Creative Writing Workshops

Instructor: Musa Syeed Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Writing is directing and directing is writing. The best screenwriters don’t just write snappy dialogue or craft character arcs; they “speak” the primal...

Instructor: Reginald Dwayne Betts Section 1 Monday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Section 2 Monday, 6:00-8:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This workshop will be an exploration into the ways that poets in the past have reckoned in...

Instructors: Neel Mukherjee and Laura van den Berg Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45 am | Location: TBD How to tell a story? How do writers discover character, imagine worlds, and shape narrative time? This open-enrollment creative writing course will focus...

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site In this workshop-based class, students will consider themes that intersect with the Young Adult genre: gender and sexuality, romantic and...

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will think deeply about how music is often at the center of their...

Instructor: Michael Pollan Monday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site There are few literary forms quite as flexible as the personal essay. The word comes from the French verb essai, “to attempt,” hinting at the...

Instructor: Darcy Frey Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this hands-on writing workshop, we will study the art of narrative journalism in many different forms: Profile writing, investigative reportage, magazine...

Instructor: Andrew Krivak Tuesday, 9:00-11:45 1m | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site This course is a workshop intended for students who are interested in writing longer form narratives from the first-person point of view. The...

Instructor: Neel Mukherjee Fall 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students The course will consist of two halves. In the first hour of each class, we will be doing...

Instructor: Reginald Dwayne Betts Section 1: Tuesday, 9:00-11:45 am | Location: TBD Section 2: Tuesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site- Section 1 Course Site- Section 2 This workshop will be an exploration...