In this generative workshop, we’ll discuss participant poems alongside the subjects, voices, forms, and inquiries they’re in conversation with. When you write a poem, who are you talking to? What sources are you engaging with? What chorus can a poem hold? Does anyone really write alone? We’ll begin...

This workshop is designed for fiction writers who are familiar with the workshopping process, who feel comfortable with at least some of the craft elements, and who have work they would like to keep revising. The class will give constructive feedback on new manuscripts, highlighting what is working...

We all take journeys every day, whether traveling around the world or around the block. And as we sojourn, we observe and interact with the places and people around us, and in turn are informed, changed. To translate such encounters onto the page into engaging personal essays not only requires an...

Dear Diary is a class on the diary as literary form and feminist practice. To keep a diary is to insist your stories are worth telling and you are the one to tell them. Participants will be invited to keep a diary for the duration of the class and will be encouraged to bring in diaries they have...

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that starting a novel seems easy enough but finishing a novel is hard as hell.” Jane Austen didn’t say that. But she and other authors have long grappled with the problem of taking initial inspiration through the marathon process of realizing a finished work...

You have a memoir to write—a true story seized from the beautiful chaos of everyday life. The question you face now is how to uncover its shape and give it full-throated voice, the ability to sing. Do you just start at the beginning and write through to the end? What is the beginning, anyway? And...

Mystery is the heart of all narrative, its pulse the fine tension between question and perception, wonder and suspense. For the purposes of this workshop, our prose need not hinge on a crime, a culprit, or a private eye. We will build inquiry into fictional ecosystems and discuss how the mechanics...

In this spiritual writing class, we’ll explore what the people, events, emotions, and experiences in our lives have to teach us, and ponder what we feel, sense, and know—or don’t know—about hope, grace, love, life, and death. Every day we’ll “listen” with our writing to another part of our lives: We...

For many of us, the last few years have been strange, difficult, unpredictable, isolating, and sometimes just plain boring. Your muse has been stuck in the house along with you. At this point, you may not be on speaking terms. You might have a project that’s creaked to a dead stop. This course is a...

Queer—in its original pejorative sense—denoted the peculiar, odd, or strange. This prompt-based course seeks to explore queerness as an orientation, as well as a sinuous avenue that meanders around seeds, roots, and stems, where strange fruits (rambutan, jackfruit, mangosteen) bloom. All writers...