Writing Workshops

Writing Past the Page with Josh Krigman (June 2025)

$445

6 sessions

Out of stock

Once a week Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT June 30 to August 4, 2025

The Center for Fiction

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It’s often hard to make time for your writing, and even harder to feel like you’re using that time well. Too often, once you’ve finally warmed up, you have to stop and return to the rest of your life. But what if you could stay warmed up all the time?

In this six-week, generative course, we’ll explore ways of taking your writing practice beyond your desk, starting with building your own writing sketchbook. Unlike a notebook, a sketchbook isn’t for ideas to be used and developed later, but a place where you can practice writing for its own sake. Your writing sketchbook is a space for you to observe the world through language, and a tool that encourages you to stay open to those observations more often.

Through in-class prompts and ongoing assignments, we’ll slowly build our sketchbooks, expanding your relationship to writing from the status of your current project to the way you interact with the world and producing plenty of new pages in the process. Then, when it is time for your project, you’ll be warmed up and ready to go. All genres are welcome, no experience is necessary.

Course Outline:

Week 1: Building your notebook
Week 2: Observational writing
Week 3: Using your assumptions
Week 4: Finding new sentences
Week 5: Tableaus and still lives
Week 6: Looking back to look forward

Level: Introductory

This course will be held in person at The Center for Fiction.

Led by

Josh Krigman

Josh Krigman

Josh Krigman (he/him) is a writer, teacher, and facilitator in New York City. He has taught creative writing at Hunter College, the United Nations International School, 826NYC, The Writer’s Rock, and National Geographic Expeditions. He has been awarded residencies from Vermont Studio Center, and his work has appeared in the Summerset Review, Akashic Books, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere. He received his MFA in fiction from Hunter College. Through Little Nights, he hosts interdisciplinary events designed to make art-making more accessible to new audiences. He is also the co-founder and New York host of Club Motte, an international storytelling series that hosts live events in New York and Berlin.

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Writing Workshops

We strive to make our classes the most inviting and rewarding available, offering an intimate environment to study with award-winning, world-class writers. Each class is specially designed by the instructor, so whether you’re a fledgling writer or an MFA graduate polishing your novel, you’ll find a perfect fit here.

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