10 Sundays, Jan. 22-March 25, 2-4:30 pm
$335 members/$365 others  Berkeley

ATTENTION: THIS CLASS IS NOW FULL

Take both of these 5-week classes (back to back) for the same price as a 9-week class. Be sure to select this “Combo Class” option (via the “Add to Cart” button below). If you don’t select this option (ie. if you sign up separately for  Intro to Fiction  and Starting Your Novel) the discount does not apply.

Nine Weeks,  7-9:30 p.m. (this class is not currently scheduled)
$335 members/$365 others   Berkeley
Testimonials for Nick

“We are surrounded by stories,” says Nick Mamatas. “We tell them and we live them. In very real ways our personalities themselves are just stories we tell other people and ourselves. But how can these stories be made interesting on the page? I ask myself this question every time I sit down to write.”

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Five Sundays, Jan. 22-Feb. 19, 2-4:30 p.m. Berkeley
$185 members/$215 non-members
Testimonials for Junse

ATTENTION: THIS CLASS IS NOW FULL

Special Package Deal: Take this class together with Karen Bjorneby’s 5-week “Starting Your Novel” class, and get both classes (5 weeks plus 5 weeks, back to back) for the discounted price of one 9-week class. This discount applies only if you choose the “Combo Class” option” when you register, not if you sign up for the classes separately.

“We writers too often need others to tell us that our writing is good,” says instructor Junse Kim. “And this is where it all goes horribly wrong.

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Nine Thursdays, Jan. 26-March 22, 7-9:30 p.m.
$335 members/$365 others Berkeley
Testimonials for Alison

ATTENTION: THIS CLASS IS NOW FULL

This class will help you plunge into the personal themes that make your real life stories uniquely yours.  For the first four weeks, instructor Alison Luterman will lead carefully crafted writing exercises designed to elicit the undertones and overtones that give events resonance and elevate anecdotes into the realm of art. The latter weeks will be dedicated to refining and then workshopping the pieces you have begun, bringing them to the next level of craft.

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Five Weeks, 7-9:30 p.m  Berkeley
$185 members/$215 non-members

Have you started working on a nonfiction book or memoir (or already completed one?). Have you written your book proposal yet? If not, you’re going to need one. Typically, a proposal is written before the book, but if you’ve already written the book, you’ll still need one. The proposal is the document you send to literary agents and/or editors. It’s essentially a sales pitch, making a case for why the book needs to be written, why now, and why you’re the best person for the job.

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