The Pajama Seminars: Thinking in Fragments with Jenny Boully
In this generative class, participants will be given prompts with which to generate micro-essays and fragments.
RESERVE YOUR SPOT
Eight Essential Elements of Essay with Ellen Blum Barish
There are eight essential elements that, used as a checklist, can provide great insight for final revisions for an essay.
The Pajama Seminars – Looking for a Mind at Work: Telling and Showing in Narrative Prose with Kate Harding
“Show, don’t tell” is one of the most commonly offered pieces of writing advice, but it’s not necessarily the best approach for every story or essay.
The Pajama Seminars: Radical Revision with Nick Flynn
Revision is about how to locate the energy in our drafts and deepen it.
The Pajama Seminars: What to Write When You Think You Can’t Write with Juan Martinez
This class will include practical advice as well as three targeted exercises designed to jumpstart your writing.
The Pajama Seminars: Unlocking the “Why” of Powerful Writing with Alan Heathcock
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Dialogue and Tension with Sarah Terez Rosenblum
Central to all storytelling–whether you write fiction, or creative nonfiction– is the need to build and sustain narrative tension so that your readers feel drawn into your writing.
A Writer’s Toolbox: Concrete Recommendations From CHIRB Exec. Editor Todd Van Luling
In this single-session, the Chicago Review of Books Executive Editor, Todd Van Luling, will highlight unexpected physical and digital tools to enhance the quality of your writing.
Help Yourself: Accountability Strategies for Writers with Joseph Scapellato
In this class, we’ll discuss a range of practical accountability strategies, all designed to help you do the work you want to do.
Writing Your Resistance Series: Multi-Genre with Michael Zapata
On Revolution, Resistance, and Preventing the End of the World
Urgency and the Personal Essay with Megan Stielstra
This workshop examines the personal essay as a contribution to a greater cultural dialogue, digging into a myriad of forms including memoir, criticism, investigation, reflection, and the delicious and often messy ways that writers have blurred those lines between them.