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Born in Detroit in 1948, Barbara Henning has lived in New York City since 1983. As a long-time yoga practitioner, she brings this knowledge and discipline to her writing and her teaching at Writers.com and Long Island University in Brooklyn, where she is Professor Emerita. The author of three novels and ten books of poetry, her most recent are: a collection of poetry A Day Like Today (Negative Capability Press 2013); two collections of poetry and prose, A Swift Passage(Quale Press, 2013) and Cities & Memory (Chax Press, 2010); a novel, Thirty Miles from Rosebud (BlazeVox, 2009); a collection of object-sonnets, My Autobiography (United Artists, 2007); and a poetry chapbook, A Slow Curve (Monkey Puzzle, 2012). She is also the author/editor of a book of interviews, Looking Up Harryette Mullen (Belladonna, 2011), and The Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins (Blazevox, 2012).

Barbara's Classes

Flash Fiction: Writing the Short-Short Story

September 5, 2018 | $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.

Poetic Prose: The Prose Poem

October 3, 2018 | $360 | 10 Weeks

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

From Journal To Poem Or Prose: The Chronology Of Mind

November 7, 2018 | $360 | 10 Weeks

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

The Watching Eye: Writing Flash Fiction

December 5, 2018 | $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.

The Thinking Mind: Writing Flash Fiction

$215 | 5 Weeks

Write tiny fictions while experimenting with 1st person point of view and analyzing how that point of view affects the craft of fiction writing. With Barbara Henning

Private Study With Barbara

*Private Class | From Journal to Poem or Prose: The Chronology Of Mind

$460 | 10 to 14 Weeks

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