Events

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

From branding to search engine optimization and advertising, this course puts bloggers on the path to earning an income through their blog.