East Side

Each week, we’ll examine creative nonfiction forms and draft our own pieces.

Knock out a new poem or two, draft a chapter of a novel or memoir, or revise that essay or story you have been working on.

We'll look at some of the quantifiable qualities of beautiful prose and work on some exercises to generate elegant touches to dialog or description.

In this intensive course, we will deepen our understanding of the voice, the shape, and the themes that our work seeks to articulate.

In this 4-hour session, we’ll walk you through the steps of the self-publishing process, from designing a professional book to promoting and funding it

This craft talk will help us look at some of our favorite secondary characters in speculative fiction and what makes them work so well.

In this class we'll explore how to turn research into compelling nonfiction (for essays or a book project).

Participants will learn ways to use writing and creativity to find their way back to themselves and to persevere through challenging times.

Through conscious surrender and creation, we tap into what is longing for our attention to be rebirthed and restored.

In this workshop, we’ll look closely at mentor poems to study the specifics of their structure and then use them as a mad-libs-style frame for our own work.

Come steep in the world of the erotic! In this three-part series, we will read and write poetry that centers on pleasure.