Writing Workshops & Courses

Mon, Sep 15 2025 — Mon, Dec 1 2025

Ines Rodrigues

On Zoom

Start your novel with an instructor who understands what it’s like to write a novel for the first time. Ines Rodrigues’s ten-week course is a well-balanced mix of workshop, craft lessons and lots of encouragement.

Tue, Sep 16 2025 — Tue, Nov 25 2025

Terri Linton

On Zoom

In this ten-week nonfiction class with Terri Linton, students will examine works by writers that center motherhood as they explore the realities, revelations, and reckonings of our their own motherhood journeys.

Thu, Sep 18 2025 — Thu, Oct 23 2025

Amelia Possanza

On Zoom

Dive into memoir writing in this supportive workshop for beginner and intermediate writers alike.

Wed, Sep 17 2025 — Wed, Dec 10 2025

Marcia Bradley

On Zoom

A 12-week fiction workshop for more experienced writers in the process of completing and/or revising a manuscript or first draft of a full book of fiction, linked short stories, nonfiction, or memoir.

Thu, Sep 18 2025 — Thu, Oct 16 2025

Ava Robinson & Caroline Shifke

On Zoom

A four-week class to jumpstart your writing practice and build long-lasting tools to keep you going.

Thu, Sep 18 2025 — Thu, Oct 23 2025

Kathy Curto

On Campus

In this generative, five-week class for writers of all levels, we will use one-word prompts to take us onto our own blank pages, into something new.

Thu, Sep 18 2025 — Thu, Dec 4 2025

Barbara Josselsohn

On Zoom

Many writers start out with a great idea, and often they know how they want the story to eventually wrap up. But it's the middle of the novel where things get tricky.

Sat, Sep 27 2025 — Sat, Oct 4 2025

Tsahai Makeda

On Zoom

In this generative course, we will explore how to take a turbulent and traumatic moment or experience from our life and turn it into triumph… on the page.

Wed, Oct 8 2025 — Wed, Dec 17 2025

Cindy Beer-Fouhy

On Zoom

If you have been thinking about beginning to write your life stories or if you have already begun writing memories of your life experiences and would like to continue exploring more ideas, this is the class for you!

Wed, Oct 8 2025 — Wed, Nov 5 2025

Suzanne Wise

On Zoom

In this generative writing workshop, we’ll explore the expansive possibilities of the lyric essay. This class will appeal to poetry-curious essayists, essay-curious poets, nonfiction writers looking to add to their repertoire.

Tue, Oct 14 2025 — Tue, Nov 11 2025

Janet Pfeffer

On Campus

Have you ever thought someday I'll write a book? Do you have a story about your life waiting to unfold on the page? In this five-week in-person memoir workshop, you will discover what it takes to begin.

Mon, Oct 20 2025 — Mon, Nov 17 2025

Tyler Mills

On Zoom

In this generative poetry workshop, you'll write new poems inspired by the connection between memory and metaphor and receive supportive feedback.

Mon, Oct 20 2025 — Mon, Nov 17 2025

Joanne Furio

On Zoom

In this class, we’ll first read personal essays and excerpts from memoirs and discuss craft issues the work raises and then attempt to mimic a writer’s particular style through in-class freewrites, and short, voluntary assignments to do at home.

Mon, Oct 20 2025 — Mon, Nov 10 2025

Myla Goldberg

On Zoom

Jumpstart your creativity in this 4-week online writing course. Creative Bootcamp offers dynamic prompts, craft insights, and fresh inspiration—perfect for new, stuck, or seasoned writers ready to explore new story ideas.

Mon, Oct 20 2025 — Mon, Nov 17 2025

Arriel Vinson

On Zoom

Discover the art of narrative poetry in this 5-week craft and generative class.

Tue, Oct 21 2025 — Tue, Nov 25 2025

Margo Steines

On Zoom

In your hybrid memoir, you might engage with science writing, literature, pop culture, history, digital media—really any cultural product or phenomenon that you want to explore in the same frame as your personal narrative.

Wed, Oct 22 2025 — Wed, Nov 19 2025

Suzanne Chazin

On Campus

This five-week course is designed to take you from the blank page to a solid foundation for a personal essay, short story, or opening chapter of a novel.

Wed, Oct 22 2025 — Wed, Nov 19 2025

Courtney Gillette

On Campus

Everyone has a story to tell, but where do you begin? In this generative workshop we’ll look at creative nonfiction from several angles: voice, point of view, tension, shape and more.

Thu, Oct 23 2025 — Thu, Nov 20 2025

Janine Annett

On Campus

Whether you want to write a laugh-out-loud satire or inject moments of levity into a serious topic, adding humor to your writing can help you express yourself and leave a lasting impression.

Thu, Oct 23 2025 — Thu, Nov 20 2025

Serrana Gay

On Zoom

Join our generative craft class to explore truth-telling through the lens of surrealism and magical realism in fiction.

Sat, Nov 1 2025

Elaine Sexton

On Campus

In this workshop, we’ll try out several writing exercises to tap our lived experiences, ideas, and observations, to find words that are both common and unique to each of us.