5 Wednesdays

You’ve spent hours alone wrestling with your fiction and now you’re craving some constructive, insightful feedback from a supportive group of fellow writers. It’s time to dip your toe into the workshop

"In this 5-week class, we'll immerse ourselves in the lyric essay," says instructor Rob Williams. "We’ll learn essential tools to gain confidence with this form, such as how to construct images [...]

Enjoy two and a half hours of creation and feedback each week with The Short Story Laboratory, a beginner class that teaches the basics of composing short stories and flash fiction in a fun and [...]

To write our best, we must write from the heart. But finding which subjects mean the most to us can be difficult. Each week Jay Ridler will lead you through a series of fun, engaging, and [...]

Have you thought about enrolling in a Creative Writing MFA program, but feel overwhelmed by the application process? Do you wonder how to make your application rise to the top in a stack of [...]

The lyric essay has become a highly popular genre, appearing in a breadth of markets from journalism to the personal essay. But what is it precisely? Poetic essay, essayistic poem, both, or neither

“Big Secret Number One to writing fiction is that you have to make a mess. Many messes,” says instructor Steve Mitchel. “You have to throw truckloads of words down onto the page knowing full well [...]

"In this 5-week class, we'll immerse ourselves in the lyric essay," says instructor Rob Williams. "We’ll learn essential tools to gain confidence with this form, such as how to construct images [...]

“It is no surprise that many fiction writers turn to their own family history for inspiration when it comes to creating characters and stories,” says instructor Austin Smith

When we picture writers at work, we often imagine them at their desk, in a kind of sacred solitude, drawing from imagination or memory to create their stories. But what happens when writers leave [...]