Creative Writing Workshops

Instructor: Sam Marks and Musa Syeed TBD | Location: TBD How do we tell stories for the stage and the screen? What is the difference between playwriting and screenwriting? What qualities do they share? This open enrollment course introduces students to...

Instructor: Valeria Luiselli TBD | Location: TBD This is a course for anyone who is interested in the politics and aesthetics of sound. We will work on developing listening literacy as writers, thinking of it as a source of narrative craft. We will...

Instructor: Andrew Krivák Tuesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This workshop will be a semester-long study on how, where, and why a writer chooses to use a particular point of view. Taking the word “point” quite...

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this workshop-based class, students will explore and put to use the various, crucial components of poem writing, such as image, metaphor, line, form...

Instructor: Tina Chang Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Magic : [maj-ik] (noun): power or influence exerted through art; any extraordinary or mystical influence, charm, power. The name of this course pays tribute...

Instructor: Tina Chang Wednesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students The tradition of poetry is widening, drawing from many art forms, blending and fusing to create contemporary cross-pollinated forms. In this class we will...

Instructor: Namwali Serpell Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course offers an education in the origins of what is now known as genre fiction: romance, the Gothic, science fiction, mystery, thriller, detective...

Instructor: Namwali Serpell Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this course, we will learn about representing the “real” self and “real” life in prose fiction. The use of confessional, autobiographical, and...

Instructor: Nick White Fall 2026 Section 001 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Section 002 Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026: Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students...

Instructor: Laura van den Berg Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Julio Cortázar: “The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves.” This workshop will...