Join Us for a Short Class in January

Kick off your writing resolutions with a short class from GrubStreet!

Whether you want to find the write novel-plotting method for you, learn the basics of submitting your work, or try your hand at writing for kids, we've got a class for you!

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

January 6th & 7th

• Putting Down Stakes: Essay Revision Edition with Kristen Paulson-Nguyen
• The Ghost of You: Writing About Traumatic Loss with Kelly Dalke
• Essentials of Historical Fiction with Olivia Kate Cerrone
• So You Want to be a Writer in 2023? (Section A) with Ethan Gilsdorf
• Making Yourself Heard: Narrative Voice in Fiction with Elizabeth Gonzalez James
• Mapping the Self: Writing Your Bio with Black Pruitt

January 13th & 14th

• Nuts and Bolts of Novel Planning: Character Goals with Lori Goldstein
• Memoir Revision Essentials: Beginnings with Katie Bannon
• Getting Started in Personal Essay Writing with Elizabeth Gonzalez James
• Figuring Out Feedback: Post-Workshop Revision with Michelle Bowdler
• How to Submit: Publishing Your Writing with Literary Magazines and Small Presses with Dennis James Sweeney
• Beyond Three-Act Structure with Mark Fogarty
• The Writer's Muse: Creative Explorations with Jacquelin Cangro
• Get Out of Your Head: For Writers Considering Self-Publishing with Nakia Hill

January 20th & 21st

• Writing The Dream Sequence in Any Genre with Peter Medeiros
• Picture Book Workshop (2-Part) with Holly Thompson
• The Personal is Historical: Expanding Nonfiction Narratives with Caitlin McGill
• The Final Drafts: Revising Your Short Fiction (2-Part) with Colin Corrigan
• The Art of Growing Older: Writing About Aging with Lisa Braxton
• Poetry & The Body with Lindsey O'Neill
• So You Want to be a Writer in 2023? (Section B) with Ethan Gilsdorf
• Speculative Series: Thresholds, Portals, and Liminal Transformations with Stephanie K Brownell

January 27th & 28th

• Flash Fiction Friday! with Kelly Dalke
• Screenwriting Tricks for Fiction Writers with Andrea Meyer
• Raising the Stakes in Nonfiction with Katie Bannon
• Creating a Sustainable Writing Practice with Aimee Christian 
• Writing Lyrical (Sur)realism with Haruki Murakami & Mieko Kawakami with Rolando-André López
• The Urgent Poem: Cultivating Immediacy with Cathie Desjardins
• Moments in Love or Otherwise: Capturing Relationships with Kayla Degala-Paraiso

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