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October 2020
$360.00 / $345.00 7 seats left
In this class, we’ll lean in to our guilty pleasures to write poems of sleeping late, binging bad tv, reading popcorn novels, and sneaking the last brownie at midnight. Each week, we'll read poems by writers including Leah Umansky, Danez Smith, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Laura Foley, Marcus Wicker, Kevin Prufer, and Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, interspersed with [...]
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When writing a novel, we must know our primary characters inside and out. We need to understand their desires, motivations, and frustrations, their histories and their futures. This workshop will focus on the development of authentic characters. Participants will examine character as both autonomous and residing within the context of the other novelistic elements, and [...]
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If you have always wanted to write a novel but didn't know where to start, this workshop will help you understand the process of writing a novel so you can get started putting pen to paper. The workshop will focus on everything from generating ideas to developing characters to establishing point of view. Participants will [...]
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Do you have the instinct of a writer but your subject eludes you? Have you written many pieces but not the story you were born to tell? Does your subject feel too big, too vague, or perhaps too difficult to confront? Do you want to write about the past but fictionalize it? Using published examples, [...]
Find out more$115.00 / $100.00 8 seats left
Learn how—and why—poetry has helped writers to heal trauma and prevent post-traumatic stress syndrome. Guided by an internationally published and anthologized author of metrical poems, you will explore the science behind this — including an essay by the late psychoanalyst-playwright-poet Frederick Feirstein — and then put these methods to use in writing new poems. The [...]
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This intensive one-day workshop will offer all poets—whether they have yet to submit their first poem to a literary journal or are ready to present a publisher with a full-length manuscript—hands-on advice on how to achieve their publishing goals. Participants will learn how to place poems in print and online journals, why anthologies are such [...]
Find out moreNovember 2020
$135.00 / $120.00 1 seat left
This workshop is for participants who agree to write for at least 15 minutes a day for 15 days. You may write a poem, flash fiction, brief memoirs. Your writing won’t be judged. You will be encouraged each day by an email with prompts, instructions, and/or quotations or you may work on your own project [...]
Find out more$225.00 / $210.00 11 seats left
Capture your thoughts and memories through poems, visual art, and the space between. First, we will explore the work of visual poets, poetry comics, and the sketchbooks of contemporary artists to expand our boundaries and find inspiration. We will then delve into poetic, visual, and sensory exercises to navigate a variety of journaling prompts. By [...]
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You’ve written your book – now fight for it! In this workshop you’ll focus on book promotion through a collection of twenty marketing tips and ideas. If you think writing a book is exciting, wait until you feel the thrill of professionally promoting it! LIVE VIDEO CONFERENCE: This workshop will be held via our online [...]
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In this workshop we will read and discuss memoirs, stories, essays, letters, and poetry written by and about women in the second half of life. Some of the readings will depict the experiences of older women, others will be reflections by those women on the phases of their lives as girls, young, and mature women. [...]
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Learn to deeply revise and polish your picture book manuscript before submitting to an agent or publisher. A widely published author and an acclaimed illustrator will lead discussions in pacing, page turns, storyboarding, and visually dramatic storytelling. During this hands-on workshop, writers will be editing their own manuscripts and enhancing their skills as picture book [...]
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Have you noticed a splash of magic or a hint of the surreal worming its way into your work? Join us for an introduction to science fiction, fantasy, and other ways of working with fantastical elements in fiction. This class does not center on warp drives or the clan structures of best-selling mythical empires. Instead, [...]
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You may think you don't have the time, energy, or inspiration to write because of your hectic lifestyle. Wrong! Learn what professional writers know about organizing their time, establishing a productive writing routine, and getting their stories written. The class will highlight methods that many writers use to complete their books in months instead of [...]
Find out more$80.00 / $65.00 11 seats left
Have you considered self-publishing but don’t know where to begin? In this two-week course you will learn the basics of self-publishing from start to finish. Week one will focus on the three paths to publishing, the basics of print on demand, and the hybrid publishing alternative. During week two you will learn funding options, book [...]
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This workshop offers a practical 16-point plan that takes you from the mere germ of an idea all the way through the creative process, with an eye on getting a finished book into the hands of potential fans. Participants will discuss how to transform the nub of an idea into a book-length project, populated with [...]
Find out more$115.00 / $100.00 12 seats left
This workshop will deconstruct and demystify the novel-writing process for struggling and/or aspiring writers. We'll go all the way from getting the nub of an idea to getting your book into the hands of expectant fans. Along the way you'll learn how to stay organized, write in the voice of the opposite sex, the art [...]
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Apply fiction-writing skills to your stories while also exploring the double perspective of memoir. Learn to relive an experience and also reflect on its meaning. Participants can expect to practice using character development, conflict, and dialogue as they write and share (voluntarily) stories that show the tension between the protagonist's situation then and their situation [...]
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The childhood friend that you don't talk to anymore. The college friend who betrayed you. The sister who held your hand when you miscarried. The ride-or-die squad that grew apart. Partners in crime. Companions in discovery. These are our friendships and frenemies, sisters and saviors. The women in our lives serve as teachers, each with [...]
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Do you have a memoir, novel, or chapbook trapped inside of you? Set it free with this course about the basic elements of creative writing. Every week, participants will read creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, and apply their reading to exercises designed to generate pieces that effectively utilize character, setting, and plot. Participants will leave [...]
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Revision is a dirty word to some writers. But you needn’t fear the challenges of polishing a manuscript before submission and publication. This fast-paced, half-day class focuses on the ten most common mistakes and concerns, often overlooked by authors before they send their story out into the world. Everything you do to your manuscript after [...]
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Improve your sonnet skills, or write your first one. Guided by an internationally published and anthologized author of sonnets, villanelles, and other metrical poems, you’ll first read classic and contemporary sonnets to see how and why they work. Then -- with or without shortcuts -- you’ll write one or more of your own. Next you'll [...]
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Whether you are an organized planner or a writer who flies by the seat of their pants, a novel still needs structure. In this four-week online workshop, participants will study the architecture of a novel and devise plans for plotting their novels. Required text: Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell and Hooked by Les [...]
Find out more$80.00 / $65.00 14 seats left
You are the voice of your book, and that book is counting on you to be heard! Upping your virtual communication game is no longer an option. In this workshop we’ll focus on virtual meeting platforms, equipment, set-up, specific virtual delivery tips, sustaining interest techniques, tricks of the trade, and more. LIVE VIDEO CONFERENCE: This [...]
Find out moreDecember 2020
$50.00 / $40.00 18 seats left
Whether you want to write a memoir, micro-memoir, blog, college essay, letter to your granddaughter, or use your own life as the basis for fiction, life story writing requires that we tell where we come from and who we are. Learn to identify your story's essence, the truth it reveals, and to engage the reader [...]
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To capture a reader's attention and hold it, an author needs a great first sentence, paragraph...chapter. How do we provide the hook that will draw readers into our stories, no matter the genre? This fun workshop will reveal tried-and-true techniques for launching your novel, short story, or memoir that will make your story's opening irresistible. [...]
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Do you know why listening for the natural rhythms of speech can strengthen your writing? Have you ever wondered how scanning the lines of your first draft can make for a better poem? Here is an opportunity to improve your ear for meter, and fine-tune your understanding of how meter works in poetry. Guided by [...]
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Is a good poem, by definition, a serious one? Many poets today suffer from what has been called “humor anxiety”—the fear that they will damage their reputations if they try to be funny. But the success of poets like Billy Collins and Tony Hoagland provides ample evidence that poems can be both funny and serious. [...]
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Are you struggling with your writing, feeling blocked and listless, or just in a plain old creative slump? In this five-week online course, participants are invited to take the pressure off and reignite their creative spark through expressive journaling, sensory art tutorials, adventure tracking, meditative writing exercises, and weekly creative challenges. By the end of [...]
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Lead with the future — not background. That’s the most important of eight journalism skills that will transform your writing. The others: write your readers’ language, be positive (to be both clear and upbeat), lay out logically, be consistent, be precise, be brief, and choose strong verbs. Highlights: communicate in a crisis, correct errors the [...]
Find out moreJanuary 2021
$5,000.00 / $4,850.00 10 seats left
Get your story ready for the screen! This intensive year-long workshop in screenwriting, now in its second year, provides you with a community of serious screenwriters and a structured setting to complete, revise, and workshop a feature-length screenplay under the direction of an award-winning screenwriter. The class meets every other week for twenty-one sessions from [...]
Find out more$315.00 / $300.00 11 seats left
Designed for those who are eager to grow and polish poems to begin to submit to journals, this workshop focuses on manageably building revision, like writing, into your life as a practice. We’ll start every session with a warm-up, workshop poems together, and discuss tips and strategies for revising and submitting work. By the end [...]
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