Explore short fiction from around the world in this four-week class led by author Dipika Mukherjee (Ode to Broken Things, Shambala Junction). Throughout the course, we will focus on writing characters...
Make your dialogue work for you. Through a combination of discussion, in class writing, lecture, short readings and exercises, this course will give you the basic tools you need to use dialogue, as...
Powerful writing translates abstract thought and feeling into concrete image and action. Explore how to bring emotions like joy, wonder, grief to life on the page, and what writers and readers alike...
Explore essential aspects of fiction writing such as plot, voice, dialogue, character, and point of view. Every week, students will read published stories and generate new work in response to writing...
In this workshop, we will explore the craft issues related to flash nonfiction. Writing shorter pieces of 700-1,000 words, will allow you to work on intensity of language, wrapping an idea in a...
In this workshop, we will explore the craft issues related to flash nonfiction. Writing shorter pieces of 700-1,000 words, will allow you to work on intensity of language, wrapping an idea in a...
This class is open to all fiction genres and is designed to assist writers in the early stages of their novel. Students with a few pages and an idea, and students with hundreds of pages are welcome...
In this workshop, we will strive to write for what audiences want now: to be in the moment with vibrant characters embroiled in tumultuous change amid social, economic, and natural environments...
In this class, we'll study a few exemplary pieces of nonfiction and fiction and copy aspects of them: their structure, their elements, their sentence structure. The point is to get inside the work to...
Students will analyze a simple and perfect story, "Bliss," by Katherine Mansfield. This is a close third-person story written more than a century ago by a masterful short-story writer and admirer of...