Creative Writing Workshops

Instructor: Roxane Gay Wednesday, 1:00pm-4:00pm | 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: TBD 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 use investigations and...

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 TBD | 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 good reading, we...

Instructor: Emma Adler TBD | 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 practices, from...

Instructor: Sebastian Smee Wednesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In an attention economy, with phone cameras and AI ubiquitous, are we losing the ability to describe what we see with our own eyes? What meaning can...

Instructor: Valeria Luiselli TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students How do we document volcanoes, whale-song, winds, tempests? How do we write with and about the “natural world” and the place that humans occupy in it, in a moment where...

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: 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...