Registration is rolling until September 19 at 11:59PM EST. No application is required (except for financial aid— Applications for financial aid are due September 15 at 5PM EST).

$400 w/financial aid available to residents of Greater Philadelphia (Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties)

8 week class: Tuesdays 6-8PM EST, 9/26, 10/3, 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31, 11/7, 11/14 (optional make up date 11/21)

In this eight-week course, we will explore journalism from straight news to narrative longform and hone skills like developing news judgment, finding stories, interviewing, reporting, researching, and understanding audiences. For models, we will read from a wide range of newspapers, magazines, and websites. We may consider reporting and journalistic storytelling from writers like Rachel Aviv, Pamela Colloff, Hannah Dreier, Mitchell S. Jackson, and Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah. In addition to in-class writing exercises along the way, students will write and workshop drafts of a straight news article and a feature.

Kristen Martin (she/her) is a writer and cultural critic. Her debut narrative nonfiction book American Orphan is forthcoming from Bold Type Books. Her writing has been published in The New York Times Magazine, NPR, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Baffler, and elsewhere. She received an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Columbia University, and CUNY Baruch College. She lives in Philadelphia.