Reading Groups & Writing Workshops
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Groups+Workshops
Literary Truth: How to Write Immersive Nonfiction with Courtney Zoffness
Saturday & Sunday 12:00 pm EDT - 3:00 pm EDT October 21 to October 22, 2023
Examine techniques essential to fiction writing, and see how they can strengthen and enrich narrative nonfiction.
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Acts of Seduction: Women Edited by Gordon Lish with Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo
Four Sessions Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 23, 2023 to January 8, 2024
Gordon Lish, a fiction editor at Esquire and later a book editor at Knopf, became notorious for his significant interventions to the work of many...
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Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls with Mike Levine
Once a week Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 24 to November 14, 2023
“Hysterically funny and incredibly moving” (Mel Brooks), Dead Souls follows a man buying serfs who have died in the time...
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Femme Fatale: Villain or Antihero? with Hilary Davidson
Five Sessions Wednesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 25, 2023 to January 17, 2024
The femme fatale has become a staple of hardboiled crime fiction, often portrayed as a conniving, cruel woman who uses her beauty and sexual charms...
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Writing About Social Issues: Writing with Conscience with Kavita Das
Once a week Thursdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT October 26 to December 7, 2023
Focus on responsibly addressing complex societal matters, exploring the writer’s role as a witness and catalyst for change through lessons...
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The Art of the Diary with Daniel Saldaña París
Saturday & Sunday 11:00 am EDT - 2:00 pm EDT October 28 to October 29, 2023
Explore the genre of the personal journal through analysis of diaries written by various authors, and share your own entries to discover how to...
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Move and Muse: Writing and Movement with Juliana Roth
Saturday, 11:00 am EDT - 3:30 pm EDT October 28, 2023
Explore the ways writing and thinking are processes of movement, and how attending to our somatic experiences may mirror and facilitate how we...
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Groups+Workshops
Beyond the Tropes: The Vampire Plot with Marc L. Abbott
Three Sessions Sundays, 1:00 pm EDT - 2:30 pm EDT October 29 to December 3, 2023
These stories go beyond the typical vampire’s need to feed: the characters may need human blood to survive but their actions have a much...
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Groups+Workshops
Stories from Beyond with Celeste Kaufman
Monday, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 30, 2023
When the veil is thinnest between the living and the dead, it’s easiest to hear their stories! In this workshop, we’ll explore the haunted...
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Groups+Workshops
The Woman Artist with Anne Fernald
Five Sessions Wednesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT November 1, 2023 to January 31, 2024
Four classic novels by Virginia Woolf, Jessie Fauset, Doris Lessing, and Margaret Atwood analyze the thoughts and creative processes of women artists
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.