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Writing Grief

Saturdays: Apr 5 - May 3
12 - 2 p.m. EST

$400

We’re writing in a time of collective grief. There’s an ongoing health crisis, a deeply divided political climate, an aching planet, and through it all, each of us is moving deeply personal mountains that no one else can see. How do we show up to the page when we don’t want to get out of bed? How do we find language for the loss, the fear, the sadness, the gutpunch, the thing we can’t put down?


Writing the Experimental Essay

Tuesdays: May 6 - June 3
7:30 - 9:30 p.m. EST

$400

This class argues that the more we remember how crucial experiments are to the ways we work, the more vibrant and active we can be as artists. Experiments can shake you out of a rut, clarify your mission, and detach your work from harmful institutional expectations. And on top of that, they can be very, very cool.


Past Courses

2025

 
 

2024

 
  • WRITING FOOD with ALI FRANCIS
    featuring Bettina Makalintal, Mayukh Sen, Jaya Saxena, & Alicia Kennedy

  • WRITING THE MODERN LOVE ESSAY with LAVINIA SPALDING
    featuring Susan Yoon, Kevin Renn, Staceyann Chin, & Miya Lee

  • WRITING MOTHERHOOD with RACHEL YODER
    featuring Angela Garbes, Louisa Hall, Sabrina Orah Mark, & Erika Morillo

  • WRITING TRAUMA with MARGO STEINES
    featuring Stacey Ramsower, Athena Dixon, T Kira Māhealani Madden, & Lacy M. Johnson

  • WRITING THIS WARMING WORLD with MEERA SUBRAMANIAN
    featuring Emily Raboteau, Helen Macdonald, Elizabeth Rush, & J. Drew Lanham

 

2023

  • HYBRID MEMOIR with LILLY DANCYGER
    featuring Melissa Febos, Esmé Weijun Wang, Jeannie Vanasco, & Tyrese L. Colemen

  • WRITING THE BODY with MARGO STEINES
    & featuring Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Melissa Febos, Natalie Lima, & Leslie Jamison

2022