young adult poetry novel

We recently interviewed instructor Kelly Bingham on a literary form that is quickly growing in popularity: the young adult poetry novel. In this discussion, Kelly outlines the strengths and challenges of the young adult poetry novel form, describes her journey through her own poetry novels, and offers advice for anyone interested in poetry novel writing. Interview: […]

July

The Art of Storytelling
With

Gloria Kempton

July 17, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

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

The Micro-obstacles/Flow Technique
With

Tantra Bensko

July 17, 2019

$155 | 3 Weeks

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

Writing the First Novel
With

Dennis Foley

July 17, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Writing the Short Story
With

Tantra Bensko

July 17, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Beyond Formula: Writing Love Scenes With Spirit, Passion, Grit And Character Truth
With

Anya Achtenberg

July 18, 2019

$215 | 5 Weeks

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

Block Buster: Turbocharge Your Creativity with Breakneck Writing
With

Gretchen Clark

July 24, 2019

$175 | 4 Weeks NEW!

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

The Ongoing Fiction Workshop
With

Shelley Singer

July 24, 2019

$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 Mindfulness: Sensual World/Poetry Mind
With

Marc Olmsted

July 31, 2019

$175 | 4 Weeks NEW!

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

August

Food Writing: Meals And Manuscripts
With

Jennifer Billock

August 7, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

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

Mastering the Scene: For Fiction Writers
With

Dennis Foley

August 7, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

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

Shelley Singer

August 14, 2019

$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.

The Hero's Journey For Storytellers
With

Gloria Kempton

August 14, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Plot Your Novel
With

Jack Smith

August 21, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

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

Write from the Untamed Mind
With

Susan Vespoli

August 21, 2019

$450 | 6 weeks Live Video Course NEW!

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.

Discover Your Writing Niche
With

Gloria Kempton

August 28, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

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

The First Fifty Pages of the Novel
With

Sandra Novack

August 28, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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.

September

Creative Nonfiction and the Personal Essay
With

Gretchen Clark

September 4, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Flash Fiction: Writing the Short-Short Story
With

Barbara Henning

September 4, 2019

$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.

Deepening and Organizing Our Stories: Autobiography, Memoir and Autobiographical Fiction
With

Anya Achtenberg

September 5, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Manuscript Workshop: Writing For Children
With

Sarah Aronson

September 9, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Write Your Novel (or Memoir)! The Workshop With Jack
With

Jack Smith

September 11, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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!

Starting to Write
With

Gloria Kempton

September 25, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

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

October

Plotting and Outlining for the Novelist
With

Dennis Foley

October 2, 2019

$260 | 6 Weeks

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

Poetic Prose: The Prose Poem
With

Barbara Henning

October 2, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Claiming Our Stories: Autobiography, Memoir & Autobiographical Fiction
With

Anya Achtenberg

October 3, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Next-Level Creative Nonfiction: Elevating Essays, Memoir, Travel Writing & Literary Journalism
With

Wendy Call

October 16, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

The Anti-Hero’s Journey for Storytellers
With

Gloria Kempton

October 16, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

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 Watching Eye: Writing Flash Fiction
With

Barbara Henning

October 16, 2019

$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.

Crafting Your Collection: Next Steps In Poetic Craft
With

Jonathan J.G. McClure

October 23, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

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.

July

The Art of Storytelling
With

Gloria Kempton

July 17, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

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

The Micro-obstacles/Flow Technique
With

Tantra Bensko

July 17, 2019

$155 | 3 Weeks

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

Writing the First Novel
With

Dennis Foley

July 17, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Writing the Short Story
With

Tantra Bensko

July 17, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Beyond Formula: Writing Love Scenes With Spirit, Passion, Grit And Character Truth
With

Anya Achtenberg

July 18, 2019

$215 | 5 Weeks

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

Block Buster: Turbocharge Your Creativity with Breakneck Writing
With

Gretchen Clark

July 24, 2019

$175 | 4 Weeks NEW!

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

The Ongoing Fiction Workshop
With

Shelley Singer

July 24, 2019

$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 Mindfulness: Sensual World/Poetry Mind
With

Marc Olmsted

July 31, 2019

$175 | 4 Weeks NEW!

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

August

Food Writing: Meals And Manuscripts
With

Jennifer Billock

August 7, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

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

Mastering the Scene: For Fiction Writers
With

Dennis Foley

August 7, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

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

Shelley Singer

August 14, 2019

$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.

The Hero's Journey For Storytellers
With

Gloria Kempton

August 14, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Plot Your Novel
With

Jack Smith

August 21, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

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

Write from the Untamed Mind
With

Susan Vespoli

August 21, 2019

$450 | 6 weeks Live Video Course NEW!

Discover Your Writing Niche
With

Gloria Kempton

August 28, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

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

The First Fifty Pages of the Novel
With

Sandra Novack

August 28, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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.

September

Creative Nonfiction and the Personal Essay
With

Gretchen Clark

September 4, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Flash Fiction: Writing the Short-Short Story
With

Barbara Henning

September 4, 2019

$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.

Deepening and Organizing Our Stories: Autobiography, Memoir and Autobiographical Fiction
With

Anya Achtenberg

September 5, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Manuscript Workshop: Writing For Children
With

Sarah Aronson

September 9, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Write Your Novel (or Memoir)! The Workshop With Jack
With

Jack Smith

September 11, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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!

Starting to Write
With

Gloria Kempton

September 25, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

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

October

Plotting and Outlining for the Novelist
With

Dennis Foley

October 2, 2019

$260 | 6 Weeks

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

Poetic Prose: The Prose Poem
With

Barbara Henning

October 2, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Claiming Our Stories: Autobiography, Memoir & Autobiographical Fiction
With

Anya Achtenberg

October 3, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Next-Level Creative Nonfiction: Elevating Essays, Memoir, Travel Writing & Literary Journalism
With

Wendy Call

October 16, 2019

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

The Anti-Hero’s Journey for Storytellers
With

Gloria Kempton

October 16, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

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 Watching Eye: Writing Flash Fiction
With

Barbara Henning

October 16, 2019

$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.

Crafting Your Collection: Next Steps In Poetic Craft
With

Jonathan J.G. McClure

October 23, 2019

$315 | 8 Weeks

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.

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Writing the Young Adult Poetry Novel: Interview with Kelly Bingham

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