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Course Description: What does it mean to write about home? In this generative craft class, we’ll examine home in architecture, nations, and the hum ...  View More

Alice Walker wrote in Possessing the Secret of Joy: "Yes. Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me." ...  View More

In this intensive workshop, a veteran editor of a major publishing house will help you hone your story arc, character development, setting, voice, p ...  View More

There is an “in between” stage for most book writers. You’re not quite done, but you know your book—its heart, its plot, and what you think its ending ...  View More

When we sit down to write, we're making a million decisions, and many of them are intuitive. But deciding between first person, second person, third p ...  View More

You've written an entire story---except for the ending. You've deleted and rewritten the last paragraph, the last page, or the last ten pages and it h ...  View More

"Write what should not be forgotten.” - Isabel Allende   If you have been thinking about beginning to write your life stories or if you have alr ...  View More

In this craft class we will read a wide variety of nonfiction by both emerging and award-winning writers and work together to examine how these piec ...  View More

You've written, you've workshopped, you've polished—so what comes next? This two-day practical, skills-based course will give you the tools—and the mi ...  View More

We’ve all heard that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but can you judge it by its title? A good title does more than attract readers: it conta ...  View More

How does the fantastical manifest in poetry? How can elements of the speculative be applied in the context of verse? From time travel and apocalypse, ...  View More

Do you have a great book idea, but are afraid to share it? Once you put pen to paper, do you wonder how you can protect your brilliant prose? When can ...  View More