Bring your story ideas, works in progress, or a fresh blank page to explore where improvisation can take your creative work in this collaborative space filled with energy, laughter, and invigorated writing.
This Intermediate Workshop will focus on the variety of voices poets and poetry can hold. It is designed to help the students better understand their own voice and aesthetic, through reading, and discussion.
In this class, students will learn how to take the spark of an idea and develop it into the beginnings of a story.
You don’t need 100,000 Twitter followers to be a successful writer, but establishing your expertise online and making meaningful connections can open exciting doors in your career.
Deciding to pursue an MFA program is a big decision, and on top of that, most programs are extremely competitive. To get in the door, you need a polished, impressive application that shows that program that you are the perfect fit.
Students will learn the fundamentals of playwriting through writing scenes for each class session, followed by a 10-minute play which will be workshopped and revised.
In this class we will examine characters that invite perception, and we’ll put what we learn to practice through writing exercises.
Explore how to take into consideration the professional backdrop of publishing while still finding joy in the act of writing.
We will discuss building a foundation for your food story, creating a work plan, common mistakes, story arcs and how to go about researching and creating your own food memoir.
We’ll talk about how to mix genres and bend their “rules” to write memorable fiction.
In this PJ Seminar, we will talk about how we can look at the world around us and use its flaws to inform the lives of our characters and generate fiction with the power of truth.
Building imaginary worlds from the raw material of the real isn’t just a matter of research; it’s training your eye and ear to think like a writer, and learning to see your novel or your story come alive in the world around you.
