Events

It’s an age-old art form—storytelling—and you can learn the craft.

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

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

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

Write about love beyond trite sentiment and shallow fictions. Work down to the real thing: deep, powerful, destructive, exalted, fundamental.

Banish writer’s block, unearth fresh ideas, and sharpen your storytelling ability with the practice of fast, timed writing.

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

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

Do you collect cookbooks, love to cook, or religiously read anything about food? This course is for you. With award winning writer Jennifer Billock.

A course for intensive practice and feedback in scene writing skills.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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