Join 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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This workshop examines the intersections of memory and research in crafting memoir and personal essays.
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This 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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In 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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Join 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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This class will examine techniques such as developing short and sharp telling details, world building through dialogue, and accomplishing the description of deep time.
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In this seminar, we will focus on how to get the form of our work to participate meaningfully in its content through non-Western and nonlinear approaches to storytelling.
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We will explore the ways craft can help us write stories that either reinforce or challenge cultural norms or values.
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We’ll discuss how fairy tale elements may recede as a new piece of fiction develops, providing a way in, though not necessarily a way out.
Add to cartAram Mrjoian is a writer, editor, critic, and educator. He is teaching an upcoming multi-week class called “Creative Writing Essentials” which starts on October 6. Aram shared some of this thoughts around…
Jeremy Owens is a writer, performer, and teacher of an upcoming multi-week class called “June is Not Enough: Queer Nonfiction Writing” which starts next week, August 17. We were lucky…
At October’s Writers Festival, writer Meghan Lamb will be teaching a session in the Open-Genre cohort titled “Narrative Lists.” We love this idea for a session and recently caught up with Meghan to ask her about why writers…
At October’s Writers Festival, StoryStudio instructor and all-around amazing human Dionna Griffin-Irons will be teaching a session in the Nonfiction cohort titled “Cracking the Truth Code in our Personal Stories.” We recently talked with…