“You do not have to be good,” writes Mary Oliver. She invites you, and everyone, to tell her your despair and she will tell you hers. Learn how to write as if you are whispering into a reader’s ear. In this generative and reflective workshop, you’ll meditate, respond to prompts, and laugh. You’ll receive specific […]
Personal Essay Writing for Everyone – N206S19
Come learn the art and craft of personal essay writing in this generative and inclusive workshop. We’ll write our way into the understandings and discoveries we long to make for the memories, dreams, and occasions that continue to surface in our minds because they want to live on the page. We will read and discuss […]
Intro. to Creative Writing – B104S19
In this introductory course, you’ll learn the nuts and bolts of creative writing, including elements of craft that will make your stories and poems spring to life. You’ll respond to prompts and read aloud if you choose to, both from work that you write in class and up to five, double-spaced pages of work you […]
Writer’s Book Club – N106S19
Picture if you will a café in Paris, with seven chairs filled with seven writers. There are cups of espresso or frothy café au laits and perhaps a pastry or two on the table. Best of all, there’s a swirl of conversation. What are the writers discussing? Why, literature, of course! The latest book they’ve […]
The Journey of Writing For Women – B706S19
Whether we are wrestling with the sacred or the profane, creative writing is always an adventure of the soul. Storylines, poetic images, characters, phrases – they waltz onto our pages as if from nowhere. Or, we think we are writing about something familiar, and then our writing takes a turn toward the unknown, it deepens, […]