Join Us for a Short Class in April!

Join us for a short class in April! Whether you want to write convincing heroes and villains, learn how to market your work, or tell stories through comics, we've got a class for you.

As always, scholarships are available for all of the offerings below:

April 1st & 2nd

• How to Write When You Have No Time with Chaya Bhuvaneswar
• Moments in Love or Otherwise: Capturing Relationships with Kayla Degala-Paraiso
• Introduction to Writing to Heal with Jennifer Crystal 
• Make a Scene in Creative Nonfiction with Alysia Abbott
• So You Want to Write a Memoir? with Sarah Chaves
• Novel Essentials: Narrative Style with Ursula DeYoung
• Fictional Characters II: Heroes & Villains with Tim Weed
• Writing The Dream Sequence in Any Genre with Peter Medeiros 
• Fail Better: What We Can Learn from Our Unpublished Work (2-part) with Steve Almond
• How To Write A Lot with Hillary Rettig
• From Vision to Revision: Poetry Focus with Derek JG Williams

April 8th & 9th

• Setting as Character with Peter Medeiros 
• Friday Fiction Generator with Tina Tocco
• Marketing for Writers: Publicity with Allison Pottern Hoch
• Screenwriting Tricks for Fiction Writers with Andrea Meyer
• Reclaiming the Body with Tatiana Johnson-Boria
• Getting Unstuck with Aimee Christian
• Horror Flash Fiction with Marcella Haddad

April 15th & 16th

• Reflections on Travel: Where Have You Been? with Samantha Shanley
• The Art of Backstory with Jackie Cangro
• Plotting Your Story's Timeline with Emmanuela Maurice
• How to Submit: Publishing Your Writing with Literary Magazines and Small Presses with Dennis James Sweeney
• Poetry For Poets Who Are Sick And Tired Of Poetry with Kayla Degala-Paraiso
• Writing Dialogue with Mark Fogarty
• Act Like A Writer, Think Like An Editor: Getting Your Manuscript Ready with Christine Pride
• Act Like A Writer, Think Like an Editor: The Road to Publication with Christine Pride
• Speculative Series: Beyond the Hero’s Journey with Stephanie K Brownell

April 22nd & 23rd

• Novel Essentials: Arcs and Endings with Ursula DeYoung
• Everyone's a Critic: Writing Reviews with Lisa Levy
• Changing Your Life: Turning Reality Into Fiction with Carolyn Zaikowski
• Storytelling Through Comics with Leela Corman 
• The Mechanics of Powerful Prose in Novels and Memoir with Randy Susan Meyers
• Pillow Book: Journaling to Inspire with Kayleigh Shoen
• Writing Towards Survival with Tatiana Johnson-Boria
• What Makes It a Poem? How to Make and Break the Poetic Line with Walter Smelt

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