December Short Classes
Searching for a break from the season’s hustle and bustle? Look no further than our upcoming December seminars. These three-hour sessions hone in on a single aspect of the writing process or the writing life. Whether you want to craft the plot of your novel, create binge-worthy characters, or bring poetry into your prose, we've got a class for you.
As always, scholarships are available for all of the offerings below:
December 3rd & 4th
- Making the Personal Universal in Nonfiction with Katie Bannon
- The Art of Backstory: Create Dynamic Characters Through Their Past with Jackie Cangro
- The End: How Do I Get Out of This Story? (2-Part) with Tim Horvath
- Getting Your Work Out There with Michelle Bowdler
- Crafting a Novel Plot with Heart with Katie Bayerl
- Interview like a Journalist with Shalene Gupta
- Say It Slant: In Search of the Startling Word with Walter Smelt
- How to Write a Lot (2-part) with Hillary Rettig
- The Atmosphere Workshop with Nicole Miller
December 10th & 11th
- So You Want to Write a Memoir? with Sarah Chaves
- Nuts and Bolts of Novel Planning: The First Chapter with Lori Goldstein
- Overcoming Writer's Block with Carolyn Zaikowski
- A Sense of Perspective: The Point of View Workshop (2-Part) with Nicole Miller
- Speculative Series: Thresholds, Portals, and Liminal Transformations with Stephanie K Brownell
- Seaport Seminar - Interiority: Fiction’s Inner Landscape with Tim Weed
- Nonfiction Book Proposal Crash Course with Shalene Gupta
- Creating Binge-worthy Characters with Mark Fogarty
- The Death Scene: Slow Burn or Shot to the Heart with Kelly Dalke
December 17th & 18th
- Developing Memorable Characters with Elizabeth Santiago
- Screenwriting Tricks for Fiction Writers with Andrea Meyer
- Propelling Your Prose with Poetry with Tim Horvath
- Speculative Series: Gender and Queerness in Imaginative Worlds with Stephanie Brownell
- Picture This! (A Generative Workshop) with Theresa Okokon