1) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I can’t isolate a single ‘aha’ moment. I felt I was always going to be a writer. 2) What do you love most about the writing process? I love when my conscious brain shuts off and I’m able to access a mysterious subterranean place. […]
Our Book Clubs
“The most effective way to learn how to be a better writer is to be a better reader.” -Marie Cordell, Writer’s Book Club: Fiction This winter, we are offering two book clubs for Fiction & Memoir students. This is such an invaluable way to deepen your writing practice. Our instructors have designed workshops intended you […]
Five Questions With Marie Cordell
1) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I always loved stories and would write and illustrate (not very good) stories for fun as a kid. In fifth and sixth grades, some friends and I would get together to write (really, awfully bad) song lyrics and poems, too. Then, in seventh grade, […]
Five Questions with Julie Sarkissian
1) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? I never wanted to be a writer! It found me, and sometimes I wish it hadn’t. Kidding, not kidding. Though most of the time I’m very grateful for all the meaning, beautiful, existential angst and even misery it has brought into my life. I […]
Five Questions with Sarah Gold
1) When did you know you wanted to be a writer? From my first childhood realization that each of the stories I loved to read had actually been composed by another person. That ability seemed like a kind of magic to me. It still does. 2) What do you love most about the writing process? […]