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We'll look at ways to use science fiction to speak truth to power.

This two-hour lecture will provide the foundational concepts that we’ll work with in the four-week Developing a Writing Habit Class.

This class will explore the components of fiction (e.g., voice, dialogue, plot) in a variety of short stories.

Have you started developing a writing habit and are now ready to take your writing to the next level? Then it is time to incorporate feedback and revision.

Join us for this reader series class where we will take a deep dive into the craft of one short story each month.

This class will help you develop writing habits that will boost your confidence, help you find your “voice,” and keep your writing process in motion.

In this 6-week class, we will generate new material as well as learn about the fundamentals of creative nonfiction.

This class is designed to advance your knowledge, make significant progress on your manuscript and gain momentum toward its completion.

Get serious about your short story writing in this six-month intensive

Get serious about your novel in this six-month intensive

Join Marion and Barbara to discuss these celebrated books by three masters of modern poetry.

In this workshop, you’ll learn where to find publications that are looking for work, proper manuscript format, and submission etiquette.

This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new work or make progress on your project.

If you want to write your memoir but have struggled to get started or otherwise feel stuck, then “Four Building Blocks of Memoir” may be the solution.

This class will help you develop writing habits that will boost your confidence, help you find your “voice,” and keep your writing process in motion.

Get serious, connected, and perhaps even published with the guidance, structure, and help of this workshop and accountability group.

This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new poetry or make progress on your project.

This six-week generative writing course will explore contemporary poets, primarily in the Slam poetry community.

Bring the past to life with a master class on the craft of historical fiction

All genres — We will explore how the combination of text with visual elements help us deconstruct language’s power through anti-colonial lenses.

In this workshop, learn about the necessary art of revision for fiction projects.

This class will provide a toolkit for writing a successful book proposal.

This workshop will focus on works-in-progress that you would like feedback on from people who may or may not be familiar with your writing.

In this class, we will practice both radical and focused revision strategies while reading and discussing the work of published poets, pre- and post-revision.

This course is designed for students actively engaged in writing a memoir.

This intense focus on the first page enables participants to identify specific techniques that they can then use to strengthen and shape their first pages.

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

This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new poetry or make progress on your project.

This class will help you develop writing habits that will boost your confidence, help you find your “voice,” and keep your writing process in motion.

This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new work or make progress on your project.

We’ll specifically analyze what multiple perspectives do for a story (and why we can’t achieve the same effect with only one perspective).

In this generative workshop, participants will study various examples of flash that give voice to the often-silent characters in our lives.

In this multi-class workshop, we will explore the world of queer and trans poetics and forms, brainstorm, write, play, & invent our own poems, & share.

This workshop covers strategic tips and best practices to help you ask for and get what you deserve.

The quest is to consider whether writing (and reading) can improve the human relationship with nature.

In this class, you will learn tried-and-true methods of structuring stories so you can adapt them to best suit yours.

This two-hour lecture will provide the foundational concepts that we’ll work with in the four-week Developing a Writing Habit Class.