Writing Institute

View All, Fiction, Tuesday, Evening, Online, Two Week, Tsahai Makeda, Two Day

Jumping Right In: The First Page [OEWIZ9103]

The first page of your novel or short story is absolutely crucial in determining whether your reader commits or quits. This is where you’ll hook them to make them want more. But what does it entail? [12]

$179

View All, Poetry, Monday, Daytime, Five Week, Online, Tyler Mills

Poetry & Memory [OEWIZ9304]

Course

In this generative poetry workshop, you'll write new poems inspired by the connection between memory and metaphor and receive supportive feedback. [12]

$515

View All, Fiction, Wednesday, Evening, Online, Six Week, August Thompson

Fiction Workshop [OEWIZ9104]

Course

The purpose of this course is straightforward: it’s here to get you writing. Whether you’re an old pro or brand new to writing fiction, this class is designed to help you find inspiration, harness it, and build your writing practice. [10]

View All, Fiction, Monday, Evening, Online, Four Week, Myla Goldberg

Creative Bootcamp [OEWIZ9103]

Course

Jumpstart your creativity in this 4-week online writing course. Creative Bootcamp offers dynamic prompts, craft insights, and fresh inspiration—perfect for new, stuck, or seasoned writers ready to explore new story ideas. [12]

$399

View All, Fiction, Wednesday, Daytime, Online, Six Week, Marcia Bradley

Advanced Novel & Memoir Workshop [OEWIZ9104]

Course

A 6-week fiction workshop for more experienced writers in the process of completing and/or revising a manuscript or first draft of a full book of fiction, linked short stories, nonfiction, or memoir. [4]

View All, Nonfiction, Tuesday, Evening, Five Week, Online, Joanne Furio

Wild Women of Memoir: Nonfiction Generator[OEWIZ9204]

Course

In this class, we’ll first read personal essays and excerpts from memoirs and discuss craft issues the work raises and then attempt to mimic a writer’s particular style through in-class freewrites, and short, voluntary assignments to do at home. [12]

View All, Poetry, Saturday, Daytime, One Day, On Campus, Elaine Sexton

The Chapbook: From First Poem to First Book [OEWIX9303]

Course

In this in-person workshop we will focus on how to gather your poems and find them a home in the shape of a book. [12]

$99

View All, Fiction, Thursday, Daytime, Five Week, On Campus, Eileen Moskowitz-Palma

Structuring Your Novel [OEWIX9104]

Course

Whether you’re a plotter who is just starting a manuscript or a pantser who needs help revising, this class will help you work through all of your plotting points. [12]

$515

View All, Fiction, Tuesday, Evening, One Day, Online, Ben Purkert

Winning at the Finish Line [OEWIZ9104]

Course

Starting a piece of writing is one thing, but how do you finish it? In this one-day course, we’ll examine how a variety of world-class writers approach endings in their own work. [12]

$99

View All, Fiction, Monday, Daytime, Online, Six Week, Ines Rodrigues

Beginner Novel Generator [OEWIZ9104]

Course

Ines Rodrigues's six-week course helps you start your novel with a well-balanced mix of workshop, craft lessons, and lots of encouragement. [12]

$615

View All, Fiction, Monday, Evening, Five Week, Online, Joann Smith

Create Extraordinary Stories from Ordinary Events [OEWIZ9104]

Course

We’ll read from authors who write extraordinary stories about ordinary people and ordinary events. We’ll explore the methods authors use to pull us into these ordinary lives and how they turn mundane events into engaging stories. [12]

$515

View All, Publishing, Wednesday, Evening, Online, Four Week, Ava Robinson & Caroline Shifke

Momentum: A Productivity Lab [OEWIZ9404]

Course

A four-week class to jumpstart your writing practice and build long-lasting tools to keep you going. [12]

$399

View All, Nonfiction, Thursday, Daytime, Five Week, On Campus, Jocelyn Jane Cox

Fiction Techniques for Memoirists [OEWIX9203]

Course

We have ALL lived fascinating lives in our own ways. In this class, writers sharing their version of the truth through actual events can take inspiration from fiction. [12]

$515

View All, Fiction, Monday, Daytime, On Campus, Four Week, Barbara Josselsohn

How Do They Do It? [OEWIX9104]

Course

In this new workshop series, we’ll do a deep dive into a popular novel that made it big—and look for the “secret sauce” that made it work so well. Then, each week, you’ll get the chance to try your hand at every technique or approach revealed. [12]

$399

View All, Nonfiction, Tuesday, Daytime, Online, Six Week, Margo Steines

Writing the Hybrid Memoir [OEWIZ9203]

Course

In your hybrid memoir, you might engage with science writing, literature, pop culture, history, digital media—really any cultural product or phenomenon that you want to explore in the same frame as your personal narrative. [12]

$615

View All, Nonfiction, Wednesday, Evening, Online, Four Week, Jenessa Abrams

Writing The Family [OEWIZ9203]

Course

Writing The Family is designed for writers at all stages of their careers to engage in the intimate, sometimes messy, very often meaningful, act of writing about family through fiction and creative nonfiction. [12]

$399

View All, Nonfiction, Tuesday, Daytime, Five Week, Janet Pfeffer

Memoir Generator II [OEWIX9204]

Course

In this memoir class designed for returning students, we will build upon centering practices, expand our understanding of craft, and write our deepest compelling stories. [8]

View All, Fiction, Monday, Evening, Online, Six Week, Molly McGhee

Speculative Fiction & Horror [OEWIZ9503]

Course

In this five-week workshop, we will learn how to use techniques across the genre-spectrum to inform our conception of what "storytelling" can be in speculative fiction and horror. [12]

$615

View All, Nonfiction, Evening, Online, Six Week, Terri Linton

Writing the Parent Wound [OEWIZ9203]

Course

In this six-week nonfiction class with Terri Linton, students will examine works by writers that center their parents in their work as they explore their own "parent wounds" in the personal essay. [12]

$615

View All, Nonfiction, Wednesday, Evening, Five Week, Amelia Possanza

Start Writing Your Memoir [OEWIZ9203]

Course

Dive into memoir writing in this supportive workshop for beginner and intermediate writers alike. [12]

$515

View All, Publishing, Friday, Daytime, Online, Two Week, Stacey H. Rubin, Two Day

Manuscript Essentials: What Your Book Needs Before Completion [OEWIZ9404]

Course

Are you uncertain if the book you are writing is on-track? The purpose of this two-session interactive workshop is to focus on your book’s inherent strengths while targeting your book’s potential for final improvements. [8]

$179

View All, Fiction, Wednesday, Evening, One Day, Online, Jimin Han

Folklore As Inspiration and Guide [OEWIZ9104]

Course

A generative session where we’ll write to prompts designed to unearth and lead to ways to focus or layer folklore into our own writing. [12]

$99

View All, Publishing, Samantha Steiner, Asynchronous

Submitting to Literary Journals [OEWIY9401]

Course

Learn how to start submitting your writing in this asynchronous class! We’ll cover finding venues, managing rejections, and crafting compelling cover letters.

$49

Sarah Lawrence College