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Submitting to Literary Journals [OEWIY9401]

Join us for a lecture focused on strengthening your writing through the literary journal submission process. We’ll cover finding venues, managing rejections, and crafting compelling cover letters.

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

Poetry Master Class: How to Give Shape to Our Ideas [OEWIX9301]

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In this workshop, we’ll try out several writing exercises to tap our lived experiences, ideas, and observations, to find words that are both common and unique to each of us. [12]

$149

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

Poetry & Memory [OEWIZ9301]

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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, Poetry, Monday, Evening, Five Week, Online, Arriel Vinson

Poetry as Storytelling [OEWIZ9301]

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Discover the art of narrative poetry in this 5-week craft and generative class. [12]

$515

View All, Fiction, Wednesday, Daytime, Five Week, On Campus, Suzanne Chazin

How to Write Without Fear [OEWIX9101]

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This five-week course is designed to take you from the blank page to a solid foundation for a personal essay, short story, or opening chapter of a novel. [12]

$515

View All, Fiction, Genre Fiction, Thursday, Evening, Five Week, Online, Serrana Gay

Magical Realism & Surrealism in Fiction [OEWIZ9101]

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Join our generative craft class to explore truth-telling through the lens of surrealism and magical realism in fiction. [12]

$515

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

Writing the Hybrid Memoir [OEWIZ9201]

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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, Daytime, Online, Ten Week, Cindy Beer-Fouhy

Memoir Generator: Life Stories for Ages 50+ [OEWIZ9201]

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If you have been thinking about beginning to write your life stories or if you have already begun writing memories of your life experiences and would like to continue exploring more ideas, this is the class for you! [12]

$899

View All, Nonfiction, Thursday, Daytime, Five Week, On Campus, Janine Annett

Beginner Humor Writing [OEWIX9201]

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Whether you want to write a laugh-out-loud satire or inject moments of levity into a serious topic, adding humor to your writing can help you express yourself and leave a lasting impression. [12]

$515

View All, Nonfiction, Tuesday, Evening, Five Week, Online, Amelia Possanza

Start Writing Your Memoir Now [OEWIZ9201]

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

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

Beginner Novel Generator [OEWIZ9101]

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Start your novel with an instructor who understands what it’s like to write a novel for the first time. Ines Rodrigues’s ten-week course is a well-balanced mix of workshop, craft lessons and lots of encouragement. [12]

$899

View All, Fiction, Thursday, Daytime, Online, Ten Week, Barbara Josselsohn

Intermediate Novel Workshop [OEWIZ9101]

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Many writers start out with a great idea, and often they know how they want the story to eventually wrap up. But it's the middle of the novel where things get tricky. [12]

$899

View All, Fiction, Evening, Online, Marcia Bradley, Twelve Week

Advanced Novel & Memoir: A Full Manuscript Workshop [OEWIZ9101]

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A 12-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. [6]

$2,199

View All, Monday, Evening, Online, Myla Goldberg, Mixed Genre

Creative Bootcamp [OEWIZ9401]

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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, Nonfiction, Tuesday, Evening, Online, Ten Week, Terri Linton

Motherhood in Memoir [OEWIZ9201]

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In this ten-week nonfiction class with Terri Linton, students will examine works by writers that center motherhood as they explore the realities, revelations, and reckonings of our their own motherhood journeys. [12]

$899

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

Beginner Memoir Generator [OEWIX9201]

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Have you ever thought someday I'll write a book? Do you have a story about your life waiting to unfold on the page? In this five-week in-person memoir workshop, you will discover what it takes to begin. [12]

$515

View All, Fiction, Nonfiction, Saturday, Daytime, Online, Two Week, Tsahai MaKeda

Writing Your Life Like Fiction [OEWIZ9101]

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In this generative course, we will explore how to take a turbulent and traumatic moment or experience from our life and turn it into triumph… on the page. [12]

$149

View All, Nonfiction, Wednesday, Daytime, Five Week, On Campus, Courtney Gillette

Memoir Toolbox [OEWIX9201]

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Everyone has a story to tell, but where do you begin? In this generative workshop we’ll look at creative nonfiction from several angles: voice, point of view, tension, shape and more. [12]

$515

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

Wild Women of Memoir: Nonfiction Generator[OEWIZ9201]

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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]

$515

View All, Thursday, Evening, Online, Four Week, Ava Robinson & Caroline Shifke, Mixed Genre

Momentum: A Productivity Lab [OEWIZ9401]

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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, Kathy Curto

First Word To First Draft [OEWIX9201]

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In this generative, five-week class for writers of all levels, we will use one-word prompts to take us onto our own blank pages, into something new. [12]

$525