Class Description
This course has a very clear mission: devote three hours of your life to writing. Through a series of fun, directed, in-class writing exercises inspired by short published texts, we will explore the terrain of fiction and nonfiction (and perhaps a little poetry, too). Via these writing prompts, we'll find ideas and situations with dramatic or literary potential; write detailed and sensory description; construct characters, settings, and vivid dialogue; play with the sound of language; and help you find your voice. We'll share the work we produce in class, and briefly discuss its strengths and offer suggestions for further development and revision. A supportive and generative experience for both new and practicing writers. Note that this is not a course in the fundamentals of fiction, nonfiction or poetry, but an opportunity for beginners and advanced students to begin to generate material for new work.
Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.
For more detailed information about GrubStreet scholarships, including how to contribute to scholarship funds for other students, click here.
This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. After registering, a yellow Resources tab will appear in this section containing a link to join class. Please note that you will need to be logged into view the Resources tab.
Zoom Participation:
In our experience, the intimate nature of a writing workshop benefits from on-camera participation. Students are of course welcome to turn their camera off whenever they need to, but it is a community norm for cameras to be on most of the time. You can learn more about using Zoom here.
Zoom Accessibility:
You can enable closed captioning at any time during the meeting by clicking the CC button at the bottom of the screen. If you'd like to access the transcript after class, please make sure to let your instructor ahead of time that you'd like a copy.