A Beginner’s Guide to FanFiction for Novice and Expert Writers
This single-session workshop introduces fanfiction to newcomers while offering fresh perspectives for experienced writers. Participants will explore what fanfiction is, discover why it matters as a creative practice, and read…
Read MoreLet’s Get this Poem Started: Titles and Opening Lines
This class will consider a range of possibilities and strategies for launching unforgettable poems. We’ll look at titles and opening lines both from the perspective of writers (especially those seeking…
Read MorePoetry in Motion: Travel Poems
Sneak a writing retreat into your next business trip! Or use your latest vacation photos as prompts! This class will consider a range of styles and strategies that travelers can…
Read MoreMen in Poetry: Voice, Memory and the Uncertain Self
In this generative workshop, we’ll read and write our way through how masculinity appears in poetry—through silence, inheritance, performance and memory. We will look at works by Rainer Maria Rilke,…
Read MoreDesign Your First Tabletop RPG – Building the Core of a Game
A good tabletop RPG isn’t just systems and mechanics. This class will take you through the foundational design decisions behind TTRPGs including what players do, how the rules support that…
Read MoreFear Beneath The Soil – Writing Folk Horror
Folk horror thrives where landscape, tradition, and belief collide. In this class, we’ll explore how isolated communities, forgotten rituals, old customs, and the land itself can create a sense of…
Read MoreWriting the lyric essay: how to braid poetry with prose
Lyric essays stand at the confluence of musical, image-driven language from poetry and the expansive truth-telling of the essay. Beginning with a study of craft, we will examine the variations…
Read MoreThe Long Poem: Taking Up Space
When people think of poetry, they often think of its brevity. They think of sonnets or haiku or poems contained on a single page. The long poem, though, allows the…
Read MoreSlipstream Fiction
A less well-known and infrequently studied sub-genre of speculative fiction, slipstream is characterized by its strange circumstances and characters wherein the terms of reality are rewritten in favor of the…
Read MoreThe Joy of Plotting and the Agony of Pantsing
Are you starting a novel? Perhaps you’re trying to bulldoze through one, without solid ideas of why and how the story unfolds. Or maybe you’ve already written a draft, but…
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