Registration is rolling until August 7 at 11:59PM EST. No application is required (except for financial aid— Applications for financial aid are due August 2 at 5PM EST).

$250 w/financial aid available to residents of Greater Philadelphia (Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties)

Weekend Intensive: Saturday August 12 and Sunday August 13 2PM-6PM EST

This seminar class will explore the ins and outs of what makes a good newsletter tick. It will showcase how developed writers from any background garner an audience organically and with ease. It will uncover the secrets to creating and managing content over time and examine several different newsletter topics and newsletter hosting platforms. This class is for any student wanting deeper knowledge on how to start a newsletter or how they can amplify their own for fun or for profit. Students will gain keys to insight on technological mechanics and management as well as writing content specific newsletters that can result in profit. 

Shanisha Branch received her Master of Fine Arts at Old Dominion University in May 2021. While there, she studied and composed creative nonfiction and poetry that discussed the black experience which is cumulated in her thesis named On Being Seen. Shanisha’s poems: “Ode to the Afro” and “Strength of a Black Woman” were accepted into the Poetry on the Pavement contest where they are displayed on sidewalks throughout Norfolk, Virginia during. She currently lives in Portsmouth, VA where she teaches high school English at I.C. Norcom. She also writes a biweekly newsletter called The Honest Virgin on substack where she discusses womanhood, agency and sexuality. You can find her on Instagram & Twitter @thehonestvirginxo