Vladimir Nabokov told his students: “Caress the detail, the divine detail." In this class, through a combination of workshop and generative exercises, you will learn self-editing techniques to improve the musicality, specificity, and power of your (short) prose. Learn how to shape your stories, elevate your language, punctuate for emphasis, pare down sentences, and kill those darlings. Whether you write fiction or nonfiction, you will come away with polished work and a greater sense of how to trust yourself and make your words sing. 

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Class limited to ten students. 

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Class Fee: $160 | REGISTER HERE

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In this class, you will have the opportunity to complete an essay that you can submit for consideration in The New York Times Modern Love column. Through prompts and exercises, supportive feedback, a study of published essays, and discussions on tips and pitfalls, you will be able to sculpt and hone the story that you need to tell and the world needs to read. 

Students who have taken this class in the past have found this instructor's gentle feedback and encouragement tremendously helpful in their work.

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Class limited to ten students. 
 

Class Fee: $160 | REGISTER HERE

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There is no time like now to take on fears large and small—about what “can” and “can’t” be done—that keep your writing from soaring into excellence. In this workshop we will confront the forces, both external and internal, that stifle creativity. Bring your tentative or “weird” ideas, your doubts, your questions about what is possible within your genre. Since cautious work is rarely great work, we will advocate for taking literary risks by reading some boundary-breaking short work before discussing the value of  banishing self-limiting notions of propriety. We will workshop your work-in-progress at any stage it may be, and encourage fearlessness at the level of the sentence all the way up to the conceptual structure of book-length work.

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​Class Fee: $45 | REGISTER HERE

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This workshop is an opportunity to learn about and review the major forms of poetry and includes a discussion of how forms came into being and why they continue to hold an important place in contemporary poetry. Syllabic forms: haiku, tanka, and cinquains are shown as well as the major metric forms: sonnets, villanelles and sestinas. Concrete poems and free verse are also discussed. The end of the workshop is collaborative writing exercise where the group writes its own villanelle. Day Two is an opportunity to share any individual poems worked on after the first session.   

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​Class Fee: $ | REGISTER HERE

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Have you ever met a travel writer and thought "I wish I could do that?" Well, you can. In this course we'll read a variety of travel pieces, and talk about what makes them good (or not so good). We will look at different kinds of travel writing - roundups, essays, hotel/spa reviews. Then we will write a couple of travel pieces - one that features something where you live (you don't have to travel to do good travel writing) and another about some place you have visited. These pieces will be critiqued by the class. 

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Class limited to ten students. 

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Class Fee: $160 | REGISTER HERE

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