Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Shaping Our Personal Stories

In Creative Nonfiction Workshop, students will share drafts of their own personal stories and workshop them through an inquiry-based approach that emphasizes exploration and discovery... more

Instructor: Shelby Hinte

July 17 - August 21
6 Thursdays, (Pacific Time)

6:30pm - 9:00pm

San Francisco, CA

Creative Nonfiction 101: Shape Stories from Your Own Life

In this class, through weekly, prompt-driven writing exercises, we’ll sift through our memories, everyday experiences, and preoccupations with a sense of adventure and curiosity. To make our stories vivid and captivating, we’ll learn about essential craft elements and practice applying them to our own lives... more

Instructor: Ann Guy

July 17 - August 21
6 Thursdays, (Pacific Time)

6:30pm - 9:00pm

San Francisco, CA

Writing from the Heart: Uncover Your Most Powerful Themes

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 effective exercises to help you discover and explore the deep and most compelling themes in your life... more

Instructor: Jay Ridler

July 17 - August 21
6 Thursdays, (Pacific Time)

6:30pm - 9:00pm

San Francisco, CA

Earning Dramatic Emotion

In this 5-week process class we will dissect the intricate concepts of how emotions are developed in fiction and creative nonfiction, and master how to recognize and apply narrative craft that develop dramatic emotions in ways that can move our readers... more

Instructor: Junse Kim

July 17 - August 21
6 Thursdays, (Pacific Time)

6:30pm - 9:00pm

San Francisco, CA

Write from Real Life: Personal Essays and Memoirs

In this remote class you will plunge into the personal themes that make your real life stories uniquely yours. In the first half of this class, instructor Alison Luterman will give you writing exercises carefully designed to elicit the undertones and overtones that elevate events and anecdotes into the realm of art... more

Instructor: Alison Luterman

July 17 - August 21
6 Thursdays, (Pacific Time)

6:30pm - 9:00pm

San Francisco, CA

Creative Nonfiction Mentorship with Ann Guy

In this remote mentorship, instructor Ann Guy will offer personalized guidance and feedback on your creative nonfiction work, including memoir, personal essay, lyric essay, travel writing, and experimental forms... more

Instructor: Ann Guy

July 17 - August 21
6 Thursdays, (Pacific Time)

6:30pm - 9:00pm

San Francisco, CA

Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Shaping Our Personal Stories

In Creative Nonfiction Workshop, students will share drafts of their own personal stories and workshop them through an inquiry-based approach that emphasizes exploration and discovery... more

Instructor: Shelby Hinte

July 17 - August 21
6 Thursdays, (Pacific Time)

6:30pm - 9:00pm

San Francisco, CA

Write from Real Life: Personal Essays and Memoirs

In this remote class you will plunge into the personal themes that make your real life stories uniquely yours. In the first half of this class, instructor Alison Luterman will give you writing exercises carefully designed to elicit the undertones and overtones that elevate events and anecdotes into the realm of art... more

Instructor: Alison Luterman

July 17 - August 21
6 Thursdays, (Pacific Time)

6:30pm - 9:00pm

San Francisco, CA

Creative Nonfiction 101: Shape Stories from Your Own Life

In this class, through weekly, prompt-driven writing exercises, we’ll sift through our memories, everyday experiences, and preoccupations with a sense of adventure and curiosity. To make our stories vivid and captivating, we’ll learn about essential craft elements and practice applying them to our own lives... more

Instructor: Ann Guy

July 17 - August 21
6 Thursdays, (Pacific Time)

6:30pm - 9:00pm

San Francisco, CA

Earning Dramatic Emotion

In this 5-week process class we will dissect the intricate concepts of how emotions are developed in fiction and creative nonfiction, and master how to recognize and apply narrative craft that develop dramatic emotions in ways that can move our readers... more

Instructor: Junse Kim

July 17 - August 21
6 Thursdays, (Pacific Time)

6:30pm - 9:00pm

San Francisco, CA