*Private Class | Private Tutoring

January 1, 1919

$55 | 4 weeks

Private tutoring, arranged one-on-one with instructors.

August

The "I've Always Wanted To Write Fiction" Workshop
With

Shelley Singer

August 14, 2019

$215 | 5 Weeks

Learn the basics of fiction writing and submit weekly writing for feedback from Shelley Singer, author of 13 novels. It’s time to start.

Plot Your Novel
With

Jack Smith

August 21, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

Work out your plot and write an outline for your novel, with plenty of feedback and direction as you do.

Write from the Untamed Mind
With

Susan Vespoli

August 21, 2019

$450 | 6 weeks Live Video Course NEW!

Join Susan in a weekly writing circle: an intimate space for writers to free-write together, saying yes to whatever shows up, followed by group read-arounds. These writing sessions are spontaneous, intimate, freeing, and transformative.

Discover Your Writing Niche
With

Gloria Kempton

August 28, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

Is your genre fiction or nonfiction? Magazine articles or novels? Come find out.

The First Fifty Pages of the Novel
With

Sandra Novack

August 28, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

The first 50 pages sets up plot, characters, and voice. Fail here and the reader is gone. Receive feedback on your book’s start from novelist Sandra Novack.

September

Creative Nonfiction and the Personal Essay
With

Gretchen Clark

September 4, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

Gretchen Clark pick axes her way into the volcanic marriage of real life and fiction. Weekly writing with incisive feedback.

Flash Fiction: Writing the Short-Short Story
With

Barbara Henning

September 4, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

Write 1–3-page flash fiction in this online course with Barbara Henning, drawing on classic, poetic & experimental elements. Read the form’s masters.

Deepening and Organizing Our Stories: Autobiography, Memoir and Autobiographical Fiction
With

Anya Achtenberg

September 5, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

For writers of memoir, creative nonfiction and fiction, with some experience. Particularly helpful to writers in the midst of a longer work.

Manuscript Workshop: Writing For Children
With

Sarah Aronson

September 9, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

Author Sarah Aronson leads this intermediate/advanced workshop on writing for children. It offers support, structure and detailed feedback on manuscripts.

Suspense Sells! Power Up Your Writing With Conflict, Tension and Emotion
With

Julie Nardone

September 11, 2019

$175 | 4 Weeks

Inject suspense into your stories to keep readers turning pages. For writers of all kinds of fiction: thrillers, mysteries, romance, humor, literary and memoir. A four week class with Giulietta Nardone.

Write Your Novel (or Memoir)! The Workshop With Jack
With

Jack Smith

September 11, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

Get a good start on a novel in just ten weeks, or revise a novel you’ve already written. Free your imagination, move steadily ahead and count the pages!

Starting to Write
With

Gloria Kempton

September 25, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

For those who want to kick start their writing into high gear.

Writing Mindfulness: Sensual World/Poetry Mind
With

Marc Olmsted

September 25, 2019

$175 | 4 Weeks NEW!

A four week class, melding the language mind with the sensual: How to turn detailed observation into a poem. With Marc Olmsted.

October

Plotting and Outlining for the Novelist
With

Dennis Foley

October 2, 2019

$260 | 6 Weeks

A course covering both plotting and outlining for the novelist, with Dennis Foley.

Poetic Prose: The Prose Poem
With

Barbara Henning

October 2, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

Explore the border between prose poetry and flash fiction. For writers of fiction, poetry, essay and memoir.

Claiming Our Stories: Autobiography, Memoir & Autobiographical Fiction
With

Anya Achtenberg

October 3, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

Turn your experience into fiction, autobiography or creative memoir. Your past is the key to creating powerful, vital stories. Instructor Anya Achtenberg.

Writing for Happiness, Healing, and Health
With

Susan Vespoli

October 9, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks NEW!

Expressive writing can be a powerful elixir for what ails you. Learn and practice tools for writing expressively, and come away with a better understanding of how writing can lead you toward wellness. With Susan Vespoli.

Next-Level Creative Nonfiction: Elevating Essays, Memoir, Travel Writing & Literary Journalism
With

Wendy Call

October 16, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

Elevate your memoir, travel writing, literary journalism, & lyric and personal essays.

The Anti-Hero’s Journey for Storytellers
With

Gloria Kempton

October 16, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

As a prison volunteer for 20 years, Gloria Kempton has met many anti-heroes. In this course, you’ll receive feedback on your story antagonists.

The Watching Eye: Writing Flash Fiction
With

Barbara Henning

October 16, 2019

$215 | 5 Weeks

Write tiny fictions while experimenting with 3rd person point of view and analyzing how that point of view affects the craft of fiction writing. With Barbara Henning.

Crafting Your Collection: Next Steps In Poetic Craft
With

Jonathan J.G. McClure

October 23, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

Hone your poetic craft by writing 6-7 new poems and combining them with previously-written poems to create a chapbook, or short poetry collection.

How To Start A Blog
With

Jessica Festa

October 23, 2019

$215 | 5 Weeks

Create your blog, brand it, create engaging content and successfully promote posts. Taught by journalist, writer and photographer Jessica Festa.

November

Let It Rip: The Art of Writing Fiery Prose
With

Julie Nardone

November 13, 2019

$260 | 6 Weeks

You’ll write prose that gets folks so hot and bothered they won’t be able to put it down, even if it isn’t about sex.

Accessing Your Writer’s Voice
With

Gloria Kempton

November 20, 2019

$155 | 3 Weeks

Voice: What is it and how do you find yours? Instructor Gloria Kempton offers feedback on assignments in this 3-week online class.

Tales From The Memory Palace: 6 to 500 Word Memoirs
With

Julie Nardone

November 27, 2019

$175 | 4 Weeks

If you want to be an in demand storyteller in the digital age, you need to get in, get out and get going. In this “short” four-week memoir writing adventure, you’ll learn to scope out, swoop down and snatch up important memories from your life then speed write them into miniature masterpieces.

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