Private Classes

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!

Writing Circle Workshop: Finding Community and Creativity in a Challenging Time
With

Susan Vespoli

April 15, 2020

$260 | 6 Weeks NEW!

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

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

Shelley Singer

April 22, 2020

$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.

Writing Mindfulness: Sensual World/Poetry Mind
With

Marc Olmsted

April 22, 2020

$175 | 4 Weeks

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

How To Start A Blog
With

Jessica Festa

April 29, 2020

$215 | 5 Weeks

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

Let’s Get Personal: The Art and Craft of the Personal Essay
With

Margo Perin

April 29, 2020

$350 | 8 Weeks

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

Writing the First Novel
With

Dennis Foley

April 29, 2020

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

May

Experiments in Genre: Finding Creative Inspiration by Messing Up the Rules
With

Jonathan J.G. McClure

May 6, 2020

$260 | 6 Weeks NEW!

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.

From Journal To Poem Or Prose: The Chronology Of Mind
With

Barbara Henning

May 6, 2020

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Humor Is The New Black!
With

Giulietta Nardone

May 6, 2020

$175 | 4 Weeks

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.

From Writing Circle to Finished Poem: Turn Raw Writing into Poetry
With

Susan Vespoli

May 13, 2020

$260 | 6 Weeks NEW!

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

The Ongoing Fiction Workshop
With

Shelley Singer

May 13, 2020

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Writing the Short Story
With

Tantra Bensko

May 13, 2020

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Writing Autobiographical Fiction
With

Jack Smith

May 20, 2020

$315 | 8 Weeks NEW!

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

Creating the Visual Journal
With

Lissa Jensen

May 27, 2020

$315 | 8 Weeks

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

July

Mastering the Elements of Fiction
With

Jack Smith

July 1, 2020

$360 | 10 Weeks

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.

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