Creative Writing Workshops

Instructor: Jill Damatac Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This generative creative writing course pairs close readings of un/documented immigrant memoirs with a biweekly workshop. Through works of Karla Cornejo...

Instructor: Saeed Jones Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students As former US Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway writes "I know now that if we choose / to keep any part of what is behind us, / we must take all of it..." This...

Instructor: Martin Puchner Monday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students The goal of this course is to use AI agents in a theatrical context. Its core assumption, which we will test throughout the semester, is that creating an AI...

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will write poems, creative nonfiction essays, and hybrid works to explore how truth, as both lived experience and...

Instructor: Louisa Thomas Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This workshop is a writing-intensive course designed to develop students' ability to tell true stories. We will apply techniques commonly associated with...

Instructor: Roxane Gay Wednesday, 2:00pm-5:00pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students We spend our lives in unruly, all too human bodies. While doing so, we must contend with the public narratives about our bodies - how they are seen and...

Instructor: Jason Silverstein Monday, 9:45-11:45am | Location: Countway Library 403 (HMS) Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course is a practicum in writing publishable op-eds on health, science, and injustice. Week by week we dissect how writers...

Instructor: Ricardo Pérez González Tuesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Stories are a fundamental unit of cultural communication. Our shared cultural mythology is how we disseminate communal values. This course is...

Instructor: Teju Cole Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This is a course on the writing of literary fiction and is for students who have taken at least one previous writing workshop. Since good writing comes out of...

Instructor: Emma Adler Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course introduces students to the fundamentals of both playwriting and dramaturgy. Dramaturgs facilitate the realization of plays through a variety of...