Past Classes

Spring 2023

INTERMEDIATE POETRY: CHANNELING GRIEF AND LOSS THROUGH POETRY with Sham-e-Ali Nayeem
EMBODYING QUEER STORIES with Jenni Milton
INTERMEDIATE NONFICTION: MEMOIR INTENSIVE with Krys Malcolm Belc
THE LYRIC ESSAY with Claire Marie Stancek
WRITING MIDDLE GRADE & YOUNG ADULT FICTION with Eric Bell
INTERMEDIATE FICTION: EXPANDING FICTION with Leigh N. Gallagher
BOOKMAKING & COLLAGING with Doriana Diaz

Fall 2022
PERSPECTIVE(S) AND MOVEMENT(S) IN NARRATIVE NONFICTION with Anndee Hochman
FOUNDATIONS OF POETRY: THE HEALING WATER with Gabriel Ramirez
FOUNDATIONS OF POETRY: THE PRACTICE OF ATTENTION with Nancy Reddy
FOUNDATIONS OF FICTION: THE CRAFT OF CHARACTER with Ariel Delgado Dixon
FOUNDATIONS OF FICTION: THE ART OF THE SHORT STORY with Eloise Lindblom
FOUNDATIONS OF CNF: JOURNALISTIC WRITING with Kristen Martin
FOUNDATIONS OF CNF: WRITING THE SELF with Rebecca Spiegel
POEM PLUS PROMPT: RICK BAROT with Dilruba Ahmed
WRITING ODES with Dilruba Ahmed
THE WORLD OF LITERARY JOURNALS: HOW TO GET PUBLISHED with Andrea A. Firth
DEVASTATINGLY FUNNY: USING HUMOR IN YOUR FICTION with Arthur Tarley
LINEATION ELATION: LINEATE YOUR POEMS WITH CONFIDENCE & EXPRESSION with Dilruba Ahmed
BEFUDDLED, BEREFT, BROKEN: RESISTANCE TO POETIC CLOSURE with Dilruba Ahmed

Summer 2022
WRITING NOVELS TOGETHER with Emma Copley Eisenberg
DOCUPOETICS with Cynthia Dewi Oka
WRITING COMICS FROM LIFE with Hannah Kaplan
WRITING FOR TELEVISION with Luke Giordano
WRITING QUERY LETTERS with Eric Smith
POETRY & SURPRISE with Dilruba Ahmed
THE NEW MEDIA: INTEGRATING TECH INTO POETRY PRACTICE with Warren Longmire

Spring 2022
WRITING THE LYRIC ESSAY with Jiordan Castle
INTERMEDIATE POETRY with Ted Rees
INTERMEDIATE FICTION with Camille Acker
CULTURAL CRITICISM with Kristen Martin
FLASH ESSAY with Krys Malcolm Belc
OUTLINING YOUR MEMOIR with Lori L. Tharps
WRITING POETIC PLAYS with Jacqueline Goldfinger

Fall 2021
FOUNDATIONS OF FICTION WRITING with Vincent Scarpa
FOUNDATIONS OF JOURNALISTIC WRITING with Kristen Martin
FOUNDATIONS OF POETRY WRITING with Dilruba Ahmed
SCHOOL OF GUERRILLA POETICS INTENSIVE with Yolanda Wisher
REVISING PROSE with Anna Badhken
REVISING POETRY with noor ibn najam

Summer 2021
YA NOVEL WRITING with Julia Drake
SCREENWRITING with Savannah Reich
GETTING YOUR VOICE OUT THERE with Ernest Owens
CRAFTING LITERARY REPORTAGE with Kiley Bense
MIDDLE GRADE NOVEL WRITING with Alex London
PITCHING NONFICTION INTENSIVE with Allie Volpe
CRAFTING A SUCCESSFUL FREELANCE LIFE INTENSIVE with Alli Hoff Kosik

Spring 2021
WRITING FRAGMENTED FICTION with Alexandra Chang
WRITING HYBRID NONFICTION with Jennifer Wilson
WRITING SPECULATIVE POETRY with Kai Davis
WRITING THE MCSWEENEY’S STYLE PIECE with Jeff Bender
GROWING YOUR POETRY MANUSCRIPT with Nancy Reddy

Fall 2020
FOUNDATIONS OF FICTION WRITING with Stephanie Feldman
FOUNDATIONS OF CULTURAL ESSAY WRITING with Tre Johnson
FOUNDATIONS OF POETRY WRITING with noor ibn najam
PLAYWRITING CREATIVITY JUMPSTART with L Feldman
WRITING THE QUEER SHORT STORY INTENSIVE with Jason Villemez
FINDING YOUR STORY’S FORM with Ru Freeman
STAYING SAVY BEFORE YOUR FIRST BOOK INTENSIVE with Sarah Yake

Summer 2020
OPINION WRITING with Michelle Chikaonda
HOW TO WRITE FLASH FICTION INTENSIVE with Nathan Alling Long
THE BODY AS LANGUAGE INTENSIVE with Tessa Michaela

Spring 2020:
BREAKING INTO BOOK REVIEWING INTENSIVE with Jennifer Wilson
REVISING FOR QUERYING INTENSIVE with Courtney Maum
GROWING A MANUSCRIPT: FROM SHORT STORY TO NOVEL with Sara Novic
THE LYRIC ESSAY with Ted Rees
PLAYWRITING IN COMMUNITY with Erlina Ortiz

Fall 2019:
TMI: THE MEMOIRIST’S DILEMMA INTENSIVE with Lise Funderburg
SCHOOL OF GUERILLA POETICS INTENSIVE with Yolanda Wisher
FOUNDATIONS OF WRITING CRITICISM with Camille Acker
FOUNDATIONS OF WRITING FICTION with Michael Deagler
FOUNDATIONS OF WRITING POETRY with Cynthia Dewi Oka

Summer 2019:
NOVEL WRITING INTENSIVE with Annie Liontas
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL INTENSIVE with Nova Ren Suma

Spring 2019:
FOOD WRITING: A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD with Joy Manning
INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY POETRY: PHILADELPHIA STYLE with Levi Bentley
REVISING FICTION: ADVANCING YOUR SHORT FICTION TO ITS FINAL FORM with Elysha Chang

Fall 2018:
WHAT MAKES A MEMOIR?: BALANCING PERSONAL NARRATIVE WITH ESSAYISTIC QUESTIONING with Berry Grass
IDENTITY IN POETRY: WRITING THE OTHER, WRITING THE SELF with Raena Shirali
INNOVATING SHORT FICTION with Emma Copley Eisenberg