Ready to write with us? 📝
We’ve got new classes starting in March, April & May!
📝 Jumpstart Your Writing With Instant Feedback
🔮 Magical Realism & Surrealism
💪🏼 Start Writing Your Novel Now
✨ Life Stories: Workshop for Ages 50+
😆 Sharpen Your Funny Bone
✍🏼 Bringing Feeling to the Page
🎨 Looking at Art, Writing from Observation
✈️ Travel Writing
💖 Poetic Hunger
📚 Writing the Hybrid Memoir
Link in bio to register!
Join the distinguished Sarah Lawrence literary heritage at The Writing Institute and become the writer you want to be!
Enroll in a virtual or in-person workshop at The Writing Institute, where everyone—from the novice to seasoned writers, pre-teens to retirees—can find a class where they will explore their talent, engage with a genre, and bring their inner writer to life.
View Upcoming Writing Workshops & Courses Here
The Writing Institute offerings include:
Traditional writing workshops in:
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Memoir
- Poetry
Specialized classes on topics ranging from:
- Plot & Character Development
- Linked Story Collections
- Speculative Fiction
- Creative Writing for Teens
- Submitting to Literary Journals
- and more!
Many writers who have studied at The Writing Institute have gone on to publish novels, memoirs, poetry chapbooks, children’s books, young adult novels, and more.
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✨ What an awesome AWP we had! ✨ We loved seeing our beloved instructors, chatting about classes, spinning the wheel (so much love for the wheel!), and celebrating our awesome community (40 years strong! 💪🏼)
Ready to write with us? We’ve got new classes starting 3/27 online and on campus. Link in bio! ✨
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“I don’t think I could write the way I write now if I didn’t have the life experience I have now.” So great to hear @marciamariebradley + writers @ramoreeves + Caroline Kim + Naomi J. Williams + Darlene Taylor talk about being debut writers over 50. (And we loved the shout outs for The Writing Institute!) 📝📝📝 #awp23 #writing #allwriterswelcome
👋🏼 Hello Seattle!! 👋🏼 We’re so excited to be here for #AWP23! Stop by table 640 to say hello + spin the wheel to win a free class! 📝📝📝
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☀️Announcing our Summer 2023 classes! ☀️ It’s never too early to start thinking about summer 😎
Join us online or on campus for one of our classic workshops or new seminars, ranging from one day workshops to 5 week and 10 week courses.
Link in bio to view what’s new! 🖇️
📝 Ready to write now? Check out our upcoming March & April classes, starting soon!
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We are so excited to host two of our wonderful instructors at AWP! @vanessatakesphotos and @luizagurley will be stopping by on Friday 3/10 to answer questions or chat about their upcoming summer classes! We hope to see you there!
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We are so excited for #awp23, if you find yourself in Seattle in just a couple of weeks, make sure to stop by our table at T640! There may be a prize wheel with merch and special class discounts!!
Friends of the Writing Institute will be speaking at AWP too! While you're around check out their panels! They are sure to be inspiring and transformative! @mlfaliveno @jiminhanwriter @lcheuk22
@marciamariebradley
We hope you come and say hi!
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✨ Are we the luckiest writing community or what??? ✨Huge thanks to the incredible readers at tonight’s community reading, especially featured reader @tylermpoetry ❤️, and shout out to everyone who came to hear these awesome writers read (I see you, beloved instructors!)
Don’t miss our next community reading on April 27th on Zoom. Keep writing and we’ll see you soon! - Courtney
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Ines’s five-week course focuses on craft lessons beneficial to all writers, followed up with prompts, thus creating balanced mix of workshop, craft lessons and lots of encouragement!
Check it out at https://tinyurl.com/3jttwue3
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✨ Tonight! ✨ Join us for our Community Reading on Zoom with featured reader @tylermpoetry!
C’mon out to hear Tyler and writing community members:
Dennis B.
Dawn H.
B. Lynn Carter
Thea G.
Wanda N.
Joan P.
Linda R.
Cassandra T.
& Lynn V.
All are welcome! Link in bio to RSVP. 🙌🏼