New January and February 2024 Classes!

Announcing our January and February 2024 classes! Join Jane Wong in a multi-genre craft class and Bobuq Sayed in a multi-genre workshop.

We’re excited to launch these new classes. More info is below, and you can browse the lineup of present and past classes here.

Writing the Environment: "Through the Garden's Dormant Splendor" with Jane Wong 

Craft Class:
Saturday, 2:00 PM⁠–⁠4:30 PM ET
January 27th

Open to all writers of color

"... Walk
through the garden's dormant splendor.
Say only, thank you.
Thank you." – Ross Gay, "Thank You"

We will delve into the layers of environmental writing, in the face of drastic environmental change and disaster. In our time together, we will generate new pieces inspired by questions such as: what is “nature poetry” and how can we decolonize and decapitalize what this looks like? What is our relationship to nature, to landscape, to place, to ecological history, to environmental justice, to speculative ecofutures? And, how does one's own lineage and experience of the environment echo one’s formal enactments on (and beyond) the page?

Writing the Crisis with Bobuq Sayed

Workshop:
Saturdays, 2:00–4:30 PM ET
February 17th–March 9th

Open to all writers of color

Whether personal, social, or political, at some stage all of us will experience the walls of our lives crashing down around us. Often the feeling of helplessness can itself become immobilizing. In this class, students will experiment with somatic and literary strategies for overcoming the despair of crisis by learning how to channel that emotion onto the page to achieve their writing goals. We'll read writing produced from the context of different crises, create and workshop new work in response to prompts, and identify generative ways to access our emotive responses with words.

All classes will take place on Zoom and the class times listed are in Eastern Time. There are scholarships available for each class and deadlines are listed on the individual course pages.

View our full selection of online classes on our Online Classes Page.

See you online!