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Fall
Advanced Flash Essay: Freedom in Structure
Explore a range of short nonfiction forms, styles, and structures.
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Advanced Interviewing for Deeper Storytelling
Interviewing is a vital part of storytelling for many writers, and yet, it can feel unpredictable and daunting.
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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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Fall
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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Webinar
9/7/22
An Intro to Graphic Narrative
Get inspired to put words and images together in your storytelling.
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Online Course
Fall
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
8/24/22
Beautiful Beginnings, Brilliant Endings
Learn how beautiful beginnings hook the reader and brilliant endings keep them thinking about your work.
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Online Course
Fall
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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Online Course
Fall
Creative Nonfiction Boot Camp 5-week
Write every day, no matter what.
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Online Course
Fall
Food Writing: A Tasting Menu
Sample a new subgenre of food writing every two weeks. In this ten-week course, we will follow the path laid out in Dianne Jacob’s food writing manual, Will Write for Food.
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Online Course
Fall
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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Online Course
Fall
Historical Narratives
Bring the past to life! Get insight into how to translate facts and research into vivid characters and scenes.
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Online Course
Fall
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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Self Guided
9/19/22–10/14/22
Play with Pattern: Crafting the Braided and Collage Essays
Often, experimenting with a new form is the best way to get unstuck and gain a fresh perspective on your writing. Course starts September 19th; enrollment is open until October 7th
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Online Course
Fall
Shapes of Stories
Expand your writer’s toolkit by experimenting with a variety of essay structures.
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Webinar
9/14/22
Tell Me Something I Don’t Know: Using Facts to Fascinate
Facts will fascinate readers—as long as they’re woven deftly with the author’s experiences and observations.
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Self Guided
9/5/22–9/30/22
The Art of Applying
How to write winning fellowship, residency, and grant applications.
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Webinar
9/28/22
The Three Essential Questions Every Agent Hopes Your Book Proposal Answers
A good book proposal will hook an agent. A great proposal will make an agent fall in love with your book. A companion webinar to Writing the Proposal: How to Finish and Sell Your Nonfiction Book* (October 5th).
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Online Course
Fall
Thirty-Minute Memoir
Manageable daily writing assignments will help you break down the task of writing a memoir.
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Fall
Writing the Personal Essay
Whether you’re a beginning or more experienced writer, learn how to tell your story with dialogue and detail while gaining a deeper understanding of form and structure.
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Webinar
10/5/22
Writing the Proposal: How to Finish and Sell Your Nonfiction Book
A follow-up presentation to The Three Essential Questions Every Agent Hopes Your Book Proposal Answers* (September 28th), this webinar takes a deeper dive into four specific areas of the nonfiction book proposal and explores how these areas can help writers finish—and prepare to sell—their manuscripts.
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