LIVE (VIRTUAL) ONGOING WORKSHOPS

Each of these classes runs in an ongoing way, but in 8 week sessions. Which is to say, you can continue to take as many sessions as you like and get new material, build community and develop writerly camaraderie, but you can also stop at any time.

Fiction Frenzy:

When we read great stories, the story craft is often seamless—we are drawn into the characters, their problems, and the action on the page. But any writer who has tried to write one knows that building great stories takes a lot of behind-the-scenes work. Fiction Frenzy is a workshop that studies these underpinnings to demystify what makes great stories work, bringing together essays and lessons on the craft of writing, contemporary examples of great fiction, and group critique to lay bare the elements of great stories. Whether you’re working on your first novel or your tenth, short stories or novellas, this course can help you take your fiction craft to the next level.

Our Stories:

Almost everyone has a personal story they want to tell in the form of a memoir or essay—truth, as they say, is often stranger than fiction. Memoir/personal essay can be both cathartic and healing for the writer, but in order to make our stories resonate for readers, we have to apply a solid level of craft. Just writing down what happened isn’t enough to bring it to life for readers. In this workshop writers will learn from essays on craft and examples of memoir and essay to treat their story much the same way fiction writers approach a novel: by turning yourself into a character (known as the narrator), discovering your own inciting incident, and building the framework of a narrative arc (a plot). We explore a variety of techniques, styles and approaches to writing about yourself.