Announcing our November and December 2023 classes! Join Sarah Thankam Mathews in two fiction craft classes and Bushra Rehman in a multi-genre craft class.
We’re excited to launch these new classes. More info is below, and you can browse the lineup of present and past classes here.
Creating Intimacy with Sarah Thankam Mathews
Craft Class:
Saturday, 2:00 PM–5:00 PM ET
November 4th
Open to all writers of color
We all wish to avoid the cringe sex scene. In this generative craft class, students will explore how to write good, evocative—and if you want, hot—scenes of physical and emotional intimacy. Assigned readings will include passages from Arundhati Roy, Raven Leilani, Susan Choi, and J.M. Holmes, work together on some in-class writing exercises, and leave with a framework for drafting and revising scenes of physical and sexual intimacy.
Writing Parents with Sarah Thankam Mathews
Craft Class:
Saturday, 2:00–5:00 PM ET
November 18th
Open to all writers of color
In this interactive and generative craft class on representing parental figures in fiction, students will explore how to write about the ever-changing relationship between parents and children, with an especial focus on the fictionalization of Asian parents.
A Furious Blooming: Writing into Grief with Bushra Rehman
Craft Class:
Sunday, 2:00–5:00 PM ET
December 3rd
Open to all writers of color
When mothers are planted,
daughters begin a furious blooming.
Initiation, Kamilah Aisha Moon
Grief leaves us speechless, throws us into the depths of silence. There are never the right words to say to those who are grieving. Or to explain to others the depths of our own grief. Grief is a door we are pushed through into a new world, a world we must live in. We are never the same. How do we write from these new selves? How do we find words to express the mystery of death which is the mystery of life? How can we lean into our writing practice to not only survive the storms of grief, but also the storms that are unleashed in those who we grieve alongside? How have writers before us grappled with grief? In this workshop, students will find inspiration from writers who have broken through the boundary of wordlessness, and join each other in our grief journeys, if only for a moment. We will write of our own grief, side by side, and not so alone.
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!