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Structure your story and give it meaning with Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey.

Take a four-week writing adventure deep into the core of your story, to find the true theme of your personal essay, short story, or short memoir.

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!

Write out the storm: Join supportive, friendly faces in twice-weekly virtual community writing circles.

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

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

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

Draw inspiration and material from your life experiences or “real life” people you know to craft compelling, publishable personal essays.

A novel writing preparatory course for the first-time novelist.

Can you translate the movement of a dance into a poem? What happens when you write a story in the form of a multiple-choice quiz? Learn to take your work in rich and unexpected new directions by subverting and blending genre conventions.

Gather material through writing and experimenting with journaling, researching and taking notes to develop into poems or prose works.

Ready to add a splash of fun to your writing life? Join us for a four-week humor writing class. We’ll read. We’ll laugh. We’ll write. We’ll experiment.

Gather together in a virtual writing circle, hit the mute button on your internal editor, and uncover inspiration to shape into poetry.

Many students have attended this 10-week online fiction workshop with Shelley Singer multiple times, completed novels, and come back to finish more books.

Create new work with fresh language, universal themes, sustained mystery and memorable characters. Stimulate your imagination.

Learn to depart from “what really happened,” and write compelling fiction from your own life experiences.

Go beyond narrow definitions of “journaling” to include visual images and let writing give what is seen a new voice. Surprise yourself.

In this course, you’ll work with the basic elements of fiction–the fundamentals that drive the story and determine the quality of the work.