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Learn about writing for young adults as you complete an outline and first chapter of a novel.
Learn to harness popular culture to fuel your writing and respond to social and political events.
Focus on a specific project of folio of work in this workshop for poets ready for advanced workshopping and revision.
Learn the basic techniques of poetry writing in this introductory course combining writing exercises and workshopping.
Explore gay men's experiences in a safe, encouraging workshop environment of peers as you craft compelling fiction and nonfiction.
This advanced workshop helps you polish existing essay drafts into powerful pieces suitable for publication.
Turn your memories of travel into powerful explorations of emotional and intellectual journeys.
Get your creative juices flowing with this focused weekend workshop that helps you jump-start work on several new pieces of creative nonfiction writing.
Use real life as a jumping off point for new writing, using activities and techniques that deepen and enrich how the stories are told.
Before an agent ever gets hold of your novel, you must go through numerous revisions to present your best possible effort. As F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, writing is rewriting, and the story of…
This ambitious workshop guides you to achieve the unthinkable: a novel draft in just 10 weeks.
Get ruthless with your own drafts and discover ways to elevate your writing to its greatest potential in this workshop devoted only to revision techniques.
Approach writing from a variety of perspectives to discover new ideas, techniques, and skills in this workshop for writers of all genres.
Learn how to create writing that triggers emotional responses in your reader. Great for beginning and intermediate writers.
Explore the erotic as a genre as you learn to incorporate writing about sex and sexuality artfully into your writing, no matter its subject.
Apply the techniques of evocative writing to place-based works while learning the skills of the professional travel writers
Find stories from your life to turn into written works in this encouraging course that focuses on generating new work instead of revising and critiquing.
Kickstart your imagination with this introductory course on writing beyond the ordinary and in alternate realities.
Dive right into to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) with this workshop designed to help you achieve success with pre- and post-November activities.
Develop a solid premise and sketch out your story's structure with the goal of completing a six-page detailed synopsis that you can use to complete a draft of your novel.
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