Reading Groups & Writing Workshops
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Groups+Workshops
The Art of Writing About Community with Mai Sennaar
Once a week Wednesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT July 22 to September 23, 2026
Online | Discover how writers from Zora Neale Hurston to Jhumpa Lahiri capture the power, complexity, and texture of community—and...
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Groups+Workshops
You Do You: A Generative Fiction Workshop with Courtney Zoffness
Saturday & Sunday 12:00 pm EDT - 3:00 pm EDT July 25 to July 26, 2026
Online | What are your literary strengths, and how can you build on them? Gain insight into the effects your writing has on others...
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Groups+Workshops
The Unlived Life: Novels of Midlife Escape with Jennifer Stock
3 Sessions Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT July 28 to September 8, 2026
In Person | Explore three landmark novels that chronicle midlife escapes centered on transgression and pose serious questions about the...
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Groups+Workshops
How She Wrote: Generative Exercises Inspired by Shirley Jackson with Melissa Lozada-Oliva
Saturday & Sunday 1:00 pm EDT - 4:00 pm EDT August 1 to August 2, 2026
In Person | With addictive plots, a fascination with the occult, and witty dialogue, Jackson’s work is eternal, capturing the terror...
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Groups+Workshops
The Art of Travel Writing with Matt Ortile
Once a week Sundays, 12:00 pm EDT - 2:00 pm EDT August 2 to August 23, 2026
Online | Study contemporary travel pieces to generate ideas and build tools for telling immersive stories that balance narrative voice...
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Groups+Workshops
Agatha Christie's Poirot and Marple with Mary Anna Evans
4 Sessions Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT August 3 to September 14, 2026
Online | Read Agatha Christie’s first and final Poirot and Marple novels to see how two of fiction’s most enduring outsiders observe...
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Groups+Workshops
A Year of Henry James: Volume II with Sheridan Hay
Once a week Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT August 5 to August 26, 2026
Online | Read four of James’s most enigmatic short works as a way of tracing his growing fascination with ambiguity, secrecy, and consciousness—and...
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Groups+Workshops
I, You, They: Mastering Point of View with Philip Anderson
Once a week Thursdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 9:00 pm EDT August 6 to September 10, 2026
Online | Consider the different uses of various points of view, and experiment with voice across first, second, and third person to...
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Groups+Workshops
The Art of the Review with Alissa Wilkinson
Saturday & Sunday 11:00 am EDT - 2:00 pm EDT August 8 to August 9, 2026
Online | Learning to write a good review can open doors for any writer. Approach the review as a genre of creative writing, tackling...
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Groups+Workshops
In Short: Joyce Carol Oates’s “How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again” with Art Taylor
Monday, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT August 10, 2026
Online | Delve into this thematically rich, formally daring portrait of adolescence, alienation, and violence as a teenage girl moves...
We can only offer full refunds if you cancel one week prior to the start of class. After that, before the start date of class, we can offer a 50% refund. We cannot refund day-of cancellations or refund or partially refund the fee once the class has begun.