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.

This holistic approach to movement, voice, and speech aims at liberating and enhancing the performer's natural capacity for moving, sounding, and speaking as applied to performance on camera.

Gain experiential understanding of improvisational acting and develop a strong improvisational perspective essential to scripted work through theater games and improvising scenes.

Learn the historic Stanislavski acting method combining the physical and emotional spheres to build an authentic character and true inner life, as well as how this method becomes the basis of many other acting techniques.

Primarily for nonactors (as well as beginning actors), use professional acting techniques in a supportive environment. Experience the unfolding of your full potential for self-expression and personal presentation.

Learn to bring order out of your chaotic writing life by mastering tools that help you stay on top of your many drafts and projects.

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. 

Take the first steps to writing your memoir by identifying your story and planning how you want to tell it.

Learn to write poems for specific occasions in this class offering an overview to new and continuing writers.