Nonfiction
Take classes on personal essays, memoir, and other craft elements of nonfiction writing.
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The Tarot as Writing Tool with Kat Falls
$65.00 · October 4In this workshop, we’ll discuss how reading tarot cards echoes the writing process and how to use the cards to give your work dimension and resonance.
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Reckoning with Remembrance: On Memoir and Memory with Sheree Greer
$365.00 · October 5This workshop examines the intersections of memory and research in crafting memoir and personal essays.
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Telling Your Truth (Teaser) with Dionna Griffin-Irons
$65.00 · October 6Join StoryStudio Core Faculty member and Second City alumnus, Dionna Griffin-Irons, IN PERSON for a fun and transformative ONE DAY sampler of "Telling Your Truth." This popular class allows writers to play, improvise, and give voice to their life experiences.
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Creative Writing Essentials with Aram Mrjoian
$550.00 · October 6This 8-week course offers the opportunity to read and write a range of fiction, creative nonfiction, and hybrid forms, as well as to read additional texts focused on craft and theory.
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Story from Scratch with Steve Trumpeter
$365.00 · October 18Join us IN PERSON! You'll do writing exercises to jumpstart the creative process, read craft essays and published stories to stir up our imaginations and even play some games designed to free up our thinking. Students will also have the chance to share their writing in workshop sessions.
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Flash in a Flash with Katey Schultz
$65.00 · October 19In this class you will learn the defining traits of flash form writing, study noteworthy examples, and begin two new flashes from prompts delivered during class time.
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Writing Your Resistance: Nonfiction with Kim Brooks
$65.00 · October 20In this course, we’ll talk about what it means to create “the opposite of propaganda:” poems, stories, essays, or criticism that subverts and destabilizes current power structures.
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Writer’s Rehearsal Room: Developing a Writing Practice with Denise Santomauro
$65.00 · October 20Join us IN PERSON! In this class, students will practice elements of writing, like crafting snappy dialogue or engaging descriptions, and talk about ways to build a writing practice into their lives.
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Turning Research Into Story with Katherine Standefer
$65.00 · October 24In this 2 hour workshop, writers will discuss strategies for rich note-taking, the task of turning dry or dense information into buoyant prose, how to approach quoting others, and deciding which research--or how much--to actually lace into a piece of writing.
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In Health and in Sickness: Writing on Care Giving, Illness and Healing with Kathryn Kruse
$365.00 · October 25This generative workshop focuses on ways of communicating and understanding illness, healing, and care taking.
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Writing Your Resistance: “On Revolution, Resistance, and Preventing the End of the World” Multi-Genre with Michael Zapata
$65.00 · October 27Through selected readings, an exploration of craft, and discussions of writers, this class will explore the indispensable relationship between revolution, resistance, and writing.
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Trauma in Memoir with James Tate Hill
$65.00 · November 15This class will help you identify the biggest barriers to writing about your trauma. We’ll also discuss strategies and approaches for overcoming those barriers.
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