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Webinar
1/5/22
52 Snapshots: A Memoir Starter Kit for the New Year
Develop a manageable weekly plan for drafting a CNF book in the New Year.
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Online Course
Winter
Advanced Historical Narratives: Crafting the Best Material
Hone your approach, pinpoint your main characters, organize your story, and bring the past to life.
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Winter
Advanced Memoir: From First Sentence to Resolution
Refine and refresh work in progress and take up the challenges of longer sections and full-length manuscripts.
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Online Course
Winter
Advanced Personal Essay: Finding a Way Through
Transform actual people and events into characters and plot elements, and turn your personal anecdotes into publishable essays.
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Online Course
Winter
Approaching Mystery: Writing Flash Memoir about Wonder and the Unexplained
Capture the absurd or surreal quality of everyday life and tell a meaningful story in as few words as possible.
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Webinar
1/12/22
Best Foot Forward: Make the Most of Your Application Materials
As opportunities and spaces slowly re-open, so too are funding resources–for time and space to research and write, and to develop professionally. When it comes to your application packet, how do you know if you’ve put your best foot forward?
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Webinar
12/15/21
Bringing Place to the Page: Writing about Landscape, Home, and Travel
Everyone comes from somewhere, and every story unfolds in an environment. When approached creatively, place can serve as more than a backdrop, and even as a character itself, which can enliven and enrich our stories about human drama and personal experience.
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Webinar
12/29/21
Cosmic Zoom: Make Your Writing More Appealing & Important to a Broader Audience
As writers, we are often told about the importance of “critical distance”—seeing something from far away enough to understand what it means and how it’s working.
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Online Course
Winter
Creative Nonfiction Boot Camp 10-Week
Kick-start your writing with our most popular class. Start that long-delayed project, develop essential writing habits with daily writing prompts, and reach your goals.
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Winter
Creative Nonfiction Boot Camp 5-week
Write every day, no matter what.
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Online Course
Winter
Eureka! Science Writing for General Audiences
Gain writing and research skills—everything from general literary techniques to interviewing and fact-checking—that will help you craft engaging nonfiction about scientific discovery, research, and policy.
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Online Course
Winter
Flash Essay
Distill experiences, big or small, into their purest essence.
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Foundations of Creative Nonfiction
Your introduction to the genre. Explore the techniques for gathering information and build literary skills to turn bare facts into compelling narratives.
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Memoir & Personal Essay: Beyond the Basics
Tackle a big writing project in this class intended for writers who are ready to take their writing to the next level.
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Pathways
Pathway to the Essay Form
A yearlong structured track designed to help you explore a variety of essay forms, break out of ruts and tired patterns, and spark new creative work.
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Pathways
Pathway to the Memoir
A yearlong structured track designed to help you write your memoir.
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Pathways
Pathway to the Personal Essay
A yearlong structured track designed to help you raise your personal essay game from good to great.
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Shapes of Stories
Expand your writer’s toolkit by experimenting with a variety of essay structures.
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Online Course
Winter
The Building Blocks of Personal Essay
Learn the building blocks of writing a personal essay and connect your experiences to larger truths about our world.
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Online Course
Winter
Thirty-Minute Memoir
Manageable daily writing assignments will help you break down the task of writing a memoir.
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Webinar
1/19/22
What’s Wrong With This Work? Turning Rejections into Publications
Agents, editors, publishers and readers often accept or reject your work based on the first page. Learn how to make them read on.
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