Dates: November 10, 2025
Instructor: Taylor Larsen
Location: meetings via video every OTHER Monday 7-9pm ET
Fee: $1150 | $1050 for returning Sackett writers
This generative class open to novelists, memoirists, and writers working on story and essay collections.
A writing sample is not required but recommended for this class.
Every other week you will submit up to 5,000 words of your manuscript to the instructor and she will provide you with written feedback. You’ll also have the opportunity to receive feedback from your fellow writers on your project synopsis or outline, scene exercises, and your manuscript’s opening paragraphs. The two-hour bi-weekly meetings will be the chance for you to discuss your projects and engage with writing prompts in shared group writing time. The instructor also offers a 30-minute one-on-one consultation at the end of the course to discuss your manuscript in depth.
Taylor Larsen is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program in fiction writing and the author of the debut novel Stranger, Father, Beloved from Gallery Books of Simon & Schuster (2016). She teaches or has taught creative writing at Columbia University, Stanford Continuing Studies, Catapult, The Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop.
Taylor was a Peter Taylor fellow of E.J. Levy’s hybrid workshop, as well as a visiting author at the Kenyon Review’s Summer Writer’s Workshop. She has had interviews, short stories, essays, and more published in The Huffington Post, BOMB Magazine, LitHub, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, Joyland, and more. Taylor has also worked as a book reviewer for several publications. Her second novel, FOR NOW, SLEEP is currently out on submission.