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ONSITE: Short Story Fiction Writing

July 11, 2023

Explore short story fiction writing by studying narrative craft elements like story, plot, character, scene, structure, archetypal patterns and dialogue. We’ll examine professionally published pieces and your own work. By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to begin a story based on a word or an idea. You’ll also understand how to evaluate […]

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ONLINE: 100 Word Stories

July 11, 2023

In this 2-hour session, we’ll engage with one of the hottest new genres in writing: the super short form. We’ll tell stories that make us breathless, hopeful, and hungry. Many of us are familiar with the short story, but there’s a whole range of writings shorter than that. Take flash fiction, which is 500 words […]

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ONLINE: Introduction to Songwriting

July 11, 2023

In this 2-hour session, we’ll talk about how songs are built, including what make a chorus, a verse, and a bridge. We’ll look at popular songs as we write our own original lyrics. We’ll also talk about the intimidating questions of how to begin and end a song. As we delve deeper into the mechanics […]

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ONSITE: Writing the Memoir

July 11, 2023

Thomas Larson writes that “memoir is most successful when it is not the ‘story of a life,’ but a focused part of that life—a dozen summers spent working on a grandfather’s farm, a long relationship with a dying relative, the first year of law school.” You’ll work with writing prompts and timed writing exercises, and […]

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ONSITE: Mindfulness + Hip-Hop (Ages 12-14)

July 11, 2023

Engage in mindfulness practices while exploring hip-hop music. Students will reflect on themes like esteem, resilience, growth, community, and change, drawing inspiration to write original lyrics and record songs. Students will work individually and together to build a body of work that speaks to something important to them.

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ONSITE: Writing is Magic: A Creative Exploration

July 11, 2023

Whether you're currently working on a literary project or trying to get inspiration, this generative workshop will serve as a gentle and fun way to push yourself creatively. Through prompts, mini-lectures, readings, supportive discussion, group members will work towards realizing their prose visions.

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ONSITE: Writing the Shadow

July 11, 2023

Explore the dark self, what Carl Jung called the “shadow” part of our psyche. Sometimes we see it in our dreams, sometimes it appears in dark imaginings. We’ll learn what the shadow can add to our creative writing by experimenting with timed writing, dream journals, guided imagery and Active Imagination.

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ONLINE: The Tough Stuff: Healing Through Writing

July 11, 2023

This class is for the conversations that still need to happen. We’ll talk about the barriers that keep us from writing what we need to write. We’ll also examine works by Chanel Miller, Jeannette Walls, and Layli Long Soldier to take lessons from the ways in which they make difficult topics easier to access. Students […]

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ONSITE: Our Whole Black Selves

July 11, 2023

Whole Black Self is a one-day workshop using the poem “Whole Black Self” from Kristina Hamlett's book of poetry and prose “She Lives Here” to examine the challenges and joys of living as a Black person in this country, especially in the wake of COVID-19 and the rise of social justice advocacy. There will be […]

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ONSITE: Intermediate Poetry Workshop

July 11, 2023

This workshop is for students who have some experience writing poetry and are looking to dig deeper into their writing practice. In this poetry workshop, we'll read published poems (written by contemporary and historical poets), and we'll use this work to inspire our own creative writing work. We'll write poems, and we'll spend time discussing […]

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ONSITE: Fairy Tales Revisited

July 11, 2023

Why do folktales and fairy tales have such a remarkable staying power? Author and mythographer Marina Warner suggests that it’s “because the meanings they generate are themselves magical shape-shifters, dancing to the needs of their audience.” In this class, we’ll read and discuss fairy tales, both traditional and revisionist. We will then reimagine them, as […]

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ONSITE: Story-Inspired Art (Ages 6-8)

July 11, 2023

Make art that tells a story! Students will read books and play games to explore writing, illustration, and big ideas in storytelling, and create artwork inspired by stories.

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ONLINE: Writing is Magic: A Creative Exploration

July 11, 2023

Whether you're currently working on a literary project or trying to get inspiration, this generative workshop will serve as a gentle and fun way to push yourself creatively. Through prompts, mini-lectures, readings, supportive discussion, group members will work towards realizing their prose visions.

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ONSITE: Erasures: Poems and Prose

July 11, 2023

Poems and Prose: Let’s make erasures together. This workshop will explore the form and practice of erasure (also called blackout or whiteout) as a multi-textual, creative process in and of itself. We’ll create erasures and read erasures, discuss erasures and the multimodal manipulation of text to create new poems, prose pieces that double as visual […]

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ONSITE: Creative Nonfiction Workshop

July 11, 2023

Join us for a creative nonfiction workshop! What is creative nonfiction? Think about a memoir or creative essay or short story– those can be creative nonfiction! Whether you have a story you need to tell or want to explore important themes in your life, this class is perfect for you!

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ONSITE: Writing Poetry

July 11, 2023

Explore the fundamental elements of poetry, through the reading and writing of poems. We'll read and discuss poems written by other people, then write poems of our own, with special attention to elements of line, image, and syntax. Students will learn how close readings of other poems may inspire their own work, and how they […]

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ONSITE: The Prose Poem

July 11, 2023

Explore the possibilities of the prose poem. Each week, we'll read and discuss examples of prose poems (historic and contemporary), then use these conversations to inspire us as we write prose poems of our own.

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ONSITE: Of and From The Body: Writing Memory and Experience

July 11, 2023

Of and From the Body is a multi-genre writing workshop designed to create a communal space to generate lots of fresh, new writing and ideas for art. You don’t need to have experience to join, just a desire to write together and discuss what comes out of the prompts and exercises in a safe and […]

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ONSITE: The Poet’s Toolbox: Teen Poetry Workshop (Ages 15-18)

April 18, 2023

Students will learn the foundations of poetry, including image, sound, form, and figurative language, and read work by contemporary poets to see how they utilize those literary devices. We will also write our own poetry to be workshopped in class. At the end of class, we will create a small zine of our work to […]

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ONLINE: Submitting Writing to Literary Journals

April 18, 2023

Sending writing to literary journals can be an intimidating process. In this two-hour class, we'll take a step-by-step tour through the world of journal submissions. Learn directly from Samantha Steiner, MFA, who has served as an editor for Lumina Journal and Breadcrumbs Magazine and has had over 40 works of writing published including fiction, nonfiction, […]

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ONLINE: Writing Inspired by Art

April 18, 2023

This class is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novel in which you get to write about the art that interests you most! Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are all welcome. Together, we'll use art, including paintings, sculptures, and videos as an invitation to write. By using AI art generators, we'll also turn our writings into art. This class is […]

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ONLINE: Screenwriting (only offered once a year)

April 18, 2023

Expand your creative horizons by writing and workshopping an original short screenplay or TV pilot. Students will learn industry standard screenplay format, workshop writing exercises as they develop and revise an original short screenplay suitable for submission or production.  Students are expected to spend time writing and reading screenplays outside of class time.  

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