Registration is rolling until September 28 at 11:59PM EST. No application is required (except for financial aid— Applications for financial aid are due September 24 at 5PM EST).

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

8 week class: Thursdays 6-8PM EST, 10/5, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, 11/30 (skipping 11/23 in observance of national holiday).

In this fun, generative, supportive class, writers will get to learn about and try different aspects of creative nonfiction writing. In the first few weeks, we will read a wide range of writing by authors such as Wesley Morris, Carmen Maria Machado, Eula Biss, and Jenny Boully, and will discuss types of nonfiction such as flash essay, lyric essay, and cultural criticism. In the second half of the course, writers will have an opportunity to workshop a longer piece of writing and to receive rigorous feedback from the instructor and from peers.

Krys Malcolm Belc is the author of the memoir The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood (Counterpoint, 2021) and the flash nonfiction chapbook In Transit (The Cupboard Pamphlet). His essays on queer and trans family life have been featured in Granta, Guernica, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Krys is the memoir editor of Split Lip Magazine. Krys has lived most of his adult life in Philadelphia with his partner and their four children, but for now he is the 2023-2025 Edelstein-Keller Writer in Residence Fellow at the University of Minnesota.