Class Catalog

Instructor: Lindsay Newton. Appropriate for any writer with a complete manuscript or proposal, this course will examine successful letters and in-house acquisitions materials; students will walk away with a ready-to-send query letter.

Instructor: Grace Bialecki. With close readings and generative exercises, this class explores the poems from American Journal: Poems for Our Time.

Instructor: Noah Zanella. In this generative seminar, we will look at the role of the quotidian in poetry and prose from a selection of queer writers and write our own pieces exploring the potential of the everyday.

Instructor: April Dávila. This live, interactive demonstration will cover the basics through advanced features of the writing software, Scrivener.

Instructor: Christie Valentin-Bati. This generative course examines the use of myth and folklore, including African folk hero and voodoo, as a tool of resilience, community, and grief.

Instructor: Ann Hedreen. In this three-part generative seminar series, we'll learn from writers whose questions shaped their work, and we'll try out their techniques with in-class prompts.

Instructor: Michelle Peñaloza. During this generative writing workshop, we'll explore together the craft of collage—the literal collaging of images and forms of poetic craft.

Instructor: Rachel Werner. Overcome your writing rut with meditative journaling, goal mapping exercises, writing prompts and engaging discussions, and more.

Instructor: Ann Hedreen. In this generative seminar, we'll study passages by some of the best scene-setters and try out their techniques with three to four in-class prompts.

Instructor: Kimberly Lee. With a brief collage activity as the basis for imaginative writing, this workshop will explore a wide variety of lost, unusual, and untranslatable words, transforming them into playful inspiration for extraordinary writing.

Instructor: Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet. In this class, we'll use discussion, close reading, and writing exercises to explore the many possibilities (and a few pitfalls) of the second person.

Instructors: Yasmine Ameli & Saba Keramati. In this interactive, generative poetry workshop all about tea, we will consider poems at the intersections of ritual and sensory experience and engage in writing prompts to explore image, memory, culture, and narrative.

Instructor: Holly Day. Learn how to compile a bibliography from sources including online and physical collections of newspaper archives, library special collections, photo banks, and more, with info on tracing source material and tips for staying organized.

Instructor: Peter Mountford. Through a combination of readings, writing prompts, and feedback from both classmates and the instructor, this course will introduce key elements of fiction: character, plot, voice, setting, and point of view.

Instructor: Katherine E. Standefer. For heart disease survivors, caregivers, and practitioners, students will learn tools and techniques to navigate the particularities of writing heart-health stories, with peer feedback and in-class workshop.

Instructor: Mayur Chauhan. This generative class includes writing exercises, telling jokes in a highly supportive environment, adapting jokes into short humor pieces for humor publications, and more.

Instructor: Jennifer Haupt. In this generative class, students will workshop the first ten pages of their memoir to learn more about their story's structure and content.

Instructor: Amy Bowers. This generative class will include discussion and examination of homes in literature.

Instructor: Kevin O'Rourke. Students interested in criticism—literary, music, cultural—will explore the art of critical writing by studying the work of others and producing their own work.

Instructor: Becca Yenser. This class includes discussion and close examination of the techniques and structure employed in Lucia Berlin's writings, specifically her combination of fiction and autobiography.

Instructor: Jennifer (JP) Perrine. With in class writing and discussion, this class will demonstrate how drawing on constraints such as lipograms, acrostics, erasures, and collage, can create movement and a bounty of possibilities.

Instructor: Corinne Manning. This workshop will utilize the Critical Response Process to workshop each individual student's story; students will conference with instructor to determine the craft element focus for class discussions.

Instructors: Elizabeth Beechwood & Katherine Quevedo. Nonhuman characters bring depth to your story not achievable with human characters. This lively workshop explores not only animals but also landscapes, mythical creatures, and inanimate objects, such as toys and appliances.