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ONSITE: Of and From The Body: Writing Memory and Experience

July 11, 2023

Of and From the Body is a multi-genre writing workshop designed to create a communal space to generate lots of fresh, new writing and ideas for art. You don’t need to have experience to join, just a desire to write together and discuss what comes out of the prompts and exercises in a safe and […]

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ONSITE: The Poet’s Toolbox: Teen Poetry Workshop (Ages 15-18)

April 18, 2023

Students will learn the foundations of poetry, including image, sound, form, and figurative language, and read work by contemporary poets to see how they utilize those literary devices. We will also write our own poetry to be workshopped in class. At the end of class, we will create a small zine of our work to […]

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ONLINE: Submitting Writing to Literary Journals

April 18, 2023

Sending writing to literary journals can be an intimidating process. In this two-hour class, we'll take a step-by-step tour through the world of journal submissions. Learn directly from Samantha Steiner, MFA, who has served as an editor for Lumina Journal and Breadcrumbs Magazine and has had over 40 works of writing published including fiction, nonfiction, […]

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ONLINE: Writing Inspired by Art

April 18, 2023

This class is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novel in which you get to write about the art that interests you most! Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are all welcome. Together, we'll use art, including paintings, sculptures, and videos as an invitation to write. By using AI art generators, we'll also turn our writings into art. This class is […]

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ONLINE: Screenwriting (only offered once a year)

April 18, 2023

Expand your creative horizons by writing and workshopping an original short screenplay or TV pilot. Students will learn industry standard screenplay format, workshop writing exercises as they develop and revise an original short screenplay suitable for submission or production.  Students are expected to spend time writing and reading screenplays outside of class time.  

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ONLINE: Introduction to Prose Storytelling

April 18, 2023

Whether you are interested in getting started telling your story in memoir, fiction, or some twisted combination of the two, this generative workshop will serve as a gentle and fun way to push yourself creatively. Through prompts, mini lectures, readings, supportive discussion, and maybe even prestidigitation, group members will work towards realizing their prose visions.

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ONSITE: Intermediate Poetry Workshop

April 18, 2023

This workshop is for students who have some experience writing poetry and are looking to dig deeper into their writing practice. In this poetry workshop, we'll read published poems (written by contemporary and historical poets), and we'll use this work to inspire our own creative writing work. We'll write poems, and we'll spend time discussing […]

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ONSITE: Confessional Poetry Writing

April 18, 2023

This class will focus on confessional style poetry. We will look at examples for inspiration as well as write in a workshop style class.Poets like Sylvia Plath will be helpful in guiding us to look inward and explore some themes for our writing, including personal growth, grief, beauty, and the spiritual. Be prepared to leave […]

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ONSITE: Introduction to Prose Storytelling

April 18, 2023

Whether you are interested in getting started telling your story in memoir, fiction, or some twisted combination of the two, this generative workshop will serve as a gentle and fun way to push yourself creatively. Through prompts, mini-lectures, readings, supportive discussion, and maybe even prestidigitation, students will work towards realizing their prose visions.

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ONSITE: Short Story Fiction Writing

April 18, 2023

Explore short story fiction writing by studying narrative craft elements like story, plot, character, scene, structure, archetypal patterns and dialogue. We’ll examine professionally published pieces and your own work. By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to begin a story based on a word or an idea. You’ll also understand how to evaluate […]

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ONSITE: Writing the Memoir

April 18, 2023

Thomas Larson writes that “memoir is most successful when it is not the ‘story of a life,’ but a focused part of that life—a dozen summers spent working on a grandfather’s farm, a long relationship with a dying relative, the first year of law school.” You’ll work with writing prompts and timed writing exercises, and […]

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ONSITE: Fairy Tales Revisited

April 18, 2023

Why do folktales and fairy tales have such a remarkable staying power? Author and mythographer Marina Warner suggests that it’s “because the meanings they generate are themselves magical shape-shifters, dancing to the needs of their audience.” In this class, we’ll read and discuss fairy tales, both traditional and revisionist. We will then reimagine them, as […]

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ONSITE: Deep Dive: Writing Images

April 18, 2023

Dive deep into the realm of images to discover new possibilities for your poetry and prose. In this workshop, we'll tap into memory, imagination, description, observation, and discovery, through a number of playful, strange, and thought-provoking writing activities. These exercises will inspire new work and offer fresh ways of looking at your works in progress, […]

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ONSITE: Queer Poetics

April 17, 2023

A poetry workshop for queer-identified writers who want to write poems. We’ll explore writing poems from a queer orientation, read and discuss contemporary queer poets as a site of inspiration, joy, and expression, and write our own poems using queer identity as both a foundation and a means of queering genre. A desire to write […]

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Three Japanese Forms: Then, and Now, and Yet to Come

March 29, 2023

Learn about three traditional Japanese poetic forms: the haiku, the haibun, and the waka, by exploring some examples in translation by Japanese poets from ancient times until today. After learning the tools of their trade and the trademarks of these forms, have a chance to write your own poem in form after one of the […]

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ONLINE: Writing Home

February 07, 2023

What does it mean to write about home? We’ll examine the many kinds of homes that exist, ranging from houses to nations to the body itself. Our conversation will take us from the Grimms’ Fairytale “Hansel and Gretel” to the present day as we write about our changing relationships with home in the time of […]

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ONSITE: Writing is Magic: A Creative Exploration

February 07, 2023

Whether you're currently working on a literary project or trying to get inspiration, this generative workshop will serve as a gentle and fun way to push yourself creatively. Through prompts, mini-lectures, readings, supportive discussion, group members will work towards realizing their prose visions.

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ONSITE: Writing the Shadow

February 07, 2023

Explore the dark self, what Carl Jung called the “shadow” part of our psyche. Sometimes we see it in our dreams, sometimes it appears in dark imaginings. We’ll learn what the shadow can add to our creative writing by experimenting with timed writing, dream journals, guided imagery and Active Imagination.

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ONLINE: Coming of Age in Nonfiction

February 07, 2023

In this introduction to memoir class, we'll study coming-of-age stories as a window into the art of character development. Each week, we'll read an essay or book excerpt and use it as a foundation for writing our own 500-word piece. There will be opportunities to share in class and edit our own work outside of […]

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ONLINE: Submitting Writing to Literary Journals

February 07, 2023

Sending writing to literary journals can be an intimidating process. In this two-hour class, we'll take a step-by-step tour through the world of journal submissions. Learn directly from Samantha Steiner, MFA, who has served as an editor for Lumina Journal and Breadcrumbs Magazine and has had over 40 works of writing published including fiction, nonfiction, […]

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ONSITE: Sewetry: Embroidered Poems (Only be offered once a year!)

February 07, 2023

Learn how to craft a strong image in poetry as you write an original poem and embroider that image to take home and display. We'll explore imagery in poetry and craft your own image driven poem that will be workshopped in class and then choose one image from your own poem to embroider. You will […]

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