FAWC Online Past Offerings
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
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
