Experiments in Genre: Finding Creative Inspiration by Messing Up the Rules – Becky Mitchell

June 29, 2020 by

I thought the teacher was talented–what a great writer!–polite, well meaning, intelligent and diligent. The lectures were extremely well written and put together, and the exercises varied and interesting. I can’t find any fault at all!

September

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

Susan Vespoli

September 23, 2020

$260 | 6 Weeks

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

Write Your Novel! The Workshop With Jack
With

Jack Smith

September 23, 2020

$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!

Writing Mindfulness: Sensual World/Poetry Mind
With

Marc Olmsted

September 23, 2020

$250 | 4 Weeks

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

Creative Nonfiction and the Personal Essay
With

Gretchen Clark

September 30, 2020

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Mastering the Elements of Fiction
With

Jack Smith

September 30, 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.

Writing the Short Story
With

Tantra Bensko

September 30, 2020

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Essentials of Character Development: How to Create Characters that Move and Breathe and Can't Stop Talking
With

Gloria Kempton

September 30, 2020

$315 | 8 Weeks

Bring your characters to life in this in-depth character development class with Gloria Kempton.

October

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

Jonathan J.G. McClure

October 7, 2020

$260 | 6 Weeks

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.

Writing Autobiographical Fiction
With

Jack Smith

October 7, 2020

$315 | 8 Weeks

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

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

Susan Vespoli

October 7, 2020

$260 | 6 Weeks

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

Plot Your Novel
With

Jack Smith

October 14, 2020

$315 | 8 Weeks

Over eight weeks, you’ll develop a solid basis in the fictional elements—protagonist, setting, secondary characters, point of view, plot, and theme—while you develop the outline of your novel. You’ll receive feedback at all stages from your fellow writers and your instructor.

The Ongoing Fiction Workshop
With

Shelley Singer

October 14, 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.

The Soundtrack of Your Life: Writing About Music, Memories and Mix Tapes
With

Giulietta Nardone

October 14, 2020

$215 | 5 Weeks

In a song inspired class, write several essays about the music that has moved you through life: the emotions, the relationships, the events, the outcomes.

Introduction to Writing Genre Fiction
With

Tantra Bensko

October 21, 2020

10 Weeks | $415 NEW!

Take the whirlwind tour! Learn the conventions of eight major fiction genres, try them out, and figure out your niche.

The First Fifty Pages of the Novel
With

Sandra Novack

October 21, 2020

$415 | 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.

Claiming Our Stories: Autobiography, Memoir & Autobiographical Fiction
With

Anya Achtenberg

October 22, 2020

$430 | 10 weeks

Turn your experience into fiction, autobiography, or creative memoir. Bring forward stories with a powerful truth at their core. Instructor Anya Achtenberg.

Tales From The Memory Palace: 6 to 250 Word Memoirs
With

Giulietta Nardone

October 28, 2020

$175 | 4 Weeks

If you want to be an in demand storyteller in the digital age, you need to get in, get out and get going. In this “short” four-week memoir writing adventure, you’ll learn to scope out, swoop down and snatch up important memories from your life then speed write them into miniature masterpieces.

November

The Craft of Poetry
With

Jonathan J.G. McClure

November 4, 2020

$315 | 8 Weeks

Poetry is alive and well. Contemporary poets can be touching, terrifying, and laugh-out-loud funny. Join us for an exploration of writing and reading poems.

The Wandering Heart: Tales of Connection
With

Giulietta Nardone

November 4, 2020

$175 | 4 Weeks

Wander through the rooms of your own life to discover stories of deep connection, reconnection or loss of connection and fashion your findings into stories suitable for blog posts, essays, short memoirs, short plays, scenes in screenplays, or chapters of novels.

The Thinking Mind: Writing Flash Fiction
With

Barbara Henning

November 4, 2020

$285 | 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.

Embodied Writing: Improve Your Writing with Full-Body Creativity
With

Tantra Bensko

November 11, 2020

$260 | 6 Weeks NEW!

Have a grand time with specific physical exercises that honor your health, generate imaginative ideas, explore deeply and make your creative writing entertaining.

In Your Own Words: Transforming Life Into Memoir and Fiction
With

Margo Perin

November 11, 2020

$350 | 8 Weeks

Learn how to draw inspiration and material from your life experiences or those of people you know, or want to know, to craft compelling, publishable memoirs, personal essays, autobiographical novels and short stories, and/or narrative poetry.

Poetic Prose: The Prose Poem
With

Barbara Henning

November 11, 2020

$360 | 10 Weeks

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

Accessing Your Writer’s Voice
With

Gloria Kempton

November 18, 2020

$155 | 3 Weeks

Voice: What is it and how do you find yours? Instructor Gloria Kempton offers feedback on assignments in this 3-week online class.

December

Simple Winter Sanity-Saving Writing Circles
With

Susan Vespoli

December 2, 2020

$175 | 4 Weeks

Have fun and let air out of your high-pressure holiday days by writing whatever bubbles up. Write, vent, laugh, and sail through December with four weeks of Zoom writing circles.

January

Flash Fiction: Writing the Short-Short Story
With

Barbara Henning

January 6, 2021

$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.

Writing with Tarot
With

Sandra Novack

January 13, 2021

$315 | 8 Weeks

Jump-start your creative juices, and explore a world of divination, symbolism, and imagery right at your fingertips: learn short story and novel writing through Tarot.

The Next Fifty Pages of the Novel
With

Sandra Novack

January 20, 2021

$415 | 10 Weeks

So now that you have your opening novel pages, what next? Get detailed, constructive feedback on your work-in-progress, wherever you’re at in writing it.

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