Events, Classes, and Seminars

This six-week course is designed to help students finish a draft of a manuscript. We'll read craft essays about drafting a book, set aside time each week to discuss problems we're having with manuscripts, and design a schedule for each student to ensure everyone addresses the issues specific to their draft.

What makes a funny story more than just an elbow jabbing good time? In this class, we’ll read several humorous short stories and figure out what makes them impactful, lasting and literature.
In this six-week, workshop-meets-craft class, we’ll dissect five different short stories and figure out: How did the writer do that? We’ll then apply some of those same literary tools to your own stories. Each writer will have the opportunity to have one short story workshopped in this class, with written and verbal feedback from both instructor and peers.

In this four part class, we will consider the what, why, who, and how of form: what form is, why we might choose to write in an inherited form, alter an inherited form, or write in a made-up form, and how we might go about doing so.

Feeling stuck or scattered in your writing project? This class helps you find direction, reconnect
to your creative purpose, and create a sustainable plan for momentum and flow in your work.

In this short story-specific workshop we will read, discuss, and critique each other’s complete short stories in a supportive environment. We will also read published stories, and practice craft and editing techniques. We will close with an emphasis on radical revision practices so that you may continue polishing your work.

Go beyond recounting events—discover how to write with emotional honesty and depth. This
class helps nonfiction writers translate lived experience into meaningful stories that resonate
with readers.

Are you writing a novel? Do you want company? Writing a novel is an intensive and often lonely experience. This course brings novel writers at all stages of the process together to support each other for 8 weeks.

Does what you write or how you write it change with the seasons? In these quarterly gatherings we’ll meet to be inspired by the turn of the world.

This eight-week seminar offers an in-depth exploration of how to optimize writing habits and routines for productivity and mental health.

In this one-day class, we will learn about the history of the sijo, its relevance to Korean literature, and the unique sensibilities and affordances of the form, while also getting several opportunities to write our own with guided instruction.

Each week we’ll use new prompts and guided activities to inspire new creation. We’ll look at the work of writers we admire and ask: how’d they do that? As they say, writing is a muscle, and no matter what your experience level, you have to continually exercise that muscle and practice new tools to keep your writing nimble and moving.

Participants in this one day class will read, draft, and collaborate in revising letter poems that balance the public with the private, the close-to-bone with the common. Through generative, constraint-based prompts, participants will explore the tension between forms of direct address and forms of poetic allusion to speak to, or point towards, what’s been left unsaid in their poems.

The sijo is Korea’s most prominent and enduring traditional poetic form. Characterized by a clarity and accessibility that belies emotional complexity and tonal nuance, it is a form that prioritizes the unsaid and best grapples with the unsayable. Writing in this discipline exercises several poetic skills that we will focus on and hone throughout this six-week workshop.