Classes and Workshops

Love. Loss. Transformation. These themes are so integral to the human experience that writers have returned to them again and again for centuries. But how...

“Have you wanted to test the waters of creative writing but don’t know where to begin, or how?" asks instructor Kathy Garlick. “Have you waded...

“Many people are driven to write by the simple human need to express ourselves,” says instructor David Jacobson. “There may be no better way to...

You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. –Maya Angelou “The power of language, of the voice, is not...

Blogging began in earnest the better part of three decades ago, and today there are an estimated 600 million blogs worldwide, with 31 million active...

Your memoir, hybrid memoir, or nonfiction book is in the works. Maybe you’re halfway through and are wondering how to build your platform or make...

WEDNESDAYS, OCT. 28 — DEC. 2 | “My pencils outlast their erasers.” — Vladimir Nabokov   Have you “finished” a story or personal essay that you know...

Writing and pitching stories from the POV of a marginalized identity like a sex worker and/or sex trafficking survivor can be extraordinarily frustrating. If editors...

“Have you always wanted to write but are stumped by the way to tell your own story?” asks instructor Jennifer Lewis. “In this remote class,...

THURSDAYS, OCT. 29 — NOV. 11  |  Living in times marked by relentless and intersecting crises, the serious writer must ask, “Where is the literature...

Now celebrating over 15 years at The Writing Salon, this workshop draws people who want to jumpstart their poetry practice and to keep the engine...

You write something down and it’s awkward, trivial, artificial, approximate. But with effort . . . you can get it to open up, and expose...

Send your book out without the self-doubt. Instead work with one of our editors to get your manuscript in shape.   In this month-long one-on-one...

Becoming an accomplished fiction writer means developing an amalgam of skills. You need to write sentences that flow, to master dialogue and description, to construct...

“Contemporary U.S. poetry is vibrant, complicated, and realer than ever — something that gives me hope as a writer,” says instructor Alan Chazaro. “It’s a...

This particular version of Round Robin with a run time of three weeks is built with the holidays in mind. It is designed to offer writers a...

Send your book out without the self-doubt. Instead work with one of our editors to get your manuscript in shape.   In this month-long one-on-one...

We’re beginning to remember that the first poets didn’t come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or...

"If brevity is the soul of wit, then prose poems and flash memoirs are manna for the spirit! They are great ways to cut through...

In their operetta Patience, Gilbert and Sullivan skewered the Aesthetic movement—the anti-industrial stance adopted by a talented and opinionated group of artists, poets, and architects that had...

In their operetta Patience, Gilbert and Sullivan skewered the Aesthetic movement—the anti-industrial stance adopted by a talented and opinionated group of artists, poets, and architects that had...