
Curtis Bauer
Seeing A Poem in a Map of the World: A Generative Poetry Workshop
October 10 to October 14, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements “Through the window of the school/the map of Asia could be seen…” wrote the French poet and judge Jean Follain (translated more
Seeing A Poem in a Map of the World: A Generative Poetry Workshop
October 10 to October 14, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements “Through the window of the school/the map of Asia could be seen…” wrote the French poet and judge Jean Follain (translated more
Martha Rhodes
Guiding Your Reader Across & Down the Page: Poetry Workshop - LIVE
November 28 to December 2, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 4-6pm (Eastern) Our week together will focus on how we can help our readers navigate our poems through choices we make regarding more
Guiding Your Reader Across & Down the Page: Poetry Workshop - LIVE
November 28 to December 2, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 4-6pm (Eastern) Our week together will focus on how we can help our readers navigate our poems through choices we make regarding more
Joan Kwon Glass
Writing the Raw: Turning Memory, Wound & Truth Into Poetry
November 7 to November 11, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements How can we give a fresh and powerful voice to and breathe life into our raw memories? What questions do our more
Writing the Raw: Turning Memory, Wound & Truth Into Poetry
November 7 to November 11, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements How can we give a fresh and powerful voice to and breathe life into our raw memories? What questions do our more
Nova Ren Suma
Crafting the Young Adult Novel
November 7 to December 2, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements This workshop is for those who are writing a YA novel of any genre, at any stage in the process, seeking more
Crafting the Young Adult Novel
November 7 to December 2, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements This workshop is for those who are writing a YA novel of any genre, at any stage in the process, seeking more
Leila Chatti
Praise in Hard Times - LIVE
December 5 to December 9, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern) “Come, see real flowers of this painful world.” – Basho It can be difficult, in these trying times, to make more
Praise in Hard Times - LIVE
December 5 to December 9, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern) “Come, see real flowers of this painful world.” – Basho It can be difficult, in these trying times, to make more
Kristina Marie Darling
Professional Empowerment Across Genres & Disciplines: How to Successfully Pitch, Promote, & Fund Your Creative Projects
October 10 to December 2, 2022
Tuition: $750
ASYNCHRONOUS This workshop will walk students through the basics of writing convincing and persuasive pitches; crafting applications to fellowships, residencies, and grants; promoting their creative more
Professional Empowerment Across Genres & Disciplines: How to Successfully Pitch, Promote, & Fund Your Creative Projects
October 10 to December 2, 2022
Tuition: $750
ASYNCHRONOUS This workshop will walk students through the basics of writing convincing and persuasive pitches; crafting applications to fellowships, residencies, and grants; promoting their creative more
Erika Wurth
Structuring Your Novel
December 12 to December 16, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS Is structure, in terms of how to hold and shape a narrative effectively, something you’re struggling with in your novel, whether you’re just thinking more
Structuring Your Novel
December 12 to December 16, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS Is structure, in terms of how to hold and shape a narrative effectively, something you’re struggling with in your novel, whether you’re just thinking more
Tara Betts
Speculating on Joy & Futures in Poetry
August 22 to August 26, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS In this workshop, we’ll consider the significance of emphasizing joy, even in challenging times and crisis-laden moments. We’ll imagine the freedom that we want more
Speculating on Joy & Futures in Poetry
August 22 to August 26, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS In this workshop, we’ll consider the significance of emphasizing joy, even in challenging times and crisis-laden moments. We’ll imagine the freedom that we want more
Jessica Jacobs
Talking to the Walls: Writing Ekphrastic Poetry - HYBRID
June 21 to June 21, 2022
Tuition: $175
HYBRID SPRINT on June 21st at 2pm-4pm EST. 24PearlStreet welcomes virtual students to participate in exciting, generative, hybrid workshops as they happen in real time more
Talking to the Walls: Writing Ekphrastic Poetry - HYBRID
June 21 to June 21, 2022
Tuition: $175
HYBRID SPRINT on June 21st at 2pm-4pm EST. 24PearlStreet welcomes virtual students to participate in exciting, generative, hybrid workshops as they happen in real time more
Abigail Chabitnoy
Notes on the Assembly
August 22 to August 26, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Santayana proposes “the great function of poetry is to repair to the material of experience, seizing hold of the reality of more
Notes on the Assembly
August 22 to August 26, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Santayana proposes “the great function of poetry is to repair to the material of experience, seizing hold of the reality of more
Martha Rhodes
Revising & Generating, Creating New From the Old: a Poetry Workshop - LIVE
July 18 to July 22, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm EST. This workshop will focus on how we can manage our material through decisions regarding craft. We will look at how more
Revising & Generating, Creating New From the Old: a Poetry Workshop - LIVE
July 18 to July 22, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm EST. This workshop will focus on how we can manage our material through decisions regarding craft. We will look at how more
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Saturday Sprints with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo – LIVE
August 6 to August 6, 2022
Tuition: $225
LIVE via ZOOM: TBA. Saturday Sprints are three-hour generative workshops with stellar writers, usually centered on a theme. Workshops are limited to 25 participants. more
Saturday Sprints with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo – LIVE
August 6 to August 6, 2022
Tuition: $225
LIVE via ZOOM: TBA. Saturday Sprints are three-hour generative workshops with stellar writers, usually centered on a theme. Workshops are limited to 25 participants. more
Rebecca Morgan Frank
Discovering New Directions: A Poetry Workshop
August 8 to August 12, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Do you feel like you keep writing the same poem over and over, or that you aren’t sure how to begin more
Discovering New Directions: A Poetry Workshop
August 8 to August 12, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Do you feel like you keep writing the same poem over and over, or that you aren’t sure how to begin more
Nicole Sealey
Seeing is Believing: Drafting the Lasting Image - LIVE
August 8 to August 12, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 9am-11am EST. In The Poet’s Companion, Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux argue that images should “produce a bit of magic, a reality more
Seeing is Believing: Drafting the Lasting Image - LIVE
August 8 to August 12, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 9am-11am EST. In The Poet’s Companion, Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux argue that images should “produce a bit of magic, a reality more
Kristina Marie Darling
Perfecting the Book: a Workshop for Full-Length Poetry Manuscripts
June 20 to August 12, 2022
Tuition: $750
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS This workshop will provide detailed feedback on individual poems, as well as offering students a variety of strategies for sequencing, structuring, more
Perfecting the Book: a Workshop for Full-Length Poetry Manuscripts
June 20 to August 12, 2022
Tuition: $750
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS This workshop will provide detailed feedback on individual poems, as well as offering students a variety of strategies for sequencing, structuring, more
Sabrina Orah Mark
Beginning with the Impossible
August 1 to August 26, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS In this four-week asynchronous workshop we will begin—each week—with an impossible premise. We will write through the inconceivable, the ridiculous, the tragic, the miraculous. more
Beginning with the Impossible
August 1 to August 26, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS In this four-week asynchronous workshop we will begin—each week—with an impossible premise. We will write through the inconceivable, the ridiculous, the tragic, the miraculous. more
Chloe Caldwell
Structuring the Novella with Precision
June 20 to July 15, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS Novellas are a special art form—contained and controlled. In this class, we will explore what makes an engaging novella and read various narrators such more
Structuring the Novella with Precision
June 20 to July 15, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS Novellas are a special art form—contained and controlled. In this class, we will explore what makes an engaging novella and read various narrators such more
Olivia Kate Cerrone
Advanced Techniques in Plot Development for Fiction Writers
July 25 to August 19, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS This course is designed for fiction writers with a foundational grasp of plot and structure. Crafting well-designed plots that do not feel contrived or more
Advanced Techniques in Plot Development for Fiction Writers
July 25 to August 19, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS This course is designed for fiction writers with a foundational grasp of plot and structure. Crafting well-designed plots that do not feel contrived or more
Peter Campion
Form & Feeling - LIVE
June 20 to June 24, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-3pm EST. This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside more
Form & Feeling - LIVE
June 20 to June 24, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-3pm EST. This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside more
Nova Ren Suma
Crafting the Young Adult Novel
July 18 to August 12, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS This asynchronous workshop is for those who are writing a YA novel of any genre, at any stage in the process, more
Crafting the Young Adult Novel
July 18 to August 12, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS This asynchronous workshop is for those who are writing a YA novel of any genre, at any stage in the process, more
Deborah Jackson Taffa
Storytelling as Radical Empowerment
August 15 to August 19, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS Dear nonfiction and fiction writers: Are you imagining characters—either yourself or others—who constantly swim against the tide? This class will serve the protagonist who, more
Storytelling as Radical Empowerment
August 15 to August 19, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS Dear nonfiction and fiction writers: Are you imagining characters—either yourself or others—who constantly swim against the tide? This class will serve the protagonist who, more
Tyler Mills
Poems that Travel—A Writing Residency at Home
July 11 to August 5, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Have you ever thought, “I’d love to do a writing residency, but I don’t have time, or am not able to more
Poems that Travel—A Writing Residency at Home
July 11 to August 5, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Have you ever thought, “I’d love to do a writing residency, but I don’t have time, or am not able to more
Brendan Constantine
The Art of Getting It Wrong - LIVE
August 15 to August 19, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 3pm-5pm EST. Blinded by the blank page? Poet Brendan Constantine presents a special week-long edition of his generative workshop “The Art of more
The Art of Getting It Wrong - LIVE
August 15 to August 19, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 3pm-5pm EST. Blinded by the blank page? Poet Brendan Constantine presents a special week-long edition of his generative workshop “The Art of more
Keetje Kuipers
The Pleasures of Peril: Writing Poems on the Brink
July 25 to August 19, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS What does it mean to not just write towards the things that scare us, but to write about them in a more
The Pleasures of Peril: Writing Poems on the Brink
July 25 to August 19, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS What does it mean to not just write towards the things that scare us, but to write about them in a more
Leah Umansky
Lost + Found: a Generative Poetry Workshop Using Found Pieces
June 27 to July 1, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS This workshop will focus on found texts to guide our minds into discovering new phrases of language we normally wouldn’t use in a poem. more
Lost + Found: a Generative Poetry Workshop Using Found Pieces
June 27 to July 1, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS This workshop will focus on found texts to guide our minds into discovering new phrases of language we normally wouldn’t use in a poem. more
Anne Sanow
Revision Is the Writing: Prose Workshop
August 1 to August 26, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS It’s easy to resist revision as the “work” part of creating—but when you embrace it fully as part of the creative more
Revision Is the Writing: Prose Workshop
August 1 to August 26, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS It’s easy to resist revision as the “work” part of creating—but when you embrace it fully as part of the creative more
Jennifer Martelli
Crossing That Line: a Generative and Revision Workshop
June 27 to August 19, 2022
Tuition: $750
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Line breaks—when we’re unbound from formal poetry—can be mystifying! When do we break—if ever? This class is for people who want more
Crossing That Line: a Generative and Revision Workshop
June 27 to August 19, 2022
Tuition: $750
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Line breaks—when we’re unbound from formal poetry—can be mystifying! When do we break—if ever? This class is for people who want more
Dorianne Laux
The Brilliance of the Simple Line - LIVE
June 27 to July 1, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm EST. It’s difficult to write a simple poem, a poem of precision, accuracy, depth and breadth. One where each image is more
The Brilliance of the Simple Line - LIVE
June 27 to July 1, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm EST. It’s difficult to write a simple poem, a poem of precision, accuracy, depth and breadth. One where each image is more
January Gill O'Neil
What Are You Risking? – A Generative Workshop - LIVE
July 18 to July 22, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 10am-12pm EST. “In a poem, one line may hide another line,/ As at a crossing, one train may hide another train.” —Kenneth more
What Are You Risking? – A Generative Workshop - LIVE
July 18 to July 22, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 10am-12pm EST. “In a poem, one line may hide another line,/ As at a crossing, one train may hide another train.” —Kenneth more
Elissa Altman
The Heart of Your Story: Creating Intimacy in Memoir
August 1 to August 26, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Annie Dillard once said “You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and say more
The Heart of Your Story: Creating Intimacy in Memoir
August 1 to August 26, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Annie Dillard once said “You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and say more
Ann Hood
Start Making Sense: How to Make Order From the Chaos of Your Story
August 15 to August 19, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS Even though David Byrne urges us to “stop making sense,” in non fiction and memoir writing we must start making sense: of the events, more
Start Making Sense: How to Make Order From the Chaos of Your Story
August 15 to August 19, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS Even though David Byrne urges us to “stop making sense,” in non fiction and memoir writing we must start making sense: of the events, more
Taylor Mali
(Not) Only On Paper: Poetry from Page to Stage - LIVE
August 22 to August 26, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm EST. Robert Penn Warren, the only person ever to have won the Pulitzer Prize for both poetry and fiction, is rumored more
(Not) Only On Paper: Poetry from Page to Stage - LIVE
August 22 to August 26, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm EST. Robert Penn Warren, the only person ever to have won the Pulitzer Prize for both poetry and fiction, is rumored more
Erin Belieu
Vision & Revision - LIVE
August 15 to August 19, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE TIME: 10am-12pm EST. In this workshop we will look at poems generated by prompts I share with you that are designed to extend your more
Vision & Revision - LIVE
August 15 to August 19, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE TIME: 10am-12pm EST. In this workshop we will look at poems generated by prompts I share with you that are designed to extend your more
John Murillo
Gimme the Loot: How to Steal Like a Poet - LIVE
August 8 to August 12, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-3pm EST. In this class, we will explore strategies by which poets may enrich their own art by deliberately imitating their favorites… more
Gimme the Loot: How to Steal Like a Poet - LIVE
August 8 to August 12, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-3pm EST. In this class, we will explore strategies by which poets may enrich their own art by deliberately imitating their favorites… more
Rebecca Seiferle
Your Interior Journey
February 7 to March 4, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS In this workshop we’ll write about defining moments, charged bits of experience. These often intersect with other experiences—political or social—from the stories that others more
Your Interior Journey
February 7 to March 4, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS In this workshop we’ll write about defining moments, charged bits of experience. These often intersect with other experiences—political or social—from the stories that others more
Patricia Spears Jones
Basic & Bold
February 21 to February 25, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern Time) We often take our skills for granted—and in doing so, fall into predictable patterns. This five day Zoom workshop more
Basic & Bold
February 21 to February 25, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern Time) We often take our skills for granted—and in doing so, fall into predictable patterns. This five day Zoom workshop more
Erin Adair-Hodges
Bell, Book, and Candle: Disruptions and Incantations
February 14 to February 18, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 8-10pm (Eastern Time) more
Bell, Book, and Candle: Disruptions and Incantations
February 14 to February 18, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 8-10pm (Eastern Time) more
Elisa Albert
Writing Toward the Ideal Reader
March 7 to March 11, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 11am-1pm Trusting our instincts when it comes to voice and perspective is essential in creating vital narrative. For whom are we writing? more
Writing Toward the Ideal Reader
March 7 to March 11, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 11am-1pm Trusting our instincts when it comes to voice and perspective is essential in creating vital narrative. For whom are we writing? more
Joanne Dugan
Writing Pictures: A Collaborative Workshop
March 7 to March 11, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 10am-12pm (Eastern) It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text yields surprising more
Writing Pictures: A Collaborative Workshop
March 7 to March 11, 2022
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 10am-12pm (Eastern) It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text yields surprising more
Peter Campion
Form & Feeling
January 24 to February 18, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside more
Form & Feeling
January 24 to February 18, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside more
Ann Hood
Writing the Personal Essay
January 24 to February 18, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, more
Writing the Personal Essay
January 24 to February 18, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, more
Dorianne Laux
Saturday Sprints with Dorianne Laux - LIVE
February 12 to February 12, 2022
Tuition: $225
On Becoming a Poet LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern Time) When did you first realize you were a poet, the one who held the memories, more
Saturday Sprints with Dorianne Laux - LIVE
February 12 to February 12, 2022
Tuition: $225
On Becoming a Poet LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern Time) When did you first realize you were a poet, the one who held the memories, more
Adrian Matejka
With a Voice Like That: Developing Voice and Persona in Poems
January 17 to January 21, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS The poet’s ultimate representation on the page is the poetic voice. Sharon Olds sounds like “Sharon Olds” because of her language choice, syntax, and more
With a Voice Like That: Developing Voice and Persona in Poems
January 17 to January 21, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS The poet’s ultimate representation on the page is the poetic voice. Sharon Olds sounds like “Sharon Olds” because of her language choice, syntax, and more
Anne Sanow
Liftoff: Getting That Story Draft Moving
January 17 to February 11, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS Do you have unfinished story fragments? Lacking some focus with your writing? Or just looking for a fresh start? This course is for you! more
Liftoff: Getting That Story Draft Moving
January 17 to February 11, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS Do you have unfinished story fragments? Lacking some focus with your writing? Or just looking for a fresh start? This course is for you! more
Brian Turner
Saturday Sprints with Brian Turner - LIVE
February 26 to February 26, 2022
Tuition: $225
Global Voices: A Poetry Workshop Focusing on 4 Poetic Forms LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (EST) In this workshop, we’ll meet and learn from the work more
Saturday Sprints with Brian Turner - LIVE
February 26 to February 26, 2022
Tuition: $225
Global Voices: A Poetry Workshop Focusing on 4 Poetic Forms LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (EST) In this workshop, we’ll meet and learn from the work more
Tyler Mills
RADICAL REVISION: PREPARING POEMS FOR PUBLICATION
February 7 to March 4, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS So you have a draft. What now? This class is geared to helping you rip open the seams of your more
RADICAL REVISION: PREPARING POEMS FOR PUBLICATION
February 7 to March 4, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS So you have a draft. What now? This class is geared to helping you rip open the seams of your more
Chloe Caldwell
The Kaleidoscope Essay
February 7 to March 4, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS: What would happen if you took one topic or experience and wrote an essay about it as if you were more
The Kaleidoscope Essay
February 7 to March 4, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS: What would happen if you took one topic or experience and wrote an essay about it as if you were more
Curtis Bauer
The Kaleidoscope Essay
February 28 to March 4, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS “Everything is an event for those who know how to tremble…” wrote the French poet and judge Jean Follain (translated here by Heather McHugh). more
The Kaleidoscope Essay
February 28 to March 4, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS “Everything is an event for those who know how to tremble…” wrote the French poet and judge Jean Follain (translated here by Heather McHugh). more
Sarah Green
Spring Forward: A New Writing Habit Starter
February 28 to March 4, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS Do you keep meaning to write but find yourself waylaid by parenting, work crises, news headlines, Netflix, or other fill-in-the-blank interlopers? Do you periodically more
Spring Forward: A New Writing Habit Starter
February 28 to March 4, 2022
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS Do you keep meaning to write but find yourself waylaid by parenting, work crises, news headlines, Netflix, or other fill-in-the-blank interlopers? Do you periodically more
Elissa Altman
Intimacy, Permission, and the Heart of the Story
January 31 to February 25, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS Annie Dillard once said, “You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and say, And then I more
Intimacy, Permission, and the Heart of the Story
January 31 to February 25, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS Annie Dillard once said, “You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and say, And then I more
Sandra Beasley
Mapping Your Memoir from Start to Finish
January 17 to March 11, 2022
Tuition: $750
ASYNCHRONOUS What begins with “I have a story to tell” can soon feel unwieldy in terms of structuring a narrative, creating scenes, and adding factual more
Mapping Your Memoir from Start to Finish
January 17 to March 11, 2022
Tuition: $750
ASYNCHRONOUS What begins with “I have a story to tell” can soon feel unwieldy in terms of structuring a narrative, creating scenes, and adding factual more
Gayle Brandeis
Write Your Memoir Like an Animal
January 24 to February 18, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS In the 4th century, Saint Augustine wrote, “The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will more
Write Your Memoir Like an Animal
January 24 to February 18, 2022
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS In the 4th century, Saint Augustine wrote, “The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will more
Victoria Redel
POSSIBILITIES & NECESSITIES: A FICTION WORKSHOP - LIVE
August 23 to August 27, 2021
Tuition: $550
This workshop focuses on possibilities within a work of fiction—what are the possibilities and limitations found in choices of narrative point of view, syntax, time, more
POSSIBILITIES & NECESSITIES: A FICTION WORKSHOP - LIVE
August 23 to August 27, 2021
Tuition: $550
This workshop focuses on possibilities within a work of fiction—what are the possibilities and limitations found in choices of narrative point of view, syntax, time, more
Ann Hood
Jumpstart Your Memoir
November 15 to November 19, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 9am-11am (Eastern) In this one week intensive workshop we will work together to help you jumpstart your memoir. Whether you’re stuck in more
Jumpstart Your Memoir
November 15 to November 19, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 9am-11am (Eastern) In this one week intensive workshop we will work together to help you jumpstart your memoir. Whether you’re stuck in more
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Saturday Sprints with Aimee Nezhukumatathil - LIVE
December 4 to December 4, 2021
Tuition: $225
THE EDGE of the SEA is a STRANGE & BEAUTIFUL PLACE: HYBRID POEMS & PROSE EXPERIMENTS LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-5pm (Eastern). Building upon Rachel Carson’s more
Saturday Sprints with Aimee Nezhukumatathil - LIVE
December 4 to December 4, 2021
Tuition: $225
THE EDGE of the SEA is a STRANGE & BEAUTIFUL PLACE: HYBRID POEMS & PROSE EXPERIMENTS LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-5pm (Eastern). Building upon Rachel Carson’s more
Nicole J. Georges
Drawing a Line: Graphic Memoir - LIVE
December 6 to December 10, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) In this workshop we will explore and practice elements of story-telling in comics, with a focus on autobiography and fiction. more
Drawing a Line: Graphic Memoir - LIVE
December 6 to December 10, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) In this workshop we will explore and practice elements of story-telling in comics, with a focus on autobiography and fiction. more
Joanne Dugan
Writing Pictures: A Collaborative Workshop - LIVE
November 15 to November 19, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 10am to 12pm (Eastern) It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text more
Writing Pictures: A Collaborative Workshop - LIVE
November 15 to November 19, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 10am to 12pm (Eastern) It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text more
Nick Flynn
Memoir as Bewilderment - LIVE
November 1 to November 5, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm Eastern In The Unnamable, Beckett offers this: “Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself in the end.” In our more
Memoir as Bewilderment - LIVE
November 1 to November 5, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm Eastern In The Unnamable, Beckett offers this: “Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself in the end.” In our more
Allison Joseph
Elegy as Healing Art
December 6 to December 10, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm This poetry workshop will consist of reading and writing elegies. How does poetry equip us to talk to and about grief? more
Elegy as Healing Art
December 6 to December 10, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm This poetry workshop will consist of reading and writing elegies. How does poetry equip us to talk to and about grief? more
Dorianne Laux
MAKING A POEM MEMORABLE - LIVE
October 4 to October 8, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) What makes a poem memorable? Dave Smith says it’s “… a confident use of language which releases feeling and keeps more
MAKING A POEM MEMORABLE - LIVE
October 4 to October 8, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) What makes a poem memorable? Dave Smith says it’s “… a confident use of language which releases feeling and keeps more
Patricia Spears Jones
9 Living Women Poets, 4 New Poems
December 6 to December 10, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS This is a is a generative poetry workshop for accomplished poets who want to closely explore the work of living women more
9 Living Women Poets, 4 New Poems
December 6 to December 10, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS This is a is a generative poetry workshop for accomplished poets who want to closely explore the work of living women more
Kelli Russell Agodon
SECRET DOORWAYS INTO POETRY: A WEEK OF WRITING NEW POEMS - LIVE
October 25 to October 29, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) In times of uncertainty, it may be difficult to find the time and energy to write, but entryways into poems more
SECRET DOORWAYS INTO POETRY: A WEEK OF WRITING NEW POEMS - LIVE
October 25 to October 29, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) In times of uncertainty, it may be difficult to find the time and energy to write, but entryways into poems more
Susanna Sonnenberg
UNSAYABLE: THE ART OF BARING & BEARING THE TRUTH IN MEMOIR - LIVE
November 1 to November 5, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) In this five-day workshop, through prompts and discussion, we’ll investigate your true expression, the fears and perceived dangers of telling/writing more
UNSAYABLE: THE ART OF BARING & BEARING THE TRUTH IN MEMOIR - LIVE
November 1 to November 5, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) In this five-day workshop, through prompts and discussion, we’ll investigate your true expression, the fears and perceived dangers of telling/writing more
Elisa Albert
The Unlikeable Narrator - LIVE
November 15 to November 19, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 11am-1pm (Eastern) What is “likeability” and how is it used, abused, glorified, and misunderstood in fiction? In this generative workshop, we’ll employ more
The Unlikeable Narrator - LIVE
November 15 to November 19, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 11am-1pm (Eastern) What is “likeability” and how is it used, abused, glorified, and misunderstood in fiction? In this generative workshop, we’ll employ more
January Gill O'Neil
TINY MIRACLES AND EVERYDAY WONDERS: A POETRY WORKSHOP - LIVE
October 25 to October 29, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern) Making room for beauty and randomness may seem like an indulgence in our writing. But attending to our astonishments—the tiny more
TINY MIRACLES AND EVERYDAY WONDERS: A POETRY WORKSHOP - LIVE
October 25 to October 29, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern) Making room for beauty and randomness may seem like an indulgence in our writing. But attending to our astonishments—the tiny more
Rebecca Morgan Frank
THE ART OF GETTING UNSTUCK: WRITING YOUR WAY BACK INTO THE POEM - LIVE
October 11 to October 15, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) Are you trying to find your way back to poetry after a long year or more of putting your creative more
THE ART OF GETTING UNSTUCK: WRITING YOUR WAY BACK INTO THE POEM - LIVE
October 11 to October 15, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) Are you trying to find your way back to poetry after a long year or more of putting your creative more
Kim Addonizio
WORD SHOP: A POETRY WORKSHOP - LIVE
October 11 to October 15, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 11am-1pm (Eastern) Get ready for five days of intensive writing together! During our Zoom meetings, we’ll do all kinds of in-class writing. more
WORD SHOP: A POETRY WORKSHOP - LIVE
October 11 to October 15, 2021
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 11am-1pm (Eastern) Get ready for five days of intensive writing together! During our Zoom meetings, we’ll do all kinds of in-class writing. more
Daisy Fried
WRITING POEMS THAT DON'T FIT
October 4 to October 29, 2021
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS Does it sometimes feel to you that your poems don’t quite fit in? Are you excited about what you are writing but feel you’re more
WRITING POEMS THAT DON'T FIT
October 4 to October 29, 2021
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS Does it sometimes feel to you that your poems don’t quite fit in? Are you excited about what you are writing but feel you’re more
Curtis Bauer
WRITING THE EVENT: A GENERATIVE POETRY WORKSHOP
October 18 to October 22, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS “Everything is an event for those who know how to tremble…” wrote the French poet and judge Jean Follain (translated more
WRITING THE EVENT: A GENERATIVE POETRY WORKSHOP
October 18 to October 22, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS “Everything is an event for those who know how to tremble…” wrote the French poet and judge Jean Follain (translated more
Sandra Beasley
MAPPING YOUR MEMOIR FROM START TO FINISH
October 18 to December 10, 2021
Tuition: $750
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS What begins with “I have a story to tell” can soon feel unwieldy in terms of structuring a narrative, creating more
MAPPING YOUR MEMOIR FROM START TO FINISH
October 18 to December 10, 2021
Tuition: $750
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS What begins with “I have a story to tell” can soon feel unwieldy in terms of structuring a narrative, creating more
Elissa Altman
INTIMACY, PERMISSION, AND THE HEART OF THE STORY
October 25 to November 19, 2021
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS Annie Dillard once said You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and more
INTIMACY, PERMISSION, AND THE HEART OF THE STORY
October 25 to November 19, 2021
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS Annie Dillard once said You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and more
Fred Marchant
ENERGIES OF THE DREAM: A POETRY WORKSHOP
October 25 to November 19, 2021
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS Just think of how many dreams you have during any given month! Think of the imaginative energy that pours into, and emanates from those images more
ENERGIES OF THE DREAM: A POETRY WORKSHOP
October 25 to November 19, 2021
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS Just think of how many dreams you have during any given month! Think of the imaginative energy that pours into, and emanates from those images more
Peter Campion
FORM & FEELING
October 18 to November 12, 2021
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside more
FORM & FEELING
October 18 to November 12, 2021
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside more
Anne Sanow
LIFTOFF: GETTING THAT STORY DRAFT MOVING
October 18 to November 12, 2021
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Do you have unfinished story fragments? Lacking some focus with your writing? Or just looking for a fresh start? This course more
LIFTOFF: GETTING THAT STORY DRAFT MOVING
October 18 to November 12, 2021
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Do you have unfinished story fragments? Lacking some focus with your writing? Or just looking for a fresh start? This course more
Sarah Rose Nordgren
What's the Big Idea? Ambitious Poems in Uncertain Times
November 8 to December 10, 2021
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONONOUS How can poetry help us to process and respond to uncertainty? How might it teach us to grieve as well as heal? To counter more
What's the Big Idea? Ambitious Poems in Uncertain Times
November 8 to December 10, 2021
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONONOUS How can poetry help us to process and respond to uncertainty? How might it teach us to grieve as well as heal? To counter more
Chloe Caldwell
Structuring the Novel with Precision
November 15 to December 10, 2021
Tuition: $650
ASHYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Novellas are a special art form—contained and controlled. In this class, we will explore what makes an engaging novella and read more
Structuring the Novel with Precision
November 15 to December 10, 2021
Tuition: $650
ASHYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Novellas are a special art form—contained and controlled. In this class, we will explore what makes an engaging novella and read more
June Sylvester Saraceno
CREATING UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS
November 8 to December 3, 2021
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS Literary fiction has given us enduring, unforgettable characters—Scout, Holden, Anna Karenina, Bilbo Baggins and so many more. In this workshop, we’ll focus on creating more
CREATING UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS
November 8 to December 3, 2021
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS Literary fiction has given us enduring, unforgettable characters—Scout, Holden, Anna Karenina, Bilbo Baggins and so many more. In this workshop, we’ll focus on creating more
Gayle Brandeis
Write Your Memoir Like an Animal
November 8 to November 12, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS In the 4th century, Saint Augustine wrote, “The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will more
Write Your Memoir Like an Animal
November 8 to November 12, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS In the 4th century, Saint Augustine wrote, “The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will more
Marcie Hershman
WRITING IN INTERESTING TIMES - LIVE
August 16 to August 20, 2021
Tuition: $550
As a much-quoted curse of debatable origins has it: “May you live in interesting times!” For the past year the coronavirus pandemic has demanded all more
WRITING IN INTERESTING TIMES - LIVE
August 16 to August 20, 2021
Tuition: $550
As a much-quoted curse of debatable origins has it: “May you live in interesting times!” For the past year the coronavirus pandemic has demanded all more
Gail Mazur
WRITING POEMS: VISION & REVISION - LIVE
August 9 to August 13, 2021
Tuition: $550
Often the best, most surprising inspirations for revision comes from close readings of poems new to us. Together we’ll look at poems and write new more
WRITING POEMS: VISION & REVISION - LIVE
August 9 to August 13, 2021
Tuition: $550
Often the best, most surprising inspirations for revision comes from close readings of poems new to us. Together we’ll look at poems and write new more
Paul Lisicky
ON URGENCY: MEMOIR/CREATIVE NONFICTION THROUGH A QUEER LENS - LIVE
August 9 to August 13, 2021
Tuition: $550
What does it mean to write memoir and creative nonfiction as a queer person in 2021? What silences do we sense in the archive and more
ON URGENCY: MEMOIR/CREATIVE NONFICTION THROUGH A QUEER LENS - LIVE
August 9 to August 13, 2021
Tuition: $550
What does it mean to write memoir and creative nonfiction as a queer person in 2021? What silences do we sense in the archive and more
Sabrina Orah Mark
WRITING YOUR OBSESSION
August 2 to August 27, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS In this four-week workshop you will write the living daylights out of that thing that writes the living daylights out of you. What, like more
WRITING YOUR OBSESSION
August 2 to August 27, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS In this four-week workshop you will write the living daylights out of that thing that writes the living daylights out of you. What, like more
Nicole Sealey
SEEING IS BELIEVING: DRAFTING THE LASTING IMAGE - LIVE
August 2 to August 6, 2021
Tuition: $550
In The Poet’s Companion, Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux argue that images should “produce a bit of magic, a reality so real it is ‘like more
SEEING IS BELIEVING: DRAFTING THE LASTING IMAGE - LIVE
August 2 to August 6, 2021
Tuition: $550
In The Poet’s Companion, Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux argue that images should “produce a bit of magic, a reality so real it is ‘like more
Matthew Olzmann
LOVE POEMS - LIVE
August 2 to August 6, 2021
Tuition: $550
Why do these things feel impossible to write? How can a poem risk vulnerability without crushing us under the weight of sentimentality? Why are so more
LOVE POEMS - LIVE
August 2 to August 6, 2021
Tuition: $550
Why do these things feel impossible to write? How can a poem risk vulnerability without crushing us under the weight of sentimentality? Why are so more
John Murillo
CUT, SCRATCH & BLEND: REVISION AS REMIX - LIVE
August 2 to August 6, 2021
Tuition: $550
“Poetry,” writes Yusef Komunyakaa in his essay collection Blue Notes, “is an act of meditation and improvisation. And need is the motor that propels the more
CUT, SCRATCH & BLEND: REVISION AS REMIX - LIVE
August 2 to August 6, 2021
Tuition: $550
“Poetry,” writes Yusef Komunyakaa in his essay collection Blue Notes, “is an act of meditation and improvisation. And need is the motor that propels the more
Andre Dubus III
Do Not Think, Dream: Fiction & Creative Nonfiction Workshop - Live
July 26 to July 30, 2021
Tuition: $550
If I teach nothing in my writing classes, I teach this: do not outline your novel or novella or short story or essay. Do not more
Do Not Think, Dream: Fiction & Creative Nonfiction Workshop - Live
July 26 to July 30, 2021
Tuition: $550
If I teach nothing in my writing classes, I teach this: do not outline your novel or novella or short story or essay. Do not more
Mark Conway
WHAT YOU’RE WILLING TO DISCOVER - LIVE
July 26 to July 30, 2021
Tuition: $550
Yusef Komunkyakaa said, “Don’t write what you know. Write what you are willing to discover.” In this poetry workshop we’ll concentrate on writing toward the more
WHAT YOU’RE WILLING TO DISCOVER - LIVE
July 26 to July 30, 2021
Tuition: $550
Yusef Komunkyakaa said, “Don’t write what you know. Write what you are willing to discover.” In this poetry workshop we’ll concentrate on writing toward the more
Michael Collier
TRANSLATION & REVISION: A GENERATIVE POETRY WORKSHOP - LIVE
July 26 to July 30, 2021
Tuition: $550
Translation as (re)vision is a generative workshop in which cribs will be used to produce versions of poems by Constantine Cavafy, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gabriela more
TRANSLATION & REVISION: A GENERATIVE POETRY WORKSHOP - LIVE
July 26 to July 30, 2021
Tuition: $550
Translation as (re)vision is a generative workshop in which cribs will be used to produce versions of poems by Constantine Cavafy, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gabriela more
Marion Winik
MEMOIR BOOT CAMP - LIVE
July 19 to July 23, 2021
Tuition: $550
Are you ready for “a short, intensive, and rigorous course of training”? That’s what boot camp is all about. Our week together will be devoted more
MEMOIR BOOT CAMP - LIVE
July 19 to July 23, 2021
Tuition: $550
Are you ready for “a short, intensive, and rigorous course of training”? That’s what boot camp is all about. Our week together will be devoted more
Fred Marchant
ENERGIES OF THE DREAM: A POETRY WORKSHOP - LIVE
July 19 to July 23, 2021
Tuition: $550
Just think of how many dreams you have during any given week! Think of the imaginative energy that pours into, and emanates from those images more
ENERGIES OF THE DREAM: A POETRY WORKSHOP - LIVE
July 19 to July 23, 2021
Tuition: $550
Just think of how many dreams you have during any given week! Think of the imaginative energy that pours into, and emanates from those images more
Erin Belieu
VISION & REVISION: A POETRY WORKSHOP - LIVE
July 19 to July 23, 2021
Tuition: $550
In this workshop, you will decide if you’re more interested in generating new work or in sharing previously drafted work with the group (or some more
VISION & REVISION: A POETRY WORKSHOP - LIVE
July 19 to July 23, 2021
Tuition: $550
In this workshop, you will decide if you’re more interested in generating new work or in sharing previously drafted work with the group (or some more
Sandra Beasley
Taming the Beast: Assembling Your Poetry Collection
July 12 to August 6, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS Are you proud of individual poems, but daunted by putting together a whole manuscript? This class, which can be used for chapbook or full-length more
Taming the Beast: Assembling Your Poetry Collection
July 12 to August 6, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS Are you proud of individual poems, but daunted by putting together a whole manuscript? This class, which can be used for chapbook or full-length more
Sarah Schulman
FICTION & NONFICTION WORKSHOP - LIVE
July 12 to July 16, 2021
Tuition: $550
A craft-based workshop for fiction and non-fiction writers on ALL levels: from true beginner to the multiply published, working on witnessing our extraordinary time, expressing more
FICTION & NONFICTION WORKSHOP - LIVE
July 12 to July 16, 2021
Tuition: $550
A craft-based workshop for fiction and non-fiction writers on ALL levels: from true beginner to the multiply published, working on witnessing our extraordinary time, expressing more
Porsha Olayiwola
DISMANTLING THE TRADITION: ON FORM & POWER - LIVE
July 12 to July 16, 2021
Tuition: $550
Infrastructures hold tradition in place. Tradition creates social norms that last centuries. Infrastructure, both tangible and unseen, establish a system by which the norms never more
DISMANTLING THE TRADITION: ON FORM & POWER - LIVE
July 12 to July 16, 2021
Tuition: $550
Infrastructures hold tradition in place. Tradition creates social norms that last centuries. Infrastructure, both tangible and unseen, establish a system by which the norms never more
Eileen Myles
THE FUTURE: A POETRY WORKSHOP IN 2021 - LIVE
July 12 to July 16, 2021
Tuition: $550
I’ve always liked poetry workshops. You meet a weird and interesting new group of people, you’ll write a poem you never imagined and you are more
THE FUTURE: A POETRY WORKSHOP IN 2021 - LIVE
July 12 to July 16, 2021
Tuition: $550
I’ve always liked poetry workshops. You meet a weird and interesting new group of people, you’ll write a poem you never imagined and you are more
Nancy Pearson
15 WORKS: A POETRY WORKSHOP
July 5 to July 30, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS This four-week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
15 WORKS: A POETRY WORKSHOP
July 5 to July 30, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS This four-week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
Ada Limón
THE ART OF CONJURING: MAKING SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING - LIVE
July 5 to July 9, 2021
Tuition: $550
Where does a poem come from? How is a poem even made? Some of the world’s best poets sit down and ask themselves this daily. more
THE ART OF CONJURING: MAKING SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING - LIVE
July 5 to July 9, 2021
Tuition: $550
Where does a poem come from? How is a poem even made? Some of the world’s best poets sit down and ask themselves this daily. more
Pam Houston
COMING BACK OUT OF THE DARK, BUT DIFFERENTLY: A GENERATIVE PROSE WORKSHOP - LIVE
July 5 to July 9, 2021
Tuition: $550
The year 2020 has changed us all in ways we are only beginning to understand, but one thing that is true about it, is we more
COMING BACK OUT OF THE DARK, BUT DIFFERENTLY: A GENERATIVE PROSE WORKSHOP - LIVE
July 5 to July 9, 2021
Tuition: $550
The year 2020 has changed us all in ways we are only beginning to understand, but one thing that is true about it, is we more
Peter Campion
GOING TO THE SOURCE: A POETRY WORKSHOP - LIVE
June 28 to July 2, 2021
Tuition: $550
Improve your poems by considering the art more fully, from the inside out. Our goal will be to find new sources for our poems. What more
GOING TO THE SOURCE: A POETRY WORKSHOP - LIVE
June 28 to July 2, 2021
Tuition: $550
Improve your poems by considering the art more fully, from the inside out. Our goal will be to find new sources for our poems. What more
Jonatha Brooke
SECRETS, LIES, AND THE ESSENTIAL TRUTHS: FINDING YOUR VOICE AS A PLAYWRIGHT - LIVE
June 28 to July 2, 2021
Tuition: $550
Develop your play or solo show. In this generative workshop, we will discuss character and story, timeline, arc. We’ll dig and deepen, explore new ways more
SECRETS, LIES, AND THE ESSENTIAL TRUTHS: FINDING YOUR VOICE AS A PLAYWRIGHT - LIVE
June 28 to July 2, 2021
Tuition: $550
Develop your play or solo show. In this generative workshop, we will discuss character and story, timeline, arc. We’ll dig and deepen, explore new ways more
Elissa Altman
TELLING YOUR STORY: PERMISSION & THE NEW MEMOIRIST - LIVE
June 28 to July 2, 2021
Tuition: $550
The human compulsion to tell our stories makes us who we are; the act of crafting them into engaging personal narrative elevates them beyond the more
TELLING YOUR STORY: PERMISSION & THE NEW MEMOIRIST - LIVE
June 28 to July 2, 2021
Tuition: $550
The human compulsion to tell our stories makes us who we are; the act of crafting them into engaging personal narrative elevates them beyond the more
Major Jackson
WRITING TO IMAGINE OURSELVES: A POETRY WORKSHOP - LIVE
June 21 to June 25, 2021
Tuition: $550
“I rhyme / to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.” –Seamus Heaney, “Personal Helicon” So much of writing poetry is a discovery and honoring more
WRITING TO IMAGINE OURSELVES: A POETRY WORKSHOP - LIVE
June 21 to June 25, 2021
Tuition: $550
“I rhyme / to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.” –Seamus Heaney, “Personal Helicon” So much of writing poetry is a discovery and honoring more
Kimiko Hahn
THE HYBRID POEM - LIVE
June 21 to June 25, 2021
Tuition: $550
The hybrid text is not new but the word and our regard for the multi-genre approach is relatively new. So, our opening questions are: how more
THE HYBRID POEM - LIVE
June 21 to June 25, 2021
Tuition: $550
The hybrid text is not new but the word and our regard for the multi-genre approach is relatively new. So, our opening questions are: how more
Reif Larsen
VOICE MATTERS: A FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP - LIVE
June 14 to June 18, 2021
Tuition: $550
We all know that feeling of encountering a strong narrative voice on the page. We are infected by its singularity, by its seduction, by its more
VOICE MATTERS: A FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP - LIVE
June 14 to June 18, 2021
Tuition: $550
We all know that feeling of encountering a strong narrative voice on the page. We are infected by its singularity, by its seduction, by its more
Tina Chang
HYBRID BEAST - LIVE
June 14 to June 18, 2021
Tuition: $550
The word hybrid comes from the Latin hybrida which means mongrel, a creature of mixed breed. The tradition of poetry is widening, drawing from many more
HYBRID BEAST - LIVE
June 14 to June 18, 2021
Tuition: $550
The word hybrid comes from the Latin hybrida which means mongrel, a creature of mixed breed. The tradition of poetry is widening, drawing from many more
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
WE’VE GOT YOU: A GENERATIVE WEEK OF POETIC POSSIBILITY AND COLLABORATION - LIVE
June 14 to June 18, 2021
Tuition: $550
When we are deeply on our own what are the ways we can reach out, open to, and create new connections and possibilities in our more
WE’VE GOT YOU: A GENERATIVE WEEK OF POETIC POSSIBILITY AND COLLABORATION - LIVE
June 14 to June 18, 2021
Tuition: $550
When we are deeply on our own what are the ways we can reach out, open to, and create new connections and possibilities in our more
Yi Shun Lai
Mirror Works, Window Works: Inclusivity in Writing and Reading
June 7 to July 2, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS In this four-week course, writers will learn the value of reading inclusively. We’ll then put what we’ve learned by reading inclusive works to work more
Mirror Works, Window Works: Inclusivity in Writing and Reading
June 7 to July 2, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS In this four-week course, writers will learn the value of reading inclusively. We’ll then put what we’ve learned by reading inclusive works to work more
Campbell McGrath
POETRY & THE WORLD - LIVE
June 7 to June 11, 2021
Tuition: $550
Dynamic poems are grounded in the real world: language is rooted in the tongue, emotions stab at the heart, memories flash across a movie screen more
POETRY & THE WORLD - LIVE
June 7 to June 11, 2021
Tuition: $550
Dynamic poems are grounded in the real world: language is rooted in the tongue, emotions stab at the heart, memories flash across a movie screen more
Brian Turner
ALL THE WORLD IN 750 WORDS (OR LESS)! - LIVE
May 31 to June 4, 2021
Tuition: $550
In this week-long intensive, we’ll try our hand at a variety of approaches to creative nonfiction: from one sentence memoirs to what some might term more
ALL THE WORLD IN 750 WORDS (OR LESS)! - LIVE
May 31 to June 4, 2021
Tuition: $550
In this week-long intensive, we’ll try our hand at a variety of approaches to creative nonfiction: from one sentence memoirs to what some might term more
Susanna Sonnenberg
ENGAGING THE EXPERIENCE: MAKING MEANING IN MEMOIR - LIVE
May 31 to June 4, 2021
Tuition: $550
How do we turn “what happened” into a story? How do we shift through the sheer wealth of anecdote in a lived life and give more
ENGAGING THE EXPERIENCE: MAKING MEANING IN MEMOIR - LIVE
May 31 to June 4, 2021
Tuition: $550
How do we turn “what happened” into a story? How do we shift through the sheer wealth of anecdote in a lived life and give more
Alysia Abbott
WRITING THE FAMILY: A MEMOIR WORKSHOP - LIVE
May 24 to May 28, 2021
Tuition: $550
Leo Tolstoy famously said, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” In this week long workshop, we will more
WRITING THE FAMILY: A MEMOIR WORKSHOP - LIVE
May 24 to May 28, 2021
Tuition: $550
Leo Tolstoy famously said, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” In this week long workshop, we will more
Irina Reyn
Open That Drawer! Reviving the Stalled Novel
May 24 to May 28, 2021
Tuition: $500
ASYNCHRONOUS Many of us begin work on a novel in a frenzy of inspiration but there are many reasons for why an unfinished novel goes more
Open That Drawer! Reviving the Stalled Novel
May 24 to May 28, 2021
Tuition: $500
ASYNCHRONOUS Many of us begin work on a novel in a frenzy of inspiration but there are many reasons for why an unfinished novel goes more
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
We’ve Got You: A Generative Week Of Poetic Possibility and Collaboration - LIVE
May 24 to May 28, 2021
Tuition: $550
LIVE – SYNCHRONOUS When we are deeply on our own what are the ways we can reach out, open to, and create new connections and more
We’ve Got You: A Generative Week Of Poetic Possibility and Collaboration - LIVE
May 24 to May 28, 2021
Tuition: $550
LIVE – SYNCHRONOUS When we are deeply on our own what are the ways we can reach out, open to, and create new connections and more
Joan Wickersham
JUMP STARTS FOR COLD MORNINGS - LIVE
May 17 to May 21, 2021
Tuition: $550
Whether we’re writing memoir or fiction, we are always aiming for a story that feels true. How do we convey characters and situations in a more
JUMP STARTS FOR COLD MORNINGS - LIVE
May 17 to May 21, 2021
Tuition: $550
Whether we’re writing memoir or fiction, we are always aiming for a story that feels true. How do we convey characters and situations in a more
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
AFTER GREAT PAIN A FORMAL FEELING COMES: EXPLORING EXPERIENCE THROUGH POETIC FORM - LIVE
May 10 to May 14, 2021
Tuition: $550
This workshop will focus primarily on poetic form. We will explore not merely what these particular forms are but why, how and the often underdeveloped more
AFTER GREAT PAIN A FORMAL FEELING COMES: EXPLORING EXPERIENCE THROUGH POETIC FORM - LIVE
May 10 to May 14, 2021
Tuition: $550
This workshop will focus primarily on poetic form. We will explore not merely what these particular forms are but why, how and the often underdeveloped more
Ann Hood
FINDING THE STORY IN YOUR STORY: A MEMOIR WORKSHOP - LIVE
May 10 to May 14, 2021
Tuition: $550
Tara Westover said: “I think that when memoir goes wrong, it goes wrong from too much memory, too much detail. It’s about clearing all that more
FINDING THE STORY IN YOUR STORY: A MEMOIR WORKSHOP - LIVE
May 10 to May 14, 2021
Tuition: $550
Tara Westover said: “I think that when memoir goes wrong, it goes wrong from too much memory, too much detail. It’s about clearing all that more
Olivia Kate Cerrone
Designing Compelling Plots in Fiction
May 10 to June 4, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS Like constructing the design of a house, great novels and short stories alike need strong, well-thought-out plot structures as the basis for establishing rich, more
Designing Compelling Plots in Fiction
May 10 to June 4, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS Like constructing the design of a house, great novels and short stories alike need strong, well-thought-out plot structures as the basis for establishing rich, more
Amber Flora Thomas
The Poetry of Place: Erasures, Journeys, and Transformations on the Way to Home
May 10 to May 14, 2021
Tuition: $500
ASYNCHRONOUS This course will offer participants an opportunity to explore nature writing and environmental poetry through experimental forms and generate new work. Challenge what it more
The Poetry of Place: Erasures, Journeys, and Transformations on the Way to Home
May 10 to May 14, 2021
Tuition: $500
ASYNCHRONOUS This course will offer participants an opportunity to explore nature writing and environmental poetry through experimental forms and generate new work. Challenge what it more
Elissa Altman
Intimacy, Permission, and the Heart of the Story
May 10 to June 4, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS Annie Dillard once said You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and more
Intimacy, Permission, and the Heart of the Story
May 10 to June 4, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS Annie Dillard once said You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and more
Seema Reza
Breaking Open the World: Writing Fearless Memoir
May 10 to May 14, 2021
Tuition: $500
ASYNCHRONOUS CLASS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS In this class we will write daily, building on a single topic that embodies a part of our memoir. more
Breaking Open the World: Writing Fearless Memoir
May 10 to May 14, 2021
Tuition: $500
ASYNCHRONOUS CLASS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS In this class we will write daily, building on a single topic that embodies a part of our memoir. more
Traci Brimhall
BETWEEN WILDERNESS & CLARITY: TURNING YOUR TENSION - LIVE
May 3 to May 7, 2021
Tuition: $550
Every writer has their strengths, but we often tend to over-rely on what we already know we do well. In this workshop, we will focus more
BETWEEN WILDERNESS & CLARITY: TURNING YOUR TENSION - LIVE
May 3 to May 7, 2021
Tuition: $550
Every writer has their strengths, but we often tend to over-rely on what we already know we do well. In this workshop, we will focus more
Sophie Cabot Black
PAYING ATTENTION & REMEMBERING TO OPEN THE TOOLBOX: A POETRY WORKSHOP - LIVE
May 3 to May 7, 2021
Tuition: $550
In this class we will deepen our individual voices by listening to poems written during our time together and from other sources. By using exercises, more
PAYING ATTENTION & REMEMBERING TO OPEN THE TOOLBOX: A POETRY WORKSHOP - LIVE
May 3 to May 7, 2021
Tuition: $550
In this class we will deepen our individual voices by listening to poems written during our time together and from other sources. By using exercises, more
Grace Talusan
Outside In: Writing Inspired by Documents, Photographs, and Archives
May 3 to May 7, 2021
Tuition: $500
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS Spend a week on your writing by mining your photographs, documents, letters, or other papers as inspiration for daily writing more
Outside In: Writing Inspired by Documents, Photographs, and Archives
May 3 to May 7, 2021
Tuition: $500
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS Spend a week on your writing by mining your photographs, documents, letters, or other papers as inspiration for daily writing more
Tyler Mills
Radical Revision: Preparing Poems for Publication
May 3 to May 28, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS So you have a draft. What now? This class is geared to helping you rip open the seams of your more
Radical Revision: Preparing Poems for Publication
May 3 to May 28, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS So you have a draft. What now? This class is geared to helping you rip open the seams of your more
Peter Campion
Form From Feeling, Feeling From Form
May 3 to May 28, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside more
Form From Feeling, Feeling From Form
May 3 to May 28, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside more
Anne Sanow
Liftoff: Getting That Story Draft Moving
May 3 to May 28, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS Does the pandemic have you fiddling around with unfinished story fragments? Lacking some focus with your writing? This course is more
Liftoff: Getting That Story Draft Moving
May 3 to May 28, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS Does the pandemic have you fiddling around with unfinished story fragments? Lacking some focus with your writing? This course is more
Joanne Dugan
Writing Pictures: an Exploration of Text & Image
April 26 to May 21, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text yields surprising more
Writing Pictures: an Exploration of Text & Image
April 26 to May 21, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text yields surprising more
Fred Marchant
Water, Fire, Earth, and Air
April 26 to May 21, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS In many ancient cultures, all matter was said to consist of four elements: water, fire, earth, and air. In our more
Water, Fire, Earth, and Air
April 26 to May 21, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS In many ancient cultures, all matter was said to consist of four elements: water, fire, earth, and air. In our more
Daisy Fried
You Can Translate Too! No Experience Required!
April 19 to May 14, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Has it been hard for you to write in the past year or so? Me too—the blank page has gotten even more
You Can Translate Too! No Experience Required!
April 19 to May 14, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Has it been hard for you to write in the past year or so? Me too—the blank page has gotten even more
Sandra Beasley
Mapping Your Memoir from Start to Finish
April 19 to June 11, 2021
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS What begins with “I have a story to tell” can soon feel unwieldy in terms of structuring a narrative, creating more
Mapping Your Memoir from Start to Finish
April 19 to June 11, 2021
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS What begins with “I have a story to tell” can soon feel unwieldy in terms of structuring a narrative, creating more
Kim Addonizio
Introduction to the Sonnet - LIVE
April 19 to April 23, 2021
Tuition: $550
LIVE – SYNCHRONOUS As a free verse poet, do you feel a bit…insecure…when it comes to meter, rhyme schemes, and that ubiquitous form known as more
Introduction to the Sonnet - LIVE
April 19 to April 23, 2021
Tuition: $550
LIVE – SYNCHRONOUS As a free verse poet, do you feel a bit…insecure…when it comes to meter, rhyme schemes, and that ubiquitous form known as more
Nickole Brown
Ostranenie: Poetry as a Practice of Awareness - LIVE
April 19 to April 23, 2021
Tuition: $550
LIVE – SYNCHRONOUS If we are all telling the same stories of love and sex and death, how can we write something new? And with more
Ostranenie: Poetry as a Practice of Awareness - LIVE
April 19 to April 23, 2021
Tuition: $550
LIVE – SYNCHRONOUS If we are all telling the same stories of love and sex and death, how can we write something new? And with more
Curtis Bauer
Writing the Event: A Generative Poetry Workshop
April 19 to April 23, 2021
Tuition: $500
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS “Everything is an event for those who know how to tremble…” wrote the French poet and judge Jean Follain (translated more
Writing the Event: A Generative Poetry Workshop
April 19 to April 23, 2021
Tuition: $500
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS “Everything is an event for those who know how to tremble…” wrote the French poet and judge Jean Follain (translated more
Susanna Sonnenberg
Time to Tell: A Memoir Workshop
April 12 to May 7, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS In “Time to Tell” we will focus on the personal history that has, for whatever reason, been subdued or suppressed. more
Time to Tell: A Memoir Workshop
April 12 to May 7, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS In “Time to Tell” we will focus on the personal history that has, for whatever reason, been subdued or suppressed. more
Ann Hood
Writing the Personal Essay
April 12 to May 7, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I more
Writing the Personal Essay
April 12 to May 7, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I more
Jessica Jacobs
Turn It and Turn It: Exploring Questions of Spirituality & Religion Through Poetry
April 12 to May 7, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS “Turn it and turn it for all is within it,” said rabbinic sage Ben Bag-Bag about the Torah. Yet these more
Turn It and Turn It: Exploring Questions of Spirituality & Religion Through Poetry
April 12 to May 7, 2021
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with OPTIONAL LIVE ELEMENTS “Turn it and turn it for all is within it,” said rabbinic sage Ben Bag-Bag about the Torah. Yet these more
Nick Flynn
Memoir as Bewilderment (24PearlStreet LIVE)
August 24 to August 28, 2020
Tuition: $500
In The Unnamable, Beckett offers this: “Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself in the end.” In our week together, I would like more
Memoir as Bewilderment (24PearlStreet LIVE)
August 24 to August 28, 2020
Tuition: $500
In The Unnamable, Beckett offers this: “Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself in the end.” In our week together, I would like more
Victoria Redel
Possibilities & Necessities: A Fiction Workshop (24PearlStreet LIVE)
August 10 to August 14, 2020
Tuition: $500
This workshop focuses on possibilities within a work of fiction—what are the possibilities and limitations found in choices of narrative point of view, syntax, time, more
Possibilities & Necessities: A Fiction Workshop (24PearlStreet LIVE)
August 10 to August 14, 2020
Tuition: $500
This workshop focuses on possibilities within a work of fiction—what are the possibilities and limitations found in choices of narrative point of view, syntax, time, more
Paul Lisicky
On Urgency: A Memoir and Creative Nonfiction Workshop
August 10 to August 14, 2020
Tuition: $400
What does it mean to write memoir and creative nonfiction in 2020? How to write out of our personal urgency while also asking questions about more
On Urgency: A Memoir and Creative Nonfiction Workshop
August 10 to August 14, 2020
Tuition: $400
What does it mean to write memoir and creative nonfiction in 2020? How to write out of our personal urgency while also asking questions about more
Tyler Mills
Poems that Travel – A Writing Residency at Home
August 10 to August 14, 2020
Tuition: $400
Have you ever thought, “I’d love to do a writing residency, but I don’t have time, or am not able to travel right now?” Or more
Poems that Travel – A Writing Residency at Home
August 10 to August 14, 2020
Tuition: $400
Have you ever thought, “I’d love to do a writing residency, but I don’t have time, or am not able to travel right now?” Or more
Traci Brimhall
The Body Electric: Pleasure & Pain in Poetry
August 3 to August 28, 2020
Tuition: $500
Whitman celebrated and sang the body and all its atoms. Woolf asked why, if illness is so common and the spirit so changed, it didn’t more
The Body Electric: Pleasure & Pain in Poetry
August 3 to August 28, 2020
Tuition: $500
Whitman celebrated and sang the body and all its atoms. Woolf asked why, if illness is so common and the spirit so changed, it didn’t more
T Kira Madden
The Self, The Selves: A Memoir Workshop
August 3 to August 7, 2020
Tuition: $500
How do we take the sprawl of our lives and distill the right moments to deliver that umph of the most effective stories? How do more
The Self, The Selves: A Memoir Workshop
August 3 to August 7, 2020
Tuition: $500
How do we take the sprawl of our lives and distill the right moments to deliver that umph of the most effective stories? How do more
Sabrina Orah Mark
Writing into the Silences: A Multi-Genre Workshop
August 3 to August 28, 2020
Tuition: $500
“It is true that each self keeps a secret self that cannot speak when spoken to.” – Lucie Brock-Broido In this workshop we will write more
Writing into the Silences: A Multi-Genre Workshop
August 3 to August 28, 2020
Tuition: $500
“It is true that each self keeps a secret self that cannot speak when spoken to.” – Lucie Brock-Broido In this workshop we will write more
Peter Campion
Form from Feeling and Feeling from Form
August 3 to August 28, 2020
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Form from Feeling and Feeling from Form
August 3 to August 28, 2020
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Kim Addonizio
The Art of the Short Poem
August 3 to August 28, 2020
Tuition: $500
Why write short poems? They’re fun.They’re challenging. They help you to be concise and get to the heart of what you want to say, and more
The Art of the Short Poem
August 3 to August 28, 2020
Tuition: $500
Why write short poems? They’re fun.They’re challenging. They help you to be concise and get to the heart of what you want to say, and more
Anne Sanow
Liftoff: Beginning That Story Draft
July 27 to August 21, 2020
Tuition: $500
Good stories start from vague ideas, character sketches, images, seemingly random thoughts, odd bits of language and rhythm. But how to put these into motion more
Liftoff: Beginning That Story Draft
July 27 to August 21, 2020
Tuition: $500
Good stories start from vague ideas, character sketches, images, seemingly random thoughts, odd bits of language and rhythm. But how to put these into motion more
Marion Winik
Memoir Boot Camp
July 20 to July 24, 2020
Tuition: $400
The week is devoted to generating new memoir material using approaches that may be a little different than what you may have tried before. Through more
Memoir Boot Camp
July 20 to July 24, 2020
Tuition: $400
The week is devoted to generating new memoir material using approaches that may be a little different than what you may have tried before. Through more
Sarah Schulman
Fiction & Nonfiction Workshop (24PearlStreet Live)
July 13 to July 17, 2020
Tuition: $500
A craft-based workshop for fiction and non-fiction writers on ALL levels: from true beginner to the multiply published, working on witnessing our extraordinary time, expressing more
Fiction & Nonfiction Workshop (24PearlStreet Live)
July 13 to July 17, 2020
Tuition: $500
A craft-based workshop for fiction and non-fiction writers on ALL levels: from true beginner to the multiply published, working on witnessing our extraordinary time, expressing more
Elissa Altman
Intimacy, Permission, & the Heart of the Story
July 13 to August 7, 2020
Tuition: $500
Annie Dillard once said You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and say ‘And then I did more
Intimacy, Permission, & the Heart of the Story
July 13 to August 7, 2020
Tuition: $500
Annie Dillard once said You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and say ‘And then I did more
Susanna Sonnenberg
Engaging the Experience: Making Meaning in Memoir
July 6 to July 31, 2020
Tuition: $500
How do we turn “what happened” into a story? How do we shift through the sheer wealth of anecdote in a lived life and give more
Engaging the Experience: Making Meaning in Memoir
July 6 to July 31, 2020
Tuition: $500
How do we turn “what happened” into a story? How do we shift through the sheer wealth of anecdote in a lived life and give more
Pam Houston
Writing Your Best Short Story/Short Autofiction/Personal Essay in One Month
July 6 to July 31, 2020
Tuition: $500
Write your single best short story or personal essay (or short auto fiction, if you, like me, often shoot the gap between) in one month’s more
Writing Your Best Short Story/Short Autofiction/Personal Essay in One Month
July 6 to July 31, 2020
Tuition: $500
Write your single best short story or personal essay (or short auto fiction, if you, like me, often shoot the gap between) in one month’s more
Laura van den Berg
The Blazing Thing: A Fiction Workshop
July 6 to July 10, 2020
Tuition: $400
In an interview, Stephen Millhauser once spoke of “the blazing thing that deserves the name of reality.” In this workshop, each of you will be more
The Blazing Thing: A Fiction Workshop
July 6 to July 10, 2020
Tuition: $400
In an interview, Stephen Millhauser once spoke of “the blazing thing that deserves the name of reality.” In this workshop, each of you will be more
Brian Turner
Connecting the Personal to the Political: A Memoir Workshop
July 6 to July 31, 2020
Tuition: $500
In this workshop, we’ll be in conversation with journalists and global thinkers struggling to make sense of the events of our time. As we work more
Connecting the Personal to the Political: A Memoir Workshop
July 6 to July 31, 2020
Tuition: $500
In this workshop, we’ll be in conversation with journalists and global thinkers struggling to make sense of the events of our time. As we work more
Jill Talbot
The Form of the Flash: An Essay Workshop
July 6 to July 31, 2020
Tuition: $500
Compression, concision, complexity—the flash essay, like standing on a train platform in the moment of the last car’s passing. Or maybe it’s more quiet, like more
The Form of the Flash: An Essay Workshop
July 6 to July 31, 2020
Tuition: $500
Compression, concision, complexity—the flash essay, like standing on a train platform in the moment of the last car’s passing. Or maybe it’s more quiet, like more
Fred Marchant
Water Flowing All Around: The Poetry of Oceans, Tides, Currents, Rivers, Creeks, and Streams
July 6 to July 10, 2020
Tuition: $400
During the Covid-19 health crisis, I spent many an afternoon going for walks, staying 6 feet apart from others who were doing the same thing. more
Water Flowing All Around: The Poetry of Oceans, Tides, Currents, Rivers, Creeks, and Streams
July 6 to July 10, 2020
Tuition: $400
During the Covid-19 health crisis, I spent many an afternoon going for walks, staying 6 feet apart from others who were doing the same thing. more
Sarah Rose Nordgren
What's the Big Idea? Writing Ambitious Poems in Times of Uncertainty
June 29 to July 24, 2020
Tuition: $500
How can poetry help us to process and respond to uncertainty? How might it teach us to grieve as well as heal? To counter isolation more
What's the Big Idea? Writing Ambitious Poems in Times of Uncertainty
June 29 to July 24, 2020
Tuition: $500
How can poetry help us to process and respond to uncertainty? How might it teach us to grieve as well as heal? To counter isolation more
Reif Larsen
Voice Matters: A Fiction Writing Workshop
June 22 to July 17, 2020
Tuition: $500
We all know that feeling of encountering a strong narrative voice on the page. We are infected by its singularity, by its seduction, by its more
Voice Matters: A Fiction Writing Workshop
June 22 to July 17, 2020
Tuition: $500
We all know that feeling of encountering a strong narrative voice on the page. We are infected by its singularity, by its seduction, by its more
Mark Wunderlich
Neighboring Solitudes: The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke as Generative Sources for Poems
June 22 to July 17, 2020
Tuition: $500
In this workshop, we will write poems based on some of the major themes present in the poems of the great German-language Modernist poet Rainer more
Neighboring Solitudes: The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke as Generative Sources for Poems
June 22 to July 17, 2020
Tuition: $500
In this workshop, we will write poems based on some of the major themes present in the poems of the great German-language Modernist poet Rainer more
Leila Chatti
Praise in Hard Times: A Poetry Workshop
June 15 to July 10, 2020
Tuition: $500
“Come, seereal flowersof this painful world.”– Basho It can be difficult, in these trying times, to make space for praise, or to notice the occasion more
Praise in Hard Times: A Poetry Workshop
June 15 to July 10, 2020
Tuition: $500
“Come, seereal flowersof this painful world.”– Basho It can be difficult, in these trying times, to make space for praise, or to notice the occasion more
Ann Hood
Writing the Personal Essay
June 15 to July 10, 2020
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Writing the Personal Essay
June 15 to July 10, 2020
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Ada Limón
The Art of Nothing: A Generative Poetry Workshop
June 8 to July 3, 2020
Tuition: $500
Everyone is terrified of the blank page. Perhaps we are even more scared of it now during the pandemic. What is there left to say? more
The Art of Nothing: A Generative Poetry Workshop
June 8 to July 3, 2020
Tuition: $500
Everyone is terrified of the blank page. Perhaps we are even more scared of it now during the pandemic. What is there left to say? more
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
After Great Pain A Formal Feeling Comes: Exploring Experience Through Poetic Form
June 8 to June 12, 2020
Tuition: $400
This workshop will focus primarily on poetic form. We will explore not merely what these particular forms are but why, how and the often underdeveloped more
After Great Pain A Formal Feeling Comes: Exploring Experience Through Poetic Form
June 8 to June 12, 2020
Tuition: $400
This workshop will focus primarily on poetic form. We will explore not merely what these particular forms are but why, how and the often underdeveloped more
Joanne Dugan
Writing Pictures: Embracing Uncertainty through Text & Photography
June 8 to July 3, 2020
Tuition: $500
It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text yields surprising juxtapositions that can greatly deepen more
Writing Pictures: Embracing Uncertainty through Text & Photography
June 8 to July 3, 2020
Tuition: $500
It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text yields surprising juxtapositions that can greatly deepen more
Traci Brimhall
The Body Electric: Pleasure & Pain in Poetry
June 8 to July 3, 2020
Tuition: $500
Whitman celebrated and sang the body and all its atoms. Woolf asked why, if illness is so common and the spirit so changed, it didn’t more
The Body Electric: Pleasure & Pain in Poetry
June 8 to July 3, 2020
Tuition: $500
Whitman celebrated and sang the body and all its atoms. Woolf asked why, if illness is so common and the spirit so changed, it didn’t more
Erin Adair-Hodges
Fail Up--: A Poetry Workshop
June 8 to July 3, 2020
Tuition: $500
What often keeps our competent poems from becoming captivating ones is a fear of failure, an instinctual aversion to risk. In this class, we’ll work more
Fail Up--: A Poetry Workshop
June 8 to July 3, 2020
Tuition: $500
What often keeps our competent poems from becoming captivating ones is a fear of failure, an instinctual aversion to risk. In this class, we’ll work more
Sandra Beasley
Mapping Your Memoir from Start to Finish
June 8 to July 31, 2020
Tuition: $600
What begins with “I have a story to tell” can soon feel unwieldy in terms of structuring a narrative, creating scenes, and adding factual depth. more
Mapping Your Memoir from Start to Finish
June 8 to July 31, 2020
Tuition: $600
What begins with “I have a story to tell” can soon feel unwieldy in terms of structuring a narrative, creating scenes, and adding factual depth. more
Tyler Mills
Community and Compassion: Finding Ourselves Through Us, You, and We
June 8 to July 31, 2020
Tuition: $600
Social isolation is so hard. Period. In these times, loving others means staying away. This is a compassionate workshop that is focused on community, care, more
Community and Compassion: Finding Ourselves Through Us, You, and We
June 8 to July 31, 2020
Tuition: $600
Social isolation is so hard. Period. In these times, loving others means staying away. This is a compassionate workshop that is focused on community, care, more
Kim Addonizio
The Art of the Short Poem
February 3 to February 28, 2020
Tuition: $500
Why write short poems? They’re fun.They’re challenging. They help you to be concise and get to the heart of what you want to say, and more
The Art of the Short Poem
February 3 to February 28, 2020
Tuition: $500
Why write short poems? They’re fun.They’re challenging. They help you to be concise and get to the heart of what you want to say, and more
Jessica Jacobs
"In the beginning:" Exploring Questions of Spirituality & Religion Through Poetry
February 3 to February 28, 2020
Tuition: $500
We live in a time of always more, always faster, where what’s new insists on itself as what’s most important. But outside this frenzy are more
"In the beginning:" Exploring Questions of Spirituality & Religion Through Poetry
February 3 to February 28, 2020
Tuition: $500
We live in a time of always more, always faster, where what’s new insists on itself as what’s most important. But outside this frenzy are more
Nickole Brown
Writing in the Age of Loneliness: Eco-Literature & The Writer's Task
February 3 to February 28, 2020
Tuition: $500
We are now in the throes of a sixth mass extinction of plants and animals. Some call it the Anthropocene, but biologist E.O. Wilson said more
Writing in the Age of Loneliness: Eco-Literature & The Writer's Task
February 3 to February 28, 2020
Tuition: $500
We are now in the throes of a sixth mass extinction of plants and animals. Some call it the Anthropocene, but biologist E.O. Wilson said more
Leila Chatti
Sweetbitter: Poems of Love, Longing, and the Exquisite Pain
January 27 to February 21, 2020
Tuition: $500
Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me—sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in — Sappho (trans. Anne Carson) Desire: the unmanageable creature. How do more
Sweetbitter: Poems of Love, Longing, and the Exquisite Pain
January 27 to February 21, 2020
Tuition: $500
Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me—sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in — Sappho (trans. Anne Carson) Desire: the unmanageable creature. How do more
Elissa Altman
Intimacy, Permission, and the Heart of the Story: Winter
January 27 to February 21, 2020
Tuition: $500
Annie Dillard once said You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and say ‘And then I did more
Intimacy, Permission, and the Heart of the Story: Winter
January 27 to February 21, 2020
Tuition: $500
Annie Dillard once said You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and say ‘And then I did more
Ann Hood
Writing the Personal Essay: Winter
January 27 to February 21, 2020
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Writing the Personal Essay: Winter
January 27 to February 21, 2020
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Peter Campion
Form from Feeling and Feeling from Form: Winter
January 27 to February 21, 2020
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Form from Feeling and Feeling from Form: Winter
January 27 to February 21, 2020
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Brian Turner
The Big Wide World: A Poetry Workshop
January 27 to February 21, 2020
Tuition: $500
Part of our work as global literary citizens involves forming friendships and affinities with writers across the globe—even if (and oftentimes because) our nation as more
The Big Wide World: A Poetry Workshop
January 27 to February 21, 2020
Tuition: $500
Part of our work as global literary citizens involves forming friendships and affinities with writers across the globe—even if (and oftentimes because) our nation as more
Rebecca Seiferle
The Poem's Intention
January 27 to February 21, 2020
Tuition: $500
Often, a poem has its own intentions that are at odds with the intentions of the poet. The poet will begin the poem with a more
The Poem's Intention
January 27 to February 21, 2020
Tuition: $500
Often, a poem has its own intentions that are at odds with the intentions of the poet. The poet will begin the poem with a more
Erin Adair-Hodges
Fail Up--: A Poetry Workshop
January 20 to February 14, 2020
Tuition: $500
What often keeps our competent poems from becoming captivating ones is a fear of failure, an instinctual aversion to risk. In this class, we’ll work more
Fail Up--: A Poetry Workshop
January 20 to February 14, 2020
Tuition: $500
What often keeps our competent poems from becoming captivating ones is a fear of failure, an instinctual aversion to risk. In this class, we’ll work more
Sarah Green
This is the Year: A New Writing Habit Starter
January 20 to February 14, 2020
Tuition: $500
Do you keep meaning to write but find yourself waylaid by parenting, work crises, news headlines, Netflix, or other fill-in-the-blank interlopers? Do you periodically sit more
This is the Year: A New Writing Habit Starter
January 20 to February 14, 2020
Tuition: $500
Do you keep meaning to write but find yourself waylaid by parenting, work crises, news headlines, Netflix, or other fill-in-the-blank interlopers? Do you periodically sit more
Aja Gabel
Writing Love Stories
January 20 to February 14, 2020
Tuition: $500
Writing love stories can feel fraught for many reasons. It can feel gendered, cliche, too personal, or not personal enough. It can feel driftless to more
Writing Love Stories
January 20 to February 14, 2020
Tuition: $500
Writing love stories can feel fraught for many reasons. It can feel gendered, cliche, too personal, or not personal enough. It can feel driftless to more
Michael Klein
Writing Social Justice in Poetry and Essays
January 20 to February 14, 2020
Tuition: $500
At one point in my writing mostly autobiographical poetry and essays/memoir, I got some sage advice from my mentor, Adrienne Rich, who told me that more
Writing Social Justice in Poetry and Essays
January 20 to February 14, 2020
Tuition: $500
At one point in my writing mostly autobiographical poetry and essays/memoir, I got some sage advice from my mentor, Adrienne Rich, who told me that more
Anne Sanow
Liftoff: Beginning That Story Draft
January 13 to February 7, 2020
Tuition: $500
Good stories start from vague ideas, character sketches, images, seemingly random thoughts, odd bits of language and rhythm. But how to put these into motion more
Liftoff: Beginning That Story Draft
January 13 to February 7, 2020
Tuition: $500
Good stories start from vague ideas, character sketches, images, seemingly random thoughts, odd bits of language and rhythm. But how to put these into motion more
Sandra Beasley
Mapping Your Memoir from Start to Finish
January 13 to March 6, 2020
Tuition: $600
What begins with “I have a story to tell” can soon feel unwieldy in terms of structuring a narrative, creating scenes, and adding factual depth. more
Mapping Your Memoir from Start to Finish
January 13 to March 6, 2020
Tuition: $600
What begins with “I have a story to tell” can soon feel unwieldy in terms of structuring a narrative, creating scenes, and adding factual depth. more
Sabrina Orah Mark
Hybrid Forms
January 13 to February 7, 2020
Tuition: $500
‘“Who are you?’ said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, ‘I—I hardly know, sir, just at more
Hybrid Forms
January 13 to February 7, 2020
Tuition: $500
‘“Who are you?’ said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, ‘I—I hardly know, sir, just at more
Joanne Dugan
Writing Pictures: An Exploration of Text and Image: Winter
January 13 to February 7, 2020
Tuition: $500
It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text yields surprising results that can greatly deepen more
Writing Pictures: An Exploration of Text and Image: Winter
January 13 to February 7, 2020
Tuition: $500
It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text yields surprising results that can greatly deepen more
Tyler Mills
Radical Revision: Preparing Poems for Publication
January 13 to February 7, 2020
Tuition: $500
So you have a draft. What now? This class is geared to helping you rip open the seams of your poems and re-enter them with more
Radical Revision: Preparing Poems for Publication
January 13 to February 7, 2020
Tuition: $500
So you have a draft. What now? This class is geared to helping you rip open the seams of your poems and re-enter them with more
Indira Ganesan
Narrative Magic: A Fiction Workshop
January 13 to February 7, 2020
Tuition: $500
Imagine taking your pencil and throwing it against a window. Now imagine that same pencil growing wings made of feathers, shattering the window, and flying more
Narrative Magic: A Fiction Workshop
January 13 to February 7, 2020
Tuition: $500
Imagine taking your pencil and throwing it against a window. Now imagine that same pencil growing wings made of feathers, shattering the window, and flying more
Elissa Altman
Intimacy, Permission, and the Heart of The Story
November 18 to December 13, 2019
Tuition: $500
Annie Dillard once said You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and say ‘And then I did more
Intimacy, Permission, and the Heart of The Story
November 18 to December 13, 2019
Tuition: $500
Annie Dillard once said You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and say ‘And then I did more
Kim Addonizio
The Art of the Short Poem
November 18 to December 13, 2019
Tuition: $500
This class is full, but we will hold another session in February. To register for the February workshop, click here. Why write short poems? They’re more
The Art of the Short Poem
November 18 to December 13, 2019
Tuition: $500
This class is full, but we will hold another session in February. To register for the February workshop, click here. Why write short poems? They’re more
Leila Chatti
Praise: Poems of Celebration, Ecstasy, and Survival
November 11 to December 6, 2019
Tuition: $500
“Come, seereal flowersof this painful world.” – Basho It can be difficult, in these trying times, to make space for praise, or to notice the more
Praise: Poems of Celebration, Ecstasy, and Survival
November 11 to December 6, 2019
Tuition: $500
“Come, seereal flowersof this painful world.” – Basho It can be difficult, in these trying times, to make space for praise, or to notice the more
Daisy Fried
Poetry Revision Boot Camp
November 4 to November 8, 2019
Tuition: $400
Get ready, get set…You’ll either come into workshop with a poem draft you’re interested in but dissatisfied with, or, at the workshop’s beginning, you’ll generate more
Poetry Revision Boot Camp
November 4 to November 8, 2019
Tuition: $400
Get ready, get set…You’ll either come into workshop with a poem draft you’re interested in but dissatisfied with, or, at the workshop’s beginning, you’ll generate more
Erin Adair-Hodges
Fail Up—: A Poetry Workshop
October 28 to November 22, 2019
Tuition: $500
What often keeps our competent poems from becoming captivating ones is a fear of failure, an instinctual aversion to risk. In this class, we’ll work more
Fail Up—: A Poetry Workshop
October 28 to November 22, 2019
Tuition: $500
What often keeps our competent poems from becoming captivating ones is a fear of failure, an instinctual aversion to risk. In this class, we’ll work more
Seema Reza
Breaking Open the World: Writing Fearless Lyrical Memoir
October 28 to November 22, 2019
Tuition: $500
In this class we will experiment with form, timeline, point of view, and pacing to write lyrical memoir that is fresh, honest, and innovative. Each more
Breaking Open the World: Writing Fearless Lyrical Memoir
October 28 to November 22, 2019
Tuition: $500
In this class we will experiment with form, timeline, point of view, and pacing to write lyrical memoir that is fresh, honest, and innovative. Each more
Susanna Sonnenberg
Engaging the Experience: How to Make Sense in Memoir of What Happened in Life
October 28 to November 22, 2019
Tuition: $500
Vivian Gornick says, “Truth in a memoir is achieved not through a recital of actual events; it is achieved when the reader comes to believe more
Engaging the Experience: How to Make Sense in Memoir of What Happened in Life
October 28 to November 22, 2019
Tuition: $500
Vivian Gornick says, “Truth in a memoir is achieved not through a recital of actual events; it is achieved when the reader comes to believe more
Joanne Dugan
Writing Pictures: An Exploration of Text and Image
October 21 to November 15, 2019
Tuition: $500
It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text yields surprising results that can greatly deepen more
Writing Pictures: An Exploration of Text and Image
October 21 to November 15, 2019
Tuition: $500
It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text yields surprising results that can greatly deepen more
Sandra Beasley
Essaying in Unconventional Forms
October 21 to November 15, 2019
Tuition: $500
Do you have a story to tell, but struggle in knowing where to begin? Are there gaps in memory, or lulls in action, that make more
Essaying in Unconventional Forms
October 21 to November 15, 2019
Tuition: $500
Do you have a story to tell, but struggle in knowing where to begin? Are there gaps in memory, or lulls in action, that make more
Fred Marchant
Out There, In Here: Mysteries of the Ekphrastic Poem
October 21 to October 25, 2019
Tuition: $400
As a response to a work of visual art, the ekphrastic poem inevitably goes far beyond description and often leads poet and reader into all more
Out There, In Here: Mysteries of the Ekphrastic Poem
October 21 to October 25, 2019
Tuition: $400
As a response to a work of visual art, the ekphrastic poem inevitably goes far beyond description and often leads poet and reader into all more
Joseph Cassara
The Art of Dialogue
October 21 to November 15, 2019
Tuition: $500
According to Elizabeth Bowen, dialogue is the most vigorous interaction that characters can have with each other in fiction—short of fighting, murder, and love-making. “Speech more
The Art of Dialogue
October 21 to November 15, 2019
Tuition: $500
According to Elizabeth Bowen, dialogue is the most vigorous interaction that characters can have with each other in fiction—short of fighting, murder, and love-making. “Speech more
Peter Campion
Form from Feeling and Feeling from Form: Fall
October 14 to November 8, 2019
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Form from Feeling and Feeling from Form: Fall
October 14 to November 8, 2019
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Anne Sanow
Revision is the Writing: Prose Workshop
October 14 to November 8, 2019
Tuition: $500
It’s easy to resist revision as the “work” part of creating—but when you embrace it fully as part of the creative process, your writing will more
Revision is the Writing: Prose Workshop
October 14 to November 8, 2019
Tuition: $500
It’s easy to resist revision as the “work” part of creating—but when you embrace it fully as part of the creative process, your writing will more
Ann Hood
Writing the Personal Essay: Fall
October 14 to November 8, 2019
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Writing the Personal Essay: Fall
October 14 to November 8, 2019
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Paul Guest
Poetry and Apocalypse
October 7 to November 1, 2019
Tuition: $500
How do we write poems about this moment, about right now, about global warming and walls and guns and oceans filled with plastic? How do more
Poetry and Apocalypse
October 7 to November 1, 2019
Tuition: $500
How do we write poems about this moment, about right now, about global warming and walls and guns and oceans filled with plastic? How do more
Emilia Phillips
Writing About Trauma in Poetry and Nonfiction
October 7 to November 1, 2019
Tuition: $500
How do we write about trauma even as it writes and rewrites us? In this cross-genre course, we’ll investigate our responsibilities as writers of trauma more
Writing About Trauma in Poetry and Nonfiction
October 7 to November 1, 2019
Tuition: $500
How do we write about trauma even as it writes and rewrites us? In this cross-genre course, we’ll investigate our responsibilities as writers of trauma more
Michelle Tea
MEMOIR THAT READS LIKE FICTION: Summer
August 5 to August 9, 2019
Tuition: $400
In this intensive memoir workshop, you will learn techniques to create a memoir with a cinematic feel and the singular voice of an immersive novel. more
MEMOIR THAT READS LIKE FICTION: Summer
August 5 to August 9, 2019
Tuition: $400
In this intensive memoir workshop, you will learn techniques to create a memoir with a cinematic feel and the singular voice of an immersive novel. more
Ed Skoog
HAVE YOU TRIED THE SIDE DOOR? FINDING A WAY IN TO YOUR NEXT POEMS: Summer
August 5 to September 27, 2019
Tuition: $600
Sometimes, starting a poem, I feel paralyzed by the task. Each time I need to find the way around my expectations, over the seemingly unsurmountable more
HAVE YOU TRIED THE SIDE DOOR? FINDING A WAY IN TO YOUR NEXT POEMS: Summer
August 5 to September 27, 2019
Tuition: $600
Sometimes, starting a poem, I feel paralyzed by the task. Each time I need to find the way around my expectations, over the seemingly unsurmountable more
Traci Brimhall
Hybrids and Hermit Crabs: Lyric Forms in Creative Nonfiction
July 29 to August 23, 2019
Tuition: $500
In this class we will examine essays that take their forms from other sources in order to write our own. We will look at pieces more
Hybrids and Hermit Crabs: Lyric Forms in Creative Nonfiction
July 29 to August 23, 2019
Tuition: $500
In this class we will examine essays that take their forms from other sources in order to write our own. We will look at pieces more
Ruben Quesada
Prose Poetry Workshop
July 22 to August 16, 2019
Tuition: $500
Write at the intersection of prose and poetry in this workshop devoted to the imaginative and innovative possibilities in writing poetry without line breaks. We more
Prose Poetry Workshop
July 22 to August 16, 2019
Tuition: $500
Write at the intersection of prose and poetry in this workshop devoted to the imaginative and innovative possibilities in writing poetry without line breaks. We more
Alix Ohlin
MAKING BEAUTIFUL SENTENCES
July 15 to August 9, 2019
Tuition: $500
What makes a sentence so powerful and enduring that it will stick in your mind forever? In this four-week class, we’ll take a look at more
MAKING BEAUTIFUL SENTENCES
July 15 to August 9, 2019
Tuition: $500
What makes a sentence so powerful and enduring that it will stick in your mind forever? In this four-week class, we’ll take a look at more
Peter Campion
FORM FROM FEELING AND FEELING FROM FORM: Summer
July 15 to August 9, 2019
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
FORM FROM FEELING AND FEELING FROM FORM: Summer
July 15 to August 9, 2019
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Rebecca Seiferle
The Poetic Sequence
July 8 to August 30, 2019
Tuition: $600
A sequence is a long poem that combines shorter pieces by relying on association, juxtaposition, and connection rather than theme or narrative to create an more
The Poetic Sequence
July 8 to August 30, 2019
Tuition: $600
A sequence is a long poem that combines shorter pieces by relying on association, juxtaposition, and connection rather than theme or narrative to create an more
Elissa Altman
The Heart of the Story: Creating Intimacy in Memoir
July 8 to August 2, 2019
Tuition: $500
Annie Dillard once said You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and say ‘And then I did more
The Heart of the Story: Creating Intimacy in Memoir
July 8 to August 2, 2019
Tuition: $500
Annie Dillard once said You have to take pains not to hang on the reader’s arms, like a drunk, and say ‘And then I did more
Dawn Potter
Vision and Re-Vision: An 8-Week Master Class on Generating and Revising Poems
July 8 to August 30, 2019
Tuition: $600
In this 8-week master class in poetry, we will focus on ways in which the work of both canonical and contemporary poets can help us more
Vision and Re-Vision: An 8-Week Master Class on Generating and Revising Poems
July 8 to August 30, 2019
Tuition: $600
In this 8-week master class in poetry, we will focus on ways in which the work of both canonical and contemporary poets can help us more
Nancy Pearson
15 WORKS: SUMMER
June 24 to July 19, 2019
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
15 WORKS: SUMMER
June 24 to July 19, 2019
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
Meghan O'Gieblyn
PLACE IN MEMOIR
June 24 to August 16, 2019
Tuition: $600
Too often, location is regarded as the backdrop of a memoir—the fixed stage-set on which the action unfolds. But there is a long tradition of more
PLACE IN MEMOIR
June 24 to August 16, 2019
Tuition: $600
Too often, location is regarded as the backdrop of a memoir—the fixed stage-set on which the action unfolds. But there is a long tradition of more
Sara Eliza Johnson
LANGUAGE AND THE LUCID DREAM: SUMMER
June 24 to August 16, 2019
Tuition: $600
Many sleepers have experienced the pleasure of the lucid dream: the phenomenon of “waking” inside our dream and realizing that we are in fact dreaming, more
LANGUAGE AND THE LUCID DREAM: SUMMER
June 24 to August 16, 2019
Tuition: $600
Many sleepers have experienced the pleasure of the lucid dream: the phenomenon of “waking” inside our dream and realizing that we are in fact dreaming, more
Rebecca Lindenberg
WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID: WRITING FUNNY POEMS in Summer
June 18 to July 13, 2019
Tuition: $500
It is really hard to write funny. It’s even harder to write funny with substance and pathos. But in this class, we’ll look at several more
WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID: WRITING FUNNY POEMS in Summer
June 18 to July 13, 2019
Tuition: $500
It is really hard to write funny. It’s even harder to write funny with substance and pathos. But in this class, we’ll look at several more
Writers' Work Group: The Big Project (Nonfiction)
June 10 to August 30, 2019
Tuition: $175
“The Big Project” accountability Work Group is meant for writers who want to make headway on their nonfiction manuscript. Whether you are working towards a more
Writers' Work Group: The Big Project (Fiction)
June 10 to August 30, 2019
Tuition: $175
“The Big Project” accountability Work Group is meant for writers who want to make headway on their fiction manuscript. Whether you are working towards a more
Writers' Work Group: The Big Project (Poetry)
June 10 to August 30, 2019
Tuition: $175
“The Big Project” accountability Work Group is meant for writers who want to make headway on their poetry manuscript. Whether you are working towards a more
Writers' Work Group: Submit Your Work
June 10 to August 30, 2019
Tuition: $175
The “Submit Your Work” accountability Work Group is meant for writers who want to submit to more literary journals in 2019. Whether you’re aiming for more
Writers' Work Group: Workshop Your Fiction
June 10 to August 30, 2019
Tuition: $175
This Work Group is a workshop-style group. It is meant for writers who want regular feedback on their drafts, and who are committed to providing more
Writers' Work Group: Workshop Your Nonfiction
June 10 to August 30, 2019
Tuition: $175
This Work Group is a workshop-style group. It is meant for writers who want regular feedback on their drafts, and who are committed to providing more
Sarah Rose Nordgren
The Sources of Poetry
June 10 to August 2, 2019
Tuition: $600
You mention Immortality. That is the Flood subject.” – Emily Dickinson in a letter to T. W. Higginson Writing a poem is not a logical more
The Sources of Poetry
June 10 to August 2, 2019
Tuition: $600
You mention Immortality. That is the Flood subject.” – Emily Dickinson in a letter to T. W. Higginson Writing a poem is not a logical more
Amber Flora Thomas
The Poetry of Place: Erasures, Journeys, and Transformations on the Way to Home
June 3 to June 28, 2019
Tuition: $500
This four-week course will offer participants an opportunity to explore nature writing and environmental poetry through experimental forms and generate new work. Challenge what it more
The Poetry of Place: Erasures, Journeys, and Transformations on the Way to Home
June 3 to June 28, 2019
Tuition: $500
This four-week course will offer participants an opportunity to explore nature writing and environmental poetry through experimental forms and generate new work. Challenge what it more
Ann Hood
JUMPSTART YOUR MEMOIR: SUMMER
June 3 to June 7, 2019
Tuition: $400
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. In his book on the craft more
JUMPSTART YOUR MEMOIR: SUMMER
June 3 to June 7, 2019
Tuition: $400
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. In his book on the craft more
David Kutz-Marks
Beauty in Clouds
May 6 to May 31, 2019
Tuition: $500
In this course we will assess the stranger aesthetic virtues of poems we—and the rest of the world—are writing now. Without disavowing the values of more
Beauty in Clouds
May 6 to May 31, 2019
Tuition: $500
In this course we will assess the stranger aesthetic virtues of poems we—and the rest of the world—are writing now. Without disavowing the values of more
Ann Hood
JUMPSTART YOUR MEMOIR: Spring
May 6 to May 10, 2019
Tuition: $400
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. Often, that moment when you first more
JUMPSTART YOUR MEMOIR: Spring
May 6 to May 10, 2019
Tuition: $400
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. Often, that moment when you first more
John Murillo
Cut, Scratch, and Blend - Revision as Remix: A Poetry Workshop
April 29 to May 24, 2019
Tuition: $500
“Poetry,” writes Yusef Komunyakaa in his essay collection Blue Notes, “is an act of meditation and improvisation. And need is the motor that propels the more
Cut, Scratch, and Blend - Revision as Remix: A Poetry Workshop
April 29 to May 24, 2019
Tuition: $500
“Poetry,” writes Yusef Komunyakaa in his essay collection Blue Notes, “is an act of meditation and improvisation. And need is the motor that propels the more
Tessa Fontaine
Writing Your Way to the Spark: A Generative Memoir Workshop
April 29 to May 24, 2019
Tuition: $500
In this generative workshop, we’ll focus on translating personal experience and research into effective memoir or personal essay. Through prompts, we’ll invigorate both right and more
Writing Your Way to the Spark: A Generative Memoir Workshop
April 29 to May 24, 2019
Tuition: $500
In this generative workshop, we’ll focus on translating personal experience and research into effective memoir or personal essay. Through prompts, we’ll invigorate both right and more
Traci Brimhall
Between Clarity and Wilderness: Tuning Your Tension
April 29 to May 24, 2019
Tuition: $500
Every writer has their strengths, but we often tend to over-rely on what we already know we do well. In this workshop we will focus more
Between Clarity and Wilderness: Tuning Your Tension
April 29 to May 24, 2019
Tuition: $500
Every writer has their strengths, but we often tend to over-rely on what we already know we do well. In this workshop we will focus more
Ivy Pochoda
Jumping Into Your Novel
April 29 to May 24, 2019
Tuition: $500
So, you want to write a novel but you’re terrified of the blank page. Or you’ve started your novel and are unsure about how to more
Jumping Into Your Novel
April 29 to May 24, 2019
Tuition: $500
So, you want to write a novel but you’re terrified of the blank page. Or you’ve started your novel and are unsure about how to more
Wendy C. Ortiz
Writing on the Edge: A Multi-Genre Workshop
April 22 to May 17, 2019
Tuition: $500
Edgework, as defined by one online dictionary, is “behavior at the edge of what is normally allowed or accepted; risky or radical behavior.” Our four more
Writing on the Edge: A Multi-Genre Workshop
April 22 to May 17, 2019
Tuition: $500
Edgework, as defined by one online dictionary, is “behavior at the edge of what is normally allowed or accepted; risky or radical behavior.” Our four more
Mark Wunderlich
NEIGHBORING SOLITUDES: THE POETRY OF RAINER MARIA RILKE AS GENERATIVE SOURCES FOR POEMS
April 8 to May 3, 2019
Tuition: $500
In this workshop course, we will write poems based on some of the major themes present in the poems of the great German-language Modernist poet more
NEIGHBORING SOLITUDES: THE POETRY OF RAINER MARIA RILKE AS GENERATIVE SOURCES FOR POEMS
April 8 to May 3, 2019
Tuition: $500
In this workshop course, we will write poems based on some of the major themes present in the poems of the great German-language Modernist poet more
Fred Marchant
STAYING WITH IT: A FIVE-DAY MEDITATION IN POETRY FOR Spring
April 8 to April 12, 2019
Tuition: $400
In this one-week intensive online course we will begin a new poem and stay with it for the whole five days, the goal being to more
STAYING WITH IT: A FIVE-DAY MEDITATION IN POETRY FOR Spring
April 8 to April 12, 2019
Tuition: $400
In this one-week intensive online course we will begin a new poem and stay with it for the whole five days, the goal being to more
Rebecca Seiferle
Form as the Body of the Poem
April 1 to April 26, 2019
Tuition: $500
In this workshop, we’ll look at how each poem takes an organic form, and how discovery of that form can lead us more fully into more
Form as the Body of the Poem
April 1 to April 26, 2019
Tuition: $500
In this workshop, we’ll look at how each poem takes an organic form, and how discovery of that form can lead us more fully into more
Meghan O'Gieblyn
THE ‘I’ IN MEMOIR
April 1 to April 5, 2019
Tuition: $400
In a lecture titled “Why I Write,” Joan Didion remarked that all she could hear in those three words was “I, I, I.” She was more
THE ‘I’ IN MEMOIR
April 1 to April 5, 2019
Tuition: $400
In a lecture titled “Why I Write,” Joan Didion remarked that all she could hear in those three words was “I, I, I.” She was more
Dawn Potter
The Quest of Poetry: An 8-Week Master Class on Reading, Writing, and Revising Poems
March 25 to May 17, 2019
Tuition: $600
In this 8-week master class in poetry, we will focus on ways in which the work of both canonical and contemporary poets can feed our more
The Quest of Poetry: An 8-Week Master Class on Reading, Writing, and Revising Poems
March 25 to May 17, 2019
Tuition: $600
In this 8-week master class in poetry, we will focus on ways in which the work of both canonical and contemporary poets can feed our more
Ed Skoog
HAVE YOU TRIED THE SIDE DOOR? FINDING A WAY IN TO YOUR NEXT POEMS: Spring
March 18 to May 3, 2019
Tuition: $600
Sometimes, starting a poem, I feel paralyzed by the task. Each time I need to find the way around my expectations, over the seemingly unsurmountable more
HAVE YOU TRIED THE SIDE DOOR? FINDING A WAY IN TO YOUR NEXT POEMS: Spring
March 18 to May 3, 2019
Tuition: $600
Sometimes, starting a poem, I feel paralyzed by the task. Each time I need to find the way around my expectations, over the seemingly unsurmountable more
Elizabeth Bradfield
REWILDING YOUR POEMS: A MONTH OF PRODS, PROMPTS, AND PLAY: Spring
March 11 to April 5, 2019
Tuition: $500
It can be easy to fall into a poetic rut. To feel stuck in routine or less than terrified (don’t we all want to be more
REWILDING YOUR POEMS: A MONTH OF PRODS, PROMPTS, AND PLAY: Spring
March 11 to April 5, 2019
Tuition: $500
It can be easy to fall into a poetic rut. To feel stuck in routine or less than terrified (don’t we all want to be more
Peter Campion
FORM FROM FEELING AND FEELING FROM FORM: Spring
March 11 to April 5, 2019
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
FORM FROM FEELING AND FEELING FROM FORM: Spring
March 11 to April 5, 2019
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Jennifer Tseng
Writing the Forbidden
March 4 to March 8, 2019
Tuition: $400
In this one-week class we will work to produce forbidden writing. What’s forbidden to one writer may not be forbidden to another. Some feel forbidden more
Writing the Forbidden
March 4 to March 8, 2019
Tuition: $400
In this one-week class we will work to produce forbidden writing. What’s forbidden to one writer may not be forbidden to another. Some feel forbidden more
Anne Sanow
REVISION IS THE WRITING: PROSE WORKSHOP for Spring
March 4 to March 29, 2019
Tuition: $500
It’s easy to resist revision as the “work” part of creating—but when you embrace it fully as part of the creative process, your writing will more
REVISION IS THE WRITING: PROSE WORKSHOP for Spring
March 4 to March 29, 2019
Tuition: $500
It’s easy to resist revision as the “work” part of creating—but when you embrace it fully as part of the creative process, your writing will more
Rebecca Seiferle
THE POEM'S INTENTION
March 4 to March 29, 2019
Tuition: $500
Often, a poem has its own intentions that are at odds with the intentions of the poet. The poet will begin the poem with a more
THE POEM'S INTENTION
March 4 to March 29, 2019
Tuition: $500
Often, a poem has its own intentions that are at odds with the intentions of the poet. The poet will begin the poem with a more
Ed Skoog
CALLED TO SPEECH: A ONE-WEEK WORKSHOP
February 18 to February 22, 2019
Tuition: $400
What is happening when you begin to write a poem? What does it mean to be called to speech, to break into song? Why this, more
CALLED TO SPEECH: A ONE-WEEK WORKSHOP
February 18 to February 22, 2019
Tuition: $400
What is happening when you begin to write a poem? What does it mean to be called to speech, to break into song? Why this, more
Ann Hood
JUMPSTART YOUR MEMOIR: Winter
February 11 to February 15, 2019
Tuition: $400
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. In his book on the craft more
JUMPSTART YOUR MEMOIR: Winter
February 11 to February 15, 2019
Tuition: $400
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. In his book on the craft more
Writers' Work Group: Workshop Your Fiction
February 4 to May 31, 2019
Tuition: $175
This Work Group is a workshop-style group. It is meant for writers who want regular feedback on their drafts, and who are committed to providing more
Writers' Work Group: Workshop Your Nonfiction
February 4 to May 31, 2019
Tuition: $175
This Work Group is a workshop-style group. It is meant for writers who want regular feedback on their drafts, and who are committed to providing more
Writers' Work Group: Workshop Your Poems
February 4 to May 31, 2019
Tuition: $175
This Work Group is a workshop-style group. It is meant for writers who want regular feedback on their drafts, and who are committed to providing more
Writers' Work Group: The Big Project (Nonfiction)
February 4 to May 31, 2019
Tuition: $175
“The Big Project” accountability Work Group is meant for writers who want to make headway on their nonfiction manuscript. Whether you are working towards a more
Writers' Work Group: The Big Project (Fiction)
February 4 to May 31, 2019
Tuition: $175
“The Big Project” accountability Work Group is meant for writers who want to make headway on their fiction manuscript. Whether you are working towards a more
Writers' Work Group: The Big Project (Poetry)
February 4 to May 31, 2019
Tuition: $175
“The Big Project” accountability Work Group is meant for writers who want to make headway on their poetry manuscript. Whether you are working towards a more
Writers' Work Group: Submit Your Work
February 4 to May 31, 2019
Tuition: $175
The “Submit Your Work” accountability Work Group is meant for writers who want to submit to more literary journals in 2019. Whether you’re aiming for more
Elizabeth Bradfield
THE PROJECT BOOK: Winter
February 4 to March 1, 2019
Tuition: $500
Finishing a book of poems focused on a topic, rather than a loose aggregation, is a particular art. Some poets unify books by form or more
THE PROJECT BOOK: Winter
February 4 to March 1, 2019
Tuition: $500
Finishing a book of poems focused on a topic, rather than a loose aggregation, is a particular art. Some poets unify books by form or more
Michael Klein
The Bright Light of Possibility: Four Essays
January 28 to February 22, 2019
Tuition: $500
In this workshop we will be writing one autobiographical essay each week—and discussing various approaches to looking at and then writing about four essential questions more
The Bright Light of Possibility: Four Essays
January 28 to February 22, 2019
Tuition: $500
In this workshop we will be writing one autobiographical essay each week—and discussing various approaches to looking at and then writing about four essential questions more
Rebecca Lindenberg
WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID: WRITING FUNNY POEMS for Winter
January 28 to February 22, 2019
Tuition: $500
It is really hard to write funny. It’s even harder to write funny with substance and pathos. But in this class, we’ll look at several more
WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID: WRITING FUNNY POEMS for Winter
January 28 to February 22, 2019
Tuition: $500
It is really hard to write funny. It’s even harder to write funny with substance and pathos. But in this class, we’ll look at several more
Anne Sanow
REVISION IS THE WRITING: PROSE WORKSHOP FOR Winter
January 21 to February 15, 2019
Tuition: $500
It’s easy to resist revision as the “work” part of creating—but when you embrace it fully as part of the creative process, your writing will more
REVISION IS THE WRITING: PROSE WORKSHOP FOR Winter
January 21 to February 15, 2019
Tuition: $500
It’s easy to resist revision as the “work” part of creating—but when you embrace it fully as part of the creative process, your writing will more
Peter Campion
FORM FROM FEELING AND FEELING FROM FORM: Winter
January 21 to February 15, 2019
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
FORM FROM FEELING AND FEELING FROM FORM: Winter
January 21 to February 15, 2019
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Nancy Pearson
15 WORKS: Winter
January 14 to February 8, 2019
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
15 WORKS: Winter
January 14 to February 8, 2019
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
Sarah Green
THIS IS THE YEAR: A New Writing Habit Starter
January 7 to January 11, 2019
Tuition: $400
Do you keep meaning to write but find yourself waylaid by parenting, work crises, news headlines, Netflix, or other fill-in-the-blank interlopers? Do you periodically sit more
THIS IS THE YEAR: A New Writing Habit Starter
January 7 to January 11, 2019
Tuition: $400
Do you keep meaning to write but find yourself waylaid by parenting, work crises, news headlines, Netflix, or other fill-in-the-blank interlopers? Do you periodically sit more
Sarah Van Arsdale
Starting the Novel
January 7 to February 1, 2019
Tuition: $500
Starting with “Chapter One” often leads to freezing up in panic long before reaching “Chapter Two.” In this workshop, we’ll will focus on crafting scenes more
Starting the Novel
January 7 to February 1, 2019
Tuition: $500
Starting with “Chapter One” often leads to freezing up in panic long before reaching “Chapter Two.” In this workshop, we’ll will focus on crafting scenes more
Dawn Potter
Interesting Minds: An 8-Week Revision Workshop for Essayists
January 7 to March 1, 2019
Tuition: $600
The essayist Philip Lopate has said, “The reason I read nonfiction is to follow an interesting mind.” In this 8-week revision workshop, we will tighten more
Interesting Minds: An 8-Week Revision Workshop for Essayists
January 7 to March 1, 2019
Tuition: $600
The essayist Philip Lopate has said, “The reason I read nonfiction is to follow an interesting mind.” In this 8-week revision workshop, we will tighten more
Rebecca Seiferle
THE POETIC SEQUENCE
January 7 to March 1, 2019
Tuition: $600
A sequence is a long poem that combines shorter pieces by relying on association, juxtaposition, and connection rather than theme or narrative to create an more
THE POETIC SEQUENCE
January 7 to March 1, 2019
Tuition: $600
A sequence is a long poem that combines shorter pieces by relying on association, juxtaposition, and connection rather than theme or narrative to create an more
Jennifer Tseng
START SMALL: WHAT WRITERS CAN LEARN FROM VERY SHORT STORIES
January 7 to February 1, 2019
Tuition: $500
Reading and writing Very Short Stories can teach us several basic lessons of fiction writing, including the art of omission, compression, economy, and urgency. Whether more
START SMALL: WHAT WRITERS CAN LEARN FROM VERY SHORT STORIES
January 7 to February 1, 2019
Tuition: $500
Reading and writing Very Short Stories can teach us several basic lessons of fiction writing, including the art of omission, compression, economy, and urgency. Whether more
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
OF KNOWING NOTHING AND EVERYTHING: A WEEK OF POEM, PIGMENT, AND PAINT IN THE LAB
January 7 to January 11, 2019
Tuition: $400
In this class we’ll ask rigorous questions like, “What do I mean when I say the sky is blue?” & “What does ‘green’ mean, really?” more
OF KNOWING NOTHING AND EVERYTHING: A WEEK OF POEM, PIGMENT, AND PAINT IN THE LAB
January 7 to January 11, 2019
Tuition: $400
In this class we’ll ask rigorous questions like, “What do I mean when I say the sky is blue?” & “What does ‘green’ mean, really?” more
Michelle Tea
MEMOIR THAT READS LIKE FICTION: Winter
January 7 to January 11, 2019
Tuition: $400
In this intensive memoir workshop, you will learn techniques to create a memoir with a cinematic feel and the singular voice of an immersive novel. more
MEMOIR THAT READS LIKE FICTION: Winter
January 7 to January 11, 2019
Tuition: $400
In this intensive memoir workshop, you will learn techniques to create a memoir with a cinematic feel and the singular voice of an immersive novel. more
Heidi Jon Schmidt
TELLING THE STORY: 8 WEEKS IN Winter
January 7 to March 1, 2019
Tuition: $600
John Cheever once stopped himself in the middle of a reading at FAWC and said, “Hell, I can tell it better than this.” Then he more
TELLING THE STORY: 8 WEEKS IN Winter
January 7 to March 1, 2019
Tuition: $600
John Cheever once stopped himself in the middle of a reading at FAWC and said, “Hell, I can tell it better than this.” Then he more
Ed Skoog
KEEP YOUR FOOT ON THE SUSTAIN PEDAL: WRITING LONG POEMS
January 7 to March 1, 2019
Tuition: $600
In this workshop, participants will struggle through several drafts of a few poems between 50 and 150 lines in length. Perhaps it seems silly to more
KEEP YOUR FOOT ON THE SUSTAIN PEDAL: WRITING LONG POEMS
January 7 to March 1, 2019
Tuition: $600
In this workshop, participants will struggle through several drafts of a few poems between 50 and 150 lines in length. Perhaps it seems silly to more
Sara Eliza Johnson
LANGUAGE AND THE LUCID DREAM: Winter
January 7 to March 1, 2019
Tuition: $600
Writing a poem—that is, inventing and manipulating our language to compose it—can be likened to lucid dreaming. In this course, you will learn to write more
LANGUAGE AND THE LUCID DREAM: Winter
January 7 to March 1, 2019
Tuition: $600
Writing a poem—that is, inventing and manipulating our language to compose it—can be likened to lucid dreaming. In this course, you will learn to write more
Ann Hood
WRITING THE PERSONAL ESSAY: Winter
January 7 to February 1, 2019
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
WRITING THE PERSONAL ESSAY: Winter
January 7 to February 1, 2019
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Erin Adair-Hodges
Lyric and the Lives of Others—
January 7 to February 1, 2019
Tuition: $500
Though poetry doesn’t require plot to shape it, as writers we’re naturally drawn to others’ compelling stories. What, then, can we learn from engaging deeply more
Lyric and the Lives of Others—
January 7 to February 1, 2019
Tuition: $500
Though poetry doesn’t require plot to shape it, as writers we’re naturally drawn to others’ compelling stories. What, then, can we learn from engaging deeply more
Jennifer Tseng
WRITING THE FORBIDDEN
December 17 to December 21, 2018
Tuition: $400
In this one-week class we will work to produce forbidden writing. What’s forbidden to one writer may not be forbidden to another. Some feel forbidden more
WRITING THE FORBIDDEN
December 17 to December 21, 2018
Tuition: $400
In this one-week class we will work to produce forbidden writing. What’s forbidden to one writer may not be forbidden to another. Some feel forbidden more
Ann Hood
JUMPSTART YOUR MEMOIR: Fall
December 3 to December 7, 2018
Tuition: $400
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. Often, that moment when you first more
JUMPSTART YOUR MEMOIR: Fall
December 3 to December 7, 2018
Tuition: $400
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. Often, that moment when you first more
Michael Klein
The Intention of the Risk: An Autobiographical Essay Workshop
November 19 to December 14, 2018
Tuition: $500
We will be reading essays and writing short essays which will culminate in a long autobiographical essay by the end of the course. The class more
The Intention of the Risk: An Autobiographical Essay Workshop
November 19 to December 14, 2018
Tuition: $500
We will be reading essays and writing short essays which will culminate in a long autobiographical essay by the end of the course. The class more
D. Gilson
Cut to the Quick: Flash Nonfiction
November 12 to December 7, 2018
Tuition: $500
Hot takes, op-eds, tweets, statuses, pings: the truth and its opposites are flying around us faster than ever before. This course will focus on the more
Cut to the Quick: Flash Nonfiction
November 12 to December 7, 2018
Tuition: $500
Hot takes, op-eds, tweets, statuses, pings: the truth and its opposites are flying around us faster than ever before. This course will focus on the more
Rebecca Seiferle
Moving with the Text: A Translation Workshop
November 12 to December 7, 2018
Tuition: $500
In this workshop we will explore poetic translation as a kind of migration, moving with the body of a text from one language into another. more
Moving with the Text: A Translation Workshop
November 12 to December 7, 2018
Tuition: $500
In this workshop we will explore poetic translation as a kind of migration, moving with the body of a text from one language into another. more
Rebecca Lindenberg
WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID: WRITING FUNNY POEMS in Fall
November 12 to December 7, 2018
Tuition: $500
It is really hard to write funny. It’s even harder to write funny with substance and pathos. But in this class, we’ll look at several more
WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID: WRITING FUNNY POEMS in Fall
November 12 to December 7, 2018
Tuition: $500
It is really hard to write funny. It’s even harder to write funny with substance and pathos. But in this class, we’ll look at several more
Daisy Fried
“SOME PEOPLE HAVE BEEN UNKIND”: A WORKSHOP ON LITERARY BOOK REVIEWING
November 12 to November 16, 2018
Tuition: $400
In this workshop, you will look at literary book reviewing from aesthetic, ethical, and practical angles, exploring possible approaches for reviewing and discovering what elements more
“SOME PEOPLE HAVE BEEN UNKIND”: A WORKSHOP ON LITERARY BOOK REVIEWING
November 12 to November 16, 2018
Tuition: $400
In this workshop, you will look at literary book reviewing from aesthetic, ethical, and practical angles, exploring possible approaches for reviewing and discovering what elements more
Peter Campion
Next Steps: Fall
November 12 to November 16, 2018
Tuition: $400
This five day course has been designed to take your poems to the next level. Our online discussion will provide tools to help you connect more
Next Steps: Fall
November 12 to November 16, 2018
Tuition: $400
This five day course has been designed to take your poems to the next level. Our online discussion will provide tools to help you connect more
David Kutz-Marks
BEAUTY IN CLOUDS: A FOUR-WEEK WORKSHOP
November 12 to December 7, 2018
Tuition: $500
In this course we will assess the stranger aesthetic virtues of poems we—and the rest of the world—are writing now. Without disavowing the values of more
BEAUTY IN CLOUDS: A FOUR-WEEK WORKSHOP
November 12 to December 7, 2018
Tuition: $500
In this course we will assess the stranger aesthetic virtues of poems we—and the rest of the world—are writing now. Without disavowing the values of more
Sarah Van Arsdale
The Fiction of Truth/The Truth of Fiction
November 5 to November 30, 2018
Tuition: $500
Where is the line between memoir and fiction? How much can you fabricate in memoir, and how much can you steal from your own life more
The Fiction of Truth/The Truth of Fiction
November 5 to November 30, 2018
Tuition: $500
Where is the line between memoir and fiction? How much can you fabricate in memoir, and how much can you steal from your own life more
Matt Miller
Haunting and the Haunted: Finding and the Honing the Poetry of Place
November 5 to November 30, 2018
Tuition: $500
How do we use image, language, form, and sound to set down our towns, our neighborhoods, and the cities we live in such a way more
Haunting and the Haunted: Finding and the Honing the Poetry of Place
November 5 to November 30, 2018
Tuition: $500
How do we use image, language, form, and sound to set down our towns, our neighborhoods, and the cities we live in such a way more
Rebecca Gayle Howell
WE ALL WRITE SENTENCES: Fall
November 5 to November 30, 2018
Tuition: $500
This four-week class invites both poets and prose writers to remember what made them want to write in the first place: a love for language. more
WE ALL WRITE SENTENCES: Fall
November 5 to November 30, 2018
Tuition: $500
This four-week class invites both poets and prose writers to remember what made them want to write in the first place: a love for language. more
Michelle Tea
MEMOIR THAT READS LIKE FICTION: Fall
November 5 to November 9, 2018
Tuition: $400
Memoirist, novelist and poet Michelle Tea will advise on the creation of a memoir that has the cinematic feel and the singular voice of an more
MEMOIR THAT READS LIKE FICTION: Fall
November 5 to November 9, 2018
Tuition: $400
Memoirist, novelist and poet Michelle Tea will advise on the creation of a memoir that has the cinematic feel and the singular voice of an more
Nancy Pearson
15 WORKS: Fall
October 22 to November 16, 2018
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
15 WORKS: Fall
October 22 to November 16, 2018
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
Sara Eliza Johnson
LANGUAGE AND THE LUCID DREAM: Fall
October 22 to December 14, 2018
Tuition: $600
Writing a poem—that is, inventing and manipulating our language to compose it—can be likened to lucid dreaming. In this course, you will learn to write more
LANGUAGE AND THE LUCID DREAM: Fall
October 22 to December 14, 2018
Tuition: $600
Writing a poem—that is, inventing and manipulating our language to compose it—can be likened to lucid dreaming. In this course, you will learn to write more
Fred Marchant
Living the Dream
October 22 to November 16, 2018
Tuition: $500
Just think of how many dreams you have during any given week or month! Think of the imaginative energy that pours into, and emanates from, more
Living the Dream
October 22 to November 16, 2018
Tuition: $500
Just think of how many dreams you have during any given week or month! Think of the imaginative energy that pours into, and emanates from, more
Kimberly Burwick
MYTHOLOGICAL GRAVITY IN POETRY
October 15 to November 9, 2018
Tuition: $500
Interested in mythology and folktales? In this generative workshop we’ll take a close look at how oral legends can make their way into contemporary poems more
MYTHOLOGICAL GRAVITY IN POETRY
October 15 to November 9, 2018
Tuition: $500
Interested in mythology and folktales? In this generative workshop we’ll take a close look at how oral legends can make their way into contemporary poems more
Peter Campion
FORM FROM FEELING AND FEELING FROM FORM: Fall
October 15 to November 9, 2018
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
FORM FROM FEELING AND FEELING FROM FORM: Fall
October 15 to November 9, 2018
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Ada Limón
STAYING TRUE: AUTHENTICITY AND VOICE: Fall
October 8 to November 30, 2018
Tuition: $600
With so many poetic and artistic influences circulating wildly in the modern world, it can be difficult to remain true to your own instinctual style more
STAYING TRUE: AUTHENTICITY AND VOICE: Fall
October 8 to November 30, 2018
Tuition: $600
With so many poetic and artistic influences circulating wildly in the modern world, it can be difficult to remain true to your own instinctual style more
Daisy Fried
Writing the Political Poem
October 8 to November 2, 2018
Tuition: $500
What makes a poem political, and what makes a political poem good? Is it harder or easier, in the current American political climate to write more
Writing the Political Poem
October 8 to November 2, 2018
Tuition: $500
What makes a poem political, and what makes a political poem good? Is it harder or easier, in the current American political climate to write more
Rachel Lyon
From Form and Function to Microfiction: An 8-Week Micro Craft Intensive
October 8 to November 30, 2018
Tuition: $600
Flash fiction is a sexy, versatile form. It can lead the reader somewhere unexpected and leave her there to ponder the unknown. It can crack more
From Form and Function to Microfiction: An 8-Week Micro Craft Intensive
October 8 to November 30, 2018
Tuition: $600
Flash fiction is a sexy, versatile form. It can lead the reader somewhere unexpected and leave her there to ponder the unknown. It can crack more
Kim Addonizio
EXPLORING THE SONNET: Fall
October 1 to October 26, 2018
Tuition: $500
Whether you’ve been writing sonnets for years, or have forgotten what iambic pentameter is, or never knew in the first place—this workshop is for you. more
EXPLORING THE SONNET: Fall
October 1 to October 26, 2018
Tuition: $500
Whether you’ve been writing sonnets for years, or have forgotten what iambic pentameter is, or never knew in the first place—this workshop is for you. more
Elizabeth Bradfield
REWILDING YOUR POEMS: A MONTH OF PRODS, PROMPTS, AND PLAY: Fall
October 1 to October 26, 2018
Tuition: $500
It can be easy to fall into a poetic rut. To feel stuck in routine or less than terrified (don’t we all want to be more
REWILDING YOUR POEMS: A MONTH OF PRODS, PROMPTS, AND PLAY: Fall
October 1 to October 26, 2018
Tuition: $500
It can be easy to fall into a poetic rut. To feel stuck in routine or less than terrified (don’t we all want to be more
Ann Hood
WRITING THE PERSONAL ESSAY: FALL
October 1 to October 26, 2018
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
WRITING THE PERSONAL ESSAY: FALL
October 1 to October 26, 2018
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Ed Skoog
HAVE YOU TRIED THE SIDE DOOR? FINDING A WAY IN TO YOUR NEXT POEMS: Fall
October 1 to November 23, 2018
Tuition: $600
Sometimes, starting a poem, I feel paralyzed by the task. Each time I need to find the way around my expectations, over the seemingly unsurmountable more
HAVE YOU TRIED THE SIDE DOOR? FINDING A WAY IN TO YOUR NEXT POEMS: Fall
October 1 to November 23, 2018
Tuition: $600
Sometimes, starting a poem, I feel paralyzed by the task. Each time I need to find the way around my expectations, over the seemingly unsurmountable more
Philip Metres
Inviting the Infinite: Poetry and/as Prayer
September 24 to September 28, 2018
Tuition: $400
David, Mohammad, Rumi, Donne, Hopkins, Rilke, Louise Gluck, Kaveh Akbar, Danez Smith: all have written poetry as an invitation to the infinite, to wrestle with more
Inviting the Infinite: Poetry and/as Prayer
September 24 to September 28, 2018
Tuition: $400
David, Mohammad, Rumi, Donne, Hopkins, Rilke, Louise Gluck, Kaveh Akbar, Danez Smith: all have written poetry as an invitation to the infinite, to wrestle with more
Michelle Tea
MEMOIR THAT READS LIKE FICTION: Summer
September 24 to September 28, 2018
Tuition: $400
In this intensive memoir workshop, you will learn techniques to create a memoir with a cinematic feel and the singular voice of an immersive novel. more
MEMOIR THAT READS LIKE FICTION: Summer
September 24 to September 28, 2018
Tuition: $400
In this intensive memoir workshop, you will learn techniques to create a memoir with a cinematic feel and the singular voice of an immersive novel. more
Matt Miller
Tiny Tales, Prose Poems, and Micro Memoirs
September 17 to September 21, 2018
Tuition: $400
This class will wade into those estuaries where the waters of genre blend and mingle and birth something new. We will try to blend the more
Tiny Tales, Prose Poems, and Micro Memoirs
September 17 to September 21, 2018
Tuition: $400
This class will wade into those estuaries where the waters of genre blend and mingle and birth something new. We will try to blend the more
Daisy Fried
Poetry Revision Boot Camp: Summer
September 17 to September 21, 2018
Tuition: $400
Get ready, get set…You’ll either come into workshop with a poem draft you’re interested in but dissatisfied with, or, at the workshop’s beginning, you’ll generate more
Poetry Revision Boot Camp: Summer
September 17 to September 21, 2018
Tuition: $400
Get ready, get set…You’ll either come into workshop with a poem draft you’re interested in but dissatisfied with, or, at the workshop’s beginning, you’ll generate more
Peter Campion
Next Steps: Summer
September 10 to September 14, 2018
Tuition: $400
This five day course has been designed to take your poems to the next level. Our online discussion will provide tools to help you connect more
Next Steps: Summer
September 10 to September 14, 2018
Tuition: $400
This five day course has been designed to take your poems to the next level. Our online discussion will provide tools to help you connect more
CA Conrad
Occult Poetics & (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals PART 2
August 20 to August 24, 2018
Tuition: $400
We will discuss how occult and paranormal experiences and practices of poets in the past shaped their praxis and changed the world of poetry, and more
Occult Poetics & (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals PART 2
August 20 to August 24, 2018
Tuition: $400
We will discuss how occult and paranormal experiences and practices of poets in the past shaped their praxis and changed the world of poetry, and more
CA Conrad
Occult Poetics & (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals PART 1
August 13 to August 17, 2018
Tuition: $400
We will discuss how occult and paranormal experiences and practices of poets in the past shaped their praxis and changed the world of poetry, and more
Occult Poetics & (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals PART 1
August 13 to August 17, 2018
Tuition: $400
We will discuss how occult and paranormal experiences and practices of poets in the past shaped their praxis and changed the world of poetry, and more
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Fantastic Worlds In the Realest Poems: How Fantasy Fiction Might Help Our Hardest Realities Bloom
August 6 to August 31, 2018
Tuition: $500
What does it mean to tell the truth? And why can it often be so hard to do and/or make the poem seem nothing like more
Fantastic Worlds In the Realest Poems: How Fantasy Fiction Might Help Our Hardest Realities Bloom
August 6 to August 31, 2018
Tuition: $500
What does it mean to tell the truth? And why can it often be so hard to do and/or make the poem seem nothing like more
Heidi Jon Schmidt
Character and Fate
August 6 to August 31, 2018
Tuition: $500
Character is the heart of a fiction writer’s work, and we will spend this month with our characters, imagining and re-imagining them and their worlds, more
Character and Fate
August 6 to August 31, 2018
Tuition: $500
Character is the heart of a fiction writer’s work, and we will spend this month with our characters, imagining and re-imagining them and their worlds, more
Kim Addonizio
Diving into Metaphor
August 6 to August 31, 2018
Tuition: $500
This class is FULL, but Kim’s class in the fall still has space. “Juliet is the sun!” Shakespeare famously wrote. And Pound, just as famously, more
Diving into Metaphor
August 6 to August 31, 2018
Tuition: $500
This class is FULL, but Kim’s class in the fall still has space. “Juliet is the sun!” Shakespeare famously wrote. And Pound, just as famously, more
Major Jackson
Visionary Poetics
August 6 to August 10, 2018
Tuition: $400
We designate those poets with vision who have successfully developed an identifiable style or addressed a topic in their poetry that becomes almost synonymous with more
Visionary Poetics
August 6 to August 10, 2018
Tuition: $400
We designate those poets with vision who have successfully developed an identifiable style or addressed a topic in their poetry that becomes almost synonymous with more
Maria Hummel
Novel Writing: Answering the Top Ten Questions
July 23 to July 27, 2018
Tuition: $400
In this course, we’ll explore the top ten questions that writers need to consider when writing a novel. These questions include “Is my novel idea-based more
Novel Writing: Answering the Top Ten Questions
July 23 to July 27, 2018
Tuition: $400
In this course, we’ll explore the top ten questions that writers need to consider when writing a novel. These questions include “Is my novel idea-based more
Ann Hood
Writing the Personal Essay: Summer
July 23 to August 17, 2018
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Writing the Personal Essay: Summer
July 23 to August 17, 2018
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Duy Doan
Spontaneity, or Disruption and the Illusion of Spontaneity
July 9 to July 13, 2018
Tuition: $400
The moments that disrupt the natural movement or direction of a poem are sometimes where the poem’s pulse is most perceptible. Often we can create more
Spontaneity, or Disruption and the Illusion of Spontaneity
July 9 to July 13, 2018
Tuition: $400
The moments that disrupt the natural movement or direction of a poem are sometimes where the poem’s pulse is most perceptible. Often we can create more
Sarah Green
YOUR BEST BEACH BODY: Seven Prompts to Provoke and Invite
July 9 to July 13, 2018
Tuition: $400
Where in your body do you house longing? Where does surprise live? Tenderness? Humor? This week we’ll prep our summer poem bodies with seven prompts more
YOUR BEST BEACH BODY: Seven Prompts to Provoke and Invite
July 9 to July 13, 2018
Tuition: $400
Where in your body do you house longing? Where does surprise live? Tenderness? Humor? This week we’ll prep our summer poem bodies with seven prompts more
Meghan O'Gieblyn
Place in Memoir
July 9 to August 31, 2018
Tuition: $600
Too often, location is regarded as the backdrop of a memoir—the fixed stage-set on which the action unfolds. But there is a long tradition of more
Place in Memoir
July 9 to August 31, 2018
Tuition: $600
Too often, location is regarded as the backdrop of a memoir—the fixed stage-set on which the action unfolds. But there is a long tradition of more
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Narrating Memoir: Who's Telling Your Life Story?
July 9 to July 13, 2018
Tuition: $400
The memoirist is asked to play many roles: simultaneously that of the author, the narrator, and the character. And while those of the author (you, more
Narrating Memoir: Who's Telling Your Life Story?
July 9 to July 13, 2018
Tuition: $400
The memoirist is asked to play many roles: simultaneously that of the author, the narrator, and the character. And while those of the author (you, more
Peter Campion
Form From Feeling and Feeling From Form: Summer
July 9 to August 3, 2018
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Form From Feeling and Feeling From Form: Summer
July 9 to August 3, 2018
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Rebecca Lindenberg
What I Should Have Said: Writing Funny Poems
July 9 to August 3, 2018
Tuition: $500
It is really hard to write funny. It’s even harder to write funny with substance and pathos. But in this class, we’ll look at several more
What I Should Have Said: Writing Funny Poems
July 9 to August 3, 2018
Tuition: $500
It is really hard to write funny. It’s even harder to write funny with substance and pathos. But in this class, we’ll look at several more
Ed Skoog
Have You Tried the Side Door? Finding A Way In To Your Next Poems: SUMMER
July 2 to August 24, 2018
Tuition: $600
Sometimes, starting a poem, I feel paralyzed by the task. Each time I need to find the way around my expectations, over the seemingly unsurmountable more
Have You Tried the Side Door? Finding A Way In To Your Next Poems: SUMMER
July 2 to August 24, 2018
Tuition: $600
Sometimes, starting a poem, I feel paralyzed by the task. Each time I need to find the way around my expectations, over the seemingly unsurmountable more
Sara Eliza Johnson
LANGUAGE AND THE LUCID DREAM: Summer
June 25 to August 17, 2018
Tuition: $600
Writing a poem—that is, inventing and manipulating our language to compose it—can be likened to lucid dreaming. In this course, you will learn to write more
LANGUAGE AND THE LUCID DREAM: Summer
June 25 to August 17, 2018
Tuition: $600
Writing a poem—that is, inventing and manipulating our language to compose it—can be likened to lucid dreaming. In this course, you will learn to write more
Fred Marchant
Letters to the World
June 25 to June 29, 2018
Tuition: $400
Poets from the ancient world to the present time have often found the idea of a “letter in verse” very appealing. Sometimes that letter poem more
Letters to the World
June 25 to June 29, 2018
Tuition: $400
Poets from the ancient world to the present time have often found the idea of a “letter in verse” very appealing. Sometimes that letter poem more
Annie Finch
Working the Beat More; How to Make Poems Sing in Depth
June 18 to July 13, 2018
Tuition: $500
It can be tempting to think of rhythm, meter, or form as a container, something outside and separate from a poem. But the best poems more
Working the Beat More; How to Make Poems Sing in Depth
June 18 to July 13, 2018
Tuition: $500
It can be tempting to think of rhythm, meter, or form as a container, something outside and separate from a poem. But the best poems more
Oliver de la Paz
Lovers, Liars, Monsters, Saints: You and the Persona Poem
June 18 to July 13, 2018
Tuition: $500
Ancient Greeks wore masks to express the emotions of the characters they were playing during dramatic productions. There was a pragmatic reason for this–it was more
Lovers, Liars, Monsters, Saints: You and the Persona Poem
June 18 to July 13, 2018
Tuition: $500
Ancient Greeks wore masks to express the emotions of the characters they were playing during dramatic productions. There was a pragmatic reason for this–it was more
Maria Hummel
Beginning Your Mystery Novel
June 18 to June 22, 2018
Tuition: $400
Tana French, Kate Atkinson, and Gillian Flynn are part of an explosion of new mystery novelists who are stretching the strict conventions of this long-beloved more
Beginning Your Mystery Novel
June 18 to June 22, 2018
Tuition: $400
Tana French, Kate Atkinson, and Gillian Flynn are part of an explosion of new mystery novelists who are stretching the strict conventions of this long-beloved more
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Of Knowing Nothing and Everything: A Week of Poem, Pigment, and Paint in the Lab: Summer
June 18 to June 22, 2018
Tuition: $400
In this class we’ll ask rigorous questions like, “What do I mean when I say the sky is blue?” & “What does ‘green’ mean, really?” more
Of Knowing Nothing and Everything: A Week of Poem, Pigment, and Paint in the Lab: Summer
June 18 to June 22, 2018
Tuition: $400
In this class we’ll ask rigorous questions like, “What do I mean when I say the sky is blue?” & “What does ‘green’ mean, really?” more
Writers' Work Groups: Pilot Term
June 11 to October 26, 2018
Tuition: $100
***Please note that the cost for the term is $125. Our registration system will calculate the fee based upon the $100 fee listed here, with more
Emilia Phillips
Every Phantom // A Story: Erasure and Revision
June 11 to August 9, 2018
Tuition: $600
What isn’t said in a poem is just as meaningful–just as much a craft choice–as what is said. As poets, we so often go to more
Every Phantom // A Story: Erasure and Revision
June 11 to August 9, 2018
Tuition: $600
What isn’t said in a poem is just as meaningful–just as much a craft choice–as what is said. As poets, we so often go to more
Elizabeth Bradfield
Rewilding Your Poems: A Month of Prods, Prompts, and Play
June 11 to July 6, 2018
Tuition: $500
It can be easy to fall into a poetic rut. To feel stuck in routine or less than terrified (don’t we all want to be more
Rewilding Your Poems: A Month of Prods, Prompts, and Play
June 11 to July 6, 2018
Tuition: $500
It can be easy to fall into a poetic rut. To feel stuck in routine or less than terrified (don’t we all want to be more
Kimberly Burwick
The Image, Ravenous: Summer
June 11 to June 15, 2018
Tuition: $400
Do you remember how exciting it once was to find a crushed wasp or the first robin in March? In this generative course we will more
The Image, Ravenous: Summer
June 11 to June 15, 2018
Tuition: $400
Do you remember how exciting it once was to find a crushed wasp or the first robin in March? In this generative course we will more
Meg Day
5 Days, 6 Poems, 7 Ways Back Home: Summer
June 4 to June 8, 2018
Tuition: $400
Movement is a poet’s dialect: we pace the room of each stanza, we shuttle our readers across & down the page, & we reach inside more
5 Days, 6 Poems, 7 Ways Back Home: Summer
June 4 to June 8, 2018
Tuition: $400
Movement is a poet’s dialect: we pace the room of each stanza, we shuttle our readers across & down the page, & we reach inside more
Sarah Rose Nordgren
The Sources of Poetry
June 4 to July 26, 2018
Tuition: $600
“You mention Immortality. That is the Flood subject.” – Emily Dickinson in a letter to T. W. Higginson Writing a poem is not a logical more
The Sources of Poetry
June 4 to July 26, 2018
Tuition: $600
“You mention Immortality. That is the Flood subject.” – Emily Dickinson in a letter to T. W. Higginson Writing a poem is not a logical more
Ann Hood
Jumpstart Your Memoir: Summer
June 4 to June 8, 2018
Tuition: $400
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. In his book on the craft more
Jumpstart Your Memoir: Summer
June 4 to June 8, 2018
Tuition: $400
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. In his book on the craft more
Alix Ohlin
Making Beautiful Sentences
June 4 to June 29, 2018
Tuition: $500
What makes a sentence so powerful and enduring that it will stick in your mind forever? In this four-week class, we’ll take a look at more
Making Beautiful Sentences
June 4 to June 29, 2018
Tuition: $500
What makes a sentence so powerful and enduring that it will stick in your mind forever? In this four-week class, we’ll take a look at more
Nancy Pearson
15 Works: Summer
June 4 to June 29, 2018
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
15 Works: Summer
June 4 to June 29, 2018
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
Francesca Lia Block
12 Questions to Help Structure your Novel in Five Days
May 21 to May 25, 2018
Tuition: $400
Over the years, Francesca Lia Block has helped hundreds and hundreds of writers discover and develop their novels using twelve essential, inter-related questions: What is more
12 Questions to Help Structure your Novel in Five Days
May 21 to May 25, 2018
Tuition: $400
Over the years, Francesca Lia Block has helped hundreds and hundreds of writers discover and develop their novels using twelve essential, inter-related questions: What is more
Rebecca Lindenberg
Writing for the Senses: Poetic Imagery, Experience, Emotion, and Evocation
May 14 to May 18, 2018
Tuition: $400
Though this course may be online, it’s a highly experiential one, devoted exclusively to developing the writer’s perceptual path from sensation to language. Richly original more
Writing for the Senses: Poetic Imagery, Experience, Emotion, and Evocation
May 14 to May 18, 2018
Tuition: $400
Though this course may be online, it’s a highly experiential one, devoted exclusively to developing the writer’s perceptual path from sensation to language. Richly original more
Kimberly Burwick
Mythological Gravity in Poetry: Spring
May 14 to June 8, 2018
Tuition: $500
Interested in mythology and folktales? In this generative workshop we’ll take a close look at how oral legends can make their way into contemporary poems more
Mythological Gravity in Poetry: Spring
May 14 to June 8, 2018
Tuition: $500
Interested in mythology and folktales? In this generative workshop we’ll take a close look at how oral legends can make their way into contemporary poems more
Joseph Cassara
Narrative Voice & Setting: Inhabiting The Fictional World
May 7 to June 29, 2018
Tuition: $600
Engaging characters and settings have the potential to be the most memorable aspects in our fiction, staying in our readers’ mind long after they finish more
Narrative Voice & Setting: Inhabiting The Fictional World
May 7 to June 29, 2018
Tuition: $600
Engaging characters and settings have the potential to be the most memorable aspects in our fiction, staying in our readers’ mind long after they finish more
Ed Skoog
Have You Tried the Side Door? Finding a Way In to Your Next Poems: Spring
May 7 to June 29, 2018
Tuition: $600
Sometimes, starting a poem, I feel paralyzed by the task. Each time I need to find the way around my expectations, over the seemingly unsurmountable more
Have You Tried the Side Door? Finding a Way In to Your Next Poems: Spring
May 7 to June 29, 2018
Tuition: $600
Sometimes, starting a poem, I feel paralyzed by the task. Each time I need to find the way around my expectations, over the seemingly unsurmountable more
Nomi Stone
Anthro-Poetics: Living, Seeing, and Wonder
May 7 to May 11, 2018
Tuition: $500
We will “sing the [world] electric” through experiments in anthro-poetics. Our goal: to expand both our seeing and writing practices, by estranging the familiar and more
Anthro-Poetics: Living, Seeing, and Wonder
May 7 to May 11, 2018
Tuition: $500
We will “sing the [world] electric” through experiments in anthro-poetics. Our goal: to expand both our seeing and writing practices, by estranging the familiar and more
Cam Terwilliger
Flash Fiction: Spring
May 7 to June 1, 2018
Tuition: $500
Regularly appearing in the pages of literary magazines, flash fiction has become one of the most vibrant modes in which to write. A protean form, more
Flash Fiction: Spring
May 7 to June 1, 2018
Tuition: $500
Regularly appearing in the pages of literary magazines, flash fiction has become one of the most vibrant modes in which to write. A protean form, more
Sarah Rose Nordgren
Griffins, Harpies, and Jackalopes: Hybrid Poetics
May 7 to May 11, 2018
Tuition: $400
“What grows in that place is possessed of a beauty all its own, ramshackle and unexpected.”– Campbell McGrath, “The Prose Poem” Poetry’s history is one more
Griffins, Harpies, and Jackalopes: Hybrid Poetics
May 7 to May 11, 2018
Tuition: $400
“What grows in that place is possessed of a beauty all its own, ramshackle and unexpected.”– Campbell McGrath, “The Prose Poem” Poetry’s history is one more
Emilia Phillips
Call (Out): Imitation, Invective, and Conversation
April 9 to May 4, 2018
Tuition: $500
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, right? Right? In this course, we’ll investigate the practices of poetic imitation and invective, and everything in between. more
Call (Out): Imitation, Invective, and Conversation
April 9 to May 4, 2018
Tuition: $500
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, right? Right? In this course, we’ll investigate the practices of poetic imitation and invective, and everything in between. more
Anne Sanow
Revision is the Writing: Prose Workshop
April 9 to May 4, 2018
Tuition: $500
It’s easy to resist revision as the “work” part of creating—but when you embrace it fully as part of the creative process, your writing will more
Revision is the Writing: Prose Workshop
April 9 to May 4, 2018
Tuition: $500
It’s easy to resist revision as the “work” part of creating—but when you embrace it fully as part of the creative process, your writing will more
Michelle Tea
Memoir that Reads Like Fiction: Spring
April 9 to April 13, 2018
Tuition: $400
In this intensive memoir workshop, you will learn techniques to create a memoir with a cinematic feel and the singular voice of an immersive novel. more
Memoir that Reads Like Fiction: Spring
April 9 to April 13, 2018
Tuition: $400
In this intensive memoir workshop, you will learn techniques to create a memoir with a cinematic feel and the singular voice of an immersive novel. more
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Your Family Members, Your Characters
April 2 to April 6, 2018
Tuition: $400
When we write memoir or autobiographical fiction, our characters are drawn from the people we love, the people we know the best. So why is more
Your Family Members, Your Characters
April 2 to April 6, 2018
Tuition: $400
When we write memoir or autobiographical fiction, our characters are drawn from the people we love, the people we know the best. So why is more
Fred Marchant
Staying With It: A Five-Day Meditation in Poetry
March 26 to March 30, 2018
Tuition: $400
In this one-week intensive online course we will begin a new poem and stay with it for the whole five days, the goal being to more
Staying With It: A Five-Day Meditation in Poetry
March 26 to March 30, 2018
Tuition: $400
In this one-week intensive online course we will begin a new poem and stay with it for the whole five days, the goal being to more
Ann Hood
Writing the Personal Essay: Spring
March 26 to April 20, 2018
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Writing the Personal Essay: Spring
March 26 to April 20, 2018
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Rosie Schaap
Essay is a Verb: The Practice of Personal Narrative: Spring
March 19 to April 13, 2018
Tuition: $500
To essay is to try. Informed and animated by the singular life experience and voice of its author, the personal essay represents an attempt to more
Essay is a Verb: The Practice of Personal Narrative: Spring
March 19 to April 13, 2018
Tuition: $500
To essay is to try. Informed and animated by the singular life experience and voice of its author, the personal essay represents an attempt to more
Rebecca Gayle Howell
We All Write Sentences: Spring
March 19 to March 23, 2018
Tuition: $400
This one-week intensive invites both poets and prose writers to consider more closely the power of pushing out the boundaries of the English sentence. Reading, more
We All Write Sentences: Spring
March 19 to March 23, 2018
Tuition: $400
This one-week intensive invites both poets and prose writers to consider more closely the power of pushing out the boundaries of the English sentence. Reading, more
Meg Day
5 Days, 6 Poems, 7 Ways Back Home: Spring
March 12 to March 16, 2018
Tuition: $400
Movement is a poet’s dialect: we pace the room of each stanza, we shuttle our readers across & down the page, & we reach inside more
5 Days, 6 Poems, 7 Ways Back Home: Spring
March 12 to March 16, 2018
Tuition: $400
Movement is a poet’s dialect: we pace the room of each stanza, we shuttle our readers across & down the page, & we reach inside more
Lisa Duffy
Elements of Craft: A Fiction Workshop: SPRING
March 12 to April 6, 2018
Tuition: $500
This workshop is for students who are looking for critical feedback on a short story or novel-in-progress (novel excerpt should stand alone). Students will critique more
Elements of Craft: A Fiction Workshop: SPRING
March 12 to April 6, 2018
Tuition: $500
This workshop is for students who are looking for critical feedback on a short story or novel-in-progress (novel excerpt should stand alone). Students will critique more
Emilia Phillips
The Upside-Down: Contemporary Pastorals and Necropastorals: Spring
March 12 to April 6, 2018
Tuition: $500
“How many ladders to gather an orchard?” asks Brigit Pegeen Kelly in “The Leaving.” Beyond nature poetry, beyond the arcadian romances, this course drives the more
The Upside-Down: Contemporary Pastorals and Necropastorals: Spring
March 12 to April 6, 2018
Tuition: $500
“How many ladders to gather an orchard?” asks Brigit Pegeen Kelly in “The Leaving.” Beyond nature poetry, beyond the arcadian romances, this course drives the more
Kimberly Burwick
Roughness, Ruckus and Rumble: Writing toward Disquietude
March 12 to May 4, 2018
Tuition: $600
Engaging the acuteness of internal and external strife, we will generate poems that do not shy away from distress, but engage this feeling head-on. We more
Roughness, Ruckus and Rumble: Writing toward Disquietude
March 12 to May 4, 2018
Tuition: $600
Engaging the acuteness of internal and external strife, we will generate poems that do not shy away from distress, but engage this feeling head-on. We more
Peter Campion
Form From Feeling and Feeling From Form: Spring
March 12 to April 6, 2018
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Form From Feeling and Feeling From Form: Spring
March 12 to April 6, 2018
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Chloe Garcia Roberts
Crossing Borders and Subverting Genre: The Lyric Essay: SPRING
March 12 to April 6, 2018
Tuition: $500
Have your poems ever felt jealous of scientific essays, investigative journalism, instruction manuals, business correspondence, or religious texts to name a few? Or conversely does more
Crossing Borders and Subverting Genre: The Lyric Essay: SPRING
March 12 to April 6, 2018
Tuition: $500
Have your poems ever felt jealous of scientific essays, investigative journalism, instruction manuals, business correspondence, or religious texts to name a few? Or conversely does more
Jillian Weise
The Poet as Spy: 4 Tricks from Espionage: Spring
March 12 to March 16, 2018
Tuition: $400
Since we live in the age of the ubiquitous status update, you are already familiar with spying and being spied, watching and being watched, surveying more
The Poet as Spy: 4 Tricks from Espionage: Spring
March 12 to March 16, 2018
Tuition: $400
Since we live in the age of the ubiquitous status update, you are already familiar with spying and being spied, watching and being watched, surveying more
Sara Eliza Johnson
Language and the Lucid Dream: Spring
March 12 to May 4, 2018
Tuition: $600
Writing a poem—that is, inventing and manipulating our language to compose it—can be likened to lucid dreaming. In this course, you will learn to write more
Language and the Lucid Dream: Spring
March 12 to May 4, 2018
Tuition: $600
Writing a poem—that is, inventing and manipulating our language to compose it—can be likened to lucid dreaming. In this course, you will learn to write more
Suzanne Rivecca
Good Things in Small Packages: The Art of the Short Story: Spring
March 12 to May 4, 2018
Tuition: $600
A great short story is all the proof we need that bigger isn’t necessarily better—or more beautiful, or more profound. In this new class, you more
Good Things in Small Packages: The Art of the Short Story: Spring
March 12 to May 4, 2018
Tuition: $600
A great short story is all the proof we need that bigger isn’t necessarily better—or more beautiful, or more profound. In this new class, you more
Ed Skoog
Called to Speech: A One-Week Workshop
March 5 to March 9, 2018
Tuition: $400
What is happening when you begin to write a poem? What does it mean to be called to speech, to break into song? Why this, more
Called to Speech: A One-Week Workshop
March 5 to March 9, 2018
Tuition: $400
What is happening when you begin to write a poem? What does it mean to be called to speech, to break into song? Why this, more
Rebecca Seiferle
The Poem's Intention
March 5 to March 30, 2018
Tuition: $500
Often, a poem has its own intentions that are at odds with the intentions of the poet. The poet will begin the poem with a more
The Poem's Intention
March 5 to March 30, 2018
Tuition: $500
Often, a poem has its own intentions that are at odds with the intentions of the poet. The poet will begin the poem with a more
Ada Limón
Staying True: Authenticity and Voice: Spring
March 5 to April 27, 2018
Tuition: $600
With so many poetic and artistic influences circulating wildly in the modern world, it can be difficult to remain true to your own instinctual style more
Staying True: Authenticity and Voice: Spring
March 5 to April 27, 2018
Tuition: $600
With so many poetic and artistic influences circulating wildly in the modern world, it can be difficult to remain true to your own instinctual style more
Daisy Fried
“Some People Have Been Unkind”: A Workshop on Literary Book Reviewing
March 5 to March 30, 2018
Tuition: $500
In this workshop, you will look at literary book reviewing from aesthetic, ethical, and practical angles, exploring possible approaches for reviewing and discovering what elements more
“Some People Have Been Unkind”: A Workshop on Literary Book Reviewing
March 5 to March 30, 2018
Tuition: $500
In this workshop, you will look at literary book reviewing from aesthetic, ethical, and practical angles, exploring possible approaches for reviewing and discovering what elements more
Ann Hood
Jumpstart Your Memoir: Spring
March 5 to March 9, 2018
Tuition: $500
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. Often, that moment when you first more
Jumpstart Your Memoir: Spring
March 5 to March 9, 2018
Tuition: $500
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. Often, that moment when you first more
Devi Lockwood
Tangible Things: Object-based Storytelling
February 19 to February 23, 2018
Tuition: $400
This multi-genre course is a scavenger hunt. Each day will ask you to collect a different object, introduce it to an unexpected space, and to more
Tangible Things: Object-based Storytelling
February 19 to February 23, 2018
Tuition: $400
This multi-genre course is a scavenger hunt. Each day will ask you to collect a different object, introduce it to an unexpected space, and to more
Jillian Weise
The Poet as Spy: 4 Tricks from Espionage: Winter
February 12 to February 16, 2018
Tuition: $400
Since we live in the age of the ubiquitous status update, you are already familiar with spying and being spied, watching and being watched, surveying more
The Poet as Spy: 4 Tricks from Espionage: Winter
February 12 to February 16, 2018
Tuition: $400
Since we live in the age of the ubiquitous status update, you are already familiar with spying and being spied, watching and being watched, surveying more
Michelle Tea
Memoir that Reads Like Fiction: Winter
February 12 to February 16, 2018
Tuition: $400
In this intensive memoir workshop, you will learn techniques to create a memoir with a cinematic feel and the singular voice of an immersive novel. more
Memoir that Reads Like Fiction: Winter
February 12 to February 16, 2018
Tuition: $400
In this intensive memoir workshop, you will learn techniques to create a memoir with a cinematic feel and the singular voice of an immersive novel. more
Mark Wunderlich
Neighboring Solitudes: The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke as generative sources for poems: WINTER
February 5 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $500
In this workshop course, we will write poems based on some of the major themes present in the poems of the great German-language Modernist poet more
Neighboring Solitudes: The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke as generative sources for poems: WINTER
February 5 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $500
In this workshop course, we will write poems based on some of the major themes present in the poems of the great German-language Modernist poet more
Jennifer Tseng
Writing the Forbidden
February 5 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $500
In this four-week class you will work to produce pieces of forbidden writing. What’s forbidden to one writer may not be forbidden to another. Some more
Writing the Forbidden
February 5 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $500
In this four-week class you will work to produce pieces of forbidden writing. What’s forbidden to one writer may not be forbidden to another. Some more
Rosie Schaap
Essay is a Verb: The Practice of Personal Narrative: Winter
February 5 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $500
To essay is to try. Informed and animated by the singular life experience and voice of its author, the personal essay represents an attempt to more
Essay is a Verb: The Practice of Personal Narrative: Winter
February 5 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $500
To essay is to try. Informed and animated by the singular life experience and voice of its author, the personal essay represents an attempt to more
Laura Madeline Wiseman
A Chapbook Workshop
February 5 to February 9, 2018
Tuition: $400
This one-week intensive workshop will focus on the chapbook manuscript, including sequencing poems, finding narrative arc, and bringing together the themes of a sequence. We’ll more
A Chapbook Workshop
February 5 to February 9, 2018
Tuition: $400
This one-week intensive workshop will focus on the chapbook manuscript, including sequencing poems, finding narrative arc, and bringing together the themes of a sequence. We’ll more
Meg Day
What's Love Got to Do With It: Poems for Valentine's Day
February 5 to February 9, 2018
Tuition: $400
What is more deeply entangled in the genealogy of the poem than love? Poet Eileen Myles writes that the love poem is where all of more
What's Love Got to Do With It: Poems for Valentine's Day
February 5 to February 9, 2018
Tuition: $400
What is more deeply entangled in the genealogy of the poem than love? Poet Eileen Myles writes that the love poem is where all of more
Annie Finch
Working the Beat: How to Make Poems Sing
February 5 to February 9, 2018
Tuition: $400
It can be tempting to think of rhythm, meter, or form as a container, something outside and separate from a poem. But the best poems more
Working the Beat: How to Make Poems Sing
February 5 to February 9, 2018
Tuition: $400
It can be tempting to think of rhythm, meter, or form as a container, something outside and separate from a poem. But the best poems more
Daisy Fried
Writing Poems that Don't Fit: Winter
February 5 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $500
Does it sometimes seem as if the poetry world is divided into camps determined to prove that the other camps have nothing to offer? And more
Writing Poems that Don't Fit: Winter
February 5 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $500
Does it sometimes seem as if the poetry world is divided into camps determined to prove that the other camps have nothing to offer? And more
Jill McDonough
The Dead of Winter: Finding Inspiration Without Finding Your Shoes
January 29 to February 2, 2018
Tuition: $400
It’s easy to get in a rut in the winter. Luckily, the same internet-dependent laziness that got us into this mess can lead to ambitious more
The Dead of Winter: Finding Inspiration Without Finding Your Shoes
January 29 to February 2, 2018
Tuition: $400
It’s easy to get in a rut in the winter. Luckily, the same internet-dependent laziness that got us into this mess can lead to ambitious more
Peter Campion
Form From Feeling and Feeling From Form: Winter
January 22 to February 16, 2018
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Form From Feeling and Feeling From Form: Winter
January 22 to February 16, 2018
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Devi Lockwood
Tell Me a Story: The Power of Deep Listening
January 22 to January 26, 2018
Tuition: $400
Daily prompts will ask you to engage in oral storytelling sessions with people around you, to make short audio recordings, and to write based on more
Tell Me a Story: The Power of Deep Listening
January 22 to January 26, 2018
Tuition: $400
Daily prompts will ask you to engage in oral storytelling sessions with people around you, to make short audio recordings, and to write based on more
Ann Hood
Jumpstart Your Memoir: Winter
January 22 to January 26, 2018
Tuition: $400
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. Often, that moment when you first more
Jumpstart Your Memoir: Winter
January 22 to January 26, 2018
Tuition: $400
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. Often, that moment when you first more
Adrian Matejka
The Music in My Head: Five Ways of Hearing a Poem
January 15 to January 19, 2018
Tuition: $400
The great poet Etheridge Knight said, “Making jazz swing in / Seventeen syllables AIN’T / No square poet’s job,” but what is a poem that more
The Music in My Head: Five Ways of Hearing a Poem
January 15 to January 19, 2018
Tuition: $400
The great poet Etheridge Knight said, “Making jazz swing in / Seventeen syllables AIN’T / No square poet’s job,” but what is a poem that more
Lisa Duffy
Elements of Craft: A Fiction Workshop: WINTER
January 15 to February 9, 2018
Tuition: $500
This workshop is for students who are looking for critical feedback on a short story or novel-in-progress (novel excerpt should stand alone). Students will critique more
Elements of Craft: A Fiction Workshop: WINTER
January 15 to February 9, 2018
Tuition: $500
This workshop is for students who are looking for critical feedback on a short story or novel-in-progress (novel excerpt should stand alone). Students will critique more
Ed Skoog
Keep Your Foot on the Sustain Pedal: Writing Long Poems
January 15 to February 9, 2018
Tuition: $500
In this workshop, participants will struggle through several drafts of a few poems between 50 and 150 lines in length. Perhaps it seems silly to more
Keep Your Foot on the Sustain Pedal: Writing Long Poems
January 15 to February 9, 2018
Tuition: $500
In this workshop, participants will struggle through several drafts of a few poems between 50 and 150 lines in length. Perhaps it seems silly to more
Carolyn Forché
Writing New Poems: Winter
January 15 to January 19, 2018
Tuition: $400
Carolyn Forché’s five-day intensive class is designed to push experienced poets in provocative new writing directions. The week is dedicated to writing and receiving feedback more
Writing New Poems: Winter
January 15 to January 19, 2018
Tuition: $400
Carolyn Forché’s five-day intensive class is designed to push experienced poets in provocative new writing directions. The week is dedicated to writing and receiving feedback more
Rebecca Gayle Howell
We All Write Sentences: Winter
January 15 to January 19, 2018
Tuition: $400
This one-week intensive invites both poets and prose writers to consider more closely the power of pushing out the boundaries of the English sentence. Reading, more
We All Write Sentences: Winter
January 15 to January 19, 2018
Tuition: $400
This one-week intensive invites both poets and prose writers to consider more closely the power of pushing out the boundaries of the English sentence. Reading, more
Emilia Phillips
I Am Trying To Be Marvelous: The Poetics of Body Positivity
January 8 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $600
The title of our course comes from Chen Chen’s “Winter,” a poem that candidly describes the body’s excretions while celebrating its beauty, sexuality, and humanity. more
I Am Trying To Be Marvelous: The Poetics of Body Positivity
January 8 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $600
The title of our course comes from Chen Chen’s “Winter,” a poem that candidly describes the body’s excretions while celebrating its beauty, sexuality, and humanity. more
Kimberly Burwick
Mythological Gravity in Poetry
January 8 to February 2, 2018
Tuition: $500
Interested in mythology and folktales? In this generative workshop we’ll take a close look at how oral legends can make their way into contemporary poems more
Mythological Gravity in Poetry
January 8 to February 2, 2018
Tuition: $500
Interested in mythology and folktales? In this generative workshop we’ll take a close look at how oral legends can make their way into contemporary poems more
Rebecca Seiferle
The Poetic Sequence
January 8 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $600
A sequence is a long poem that combines shorter pieces by relying on association, juxtaposition, and connection rather than theme or narrative to create an more
The Poetic Sequence
January 8 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $600
A sequence is a long poem that combines shorter pieces by relying on association, juxtaposition, and connection rather than theme or narrative to create an more
Sara Eliza Johnson
Language and the Lucid Dream: Winter
January 8 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $600
Writing a poem—that is, inventing and manipulating our language to compose it—can be likened to lucid dreaming. In this course, you will learn to write more
Language and the Lucid Dream: Winter
January 8 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $600
Writing a poem—that is, inventing and manipulating our language to compose it—can be likened to lucid dreaming. In this course, you will learn to write more
Ada Limón
Staying True: Authenticity and Voice: Winter
January 8 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $600
Ada Limón is determined to help you focus in on your own personal style and write poems in your own unique voice in a world more
Staying True: Authenticity and Voice: Winter
January 8 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $600
Ada Limón is determined to help you focus in on your own personal style and write poems in your own unique voice in a world more
Laura Madeline Wiseman
Delightful Duos: Collaborating Poets
January 8 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $600
Delightful duos, crafty couples, and writers who dare to work in pairs, this eight-week studio will focus on the art of collaborating with other poets. more
Delightful Duos: Collaborating Poets
January 8 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $600
Delightful duos, crafty couples, and writers who dare to work in pairs, this eight-week studio will focus on the art of collaborating with other poets. more
Suzanne Rivecca
Good Things in Small Packages: The Art of the Short Story: Winter
January 8 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $600
A great short story is all the proof we need that bigger isn’t necessarily better—or more beautiful, or more profound. In this new class, you more
Good Things in Small Packages: The Art of the Short Story: Winter
January 8 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $600
A great short story is all the proof we need that bigger isn’t necessarily better—or more beautiful, or more profound. In this new class, you more
Meghan O'Gieblyn
Place in Memoir
January 8 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $600
Too often, location is regarded as the backdrop of a memoir—the fixed stage-set on which the action unfolds. But there is a long tradition of more
Place in Memoir
January 8 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $600
Too often, location is regarded as the backdrop of a memoir—the fixed stage-set on which the action unfolds. But there is a long tradition of more
Heidi Jon Schmidt
Telling the Story: Eight Weeks in Winter
January 8 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $600
John Cheever once stopped himself in the middle of a reading at FAWC and said, “Hell, I can tell it better than this.” Then he more
Telling the Story: Eight Weeks in Winter
January 8 to March 2, 2018
Tuition: $600
John Cheever once stopped himself in the middle of a reading at FAWC and said, “Hell, I can tell it better than this.” Then he more
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Of Knowing Nothing and Everything: A Week of Poem, Pigment, and Paint in the Lab: Winter
January 8 to January 12, 2018
Tuition: $400
In this class we’ll ask rigorous questions like, “What do I mean when I say the sky is blue?” & “What does ‘green’ mean, really?” more
Of Knowing Nothing and Everything: A Week of Poem, Pigment, and Paint in the Lab: Winter
January 8 to January 12, 2018
Tuition: $400
In this class we’ll ask rigorous questions like, “What do I mean when I say the sky is blue?” & “What does ‘green’ mean, really?” more
Nancy Pearson
15 Works: Winter
January 8 to February 2, 2018
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
15 Works: Winter
January 8 to February 2, 2018
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
Ann Hood
Writing the Personal Essay: Winter
January 8 to February 2, 2018
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Writing the Personal Essay: Winter
January 8 to February 2, 2018
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Elizabeth Bradfield
Deep Revision
January 1 to January 5, 2018
Tuition: $400
Bring us your tired, your unfinished, your good-but-not-great. If now is the time for intensive feedback on poems you’ve been working on for a while, more
Deep Revision
January 1 to January 5, 2018
Tuition: $400
Bring us your tired, your unfinished, your good-but-not-great. If now is the time for intensive feedback on poems you’ve been working on for a while, more
Juliana Spahr
Five Not Entirely Possible Assignments
December 11 to December 15, 2017
Tuition: $400
Years ago I took a workshop where I was given a chart of immigration numbers by year and country for Bulgaria and asked to write more
Five Not Entirely Possible Assignments
December 11 to December 15, 2017
Tuition: $400
Years ago I took a workshop where I was given a chart of immigration numbers by year and country for Bulgaria and asked to write more
Meg Day
5 Days, 6 Poems, 7 Ways Back Home
December 11 to December 15, 2017
Tuition: $400
Movement is a poet’s dialect: we pace the room of each stanza, we shuttle our readers across & down the page, & we reach inside more
5 Days, 6 Poems, 7 Ways Back Home
December 11 to December 15, 2017
Tuition: $400
Movement is a poet’s dialect: we pace the room of each stanza, we shuttle our readers across & down the page, & we reach inside more
Michelle Tea
Memoir that Reads Like Fiction: Fall
December 11 to December 15, 2017
Tuition: $400
Memoirist, novelist and poet Michelle Tea will advise on the creation of a memoir that has the cinematic feel and the singular voice of an more
Memoir that Reads Like Fiction: Fall
December 11 to December 15, 2017
Tuition: $400
Memoirist, novelist and poet Michelle Tea will advise on the creation of a memoir that has the cinematic feel and the singular voice of an more
Rebecca Gayle Howell
We All Write Sentences: Winter
December 11 to December 15, 2017
Tuition: $400
This one-week intensive invites both poets and prose writers to consider more closely the power of pushing out the boundaries of the English sentence. Reading, more
We All Write Sentences: Winter
December 11 to December 15, 2017
Tuition: $400
This one-week intensive invites both poets and prose writers to consider more closely the power of pushing out the boundaries of the English sentence. Reading, more
Kimberly Burwick
The Image, Ravenous
December 4 to December 8, 2017
Tuition: $400
Do you remember how exciting it once was to find a crushed wasp or the first robin in March? In this generative course we will more
The Image, Ravenous
December 4 to December 8, 2017
Tuition: $400
Do you remember how exciting it once was to find a crushed wasp or the first robin in March? In this generative course we will more
Sara Roahen
What Sustains Us: The Art of Good “Food Writing”
December 4 to December 8, 2017
Tuition: $400
I believe that, when done with intention, using food in our creative writing can reveal great truth and meaning. By the end of this workshop, more
What Sustains Us: The Art of Good “Food Writing”
December 4 to December 8, 2017
Tuition: $400
I believe that, when done with intention, using food in our creative writing can reveal great truth and meaning. By the end of this workshop, more
Nicole Terez Dutton
Threading and Building: Working Toward a Manuscript
December 4 to December 8, 2017
Tuition: $400
Whether you’re beginning with one poem or a small group of poems, this week-long intensive workshop will offer strategies to meaningfully expand your work toward more
Threading and Building: Working Toward a Manuscript
December 4 to December 8, 2017
Tuition: $400
Whether you’re beginning with one poem or a small group of poems, this week-long intensive workshop will offer strategies to meaningfully expand your work toward more
Irina Reyn
Open That Drawer!: Reviving the Stalled Novel
December 4 to December 8, 2017
Tuition: $400
Many of us begin work on a novel in a frenzy of inspiration but there are many reasons for why an unfinished novel goes into more
Open That Drawer!: Reviving the Stalled Novel
December 4 to December 8, 2017
Tuition: $400
Many of us begin work on a novel in a frenzy of inspiration but there are many reasons for why an unfinished novel goes into more
Nathan Oates
"And the Queen Died of Grief": Approaches to Plot in Fiction
November 27 to December 1, 2017
Tuition: $400
All literary art imposes some form of order on the chaos of experience in order to convey something about the human condition. One of the more
"And the Queen Died of Grief": Approaches to Plot in Fiction
November 27 to December 1, 2017
Tuition: $400
All literary art imposes some form of order on the chaos of experience in order to convey something about the human condition. One of the more
Meg Day
The Elegy & the Emo Poem: A Battle to the Death
November 27 to December 1, 2017
Tuition: $400
What is the responsibility of the poet in times of public mourning? Why is it that we turn to poetry during periods of tragedy or more
The Elegy & the Emo Poem: A Battle to the Death
November 27 to December 1, 2017
Tuition: $400
What is the responsibility of the poet in times of public mourning? Why is it that we turn to poetry during periods of tragedy or more
Ann Hood
Jumpstart Your Memoir: Fall
November 27 to December 1, 2017
Tuition: $400
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. In his book on the craft more
Jumpstart Your Memoir: Fall
November 27 to December 1, 2017
Tuition: $400
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. In his book on the craft more
Laura Madeline Wiseman
Transportation: On Getting There and Getting Poems
November 13 to December 8, 2017
Tuition: $500
This four-week class will focus on writing about journeys. With writing exercises and guided prompts for generating new work, we will explore a variety of more
Transportation: On Getting There and Getting Poems
November 13 to December 8, 2017
Tuition: $500
This four-week class will focus on writing about journeys. With writing exercises and guided prompts for generating new work, we will explore a variety of more
Sam Sax
Heeeeeey!: Queer Poetics
November 13 to November 17, 2017
Tuition: $400
This workshop serves both as a brief survey of queer American poetry as well as an intensive exploration into students’ own writing. We’ll seek to more
Heeeeeey!: Queer Poetics
November 13 to November 17, 2017
Tuition: $400
This workshop serves both as a brief survey of queer American poetry as well as an intensive exploration into students’ own writing. We’ll seek to more
Michael White
Gazing In Gazing Out
November 13 to November 17, 2017
Tuition: $400
This one-week poetry workshop will offer instruction, support, and dialogue in the craft of writing and revising poems. This class is for intermediate to advanced more
Gazing In Gazing Out
November 13 to November 17, 2017
Tuition: $400
This one-week poetry workshop will offer instruction, support, and dialogue in the craft of writing and revising poems. This class is for intermediate to advanced more
Jennifer Tseng
Start Small: What Writers Can Learn from Very Short Stories
November 6 to December 1, 2017
Tuition: $500
Reading and writing Very Short Stories can teach us several basic lessons of fiction writing, including the art of omission, compression, economy, and urgency. Whether more
Start Small: What Writers Can Learn from Very Short Stories
November 6 to December 1, 2017
Tuition: $500
Reading and writing Very Short Stories can teach us several basic lessons of fiction writing, including the art of omission, compression, economy, and urgency. Whether more
Jacqueline Kolosov
Writing in an Age of Terror
November 6 to December 1, 2017
Tuition: $500
What is the writer’s obligation in an age of increasing terror and unreliable news? Can writing enact change? Create a conversation? Enlarge one? In this more
Writing in an Age of Terror
November 6 to December 1, 2017
Tuition: $500
What is the writer’s obligation in an age of increasing terror and unreliable news? Can writing enact change? Create a conversation? Enlarge one? In this more
Sarah Messer
Facts, Research, and Memoir: Fall
November 6 to December 1, 2017
Tuition: $500
Even in our most vivid memories, details fade. Sarah Messer’s essential course will help you mine memory through research techniques like archival work, interviewing, travel, more
Facts, Research, and Memoir: Fall
November 6 to December 1, 2017
Tuition: $500
Even in our most vivid memories, details fade. Sarah Messer’s essential course will help you mine memory through research techniques like archival work, interviewing, travel, more
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Of Knowing Nothing and Everything: A Week of Poem, Pigment, and Paint in the Lab: Fall
November 6 to November 10, 2017
Tuition: $400
In this class we’ll ask rigorous questions like, “What do I mean when I say the sky is blue?” & “What does ‘green’ mean, really?” more
Of Knowing Nothing and Everything: A Week of Poem, Pigment, and Paint in the Lab: Fall
November 6 to November 10, 2017
Tuition: $400
In this class we’ll ask rigorous questions like, “What do I mean when I say the sky is blue?” & “What does ‘green’ mean, really?” more
Elizabeth Bradfield
Rewilding Your Poems: A Month of Prods, Prompts, and Play
November 6 to December 1, 2017
Tuition: $500
It can be easy to fall into a poetic rut. To feel stuck in routine or less than terrified (don’t we all want to be more
Rewilding Your Poems: A Month of Prods, Prompts, and Play
November 6 to December 1, 2017
Tuition: $500
It can be easy to fall into a poetic rut. To feel stuck in routine or less than terrified (don’t we all want to be more
Arisa White
Know Thyself: Poetry of Personal Witness
October 30 to November 24, 2017
Tuition: $500
Those silent places we inhabit are places where we can learn to better listen—to self and to others. In this workshop we turn within, using more
Know Thyself: Poetry of Personal Witness
October 30 to November 24, 2017
Tuition: $500
Those silent places we inhabit are places where we can learn to better listen—to self and to others. In this workshop we turn within, using more
Emilia Phillips
The Upside-Down: Contemporary Pastorals and Necropastorals: Fall
October 23 to November 17, 2017
Tuition: $500
“How many ladders to gather an orchard?” asks Brigit Pegeen Kelly in “The Leaving.” Beyond nature poetry, beyond the arcadian romances, this course drives the more
The Upside-Down: Contemporary Pastorals and Necropastorals: Fall
October 23 to November 17, 2017
Tuition: $500
“How many ladders to gather an orchard?” asks Brigit Pegeen Kelly in “The Leaving.” Beyond nature poetry, beyond the arcadian romances, this course drives the more
Sara Eliza Johnson
Language and the Lucid Dream: Fall
October 23 to December 15, 2017
Tuition: $600
Many sleepers have experienced the pleasure of the lucid dream: the phenomenon of “waking” inside our dream and realizing that we are in fact dreaming, more
Language and the Lucid Dream: Fall
October 23 to December 15, 2017
Tuition: $600
Many sleepers have experienced the pleasure of the lucid dream: the phenomenon of “waking” inside our dream and realizing that we are in fact dreaming, more
Lydia Millet
Fierce Fiction in Five Days
October 23 to October 27, 2017
Tuition: $400
This workshop will take a fiction sample from each student (ten to fifteen pages of a short story or beginning of a novel) and revise more
Fierce Fiction in Five Days
October 23 to October 27, 2017
Tuition: $400
This workshop will take a fiction sample from each student (ten to fifteen pages of a short story or beginning of a novel) and revise more
Rosie Schaap
Essay is a Verb: The Practice of Personal Narrative: Fall
October 16 to November 10, 2017
Tuition: $500
To essay is to try. Informed and animated by the singular life experience and voice of its author, the personal essay represents an attempt to more
Essay is a Verb: The Practice of Personal Narrative: Fall
October 16 to November 10, 2017
Tuition: $500
To essay is to try. Informed and animated by the singular life experience and voice of its author, the personal essay represents an attempt to more
Suzanne Rivecca
Good Things in Small Packages: The Art of the Short Story: Fall
October 16 to December 8, 2017
Tuition: $600
A great short story is all the proof we need that bigger isn’t necessarily better—or more beautiful, or more profound. In this new class, you more
Good Things in Small Packages: The Art of the Short Story: Fall
October 16 to December 8, 2017
Tuition: $600
A great short story is all the proof we need that bigger isn’t necessarily better—or more beautiful, or more profound. In this new class, you more
Jacqueline Jones Lamon
Exploring the Abecedarian Poetics: More Than Just ABC's
October 9 to October 13, 2017
Tuition: $400
In this intensive course, students will explore several nuanced approaches to this ancient alphabetical form of poetry. By combining current events and difficult subject matter more
Exploring the Abecedarian Poetics: More Than Just ABC's
October 9 to October 13, 2017
Tuition: $400
In this intensive course, students will explore several nuanced approaches to this ancient alphabetical form of poetry. By combining current events and difficult subject matter more
Ada Limón
Staying True: Authenticity and Voice: Fall
October 9 to December 1, 2017
Tuition: $600
Ada Limón is determined to help you focus in on your own personal style and write poems in your own unique voice in a world more
Staying True: Authenticity and Voice: Fall
October 9 to December 1, 2017
Tuition: $600
Ada Limón is determined to help you focus in on your own personal style and write poems in your own unique voice in a world more
Rebecca Gayle Howell
Translation as Creative Practice: Fall
October 9 to November 4, 2017
Tuition: $500
We write in the age of globalization and in the language most universal for our time. Contemporary international writers are now being brought into English more
Translation as Creative Practice: Fall
October 9 to November 4, 2017
Tuition: $500
We write in the age of globalization and in the language most universal for our time. Contemporary international writers are now being brought into English more
Ed Skoog
Have You Tried the Side Door? Finding a Way In to Your Next Poems: Fall
October 2 to November 24, 2017
Tuition: $600
Sometimes, starting a poem, I feel paralyzed by the task. Each time I need to find the way around my expectations, over the seemingly unsurmountable more
Have You Tried the Side Door? Finding a Way In to Your Next Poems: Fall
October 2 to November 24, 2017
Tuition: $600
Sometimes, starting a poem, I feel paralyzed by the task. Each time I need to find the way around my expectations, over the seemingly unsurmountable more
Sara Eliza Johnson
Mad Science
October 2 to October 6, 2017
Tuition: $400
It may often seem that poetry and science are at odds with one another—the former typically associated with subjectivity and emotion, and the latter with more
Mad Science
October 2 to October 6, 2017
Tuition: $400
It may often seem that poetry and science are at odds with one another—the former typically associated with subjectivity and emotion, and the latter with more
Fred Marchant
Staying With It: A Five-Day Meditation in Poetry for Fall
October 2 to October 6, 2017
Tuition: $400
In this one-week intensive online course we will begin a new poem and stay with it for the whole five days, the goal being to more
Staying With It: A Five-Day Meditation in Poetry for Fall
October 2 to October 6, 2017
Tuition: $400
In this one-week intensive online course we will begin a new poem and stay with it for the whole five days, the goal being to more
Heidi Jon Schmidt
Telling the Story: Fall
October 2 to October 27, 2017
Tuition: $500
John Cheever once stopped himself in the middle of a reading at FAWC and said, “Hell, I can tell it better than this.” Then he more
Telling the Story: Fall
October 2 to October 27, 2017
Tuition: $500
John Cheever once stopped himself in the middle of a reading at FAWC and said, “Hell, I can tell it better than this.” Then he more
Ann Hood
Writing the Personal Essay: Fall
October 2 to October 27, 2017
Tuition: $500
During this memoir course you will work toward completing a final, personal essay through a series of short, guided writing assignments focused on specific topics. more
Writing the Personal Essay: Fall
October 2 to October 27, 2017
Tuition: $500
During this memoir course you will work toward completing a final, personal essay through a series of short, guided writing assignments focused on specific topics. more
Peter Campion
Form From Feeling and Feeling From Form: Fall
October 2 to October 27, 2017
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Form From Feeling and Feeling From Form: Fall
October 2 to October 27, 2017
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Lisa Duffy
Elements of Craft: A Fiction Workshop: SEPTEMBER
September 25 to October 20, 2017
Tuition: $500
This workshop is for students who are looking for critical feedback on a short story or novel-in-progress (novel excerpt should stand alone). Students will critique more
Elements of Craft: A Fiction Workshop: SEPTEMBER
September 25 to October 20, 2017
Tuition: $500
This workshop is for students who are looking for critical feedback on a short story or novel-in-progress (novel excerpt should stand alone). Students will critique more
Ed Skoog
Called to Speech: A One-Week Workshop
September 25 to September 29, 2017
Tuition: $500
What is happening when you begin to write a poem? What does it mean to be called to speech, to break into song? Why this, more
Called to Speech: A One-Week Workshop
September 25 to September 29, 2017
Tuition: $500
What is happening when you begin to write a poem? What does it mean to be called to speech, to break into song? Why this, more
Joseph O. Legaspi
I Must Confess
September 25 to October 20, 2017
Tuition: $500
Why does confessional poetry get a bad rap? Arguably, aren’t all poems confessional, revealing of truths? This workshop aims to encourage and ease the risks more
I Must Confess
September 25 to October 20, 2017
Tuition: $500
Why does confessional poetry get a bad rap? Arguably, aren’t all poems confessional, revealing of truths? This workshop aims to encourage and ease the risks more
Jennifer Tseng
Writing the Forbidden
September 25 to September 29, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this one-week intensive you will work to produce a piece of forbidden writing. What’s forbidden to one writer may not be forbidden to another. more
Writing the Forbidden
September 25 to September 29, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this one-week intensive you will work to produce a piece of forbidden writing. What’s forbidden to one writer may not be forbidden to another. more
Jacqueline Kolosov
Experimenting with Hybrid Literary Genres
September 25 to October 20, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this exploratory workshop, we will experiment with the increasingly fluid boundaries between genre, specifically looking at flash fiction, the prose poem, short form nonfiction more
Experimenting with Hybrid Literary Genres
September 25 to October 20, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this exploratory workshop, we will experiment with the increasingly fluid boundaries between genre, specifically looking at flash fiction, the prose poem, short form nonfiction more
Nathan Oates
“And the Queen Died of Grief”: Approaches to Plot in Fiction
September 18 to September 22, 2017
Tuition: $500
All literary art imposes some form of order on the chaos of experience in order to convey something about the human condition. One of the more
“And the Queen Died of Grief”: Approaches to Plot in Fiction
September 18 to September 22, 2017
Tuition: $500
All literary art imposes some form of order on the chaos of experience in order to convey something about the human condition. One of the more
Peter Campion
Next Steps: SEPTEMBER
September 18 to September 22, 2017
Tuition: $500
This five day course has been designed to take your poems to the next level. Our online discussion will provide tools to help you connect more
Next Steps: SEPTEMBER
September 18 to September 22, 2017
Tuition: $500
This five day course has been designed to take your poems to the next level. Our online discussion will provide tools to help you connect more
Kim Addonizio
Exploring the Sonnet
September 18 to October 13, 2017
Tuition: $500
Whether you’ve been writing sonnets for years, or have forgotten what iambic pentameter is, or never knew in the first place—this workshop is for you. more
Exploring the Sonnet
September 18 to October 13, 2017
Tuition: $500
Whether you’ve been writing sonnets for years, or have forgotten what iambic pentameter is, or never knew in the first place—this workshop is for you. more
Emilia Phillips
This Last, Selfish Stitch: On Empathy, Appropriation, and Writing Poems About the Body
September 18 to October 13, 2017
Tuition: $500
Why should we write about our bodies, rendering them frankly in our poems? How should we approach writing about the bodies of others without appropriation? more
This Last, Selfish Stitch: On Empathy, Appropriation, and Writing Poems About the Body
September 18 to October 13, 2017
Tuition: $500
Why should we write about our bodies, rendering them frankly in our poems? How should we approach writing about the bodies of others without appropriation? more
Rosie Schaap
Essay is a Verb: The Practice of Personal Narrative: SEPTEMBER
September 11 to October 13, 2017
Tuition: $500
To essay is to try. Informed and animated by the singular life experience and voice of its author, the personal essay represents an attempt to more
Essay is a Verb: The Practice of Personal Narrative: SEPTEMBER
September 11 to October 13, 2017
Tuition: $500
To essay is to try. Informed and animated by the singular life experience and voice of its author, the personal essay represents an attempt to more
Chloe Garcia Roberts
Crossing Borders and Subverting Genre: The Lyric Essay: FALL
September 11 to October 6, 2017
Tuition: $500
Have your poems ever felt jealous of scientific essays, investigative journalism, instruction manuals, business correspondence, or religious texts to name a few? Or conversely does more
Crossing Borders and Subverting Genre: The Lyric Essay: FALL
September 11 to October 6, 2017
Tuition: $500
Have your poems ever felt jealous of scientific essays, investigative journalism, instruction manuals, business correspondence, or religious texts to name a few? Or conversely does more
Jillian Weise
The Poet as Spy: 4 Tricks from Espionage: Fall
September 11 to September 15, 2017
Tuition: $500
Since we live in the age of the ubiquitous status update, you are already familiar with spying and being spied, watching and being watched, surveying more
The Poet as Spy: 4 Tricks from Espionage: Fall
September 11 to September 15, 2017
Tuition: $500
Since we live in the age of the ubiquitous status update, you are already familiar with spying and being spied, watching and being watched, surveying more
Rebecca Lindenberg
Writing for the Senses: Poetic Imagery, Experience, Emotion, and Evocation: September
September 11 to September 15, 2017
Tuition: $500
Though this course may be online, it’s a highly experiential one, devoted exclusively to developing the writer’s perceptual path from sensation to language. Richly original more
Writing for the Senses: Poetic Imagery, Experience, Emotion, and Evocation: September
September 11 to September 15, 2017
Tuition: $500
Though this course may be online, it’s a highly experiential one, devoted exclusively to developing the writer’s perceptual path from sensation to language. Richly original more
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Juxtaposing the Public & Private to Add Depth to Poetry
September 11 to October 6, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this course we will look at the work of writers who skillfully juxtapose the public with the private in their poetry. We will pay more
Juxtaposing the Public & Private to Add Depth to Poetry
September 11 to October 6, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this course we will look at the work of writers who skillfully juxtapose the public with the private in their poetry. We will pay more
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Narrating Memoir: Who’s Telling Your Life Story?
September 11 to September 15, 2017
Tuition: $500
The memoirist is asked to play many roles: simultaneously that of the author, the narrator, and the character. And while those of the author (you, more
Narrating Memoir: Who’s Telling Your Life Story?
September 11 to September 15, 2017
Tuition: $500
The memoirist is asked to play many roles: simultaneously that of the author, the narrator, and the character. And while those of the author (you, more
Julie Carr
The Epistolary Poem
September 4 to September 8, 2017
Tuition: $500
In 1959, American poet Frank O’Hara wrote a mock-manifesto he called “Personism” in which he argued that a poem should be immediate and intimate, that more
The Epistolary Poem
September 4 to September 8, 2017
Tuition: $500
In 1959, American poet Frank O’Hara wrote a mock-manifesto he called “Personism” in which he argued that a poem should be immediate and intimate, that more
Elizabeth Bradfield
The Project Book
September 4 to September 29, 2017
Tuition: $500
Finishing a book of poems focused on a topic, rather than a loose aggregation, is a particular art. Some poets unify books by form or more
The Project Book
September 4 to September 29, 2017
Tuition: $500
Finishing a book of poems focused on a topic, rather than a loose aggregation, is a particular art. Some poets unify books by form or more
Rebecca Gayle Howell
We All Write Sentences: September
September 4 to September 8, 2017
Tuition: $500
This one-week intensive invites both poets and prose writers to consider more closely the power of pushing out the boundaries of the English sentence. Reading, more
We All Write Sentences: September
September 4 to September 8, 2017
Tuition: $500
This one-week intensive invites both poets and prose writers to consider more closely the power of pushing out the boundaries of the English sentence. Reading, more
Ann Hood
Writing the Personal Essay: September
September 4 to September 29, 2017
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Writing the Personal Essay: September
September 4 to September 29, 2017
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Ed Skoog
Called to Speech: A One-Week Workshop
August 21 to August 25, 2017
Tuition: $500
What is happening when you begin to write a poem? What does it mean to be called to speech, to break into song? Why this, more
Called to Speech: A One-Week Workshop
August 21 to August 25, 2017
Tuition: $500
What is happening when you begin to write a poem? What does it mean to be called to speech, to break into song? Why this, more
Porochista Khakpour
Experimental Writing for the Non-Experimental Writers
August 21 to August 25, 2017
Tuition: $500
What does it mean for literature to be experimental? The great Margaret Atwood defines it as: “Fiction that sets up certain rules for itself . more
Experimental Writing for the Non-Experimental Writers
August 21 to August 25, 2017
Tuition: $500
What does it mean for literature to be experimental? The great Margaret Atwood defines it as: “Fiction that sets up certain rules for itself . more
Sarah Green
Your Best Beach Body
August 7 to August 11, 2017
Tuition: $500
Where in your body do you house longing? Where does surprise live? Tenderness? Humor? This week we’ll prep our summer poem bodies with seven prompts more
Your Best Beach Body
August 7 to August 11, 2017
Tuition: $500
Where in your body do you house longing? Where does surprise live? Tenderness? Humor? This week we’ll prep our summer poem bodies with seven prompts more
Lydia Millet
Fierce Fiction: Five Days
August 7 to August 11, 2017
Tuition: $500
This workshop will take a fiction sample from each student (ten to fifteen pages of a short story or beginning of a novel) and revise more
Fierce Fiction: Five Days
August 7 to August 11, 2017
Tuition: $500
This workshop will take a fiction sample from each student (ten to fifteen pages of a short story or beginning of a novel) and revise more
Lisa Duffy
Elements of Craft: A Fiction Workshop
July 31 to August 25, 2017
Tuition: $500
This workshop is for students who are looking for critical feedback on a short story or novel-in-progress (novel excerpt should stand alone). Students will critique more
Elements of Craft: A Fiction Workshop
July 31 to August 25, 2017
Tuition: $500
This workshop is for students who are looking for critical feedback on a short story or novel-in-progress (novel excerpt should stand alone). Students will critique more
Sara Eliza Johnson
First and Last(ing) Impressions: A Poetry Workshop
July 31 to August 25, 2017
Tuition: $500
“Since when,” he asked,“Are the first line and last line of any poemWhere the poem begins and ends?” —Seamus Heaney, “The Fragment” First and last more
First and Last(ing) Impressions: A Poetry Workshop
July 31 to August 25, 2017
Tuition: $500
“Since when,” he asked,“Are the first line and last line of any poemWhere the poem begins and ends?” —Seamus Heaney, “The Fragment” First and last more
Ada Limón
Staying True: Authenticity and Voice: Summer
July 31 to August 25, 2017
Tuition: $500
Ada Limón is determined to help you focus in on your own personal style and write poems in your own unique voice in a world more
Staying True: Authenticity and Voice: Summer
July 31 to August 25, 2017
Tuition: $500
Ada Limón is determined to help you focus in on your own personal style and write poems in your own unique voice in a world more
Nancy Pearson
15 Works: August
July 31 to August 25, 2017
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
15 Works: August
July 31 to August 25, 2017
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
Anne Sanow
Revision is the Writing: Prose Workshop, Summer
July 31 to August 25, 2017
Tuition: $500
It’s easy to resist revision as the “work” part of creating—but when you embrace it fully as part of the creative process, your writing will more
Revision is the Writing: Prose Workshop, Summer
July 31 to August 25, 2017
Tuition: $500
It’s easy to resist revision as the “work” part of creating—but when you embrace it fully as part of the creative process, your writing will more
Ed Skoog
Keep Your Foot on the Sustain Pedal: Writing Long Poems in July and August
July 24 to August 18, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this workshop, participants will struggle through several drafts of a few poems between 50 and 150 lines in length. Perhaps it seems silly to more
Keep Your Foot on the Sustain Pedal: Writing Long Poems in July and August
July 24 to August 18, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this workshop, participants will struggle through several drafts of a few poems between 50 and 150 lines in length. Perhaps it seems silly to more
Arisa White
Know Thyself: Poetry of Personal Witness
July 17 to August 11, 2017
Tuition: $500
Those silent places we inhabit are places where we can learn to better listen—to self and to others. In this workshop we turn within, using more
Know Thyself: Poetry of Personal Witness
July 17 to August 11, 2017
Tuition: $500
Those silent places we inhabit are places where we can learn to better listen—to self and to others. In this workshop we turn within, using more
D. Gilson
Life Drawing: Public Persona Poetry
July 17 to July 21, 2017
Tuition: $500
“I am ashamed of my century,” Frank O’Hara explains, “for being so entertaining but I have to smile.” In this one-week intensive course, students will more
Life Drawing: Public Persona Poetry
July 17 to July 21, 2017
Tuition: $500
“I am ashamed of my century,” Frank O’Hara explains, “for being so entertaining but I have to smile.” In this one-week intensive course, students will more
Peter Campion
Form From Feeling and Feeling From Form: Summer
July 10 to August 4, 2017
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Form From Feeling and Feeling From Form: Summer
July 10 to August 4, 2017
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Ann Hood
Writing the Personal Essay: July
July 10 to August 4, 2017
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Writing the Personal Essay: July
July 10 to August 4, 2017
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Nancy Pearson
15 Works: July
July 3 to July 28, 2017
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
15 Works: July
July 3 to July 28, 2017
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
Paisley Rekdal
Towards a Documentary Poetics
June 26 to July 21, 2017
Tuition: $500
Paisley Rekdal’s hands-on class is designed to help you explore the very special challenges poets face when writing documentary poetry. Whether you are expressing individual more
Towards a Documentary Poetics
June 26 to July 21, 2017
Tuition: $500
Paisley Rekdal’s hands-on class is designed to help you explore the very special challenges poets face when writing documentary poetry. Whether you are expressing individual more
Meghan O'Gieblyn
Place in Memoir
June 26 to August 11, 2017
Tuition: $500
Too often, location is regarded as the backdrop of a memoir—the fixed stage-set on which the action unfolds. But there is a long tradition of more
Place in Memoir
June 26 to August 11, 2017
Tuition: $500
Too often, location is regarded as the backdrop of a memoir—the fixed stage-set on which the action unfolds. But there is a long tradition of more
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Make it Sing, Make it Strange: A Summer Poetry Lab
June 26 to July 21, 2017
Tuition: $500
Into the laboratory we go! In this course we are going to utilize techniques and strategies to make our poems sing and to embrace the more
Make it Sing, Make it Strange: A Summer Poetry Lab
June 26 to July 21, 2017
Tuition: $500
Into the laboratory we go! In this course we are going to utilize techniques and strategies to make our poems sing and to embrace the more
Chloe Garcia Roberts
Crossing Borders and Subverting Genre: The Lyric Essay
June 19 to June 23, 2017
Tuition: $500
Have your poems ever felt jealous of scientific essays, investigative journalism, instruction manuals, business correspondence, or religious texts to name a few? Or conversely does more
Crossing Borders and Subverting Genre: The Lyric Essay
June 19 to June 23, 2017
Tuition: $500
Have your poems ever felt jealous of scientific essays, investigative journalism, instruction manuals, business correspondence, or religious texts to name a few? Or conversely does more
Troy Jollimore
Seeing, Hearing, and Letting Poems Be
June 19 to June 23, 2017
Tuition: $500
Many of us have had the experience of sensing a poem hovering at the edge of our peripheral vision, drifting in the margins of being more
Seeing, Hearing, and Letting Poems Be
June 19 to June 23, 2017
Tuition: $500
Many of us have had the experience of sensing a poem hovering at the edge of our peripheral vision, drifting in the margins of being more
Meg Day
The Elegy & the Emo Poem: A Battle to the Death: Summer
June 19 to July 14, 2017
Tuition: $500
What is the responsibility of the poet in times of public mourning? Why is it that we turn to poetry during periods of tragedy or more
The Elegy & the Emo Poem: A Battle to the Death: Summer
June 19 to July 14, 2017
Tuition: $500
What is the responsibility of the poet in times of public mourning? Why is it that we turn to poetry during periods of tragedy or more
Mark Wunderlich
Getting Poems Started, Keeping Them Going
June 12 to July 7, 2017
Tuition: $500
Mark Wunderlich’s course will provide you with practical tools for starting poems, building on them, revising them and pushing them to their best possible conclusions. more
Getting Poems Started, Keeping Them Going
June 12 to July 7, 2017
Tuition: $500
Mark Wunderlich’s course will provide you with practical tools for starting poems, building on them, revising them and pushing them to their best possible conclusions. more
Rosie Schaap
Writing About Food & Drink
June 12 to July 7, 2017
Tuition: $500
Sometimes a pastrami sandwich is just a pastrami sandwich. And sometimes a pastrami sandwich is a way of looking at the world: a lens through more
Writing About Food & Drink
June 12 to July 7, 2017
Tuition: $500
Sometimes a pastrami sandwich is just a pastrami sandwich. And sometimes a pastrami sandwich is a way of looking at the world: a lens through more
Jason Zuzga
When Language is the Artist’s Material: The Poet’s Palette
June 12 to June 16, 2017
Tuition: $500
What exactly is it that poets do with language, or, rather, what opportunities for creation and effects does language afford? We’ll work to get a more
When Language is the Artist’s Material: The Poet’s Palette
June 12 to June 16, 2017
Tuition: $500
What exactly is it that poets do with language, or, rather, what opportunities for creation and effects does language afford? We’ll work to get a more
Kimberly Burwick
The Image, Ravenous
June 12 to June 16, 2017
Tuition: $500
Do you remember how exciting it once was to find a crushed wasp or the first robin in March? In this generative course we will more
The Image, Ravenous
June 12 to June 16, 2017
Tuition: $500
Do you remember how exciting it once was to find a crushed wasp or the first robin in March? In this generative course we will more
CA Conrad
JUNO: An Online (Soma)tic Poetry Workshop
June 5 to June 30, 2017
Tuition: $500
Every living person is creative, but many people stop using their artistic skills when the routines of career, family and the many stresses of survival more
JUNO: An Online (Soma)tic Poetry Workshop
June 5 to June 30, 2017
Tuition: $500
Every living person is creative, but many people stop using their artistic skills when the routines of career, family and the many stresses of survival more
Paula Bohince
Ekphrasis: Poems from Visual Art
June 5 to June 9, 2017
Tuition: $500
Poets across time and culture have found inspiration in visual art, drawn into a conversation with these artworks and responding with fresh perspectives. This generative more
Ekphrasis: Poems from Visual Art
June 5 to June 9, 2017
Tuition: $500
Poets across time and culture have found inspiration in visual art, drawn into a conversation with these artworks and responding with fresh perspectives. This generative more
Aamina Ahmad
Long form screenwriting; stories that move us.
June 5 to June 30, 2017
Tuition: $500
How do screenwriters draw us into the world of a story? How do they breathe life into characters, making them real and complex? And how more
Long form screenwriting; stories that move us.
June 5 to June 30, 2017
Tuition: $500
How do screenwriters draw us into the world of a story? How do they breathe life into characters, making them real and complex? And how more
Nathan Oates
Key to Mystery: Methods for Building Stories
June 5 to June 30, 2017
Tuition: $500
This workshop will focus on learning techniques used in mystery stories and how those can be deployed in our stories and novels. Mystery stories use more
Key to Mystery: Methods for Building Stories
June 5 to June 30, 2017
Tuition: $500
This workshop will focus on learning techniques used in mystery stories and how those can be deployed in our stories and novels. Mystery stories use more
Ann Hood
Writing the Personal Essay: June
June 5 to June 30, 2017
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Writing the Personal Essay: June
June 5 to June 30, 2017
Tuition: $500
Each week will begin with my introduction of a topic for that week’s memoir assignment. Topics will include Food, Place, Love, and Loss. I will more
Nancy Pearson
15 Works: June
June 5 to June 30, 2017
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
15 Works: June
June 5 to June 30, 2017
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
Rebecca Lindenberg
What I Should Have Said: Writing Funny Poems
June 5 to June 30, 2017
Tuition: $500
It is really hard to write funny. It’s even harder to write funny with substance and pathos. But in this class, we’ll look at several more
What I Should Have Said: Writing Funny Poems
June 5 to June 30, 2017
Tuition: $500
It is really hard to write funny. It’s even harder to write funny with substance and pathos. But in this class, we’ll look at several more
Rebecca Gayle Howell
Translation as Creative Practice
June 5 to June 30, 2017
Tuition: $500
We write in the age of globalization and in the language most universal for our time. Contemporary international writers are now being brought into English more
Translation as Creative Practice
June 5 to June 30, 2017
Tuition: $500
We write in the age of globalization and in the language most universal for our time. Contemporary international writers are now being brought into English more
Lisa Duffy
Elements of Craft: A Fiction Workshop
May 29 to June 23, 2017
Tuition: $500
This workshop is for students who are looking for critical feedback on a short story or novel-in-progress (novel excerpt should stand alone). Students will critique more
Elements of Craft: A Fiction Workshop
May 29 to June 23, 2017
Tuition: $500
This workshop is for students who are looking for critical feedback on a short story or novel-in-progress (novel excerpt should stand alone). Students will critique more
Paula Bohince
Small but Mighty
May 29 to June 2, 2017
Tuition: $500
Sometimes the smallest poems have the biggest hearts. In this generative workshop, we’ll concentrate on creating small but mighty poems, using such models as Dickinson more
Small but Mighty
May 29 to June 2, 2017
Tuition: $500
Sometimes the smallest poems have the biggest hearts. In this generative workshop, we’ll concentrate on creating small but mighty poems, using such models as Dickinson more
Aamina Ahmad
TV Pilot Boot Camp!
May 29 to June 2, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this course we will look at the enormous storytelling potential that television offers us as writers, as well as the necessary parameters of budget, more
TV Pilot Boot Camp!
May 29 to June 2, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this course we will look at the enormous storytelling potential that television offers us as writers, as well as the necessary parameters of budget, more
Ed Skoog
Keep Your Foot on the Sustain Pedal: Writing Long Poems in June
May 29 to June 23, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this workshop, participants will struggle through several drafts of a few poems between 50 and 150 lines in length. Perhaps it seems silly to more
Keep Your Foot on the Sustain Pedal: Writing Long Poems in June
May 29 to June 23, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this workshop, participants will struggle through several drafts of a few poems between 50 and 150 lines in length. Perhaps it seems silly to more
Paula Bohince
From One, Many: Radical Revision
May 22 to May 26, 2017
Tuition: $500
You’ll begin the week with one poem and end with five new poems, each derived from the original, which will serve as the source, or more
From One, Many: Radical Revision
May 22 to May 26, 2017
Tuition: $500
You’ll begin the week with one poem and end with five new poems, each derived from the original, which will serve as the source, or more
Christina Davis
Ourselves, I Sing: Experiments in Selfhood & Humanhood
May 22 to May 26, 2017
Tuition: $500
“It is said to be the age of the first person singular.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson (1827) In a country that still prides itself on self-reliance more
Ourselves, I Sing: Experiments in Selfhood & Humanhood
May 22 to May 26, 2017
Tuition: $500
“It is said to be the age of the first person singular.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson (1827) In a country that still prides itself on self-reliance more
Sandra Simonds
From Your Diary to Publication
May 22 to June 16, 2017
Tuition: $500
Are you secretly writing poetry in a diary, blog or anonymously on social media, but might be nervous to share your writing in a more more
From Your Diary to Publication
May 22 to June 16, 2017
Tuition: $500
Are you secretly writing poetry in a diary, blog or anonymously on social media, but might be nervous to share your writing in a more more
Nathan Oates
“And the Queen Died of Grief”: Approaches to Plot in Fiction
May 15 to May 19, 2017
Tuition: $500
All literary art imposes some form of order on the chaos of experience in order to convey something about the human condition. One of the more
“And the Queen Died of Grief”: Approaches to Plot in Fiction
May 15 to May 19, 2017
Tuition: $500
All literary art imposes some form of order on the chaos of experience in order to convey something about the human condition. One of the more
Sandra Simonds
Shouldn’t the Sonnet?
May 15 to June 9, 2017
Tuition: $500
Just what is a sonnet, anyway? Is it simply a fourteen line poem? Can your sonnet have more or less than 14 lines and still more
Shouldn’t the Sonnet?
May 15 to June 9, 2017
Tuition: $500
Just what is a sonnet, anyway? Is it simply a fourteen line poem? Can your sonnet have more or less than 14 lines and still more
Kimberly Burwick
Mythological Gravity in Poetry
May 8 to June 2, 2017
Tuition: $500
Interested in mythology and folktales? In this generative workshop we’ll take a close look at how oral legends can make their way into contemporary poems more
Mythological Gravity in Poetry
May 8 to June 2, 2017
Tuition: $500
Interested in mythology and folktales? In this generative workshop we’ll take a close look at how oral legends can make their way into contemporary poems more
Meghan O'Gieblyn
Place in Memoir
May 8 to June 30, 2017
Tuition: $500
Too often, location is regarded as the backdrop of a memoir—the fixed stage-set on which the action unfolds. But there is a long tradition of more
Place in Memoir
May 8 to June 30, 2017
Tuition: $500
Too often, location is regarded as the backdrop of a memoir—the fixed stage-set on which the action unfolds. But there is a long tradition of more
Peter Campion
Form From Feeling and Feeling From Form: Spring
May 8 to June 2, 2017
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Form From Feeling and Feeling From Form: Spring
May 8 to June 2, 2017
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Jennifer Tseng
Writing the Forbidden: Poetry
May 8 to May 12, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this one-week poetry intensive you will work to produce a piece of forbidden writing. What’s forbidden to one writer may not be forbidden to more
Writing the Forbidden: Poetry
May 8 to May 12, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this one-week poetry intensive you will work to produce a piece of forbidden writing. What’s forbidden to one writer may not be forbidden to more
Sandra Beasley
Your Voice: Work It, Raise It, Change It
May 8 to May 12, 2017
Tuition: $500
We often regard the author’s voice as having an inherent, unchangeable quality. Many writers have invoked the analogy comparing one’s voice to a fingerprint. But more
Your Voice: Work It, Raise It, Change It
May 8 to May 12, 2017
Tuition: $500
We often regard the author’s voice as having an inherent, unchangeable quality. Many writers have invoked the analogy comparing one’s voice to a fingerprint. But more
Nancy Pearson
Almost Certainly But Not Quite Right At All
May 1 to May 26, 2017
Tuition: $500
Perhaps you have a poem you can’t get off the ground, a poem that bugs you, annoys you, drives you mad because you can’t figure more
Almost Certainly But Not Quite Right At All
May 1 to May 26, 2017
Tuition: $500
Perhaps you have a poem you can’t get off the ground, a poem that bugs you, annoys you, drives you mad because you can’t figure more
Elizabeth Bradfield
Socializing the Nature Poem: EcoJustice Poetry in the Anthropocene
May 1 to May 26, 2017
Tuition: $500
“Nature abhors a vacuum,” Aristotle famously said. When we look at anything, we put ourselves into that gaze. How do we write about our interactions more
Socializing the Nature Poem: EcoJustice Poetry in the Anthropocene
May 1 to May 26, 2017
Tuition: $500
“Nature abhors a vacuum,” Aristotle famously said. When we look at anything, we put ourselves into that gaze. How do we write about our interactions more
Matthew Olzmann
Surprise and Revelation: Building and Overthrowing Expectations in a Poem
May 1 to May 5, 2017
Tuition: $500
How is surprise created? Often, it’s an effect of poetic structure: the order in which information is presented to the reader. One piece of information more
Surprise and Revelation: Building and Overthrowing Expectations in a Poem
May 1 to May 5, 2017
Tuition: $500
How is surprise created? Often, it’s an effect of poetic structure: the order in which information is presented to the reader. One piece of information more
Cam Terwilliger
Flash Fiction: Spring
May 1 to May 5, 2017
Tuition: $500
Regularly appearing in the pages of literary magazines, flash fiction has become one of the most vibrant modes in which to write. A protean form, more
Flash Fiction: Spring
May 1 to May 5, 2017
Tuition: $500
Regularly appearing in the pages of literary magazines, flash fiction has become one of the most vibrant modes in which to write. A protean form, more
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Juxtaposing the Public & Private to Add Depth to Poetry
April 24 to May 19, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this course we will look at the work of writers who skillfully juxtapose the public with the private in their poetry. We will pay more
Juxtaposing the Public & Private to Add Depth to Poetry
April 24 to May 19, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this course we will look at the work of writers who skillfully juxtapose the public with the private in their poetry. We will pay more
Dariel Suarez
Keep the Narrative Going: How to Successfully Provide Context in Fiction
April 17 to April 21, 2017
Tuition: $500
This week-long intensive course will focus on that crucial element for creating socially layered, culturally nuanced, but ultimately accessible stories: context. During the course of more
Keep the Narrative Going: How to Successfully Provide Context in Fiction
April 17 to April 21, 2017
Tuition: $500
This week-long intensive course will focus on that crucial element for creating socially layered, culturally nuanced, but ultimately accessible stories: context. During the course of more
Jacqueline Kolosov
Voice-Driven and Urgent: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
April 10 to May 5, 2017
Tuition: $500
Young adult fiction is a thriving part of publishing and includes genres such as historical fiction, coming-of-age narratives, fantasy, paranormal, romance and literary fiction. Although more
Voice-Driven and Urgent: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
April 10 to May 5, 2017
Tuition: $500
Young adult fiction is a thriving part of publishing and includes genres such as historical fiction, coming-of-age narratives, fantasy, paranormal, romance and literary fiction. Although more
Alix Ohlin
Making Beautiful Sentences
April 10 to May 5, 2017
Tuition: $500
What makes a sentence so powerful and enduring that it will stick in your mind forever? In this four-week class, we’ll take a look at more
Making Beautiful Sentences
April 10 to May 5, 2017
Tuition: $500
What makes a sentence so powerful and enduring that it will stick in your mind forever? In this four-week class, we’ll take a look at more
Mark Wunderlich
Neighboring Solitudes: The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke as Generative Sources for Poems
April 10 to May 5, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this workshop course, we will write poems based on some of the major themes present in the poems of the great German-language Modernist poet more
Neighboring Solitudes: The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke as Generative Sources for Poems
April 10 to May 5, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this workshop course, we will write poems based on some of the major themes present in the poems of the great German-language Modernist poet more
Jacqueline Jones Lamon
Exploring the Abecedarian Poetics: More Than Just ABC's: Spring
April 10 to April 14, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this intensive course, students will explore several nuanced approaches to this ancient alphabetical form of poetry. By combining current events and difficult subject matter more
Exploring the Abecedarian Poetics: More Than Just ABC's: Spring
April 10 to April 14, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this intensive course, students will explore several nuanced approaches to this ancient alphabetical form of poetry. By combining current events and difficult subject matter more
Michael White
Writing the Personal Journey: A Multi-Genre Travel Writing Workshop
April 3 to April 28, 2017
Tuition: $500
Anthony Doerr’s favorite travel book is D.H. Lawrence’s Sea and Sardinia. According to Doerr, Lawrence “never stops paying attention, and in his prose everything—sunlight, a more
Writing the Personal Journey: A Multi-Genre Travel Writing Workshop
April 3 to April 28, 2017
Tuition: $500
Anthony Doerr’s favorite travel book is D.H. Lawrence’s Sea and Sardinia. According to Doerr, Lawrence “never stops paying attention, and in his prose everything—sunlight, a more
Sarah Messer
Facts, Research, and Memoir: Spring
April 3 to April 28, 2017
Tuition: $500
Even in our most vivid memories, details fade. Sarah Messer’s essential course will help you mine memory through research techniques like archival work, interviewing, travel, more
Facts, Research, and Memoir: Spring
April 3 to April 28, 2017
Tuition: $500
Even in our most vivid memories, details fade. Sarah Messer’s essential course will help you mine memory through research techniques like archival work, interviewing, travel, more
Laura Madeline Wiseman
Transportation: On Getting There and Getting Poems
April 3 to April 28, 2017
Tuition: $500
This four-week class will focus on writing about journeys. With writing exercises and guided prompts for generating new work, we will explore a variety of more
Transportation: On Getting There and Getting Poems
April 3 to April 28, 2017
Tuition: $500
This four-week class will focus on writing about journeys. With writing exercises and guided prompts for generating new work, we will explore a variety of more
Fred Marchant
Staying With It: A Five-Day Meditation in Poetry for Spring
April 3 to April 7, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this one-week intensive online course we will begin a new poem and stay with it for the whole five days, the goal being to more
Staying With It: A Five-Day Meditation in Poetry for Spring
April 3 to April 7, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this one-week intensive online course we will begin a new poem and stay with it for the whole five days, the goal being to more
Nancy Pearson
Almost Certainly But Not Quite Right: Poetry Manuscript Consultation Workshop
March 27 to March 31, 2017
Tuition: $500
This one-week personal class is designed to strengthen your poetry manuscript using a series of question-and answer-style prompts tailored for you. During the week, I more
Almost Certainly But Not Quite Right: Poetry Manuscript Consultation Workshop
March 27 to March 31, 2017
Tuition: $500
This one-week personal class is designed to strengthen your poetry manuscript using a series of question-and answer-style prompts tailored for you. During the week, I more
Rebecca Seiferle
The Poetic Sequence
March 27 to May 19, 2017
Tuition: $500
A sequence is a long poem that combines shorter pieces by relying on association, juxtaposition, and connection rather than theme or narrative to create an more
The Poetic Sequence
March 27 to May 19, 2017
Tuition: $500
A sequence is a long poem that combines shorter pieces by relying on association, juxtaposition, and connection rather than theme or narrative to create an more
Meghan O'Gieblyn
Conversions and Deconversions
March 27 to April 21, 2017
Tuition: $500
Most of us can think of a moment in our life when everything changed. This might have been a religious conversion, a mystical experience, or more
Conversions and Deconversions
March 27 to April 21, 2017
Tuition: $500
Most of us can think of a moment in our life when everything changed. This might have been a religious conversion, a mystical experience, or more
Jennifer Tseng
Writing the Forbidden: Fiction
March 27 to March 31, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this one-week fiction intensive you will work to produce a piece of forbidden writing. What’s forbidden to one writer may not be forbidden to more
Writing the Forbidden: Fiction
March 27 to March 31, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this one-week fiction intensive you will work to produce a piece of forbidden writing. What’s forbidden to one writer may not be forbidden to more
CA Conrad
THE STRENGTH OF POETRY: (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals & The Antidote To Spiritual Crisis SPRING
March 27 to March 31, 2017
Tuition: $500
Poet CAConrad has successfully used (Soma)tic poetry rituals to overcome destructive and debilitating depression after the murder of his boyfriend Earth (aka Mark Holmes). He more
THE STRENGTH OF POETRY: (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals & The Antidote To Spiritual Crisis SPRING
March 27 to March 31, 2017
Tuition: $500
Poet CAConrad has successfully used (Soma)tic poetry rituals to overcome destructive and debilitating depression after the murder of his boyfriend Earth (aka Mark Holmes). He more
Nancy Pearson
15 Works: Spring
March 27 to April 21, 2017
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
15 Works: Spring
March 27 to April 21, 2017
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
Ann Hood
Writing the Personal Essay: Spring
March 27 to April 21, 2017
Tuition: $500
During this memoir course you will work toward completing a final, personal essay through a series of short, guided writing assignments focused on specific topics. more
Writing the Personal Essay: Spring
March 27 to April 21, 2017
Tuition: $500
During this memoir course you will work toward completing a final, personal essay through a series of short, guided writing assignments focused on specific topics. more
Michelle Tea
Memoir that Reads Like Fiction: Spring
March 20 to March 24, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this intensive memoir workshop, you will learn techniques to create a memoir with a cinematic feel and the singular voice of an immersive novel. more
Memoir that Reads Like Fiction: Spring
March 20 to March 24, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this intensive memoir workshop, you will learn techniques to create a memoir with a cinematic feel and the singular voice of an immersive novel. more
Rebecca Lindenberg
Writing for the Senses: Poetic Imagery, Experience, Emotion, and Evocation
March 20 to March 24, 2017
Tuition: $500
Though this course may be online, it’s a highly experiential one, devoted exclusively to developing the writer’s perceptual path from sensation to language. Richly original more
Writing for the Senses: Poetic Imagery, Experience, Emotion, and Evocation
March 20 to March 24, 2017
Tuition: $500
Though this course may be online, it’s a highly experiential one, devoted exclusively to developing the writer’s perceptual path from sensation to language. Richly original more
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Narrating Memoir: Who’s Telling Your Life Story?
March 20 to March 24, 2017
Tuition: $500
The memoirist is asked to play many roles: simultaneously that of the author, the narrator, and the character. And while those of the author (you, more
Narrating Memoir: Who’s Telling Your Life Story?
March 20 to March 24, 2017
Tuition: $500
The memoirist is asked to play many roles: simultaneously that of the author, the narrator, and the character. And while those of the author (you, more
Rebecca Gayle Howell
We All Write Sentences: Spring
March 20 to March 24, 2017
Tuition: $500
This one-week intensive invites both poets and prose writers to consider more closely the power of pushing out the boundaries of the English sentence. Reading, more
We All Write Sentences: Spring
March 20 to March 24, 2017
Tuition: $500
This one-week intensive invites both poets and prose writers to consider more closely the power of pushing out the boundaries of the English sentence. Reading, more
Nomi Stone
Anthro-Poetics: Living, Seeing, and Wonder
March 20 to March 24, 2017
Tuition: $500
We will “sing the [world] electric” through experiments in anthro-poetics. Our goal: to expand both our seeing and writing practices, by estranging the familiar and more
Anthro-Poetics: Living, Seeing, and Wonder
March 20 to March 24, 2017
Tuition: $500
We will “sing the [world] electric” through experiments in anthro-poetics. Our goal: to expand both our seeing and writing practices, by estranging the familiar and more
Anne Sanow
Revision is the Writing: Prose Workshop
March 20 to April 14, 2017
Tuition: $500
It’s easy to resist revision as the “work” part of creating—but when you embrace it fully as part of the creative process, your writing will more
Revision is the Writing: Prose Workshop
March 20 to April 14, 2017
Tuition: $500
It’s easy to resist revision as the “work” part of creating—but when you embrace it fully as part of the creative process, your writing will more
Lydia Millet
Fierce Fiction in Five Days: Spring
March 13 to March 17, 2017
Tuition: $500
This workshop will take a fiction sample from each student (ten to fifteen pages of a short story or beginning of a novel) and revise more
Fierce Fiction in Five Days: Spring
March 13 to March 17, 2017
Tuition: $500
This workshop will take a fiction sample from each student (ten to fifteen pages of a short story or beginning of a novel) and revise more
Juliana Spahr
Five Not Entirely Possible Assignments
March 13 to March 17, 2017
Tuition: $500
Years ago I took a workshop where I was given a chart of immigration numbers by year and country for Bulgaria and asked to write more
Five Not Entirely Possible Assignments
March 13 to March 17, 2017
Tuition: $500
Years ago I took a workshop where I was given a chart of immigration numbers by year and country for Bulgaria and asked to write more
Ed Skoog
Have You Tried the Side Door? Finding a Way In to Your Next Poems: Spring
March 13 to May 5, 2017
Tuition: $500
Sometimes, starting a poem, I feel paralyzed by the task. Each time I need to find the way around my expectations, over the seemingly unsurmountable more
Have You Tried the Side Door? Finding a Way In to Your Next Poems: Spring
March 13 to May 5, 2017
Tuition: $500
Sometimes, starting a poem, I feel paralyzed by the task. Each time I need to find the way around my expectations, over the seemingly unsurmountable more
Sara Eliza Johnson
Language and the Lucid Dream: Spring
March 13 to May 5, 2017
Tuition: $500
Writing a poem—that is, inventing and manipulating our language to compose it—can be likened to lucid dreaming. In this course, you will learn to write more
Language and the Lucid Dream: Spring
March 13 to May 5, 2017
Tuition: $500
Writing a poem—that is, inventing and manipulating our language to compose it—can be likened to lucid dreaming. In this course, you will learn to write more
Carolyn Forché
Writing New Poems: Spring
March 13 to March 17, 2017
Tuition: $500
Carolyn Forché’s five-day intensive class is designed to push experienced poets in provocative new writing directions. The week is dedicated to writing and receiving feedback more
Writing New Poems: Spring
March 13 to March 17, 2017
Tuition: $500
Carolyn Forché’s five-day intensive class is designed to push experienced poets in provocative new writing directions. The week is dedicated to writing and receiving feedback more
Suzanne Rivecca
Good Things in Small Packages: The Art of the Short Story: Spring
March 13 to May 5, 2017
Tuition: $500
A great short story is all the proof we need that bigger isn’t necessarily better—or more beautiful, or more profound. In this new class, you more
Good Things in Small Packages: The Art of the Short Story: Spring
March 13 to May 5, 2017
Tuition: $500
A great short story is all the proof we need that bigger isn’t necessarily better—or more beautiful, or more profound. In this new class, you more
Rebecca Seiferle
The Poem’s Intention
March 6 to March 31, 2017
Tuition: $500
Often, a poem has its own intentions that are at odds with the intentions of the poet. The poet will begin the poem with a more
The Poem’s Intention
March 6 to March 31, 2017
Tuition: $500
Often, a poem has its own intentions that are at odds with the intentions of the poet. The poet will begin the poem with a more
Emilia Phillips
Every Phantom // A Story: Erasure and Revision
March 6 to April 28, 2017
Tuition: $500
What isn’t said in a poem is just as meaningful-just as much a craft choice-as what is said. As poets, we so often go to more
Every Phantom // A Story: Erasure and Revision
March 6 to April 28, 2017
Tuition: $500
What isn’t said in a poem is just as meaningful-just as much a craft choice-as what is said. As poets, we so often go to more
Hilary Price
Make it Funny: The Basics of Drawing and Writing Single Panel Cartoons
March 6 to March 10, 2017
Tuition: $500
What are the components of a caption cartoon? (Plot, setting, characters, surprise. . . all in a snapshot.) Each day’s lecture will focus on a more
Make it Funny: The Basics of Drawing and Writing Single Panel Cartoons
March 6 to March 10, 2017
Tuition: $500
What are the components of a caption cartoon? (Plot, setting, characters, surprise. . . all in a snapshot.) Each day’s lecture will focus on a more
Ada Limón
Staying True: Authenticity and Voice: Spring
March 6 to April 28, 2017
Tuition: $500
Ada Limón is determined to help you focus in on your own personal style and write poems in your own unique voice in a world more
Staying True: Authenticity and Voice: Spring
March 6 to April 28, 2017
Tuition: $500
Ada Limón is determined to help you focus in on your own personal style and write poems in your own unique voice in a world more
Rosie Schaap
Essay is a Verb: The Practice of Personal Narrative: Spring
March 6 to March 31, 2017
Tuition: $500
Informed and animated by the singular life experience and voice of its author, the personal essay represents an attempt to deeply speak about an idea, more
Essay is a Verb: The Practice of Personal Narrative: Spring
March 6 to March 31, 2017
Tuition: $500
Informed and animated by the singular life experience and voice of its author, the personal essay represents an attempt to deeply speak about an idea, more
Elizabeth Bradfield
The Project Book: Spring
March 6 to March 31, 2017
Tuition: $500
Finishing a book of poems focused on a topic, rather than a loose aggregation, is a particular art. Some poets unify books by form or more
The Project Book: Spring
March 6 to March 31, 2017
Tuition: $500
Finishing a book of poems focused on a topic, rather than a loose aggregation, is a particular art. Some poets unify books by form or more
Ann Hood
Jumpstart Your Memoir: Spring
March 6 to March 10, 2017
Tuition: $500
In his book on the craft of writing, Stephen King says: the scariest moment is just before you start. This workshop takes that moment and more
Jumpstart Your Memoir: Spring
March 6 to March 10, 2017
Tuition: $500
In his book on the craft of writing, Stephen King says: the scariest moment is just before you start. This workshop takes that moment and more
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Of Knowing Nothing and Everything: A Week of Poem, Pigment, and Paint in the Lab
March 6 to March 10, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this class we’ll ask rigorous questions like, “What do I mean when I say the sky is blue?” & “What does ‘green’ mean, really?” more
Of Knowing Nothing and Everything: A Week of Poem, Pigment, and Paint in the Lab
March 6 to March 10, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this class we’ll ask rigorous questions like, “What do I mean when I say the sky is blue?” & “What does ‘green’ mean, really?” more
Laura Madeline Wiseman
Delightful Duos: Collaborating Poets
March 6 to March 31, 2017
Tuition: $500
Delightful duos, crafty couples, and writers who dare to work in pairs, this eight-week studio will focus on the art of collaborating with other poets. more
Delightful Duos: Collaborating Poets
March 6 to March 31, 2017
Tuition: $500
Delightful duos, crafty couples, and writers who dare to work in pairs, this eight-week studio will focus on the art of collaborating with other poets. more
Sara Roahen
What Sustains Us: The Art of Good "Food Writing"
March 6 to March 10, 2017
Tuition: $500
I believe that, when done with intention, using food in our creative writing can reveal great truth and meaning. By the end of this workshop, more
What Sustains Us: The Art of Good "Food Writing"
March 6 to March 10, 2017
Tuition: $500
I believe that, when done with intention, using food in our creative writing can reveal great truth and meaning. By the end of this workshop, more
Rebecca Lindenberg
Writing for the Senses: Poetic Imagery, Experience, Emotion, and Evocation
February 27 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
Though this course may be online, it’s a highly experiential one, devoted exclusively to developing the writer’s perceptual path from sensation to language. Richly original more
Writing for the Senses: Poetic Imagery, Experience, Emotion, and Evocation
February 27 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
Though this course may be online, it’s a highly experiential one, devoted exclusively to developing the writer’s perceptual path from sensation to language. Richly original more
CA Conrad
Queer Bodies Poetry Workshop
February 20 to February 24, 2017
Tuition: $500
“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” –Audre Lorde This workshop will more
Queer Bodies Poetry Workshop
February 20 to February 24, 2017
Tuition: $500
“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” –Audre Lorde This workshop will more
Julie Carr
The Epistolary Poem
February 13 to February 17, 2017
Tuition: $500
In 1959, American poet Frank O’Hara wrote a mock-manifesto he called “Personism” in which he argued that a poem should be immediate and intimate, that more
The Epistolary Poem
February 13 to February 17, 2017
Tuition: $500
In 1959, American poet Frank O’Hara wrote a mock-manifesto he called “Personism” in which he argued that a poem should be immediate and intimate, that more
Sam Sax
Heeeeeey!: Queer Poetics
February 13 to February 17, 2017
Tuition: $500
This workshop serves both as a brief survey of queer American poetry as well as an intensive exploration into students’ own writing. We’ll seek to more
Heeeeeey!: Queer Poetics
February 13 to February 17, 2017
Tuition: $500
This workshop serves both as a brief survey of queer American poetry as well as an intensive exploration into students’ own writing. We’ll seek to more
Devi Lockwood
Tangible Things: Object-based Storytelling
February 13 to February 17, 2017
Tuition: $500
This multi-genre course is a scavenger hunt. Each day will ask you to collect a different object, introduce it to an unexpected space, and to more
Tangible Things: Object-based Storytelling
February 13 to February 17, 2017
Tuition: $500
This multi-genre course is a scavenger hunt. Each day will ask you to collect a different object, introduce it to an unexpected space, and to more
Rosie Schaap
Essay is a Verb: The Practice of Personal Narrative: Winter
February 6 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
Informed and animated by the singular life experience and voice of its author, the personal essay represents an attempt to deeply speak about an idea, more
Essay is a Verb: The Practice of Personal Narrative: Winter
February 6 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
Informed and animated by the singular life experience and voice of its author, the personal essay represents an attempt to deeply speak about an idea, more
Meg Day
What's Love Got to Do With It: Poems for Valentine's Day
February 6 to February 10, 2017
Tuition: $500
What is more deeply entangled in the genealogy of the poem than love? Poet Eileen Myles writes that the love poem is where all of more
What's Love Got to Do With It: Poems for Valentine's Day
February 6 to February 10, 2017
Tuition: $500
What is more deeply entangled in the genealogy of the poem than love? Poet Eileen Myles writes that the love poem is where all of more
Daisy Fried
Writing Poems that Don't Fit
February 6 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
In her four-week workshop, Daisy Fried will guide you as you formulate what your poems want to be and how you fit into your work. more
Writing Poems that Don't Fit
February 6 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
In her four-week workshop, Daisy Fried will guide you as you formulate what your poems want to be and how you fit into your work. more
Sarah Messer
Facts, Research, and Memoir: Winter
February 6 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
Even in our most vivid memories, details fade. Sarah Messer’s essential course will help you mine memory through research techniques like archival work, interviewing, travel, more
Facts, Research, and Memoir: Winter
February 6 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
Even in our most vivid memories, details fade. Sarah Messer’s essential course will help you mine memory through research techniques like archival work, interviewing, travel, more
Jillian Weise
The Poet as Spy: 4 Tricks from Espionage: Winter
January 30 to February 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
Since we live in the age of the ubiquitous status update, you are already familiar with spying and being spied, watching and being watched, surveying more
The Poet as Spy: 4 Tricks from Espionage: Winter
January 30 to February 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
Since we live in the age of the ubiquitous status update, you are already familiar with spying and being spied, watching and being watched, surveying more
Jacqueline Jones Lamon
Exploring the Abecedarian Poetic Sequence: More Than Just ABC's: Winter
January 30 to February 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this intensive course, students will explore several nuanced approaches to this ancient alphabetical form of poetry. By combining current events and difficult subject matter more
Exploring the Abecedarian Poetic Sequence: More Than Just ABC's: Winter
January 30 to February 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this intensive course, students will explore several nuanced approaches to this ancient alphabetical form of poetry. By combining current events and difficult subject matter more
Alicia Oltuski
Fix-It Shop
January 23 to January 27, 2017
Tuition: $500
Many wonderful courses serve writers by providing close readings of chapters, stories, and essays. In this class we will work with the issues in writing more
Fix-It Shop
January 23 to January 27, 2017
Tuition: $500
Many wonderful courses serve writers by providing close readings of chapters, stories, and essays. In this class we will work with the issues in writing more
Garrard Conley
Illuminating the Past in Memoir
January 23 to February 17, 2017
Tuition: $500
How do memoirists re-enter the mysteries of past experience? The answer, for many of us, resides in our ability to ‘play’ with the past and more
Illuminating the Past in Memoir
January 23 to February 17, 2017
Tuition: $500
How do memoirists re-enter the mysteries of past experience? The answer, for many of us, resides in our ability to ‘play’ with the past and more
Rebecca Gayle Howell
We All Write Sentences: Winter
January 23 to January 27, 2017
Tuition: $500
This one-week intensive invites both poets and prose writers to consider more closely the power of pushing out the boundaries of the English sentence. Reading, more
We All Write Sentences: Winter
January 23 to January 27, 2017
Tuition: $500
This one-week intensive invites both poets and prose writers to consider more closely the power of pushing out the boundaries of the English sentence. Reading, more
Rebecca Gayle Howell
Translation as Creative Practice: Winter
January 23 to February 17, 2017
Tuition: $500
We write in the age of globalization and in the language most universal for our time. Contemporary international writers are now being brought into English more
Translation as Creative Practice: Winter
January 23 to February 17, 2017
Tuition: $500
We write in the age of globalization and in the language most universal for our time. Contemporary international writers are now being brought into English more
Cam Terwilliger
Flash Fiction: Winter
January 23 to January 27, 2017
Tuition: $500
Regularly appearing in the pages of literary magazines, flash fiction has become one of the most vibrant modes in which to write. A protean form, more
Flash Fiction: Winter
January 23 to January 27, 2017
Tuition: $500
Regularly appearing in the pages of literary magazines, flash fiction has become one of the most vibrant modes in which to write. A protean form, more
Sandra Beasley
“You Should Write About That"
January 23 to January 27, 2017
Tuition: $500
We are writers, but not just writers. We bring different areas of expertise to the table—whether a profession, another creative passion, travel, or the experience more
“You Should Write About That"
January 23 to January 27, 2017
Tuition: $500
We are writers, but not just writers. We bring different areas of expertise to the table—whether a profession, another creative passion, travel, or the experience more
Ann Hood
Jumpstart Your Memoir: Winter
January 23 to January 27, 2017
Tuition: $500
In his book on the craft of writing, Stephen King says: the scariest moment is just before you start. This workshop takes that moment and more
Jumpstart Your Memoir: Winter
January 23 to January 27, 2017
Tuition: $500
In his book on the craft of writing, Stephen King says: the scariest moment is just before you start. This workshop takes that moment and more
Rebecca Lindenberg
What I Should Have Said: Writing Funny Poems
January 16 to February 10, 2017
Tuition: $500
It is really hard to write funny. It’s even harder to write funny with substance and pathos. But in this class, we’ll look at several more
What I Should Have Said: Writing Funny Poems
January 16 to February 10, 2017
Tuition: $500
It is really hard to write funny. It’s even harder to write funny with substance and pathos. But in this class, we’ll look at several more
Carolyn Forché
Writing New Poems: Winter
January 16 to January 20, 2017
Tuition: $500
Carolyn Forché’s five-day intensive class is designed to push experienced poets in provocative new writing directions. The week is dedicated to writing and receiving feedback more
Writing New Poems: Winter
January 16 to January 20, 2017
Tuition: $500
Carolyn Forché’s five-day intensive class is designed to push experienced poets in provocative new writing directions. The week is dedicated to writing and receiving feedback more
Devi Lockwood
Tell Me a Story: The Power of Deep Listening
January 16 to January 20, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this multi-genre workshop you’ll learn how to use the material of everyday conversations as the starting place for your writing. We will cover basic more
Tell Me a Story: The Power of Deep Listening
January 16 to January 20, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this multi-genre workshop you’ll learn how to use the material of everyday conversations as the starting place for your writing. We will cover basic more
Ethan Gilsdorf
Writing and Selling Personal Essays about Deeply Personal Subjects
January 16 to January 20, 2017
Tuition: $500
Romantic love and heartbreak. Marriage and family strike. Friendship and conflict. Loss and death. In Ethan Gilsdorf’s intensive course, you will learn how to write more
Writing and Selling Personal Essays about Deeply Personal Subjects
January 16 to January 20, 2017
Tuition: $500
Romantic love and heartbreak. Marriage and family strike. Friendship and conflict. Loss and death. In Ethan Gilsdorf’s intensive course, you will learn how to write more
Meghan O'Gieblyn
Place in Memoir
January 9 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
Too often, location is regarded as the backdrop of a memoir—the fixed stage-set on which the action unfolds. But there is a long tradition of more
Place in Memoir
January 9 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
Too often, location is regarded as the backdrop of a memoir—the fixed stage-set on which the action unfolds. But there is a long tradition of more
Ada Limón
Staying True: Authenticity and Voice: Winter
January 9 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
Ada Limón is determined to help you focus in on your own personal style and write poems in your own unique voice in a world more
Staying True: Authenticity and Voice: Winter
January 9 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
Ada Limón is determined to help you focus in on your own personal style and write poems in your own unique voice in a world more
Ed Skoog
Have You Tried the Side Door? Finding a Way In to Your Next Poems: Winter
January 9 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
Sometimes, starting a poem, I feel paralyzed by the task. Each time I need to find the way around my expectations, over the seemingly unsurmountable more
Have You Tried the Side Door? Finding a Way In to Your Next Poems: Winter
January 9 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
Sometimes, starting a poem, I feel paralyzed by the task. Each time I need to find the way around my expectations, over the seemingly unsurmountable more
Heidi Jon Schmidt
Telling the Story: Eight Weeks in Winter
January 9 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
John Cheever once stopped himself in the middle of a reading at FAWC and said, “Hell, I can tell it better than this.” Then he more
Telling the Story: Eight Weeks in Winter
January 9 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
John Cheever once stopped himself in the middle of a reading at FAWC and said, “Hell, I can tell it better than this.” Then he more
Nancy Pearson
15 Works: Winter
January 9 to February 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
15 Works: Winter
January 9 to February 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
Matt Miller
Tiny Tales, Prose Poems, and Micro Memoirs
January 9 to January 13, 2017
Tuition: $500
This class will wade into those estuaries where the waters of genre blend and mingle and birth something new. We will try to blend the more
Tiny Tales, Prose Poems, and Micro Memoirs
January 9 to January 13, 2017
Tuition: $500
This class will wade into those estuaries where the waters of genre blend and mingle and birth something new. We will try to blend the more
Ann Hood
Writing the Personal Essay: Winter
January 9 to February 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. During this memoir course you will more
Writing the Personal Essay: Winter
January 9 to February 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. During this memoir course you will more
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Of Knowing Nothing and Everything: A Week of Poem, Pigment, and Paint in the Lab
January 9 to January 13, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this class we’ll ask rigorous questions like, “What do I mean when I say the sky is blue?” & “What does ‘green’ mean, really?” more
Of Knowing Nothing and Everything: A Week of Poem, Pigment, and Paint in the Lab
January 9 to January 13, 2017
Tuition: $500
In this class we’ll ask rigorous questions like, “What do I mean when I say the sky is blue?” & “What does ‘green’ mean, really?” more
Suzanne Rivecca
Good Things in Small Packages: The Art of the Short Story: Winter
January 9 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
A great short story is all the proof we need that bigger isn’t necessarily better—or more beautiful, or more profound. In this new class, you more
Good Things in Small Packages: The Art of the Short Story: Winter
January 9 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
A great short story is all the proof we need that bigger isn’t necessarily better—or more beautiful, or more profound. In this new class, you more
Ron MacLean
Shaping Short Fiction: From Aristotle to Borges and Beyond
January 9 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
We’ll study a variety of approaches to story structure, from the classic story curve, to the drama-focused unity of opposites, to postmodern structures that stretch more
Shaping Short Fiction: From Aristotle to Borges and Beyond
January 9 to March 3, 2017
Tuition: $500
We’ll study a variety of approaches to story structure, from the classic story curve, to the drama-focused unity of opposites, to postmodern structures that stretch more
Rebecca Gayle Howell
We All Write Sentences: Fall
December 12 to December 16, 2016
Tuition: $500
This one-week intensive invites both poets and prose writers to consider more closely the power of pushing out the boundaries of the English sentence. Reading, more
We All Write Sentences: Fall
December 12 to December 16, 2016
Tuition: $500
This one-week intensive invites both poets and prose writers to consider more closely the power of pushing out the boundaries of the English sentence. Reading, more
CA Conrad
THE STRENGTH OF POETRY: (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals & The Antidote To Spiritual Crisis FALL Session 2
December 5 to December 9, 2016
Tuition: $500
Poet CAConrad has successfully used (Soma)tic poetry rituals to overcome destructive and debilitating depression after the murder of his boyfriend Earth (aka Mark Holmes). He more
THE STRENGTH OF POETRY: (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals & The Antidote To Spiritual Crisis FALL Session 2
December 5 to December 9, 2016
Tuition: $500
Poet CAConrad has successfully used (Soma)tic poetry rituals to overcome destructive and debilitating depression after the murder of his boyfriend Earth (aka Mark Holmes). He more
Irina Reyn
Open That Drawer!: Reviving the Stalled Novel
December 5 to December 9, 2016
Tuition: $500
Many of us begin work on a novel in a frenzy of inspiration but there are many reasons for why an unfinished novel goes into more
Open That Drawer!: Reviving the Stalled Novel
December 5 to December 9, 2016
Tuition: $500
Many of us begin work on a novel in a frenzy of inspiration but there are many reasons for why an unfinished novel goes into more
Meg Day
5 Days, 6 Poems, 7 Ways Back Home
December 5 to December 9, 2016
Tuition: $500
Movement is a poet’s dialect: we pace the room of each stanza, we shuttle our readers across & down the page, & we reach inside more
5 Days, 6 Poems, 7 Ways Back Home
December 5 to December 9, 2016
Tuition: $500
Movement is a poet’s dialect: we pace the room of each stanza, we shuttle our readers across & down the page, & we reach inside more
Michelle Tea
Memoir that Reads Like Fiction: Fall
December 5 to December 9, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this intensive memoir workshop, you will learn techniques to create a memoir with a cinematic feel and the singular voice of an immersive novel. more
Memoir that Reads Like Fiction: Fall
December 5 to December 9, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this intensive memoir workshop, you will learn techniques to create a memoir with a cinematic feel and the singular voice of an immersive novel. more
Nicole Terez Dutton
Threading and Building: Working Toward a Manuscript
December 5 to December 9, 2016
Tuition: $500
Whether you’re beginning with one poem or a small group of poems, this week-long intensive workshop will offer strategies to meaningfully expand your work toward more
Threading and Building: Working Toward a Manuscript
December 5 to December 9, 2016
Tuition: $500
Whether you’re beginning with one poem or a small group of poems, this week-long intensive workshop will offer strategies to meaningfully expand your work toward more
Meg Day
The Elegy & the Emo Poem: A Battle to the Death: Fall
November 28 to December 2, 2016
Tuition: $500
What is the responsibility of the poet in times of public mourning? Why is it that we turn to poetry during periods of tragedy or more
The Elegy & the Emo Poem: A Battle to the Death: Fall
November 28 to December 2, 2016
Tuition: $500
What is the responsibility of the poet in times of public mourning? Why is it that we turn to poetry during periods of tragedy or more
Ann Hood
Jumpstart Your Memoir: Fall
November 28 to December 2, 2016
Tuition: $500
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. Often, that moment when you first more
Jumpstart Your Memoir: Fall
November 28 to December 2, 2016
Tuition: $500
A writing sample is required for admittance to this class. Before registering, please email a writing sample to gleghorn@fawc.org. Often, that moment when you first more
Daisy Fried
4 Poets: Adaptation and Rejection as Technique
November 21 to December 16, 2016
Tuition: $500
What is creative influence and how can we best use it? The first week of this course we’ll read and discuss sets of poems from more
4 Poets: Adaptation and Rejection as Technique
November 21 to December 16, 2016
Tuition: $500
What is creative influence and how can we best use it? The first week of this course we’ll read and discuss sets of poems from more
Kim Addonizio
Finding the Form in Free Verse
November 14 to December 9, 2016
Tuition: $500
Kim Addonizio’s class won’t just inspire you to write—it will also help you shape your poems in order to release the power and energy of more
Finding the Form in Free Verse
November 14 to December 9, 2016
Tuition: $500
Kim Addonizio’s class won’t just inspire you to write—it will also help you shape your poems in order to release the power and energy of more
Thomas Page McBee
The Reported Life: Using Journalism to Tell a Truer Story: Fall
November 14 to November 18, 2016
Tuition: $500
Since the gonzo stylings of Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, and Truman Capote disrupted once and for all the false notion of “objective” reporting, many more
The Reported Life: Using Journalism to Tell a Truer Story: Fall
November 14 to November 18, 2016
Tuition: $500
Since the gonzo stylings of Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, and Truman Capote disrupted once and for all the false notion of “objective” reporting, many more
Michael White
Gazing In Gazing Out
November 14 to November 18, 2016
Tuition: $500
This one-week poetry workshop will offer instruction, support, and dialogue in the craft of writing and revising poems. This class is for intermediate to advanced more
Gazing In Gazing Out
November 14 to November 18, 2016
Tuition: $500
This one-week poetry workshop will offer instruction, support, and dialogue in the craft of writing and revising poems. This class is for intermediate to advanced more
Michael Klein
"If It's True...": A Memoir Workshop
November 14 to December 9, 2016
Tuition: $500
It’s become an almost unmovable piece popular literary culture to make a clear distinction in a memoir between what’s true and what’s made up. But more
"If It's True...": A Memoir Workshop
November 14 to December 9, 2016
Tuition: $500
It’s become an almost unmovable piece popular literary culture to make a clear distinction in a memoir between what’s true and what’s made up. But more
Annie Finch
Working the Beat: How to Make Poems Sing
November 7 to November 11, 2016
Tuition: $500
It can be tempting to think of rhythm, meter, or form as a container, something outside and separate from a poem. But the best poems more
Working the Beat: How to Make Poems Sing
November 7 to November 11, 2016
Tuition: $500
It can be tempting to think of rhythm, meter, or form as a container, something outside and separate from a poem. But the best poems more
Kirsten Andersen
Stealing Time: The Tricky Dance of Being a Writing Parent
November 7 to December 2, 2016
Tuition: $500
“I keep stealing away to take notes…what kind of mother am I, I think, taking notes at a time like this?”—Jamie Quatro, “What It Takes,” more
Stealing Time: The Tricky Dance of Being a Writing Parent
November 7 to December 2, 2016
Tuition: $500
“I keep stealing away to take notes…what kind of mother am I, I think, taking notes at a time like this?”—Jamie Quatro, “What It Takes,” more
Francesca Lia Block
12 Questions to Help Structure your Novel in Five Days
November 7 to November 11, 2016
Tuition: $500
Over the years, Francesca Lia Block has helped hundreds and hundreds of writers discover and develop their novels using twelve essential, inter-related questions: What is more
12 Questions to Help Structure your Novel in Five Days
November 7 to November 11, 2016
Tuition: $500
Over the years, Francesca Lia Block has helped hundreds and hundreds of writers discover and develop their novels using twelve essential, inter-related questions: What is more
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Of Knowing Nothing and Everything: A Week of Poem, Pigment, and Paint in the Lab
November 7 to November 11, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this class we’ll ask rigorous questions like, “What do I mean when I say the sky is blue?” & “What does ‘green’ mean, really?” more
Of Knowing Nothing and Everything: A Week of Poem, Pigment, and Paint in the Lab
November 7 to November 11, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this class we’ll ask rigorous questions like, “What do I mean when I say the sky is blue?” & “What does ‘green’ mean, really?” more
Sara Eliza Johnson
Language and the Lucid Dream: Fall
October 24 to December 16, 2016
Tuition: $500
Many sleepers have experienced the pleasure of the lucid dream: the phenomenon of “waking” inside our dream and realizing that we are in fact dreaming, more
Language and the Lucid Dream: Fall
October 24 to December 16, 2016
Tuition: $500
Many sleepers have experienced the pleasure of the lucid dream: the phenomenon of “waking” inside our dream and realizing that we are in fact dreaming, more
Lydia Millet
The Charismatic Narrator
October 24 to October 28, 2016
Tuition: $500
What is charisma, on the page? What does it take to make voice compelling? This workshop will take a ten-to-fifteen page fiction sample from each more
The Charismatic Narrator
October 24 to October 28, 2016
Tuition: $500
What is charisma, on the page? What does it take to make voice compelling? This workshop will take a ten-to-fifteen page fiction sample from each more
Elizabeth Bradfield
Animals in the Anthropocene—Toward a Beastly, Eco-Justice Poetic
October 24 to October 28, 2016
Tuition: $500
Many of us are moved by the non-humans we encounter. But how do we write about our interactions with animals in ways that are full, more
Animals in the Anthropocene—Toward a Beastly, Eco-Justice Poetic
October 24 to October 28, 2016
Tuition: $500
Many of us are moved by the non-humans we encounter. But how do we write about our interactions with animals in ways that are full, more
Carolyn Forché
Writing New Poems: Fall
October 24 to October 28, 2016
Tuition: $500
Carolyn Forché’s five-day intensive class is designed to push experienced poets in provocative new writing directions. The week is dedicated to writing and receiving feedback more
Writing New Poems: Fall
October 24 to October 28, 2016
Tuition: $500
Carolyn Forché’s five-day intensive class is designed to push experienced poets in provocative new writing directions. The week is dedicated to writing and receiving feedback more
CA Conrad
THE STRENGTH OF POETRY: (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals & The Antidote To Spiritual Crisis FALL Session 1
October 17 to October 21, 2016
Tuition: $500
Poet CAConrad has successfully used (Soma)tic poetry rituals to overcome destructive and debilitating depression after the murder of his boyfriend Earth (aka Mark Holmes). He more
THE STRENGTH OF POETRY: (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals & The Antidote To Spiritual Crisis FALL Session 1
October 17 to October 21, 2016
Tuition: $500
Poet CAConrad has successfully used (Soma)tic poetry rituals to overcome destructive and debilitating depression after the murder of his boyfriend Earth (aka Mark Holmes). He more
Suzanne Rivecca
Good Things in Small Packages: The Art of the Short Story: Fall
October 17 to December 9, 2016
Tuition: $500
A great short story is all the proof we need that bigger isn’t necessarily better—or more beautiful, or more profound. In this new class, you more
Good Things in Small Packages: The Art of the Short Story: Fall
October 17 to December 9, 2016
Tuition: $500
A great short story is all the proof we need that bigger isn’t necessarily better—or more beautiful, or more profound. In this new class, you more
Rosie Schaap
Essay is a Verb: The Practice of Personal Narrative: Fall
October 17 to November 11, 2016
Tuition: $500
To essay is to attempt. Informed and animated by the singular life experience and voice of its author, the personal essay represents an attempt to more
Essay is a Verb: The Practice of Personal Narrative: Fall
October 17 to November 11, 2016
Tuition: $500
To essay is to attempt. Informed and animated by the singular life experience and voice of its author, the personal essay represents an attempt to more
Nancy Pearson
15 Works: Fall
October 17 to November 11, 2016
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
15 Works: Fall
October 17 to November 11, 2016
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
Ada Limón
Staying True: Authenticity and Voice: Fall
October 10 to December 2, 2016
Tuition: $500
With so many poetic and artistic influences circulating wildly in the modern world, it can be difficult to remain true to your own instinctual style more
Staying True: Authenticity and Voice: Fall
October 10 to December 2, 2016
Tuition: $500
With so many poetic and artistic influences circulating wildly in the modern world, it can be difficult to remain true to your own instinctual style more
Rebecca Gayle Howell
Translation as Creative Practice: Fall
October 10 to November 4, 2016
Tuition: $500
We write in the age of globalization and in the language most universal for our time. Contemporary international writers are now being brought into English more
Translation as Creative Practice: Fall
October 10 to November 4, 2016
Tuition: $500
We write in the age of globalization and in the language most universal for our time. Contemporary international writers are now being brought into English more
Jacqueline Jones Lamon
Exploring the Abecedarian Poetic Sequence: More Than Just ABC's: Fall
October 10 to October 14, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this intensive course, students will explore several nuanced approaches to this ancient alphabetical form of poetry. By combining current events and difficult subject matter more
Exploring the Abecedarian Poetic Sequence: More Than Just ABC's: Fall
October 10 to October 14, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this intensive course, students will explore several nuanced approaches to this ancient alphabetical form of poetry. By combining current events and difficult subject matter more
Garrard Conley
Structuring Memoir
October 3 to October 7, 2016
Tuition: $500
So you have a draft of a memoir, and now you want to shape your story into a compelling narrative. How do you do this more
Structuring Memoir
October 3 to October 7, 2016
Tuition: $500
So you have a draft of a memoir, and now you want to shape your story into a compelling narrative. How do you do this more
Cam Terwilliger
Flash Fiction: Fall
October 3 to October 7, 2016
Tuition: $500
Regularly appearing in the pages of literary magazines, flash fiction has become one of the most vibrant modes in which to write. A protean form, more
Flash Fiction: Fall
October 3 to October 7, 2016
Tuition: $500
Regularly appearing in the pages of literary magazines, flash fiction has become one of the most vibrant modes in which to write. A protean form, more
Daisy Fried
“Some People Have Been Unkind”: A Workshop on Literary Book Reviewing
October 3 to October 28, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this workshop, you will look at literary book reviewing from aesthetic, ethical, and practical angles, exploring possible approaches for reviewing and discovering what elements more
“Some People Have Been Unkind”: A Workshop on Literary Book Reviewing
October 3 to October 28, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this workshop, you will look at literary book reviewing from aesthetic, ethical, and practical angles, exploring possible approaches for reviewing and discovering what elements more
Peter Campion
Form From Feeling and Feeling From Form: Fall
October 3 to October 28, 2016
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Form From Feeling and Feeling From Form: Fall
October 3 to October 28, 2016
Tuition: $500
This class is for people who want to improve their poems, by understanding the art more fully, from the inside out. During our four weeks, more
Ed Skoog
Have You Tried the Side Door? Finding a Way In to Your Next Poems: Fall
October 3 to November 25, 2016
Tuition: $500
Sometimes, starting a poem, I feel paralyzed by the task. Each time I need to find the way around my expectations, over the seemingly unsurmountable more
Have You Tried the Side Door? Finding a Way In to Your Next Poems: Fall
October 3 to November 25, 2016
Tuition: $500
Sometimes, starting a poem, I feel paralyzed by the task. Each time I need to find the way around my expectations, over the seemingly unsurmountable more
Sara Eliza Johnson
Mad Science
October 3 to October 7, 2016
Tuition: $500
It may often seem that poetry and science are at odds with one another—the former typically associated with subjectivity and emotion, and the latter with more
Mad Science
October 3 to October 7, 2016
Tuition: $500
It may often seem that poetry and science are at odds with one another—the former typically associated with subjectivity and emotion, and the latter with more
Ann Hood
Writing the Personal Essay: Fall
October 3 to October 28, 2016
Tuition: $500
During this memoir course you will work toward completing a final, personal essay through a series of short, guided writing assignments focused on specific topics. more
Writing the Personal Essay: Fall
October 3 to October 28, 2016
Tuition: $500
During this memoir course you will work toward completing a final, personal essay through a series of short, guided writing assignments focused on specific topics. more
Heidi Jon Schmidt
Telling the Story: Fall
October 3 to October 28, 2016
Tuition: $500
John Cheever once stopped himself in the middle of a reading at FAWC and said, “Hell, I can tell it better than this.” Then he more
Telling the Story: Fall
October 3 to October 28, 2016
Tuition: $500
John Cheever once stopped himself in the middle of a reading at FAWC and said, “Hell, I can tell it better than this.” Then he more
Daisy Fried
Poetry Revision Boot Camp
September 19 to September 23, 2016
Tuition: $500
Get ready, get set…You’ll either come into workshop with a poem draft you’re interested in but dissatisfied with, or, at the workshop’s beginning, you’ll generate more
Poetry Revision Boot Camp
September 19 to September 23, 2016
Tuition: $500
Get ready, get set…You’ll either come into workshop with a poem draft you’re interested in but dissatisfied with, or, at the workshop’s beginning, you’ll generate more
Meghan O'Gieblyn
The ‘I’ in Memoir
September 12 to September 16, 2016
Tuition: $500
In a lecture titled “Why I Write,” Joan Didion remarked that all she could hear in those three words was “I, I, I.” She was more
The ‘I’ in Memoir
September 12 to September 16, 2016
Tuition: $500
In a lecture titled “Why I Write,” Joan Didion remarked that all she could hear in those three words was “I, I, I.” She was more
Sarah Rose Nordgren
Griffins, Harpies, and Jackalopes: Hybrid Poetics: Fall
September 5 to September 9, 2016
Tuition: $500
“What grows in that place is possessed of a beauty all its own, ramshackle and unexpected.”– Campbell McGrath, “The Prose Poem” Poetry’s history is one more
Griffins, Harpies, and Jackalopes: Hybrid Poetics: Fall
September 5 to September 9, 2016
Tuition: $500
“What grows in that place is possessed of a beauty all its own, ramshackle and unexpected.”– Campbell McGrath, “The Prose Poem” Poetry’s history is one more
Nancy Pearson
15 Works: September
September 5 to September 30, 2016
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
15 Works: September
September 5 to September 30, 2016
Tuition: $500
This four week poetry workshop is based on a class taught at the former Corcoran School of Art. In “15 Works,” you’ll write 3 to more
Ann Hood
Writing the Personal Essay: September
September 5 to September 30, 2016
Tuition: $500
During Ann Hood’s memoir course you will work toward completing a final, personal essay through a series of short, guided assignments. Using these weekly writing more
Writing the Personal Essay: September
September 5 to September 30, 2016
Tuition: $500
During Ann Hood’s memoir course you will work toward completing a final, personal essay through a series of short, guided assignments. Using these weekly writing more
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Juxtaposing the Public & Private to Add Depth to Poetry
May 2 to May 6, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. In this course we will look at the work more
Juxtaposing the Public & Private to Add Depth to Poetry
May 2 to May 6, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. In this course we will look at the work more
Cam Terwilliger
Flash Fiction
May 2 to May 6, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. Regularly appearing in the pages of literary magazines, flash more
Flash Fiction
May 2 to May 6, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. Regularly appearing in the pages of literary magazines, flash more
Jennifer Tseng
Writing the Forbidden
May 2 to May 6, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. In this one-week intensive you will work to produce more
Writing the Forbidden
May 2 to May 6, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. In this one-week intensive you will work to produce more
Justin St. Germain
Memoir: Getting Started
May 2 to May 6, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. One of the hardest practical challenges writers face when more
Memoir: Getting Started
May 2 to May 6, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. One of the hardest practical challenges writers face when more
Fred Marchant
Deep Revision: The Poem as Discovery
May 2 to May 6, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. Everybody revises, but then again what does revision really more
Deep Revision: The Poem as Discovery
May 2 to May 6, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. Everybody revises, but then again what does revision really more
Meg Day
The Elegy & the Emo Poem: A Battle to the Death
April 25 to April 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. What is the responsibility of the poet in times more
The Elegy & the Emo Poem: A Battle to the Death
April 25 to April 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. What is the responsibility of the poet in times more
Laura Madeline Wiseman
A Chapbook Workshop
April 25 to April 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. This one-week intensive workshop will focus on the chapbook more
A Chapbook Workshop
April 25 to April 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. This one-week intensive workshop will focus on the chapbook more
Hilary Price
Make it Funny: The Basics of Drawing and Writing Single Panel Cartoons
April 25 to April 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. What are the components of a caption cartoon? (Plot, more
Make it Funny: The Basics of Drawing and Writing Single Panel Cartoons
April 25 to April 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. What are the components of a caption cartoon? (Plot, more
Thomas Page McBee
The Reported Life: Using Journalism to Tell a Truer Story
April 25 to April 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. Since the gonzo stylings of Hunter S. Thompson, Joan more
The Reported Life: Using Journalism to Tell a Truer Story
April 25 to April 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. Since the gonzo stylings of Hunter S. Thompson, Joan more
Ethan Gilsdorf
Absent Fathers, Controlling Mothers, Treacherous Exes and Other Interpersonal Dysfunction: Writing the Publishable Relationship Essay
April 18 to April 22, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. Romantic love. Marriage. Heartbreak. Family. Friendship. Conflict. Loss. Pain. more
Absent Fathers, Controlling Mothers, Treacherous Exes and Other Interpersonal Dysfunction: Writing the Publishable Relationship Essay
April 18 to April 22, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. Romantic love. Marriage. Heartbreak. Family. Friendship. Conflict. Loss. Pain. more
Matthew Olzmann
Surprise and Revelation: Building and Overthrowing Expectations in a Poem
April 18 to April 22, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. How is surprise created? Often, it’s an effect of more
Surprise and Revelation: Building and Overthrowing Expectations in a Poem
April 18 to April 22, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. How is surprise created? Often, it’s an effect of more
Reif Larsen
The Sentence as a Gift
April 11 to April 15, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. Do you see your sentences simply as a way more
The Sentence as a Gift
April 11 to April 15, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. Do you see your sentences simply as a way more
Michael Klein
If It’s True. . . : A Memoir Workshop: SPRING
April 4 to April 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. It’s become an almost unmovable piece popular literary culture more
If It’s True. . . : A Memoir Workshop: SPRING
April 4 to April 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. It’s become an almost unmovable piece popular literary culture more
Daisy Fried
“Some People Have Been Unkind”: A Workshop on Literary Book Reviewing
April 4 to April 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. In this workshop, you will look at literary book more
“Some People Have Been Unkind”: A Workshop on Literary Book Reviewing
April 4 to April 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. In this workshop, you will look at literary book more
Peter Campion
Form From Feeling and Feeling From Form: Spring
April 4 to April 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
PETER CAMPION’s new four-week workshop will help you better understand poetry from the inside out by exploring seven formal elements – action, voice, sentence, phrase, more
Form From Feeling and Feeling From Form: Spring
April 4 to April 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
PETER CAMPION’s new four-week workshop will help you better understand poetry from the inside out by exploring seven formal elements – action, voice, sentence, phrase, more
Lydia Millet
The Charismatic Narrator
April 4 to April 8, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. In her one-week intensive class, Lydia Millet wants to more
The Charismatic Narrator
April 4 to April 8, 2016
Tuition: $500
SPRING DISCOUNT: Use code SPRING16 at registration checkout to get 10% off tuition for this course. In her one-week intensive class, Lydia Millet wants to more
Devi Lockwood
Tangible Things: Object-based Storytelling
March 28 to April 1, 2016
Tuition: $500
This multi-genre course is a scavenger hunt. Each day will ask you to collect a different object, introduce it to an unexpected space, and to more
Tangible Things: Object-based Storytelling
March 28 to April 1, 2016
Tuition: $500
This multi-genre course is a scavenger hunt. Each day will ask you to collect a different object, introduce it to an unexpected space, and to more
Dariel Suarez
Keep the Narrative Going: How to Successfully Provide Context in Fiction
March 28 to April 1, 2016
Tuition: $500
This week-long intensive course will focus on that crucial element for creating socially layered, culturally nuanced, but ultimately accessible stories: context. During the course of more
Keep the Narrative Going: How to Successfully Provide Context in Fiction
March 28 to April 1, 2016
Tuition: $500
This week-long intensive course will focus on that crucial element for creating socially layered, culturally nuanced, but ultimately accessible stories: context. During the course of more
Angelo Nikolopoulos
Remix: A Contemporary Approach to Poetic Form
March 21 to March 25, 2016
Tuition: $500
Does formal writing seem dated and unfashionable? Perhaps a literary makeover is in order. This generative one-week workshop will look at contemporary approaches to writing more
Remix: A Contemporary Approach to Poetic Form
March 21 to March 25, 2016
Tuition: $500
Does formal writing seem dated and unfashionable? Perhaps a literary makeover is in order. This generative one-week workshop will look at contemporary approaches to writing more
Michelle Tea
Memoir That Reads Like Fiction
March 21 to March 25, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this intensive memoir workshop, you will learn techniques to create a memoir with a cinematic feel and the singular voice of an immersive novel. more
Memoir That Reads Like Fiction
March 21 to March 25, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this intensive memoir workshop, you will learn techniques to create a memoir with a cinematic feel and the singular voice of an immersive novel. more
Rebecca Gayle Howell
We All Write Sentences
March 21 to March 25, 2016
Tuition: $500
Poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers alike are all invited to consider the power of the English sentence–specifically, in pushing its boundaries–in this one-week intensive more
We All Write Sentences
March 21 to March 25, 2016
Tuition: $500
Poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers alike are all invited to consider the power of the English sentence–specifically, in pushing its boundaries–in this one-week intensive more
CA Conrad
Every Pebble Shapes the Mountain: (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals
March 14 to March 18, 2016
Tuition: $500
CAConrad wants us to understand how real it is that 95% of poets stop writing when the demands of our lives take over. This is more
Every Pebble Shapes the Mountain: (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals
March 14 to March 18, 2016
Tuition: $500
CAConrad wants us to understand how real it is that 95% of poets stop writing when the demands of our lives take over. This is more
Ada Limón
Staying True: Authenticity & Voice: Spring
March 14 to May 6, 2016
Tuition: $500
Ada Limón is determined to help you focus in on your own personal style and write poems in your own unique voice in a world more
Staying True: Authenticity & Voice: Spring
March 14 to May 6, 2016
Tuition: $500
Ada Limón is determined to help you focus in on your own personal style and write poems in your own unique voice in a world more
Sara Roahen
Food in Memoir: What Sustains Us
March 14 to March 18, 2016
Tuition: $500
Food sustains us—or in some cases, fails to sustain us. Because of food’s omnipresent role in our lives, using food in our writing can help more
Food in Memoir: What Sustains Us
March 14 to March 18, 2016
Tuition: $500
Food sustains us—or in some cases, fails to sustain us. Because of food’s omnipresent role in our lives, using food in our writing can help more
Peter Campion
Next Steps
March 14 to March 18, 2016
Tuition: $500
This five day course has been designed to take your poems to the next level. Our online discussion will provide tools to help you connect more
Next Steps
March 14 to March 18, 2016
Tuition: $500
This five day course has been designed to take your poems to the next level. Our online discussion will provide tools to help you connect more
Jacqueline Jones Lamon
Exploring the Abecedarian Poetic Sequence: More Than Just ABC’s
March 14 to March 18, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this intensive course, students will explore several nuanced approaches to this ancient alphabetical form of poetry. By combining current events and difficult subject matter more
Exploring the Abecedarian Poetic Sequence: More Than Just ABC’s
March 14 to March 18, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this intensive course, students will explore several nuanced approaches to this ancient alphabetical form of poetry. By combining current events and difficult subject matter more
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
On Knowing Nothing and Everything: A Week of Poem, Pigment, & Paint in the LAB: SPRING
March 14 to March 18, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this class we’ll ask rigorous questions like, “What do I mean when I say the sky is blue?” & “What does ‘green’ mean, really?” more
On Knowing Nothing and Everything: A Week of Poem, Pigment, & Paint in the LAB: SPRING
March 14 to March 18, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this class we’ll ask rigorous questions like, “What do I mean when I say the sky is blue?” & “What does ‘green’ mean, really?” more
Devi Lockwood
Tell Me a Story: The Power of Deep Listening
March 7 to March 11, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this multi-genre workshop you’ll learn how to use the material of everyday conversations as the starting place for your writing. We will cover basic more
Tell Me a Story: The Power of Deep Listening
March 7 to March 11, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this multi-genre workshop you’ll learn how to use the material of everyday conversations as the starting place for your writing. We will cover basic more
Nicole Terez Dutton
Threading and Building: Working Toward a Manuscript
March 7 to March 11, 2016
Tuition: $500
Whether you’re beginning with one poem or a small group of poems, this week-long intensive workshop will offer strategies to meaningfully expand your work toward more
Threading and Building: Working Toward a Manuscript
March 7 to March 11, 2016
Tuition: $500
Whether you’re beginning with one poem or a small group of poems, this week-long intensive workshop will offer strategies to meaningfully expand your work toward more
Jacqueline Kolosov
Voice-Driven and Urgent: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
March 7 to April 1, 2016
Tuition: $500
Although YA authors primarily aim their novels at teens, adults continue read these books for their voice-driven narratives and the issues with which they wrestle. more
Voice-Driven and Urgent: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
March 7 to April 1, 2016
Tuition: $500
Although YA authors primarily aim their novels at teens, adults continue read these books for their voice-driven narratives and the issues with which they wrestle. more
Sara Eliza Johnson
Language and the Lucid Dream
March 7 to April 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
Writing a poem—that is, inventing and manipulating our language to compose it—can be likened to lucid dreaming. In this course, you will learn to write more
Language and the Lucid Dream
March 7 to April 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
Writing a poem—that is, inventing and manipulating our language to compose it—can be likened to lucid dreaming. In this course, you will learn to write more
Nancy Pearson
To Be Moved and To Move
March 7 to April 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
How can we write personal poems without sounding sentimental or self-serving? Experimenting with a dynamic mixture of time, images and phrases, this eight-week studio will more
To Be Moved and To Move
March 7 to April 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
How can we write personal poems without sounding sentimental or self-serving? Experimenting with a dynamic mixture of time, images and phrases, this eight-week studio will more
Ann Hood
Writing the Personal Essay: Spring
March 7 to April 1, 2016
Tuition: $500
During Ann Hood’s memoir course you will work toward completing a final, personal essay through a series of short, guided assignments. Using these weekly writing more
Writing the Personal Essay: Spring
March 7 to April 1, 2016
Tuition: $500
During Ann Hood’s memoir course you will work toward completing a final, personal essay through a series of short, guided assignments. Using these weekly writing more
Daisy Fried
Writing Poems That Don't Fit: Spring
March 7 to April 1, 2016
Tuition: $500
In her four-week workshop, Daisy Fried will guide you as you formulate what your poems want to be and how you fit into your work. more
Writing Poems That Don't Fit: Spring
March 7 to April 1, 2016
Tuition: $500
In her four-week workshop, Daisy Fried will guide you as you formulate what your poems want to be and how you fit into your work. more
Corey Van Landingham
Documentary Poetry
February 29 to March 4, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this new poetry workshop, you will consider what liberties writer take when recreating, representing, and exposing experience, especially the experiences of others. Topics of more
Documentary Poetry
February 29 to March 4, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this new poetry workshop, you will consider what liberties writer take when recreating, representing, and exposing experience, especially the experiences of others. Topics of more
Marcus Wicker
Locking Down Your Free Verse: Containers that Fit
February 29 to March 25, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this four-week workshop focused on free verse, you will be guided through a series of exercises designed to facilitate experimentation and surprise in your more
Locking Down Your Free Verse: Containers that Fit
February 29 to March 25, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this four-week workshop focused on free verse, you will be guided through a series of exercises designed to facilitate experimentation and surprise in your more
Michael White
Gazing In Gazing Out
February 22 to February 26, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this new one-week intensive workshop designed for intermediate to advanced poets, you will explore fundamentally new approaches to subject manner while writing new poems more
Gazing In Gazing Out
February 22 to February 26, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this new one-week intensive workshop designed for intermediate to advanced poets, you will explore fundamentally new approaches to subject manner while writing new poems more
Elizabeth Bradfield
Beastly: Animals as Poetic Source and Subject for Poems
February 22 to February 26, 2016
Tuition: $500
Many of us are moved by our time outside, by the non-humans we encounter. But how do we write about those experiences in ways that more
Beastly: Animals as Poetic Source and Subject for Poems
February 22 to February 26, 2016
Tuition: $500
Many of us are moved by our time outside, by the non-humans we encounter. But how do we write about those experiences in ways that more
Sara Eliza Johnson
Mad Science
February 15 to February 19, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this class, you will look to scientific endeavors and discoveries for inspiration, considering the potential yields of the creative relationship between science and poetry. more
Mad Science
February 15 to February 19, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this class, you will look to scientific endeavors and discoveries for inspiration, considering the potential yields of the creative relationship between science and poetry. more
Rebecca Gayle Howell
The No Po-Biz Po-Biz: How to Finish Your Poems for Publication
February 15 to February 19, 2016
Tuition: $500
The submission process is a communication, a conversation between you and your future editors. In this workshop you will explore how to cultivate that conversation more
The No Po-Biz Po-Biz: How to Finish Your Poems for Publication
February 15 to February 19, 2016
Tuition: $500
The submission process is a communication, a conversation between you and your future editors. In this workshop you will explore how to cultivate that conversation more
Anne Sanow
Liftoff: Finishing that Story Draft
February 8 to March 4, 2016
Tuition: $500
This four-week workshop is geared toward helping you make something happen in your story—through helping you grow your draft in ways you hadn’t anticipated. Discussions more
Liftoff: Finishing that Story Draft
February 8 to March 4, 2016
Tuition: $500
This four-week workshop is geared toward helping you make something happen in your story—through helping you grow your draft in ways you hadn’t anticipated. Discussions more
Ocean Vuong
The First Step Backward: Memory as Creative Force
February 1 to February 5, 2016
Tuition: $500
This new intensive course will examine the myriad ways in which memory works on the artistic practice. You will investigate the ways in which the more
The First Step Backward: Memory as Creative Force
February 1 to February 5, 2016
Tuition: $500
This new intensive course will examine the myriad ways in which memory works on the artistic practice. You will investigate the ways in which the more
Ann Hood
Jumpstart Your Memoir
February 1 to February 5, 2016
Tuition: $500
Often, that moment when you first begin to write is the scariest. This one-week intensive workshop will help you get started by asking the right more
Jumpstart Your Memoir
February 1 to February 5, 2016
Tuition: $500
Often, that moment when you first begin to write is the scariest. This one-week intensive workshop will help you get started by asking the right more
Ed Skoog
Have You Tried the Side Door? Finding a Way In to Your Next Poems.
February 1 to March 25, 2016
Tuition: $500
Starting a poem is difficult because of the barriers we often build for ourselves. In this new course, you will learn how to recognize your more
Have You Tried the Side Door? Finding a Way In to Your Next Poems.
February 1 to March 25, 2016
Tuition: $500
Starting a poem is difficult because of the barriers we often build for ourselves. In this new course, you will learn how to recognize your more
Kirsten Andersen
Stealing Time: The Tricky Dance of Being a Writing Parent
February 1 to February 26, 2016
Tuition: $500
Writing about the parent-child experience is rich territory, but it is often difficult to balance parenting time with your writing. In this new workshop, you more
Stealing Time: The Tricky Dance of Being a Writing Parent
February 1 to February 26, 2016
Tuition: $500
Writing about the parent-child experience is rich territory, but it is often difficult to balance parenting time with your writing. In this new workshop, you more
Francesca Lia Block
Not Always Happily : Writing the Contemporary Fairy Tale
February 1 to February 5, 2016
Tuition: $500
Francesca Lia Block’s one-week intensive course will show you how to utilize the various elements of fairy tale writing as inspiration for writing short stories, more
Not Always Happily : Writing the Contemporary Fairy Tale
February 1 to February 5, 2016
Tuition: $500
Francesca Lia Block’s one-week intensive course will show you how to utilize the various elements of fairy tale writing as inspiration for writing short stories, more
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
On Knowing Nothing and Everything: A Week of Poem, Pigment, & Paint in the LAB: WINTER
January 18 to January 22, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this generative one-week workshop, you will use multiple mediums and the art of surprise to make your practice of poetry more expansive, muscular, and more
On Knowing Nothing and Everything: A Week of Poem, Pigment, & Paint in the LAB: WINTER
January 18 to January 22, 2016
Tuition: $500
In this generative one-week workshop, you will use multiple mediums and the art of surprise to make your practice of poetry more expansive, muscular, and more
Rosie Schaap
Essay is a Verb: The Practice of Personal Narrative
January 4 to February 26, 2016
Tuition: $500
Informed and animated by the singular life experience and voice of its author, the personal essay represents an attempt to deeply speak about an idea, more
Essay is a Verb: The Practice of Personal Narrative
January 4 to February 26, 2016
Tuition: $500
Informed and animated by the singular life experience and voice of its author, the personal essay represents an attempt to deeply speak about an idea, more
Suzanne Rivecca
Good Things in Small Packages: The Art of the Short Story
January 4 to February 26, 2016
Tuition: $500
A great short story is all the proof we need that bigger isn’t necessarily better—or more beautiful, or more profound. In this new class, you more
Good Things in Small Packages: The Art of the Short Story
January 4 to February 26, 2016
Tuition: $500
A great short story is all the proof we need that bigger isn’t necessarily better—or more beautiful, or more profound. In this new class, you more
Ada Limón
Staying True: Authenticity & Voice: Winter
January 4 to February 26, 2016
Tuition: $500
Ada Limón is determined to help you focus in on your own personal style and write poems in your own unique voice in a world more
Staying True: Authenticity & Voice: Winter
January 4 to February 26, 2016
Tuition: $500
Ada Limón is determined to help you focus in on your own personal style and write poems in your own unique voice in a world more
Michael Klein
“If It’s True. . . ": A Memoir Workshop: WINTER
January 4 to January 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
Memoir can be as various, wild, and eclectic as the individual putting their life down on paper. In this class, you will be guided through more
“If It’s True. . . ": A Memoir Workshop: WINTER
January 4 to January 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
Memoir can be as various, wild, and eclectic as the individual putting their life down on paper. In this class, you will be guided through more
Alix Ohlin
Crafting Charismatic Characters
January 4 to January 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
Alix Ohlin’s workshop will help you create rich, compelling characters who will grab readers’ attention and involve them deeply in your story. In this four-week more
Crafting Charismatic Characters
January 4 to January 29, 2016
Tuition: $500
Alix Ohlin’s workshop will help you create rich, compelling characters who will grab readers’ attention and involve them deeply in your story. In this four-week more
Carolyn Forché
Writing New Poems: Fall
November 30 to December 4, 2015
Tuition: $500
This one-week intensive class will help experienced poets push their writing in exciting new directions. In this generative, guided workshop, you will work intensively as more
Writing New Poems: Fall
November 30 to December 4, 2015
Tuition: $500
This one-week intensive class will help experienced poets push their writing in exciting new directions. In this generative, guided workshop, you will work intensively as more
Daisy Fried
Writing Poems That Don't Fit: Fall
October 26 to November 20, 2015
Tuition: $500
In her four-week workshop, Daisy Fried will guide you as you formulate what your poems want to be and how you fit into your work. more
Writing Poems That Don't Fit: Fall
October 26 to November 20, 2015
Tuition: $500
In her four-week workshop, Daisy Fried will guide you as you formulate what your poems want to be and how you fit into your work. more
Heidi Jon Schmidt
Telling the Story
October 26 to November 20, 2015
Tuition: $500
Almost all stories begin somewhere in an author’s experience. In this workshop, you will learn to unlock your own experience and reimagine it as a more
Telling the Story
October 26 to November 20, 2015
Tuition: $500
Almost all stories begin somewhere in an author’s experience. In this workshop, you will learn to unlock your own experience and reimagine it as a more
Sarah Messer
Facts, Research, and Memoir
October 26 to November 20, 2015
Tuition: $500
Even in our most vivid memories, details fade. Sarah Messer’s essential course will help you mine memory through research techniques like archival work, interviewing, travel, more
Facts, Research, and Memoir
October 26 to November 20, 2015
Tuition: $500
Even in our most vivid memories, details fade. Sarah Messer’s essential course will help you mine memory through research techniques like archival work, interviewing, travel, more
Rebecca Gayle Howell
Translation as Creative Practice
October 12 to November 6, 2015
Tuition: $500
We write in the age of globalization and in the language most universal for our time. Contemporary international writers are now being brought into English more
Translation as Creative Practice
October 12 to November 6, 2015
Tuition: $500
We write in the age of globalization and in the language most universal for our time. Contemporary international writers are now being brought into English more
Ada Limón
Staying True: Authenticity & Voice: Fall
October 12 to December 4, 2015
Tuition: $500
Ada Limón is determined to help you focus in on your own personal style and write poems in your own unique voice in a world more
Staying True: Authenticity & Voice: Fall
October 12 to December 4, 2015
Tuition: $500
Ada Limón is determined to help you focus in on your own personal style and write poems in your own unique voice in a world more
Charles McLeod
New Forms of Fiction
October 12 to December 4, 2015
Tuition: $500
Charles McLeod’s provocative new class will help you sharpen and enhance your narrative skills through a series of unlikely written assignments. Over the eight-week run more
New Forms of Fiction
October 12 to December 4, 2015
Tuition: $500
Charles McLeod’s provocative new class will help you sharpen and enhance your narrative skills through a series of unlikely written assignments. Over the eight-week run more
Sarah Rose Nordgren
The Sources of Poetry
September 21 to November 13, 2015
Tuition: $500
In Sarah Rose Nordgren’s workshop you’ll explore the inner obsessions and sources that fuel your urge to write. Through guided prompts that will encourage you more
The Sources of Poetry
September 21 to November 13, 2015
Tuition: $500
In Sarah Rose Nordgren’s workshop you’ll explore the inner obsessions and sources that fuel your urge to write. Through guided prompts that will encourage you more
Ann Hood
Writing the Personal Essay: Fall
September 21 to October 16, 2015
Tuition: $500
During Ann Hood’s memoir course you will work toward completing a final, personal essay through a series of short, guided assignments. Using these weekly writing more
Writing the Personal Essay: Fall
September 21 to October 16, 2015
Tuition: $500
During Ann Hood’s memoir course you will work toward completing a final, personal essay through a series of short, guided assignments. Using these weekly writing more
Peter Campion
Form From Feeling and Feeling From Form: Fall
September 14 to October 9, 2015
Tuition: $500
PETER CAMPION’s four-week workshop will help you better understand poetry from the inside out by exploring seven formal elements – action, voice, sentence, phrase, line, more
Form From Feeling and Feeling From Form: Fall
September 14 to October 9, 2015
Tuition: $500
PETER CAMPION’s four-week workshop will help you better understand poetry from the inside out by exploring seven formal elements – action, voice, sentence, phrase, line, more
