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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.
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.
Learn to find inspiration from a variety of sources in this course for writers who need to jumpstart their creativity.
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.
Find out how to become a professional nonfiction writer in this career-focused course for beginning writers.
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.
Ever feel like your writing life is filled with half-started stories, a tangle of notes, and ideas that vanish as quickly as they appear? Step into a world where chaos meets its match. This…
Develop a small body of work by exploring different ways to creatively tell stories informed by your ancestral history, both known and unknown.
Perfect for poets not quite ready for advanced workshops, this course sustains and builds on your writing practice with readings, discussions, and prompts to keep you writing and discovering your potential.
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