Sackett Street Writers

8,000+ creative writers since 2002 in NYC & ONLINE

6-week ONLINE Fiction Writing (intermediate & advanced) – begins wk of 9.14.25

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Instructor: coming soon
Begins: wk of September 14
Location: Online (weekly video meet-up wknight tbd 7-9pm ET)
Fee: $600 ($575 for returning writers)

A writing sample is recommended for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a sample of your writing.

Our Advanced Fiction Workshop is aimed at writers who have mastered the essentials and are looking for a community of peers ready to offer insightful, impartial feedback on works in progress. Whether you’re a writer looking to polish work for publication, looking for a fresh perspective, looking to climb the next hurdle, or simply missing the motivation and comradery only a small workshop can offer, our Fiction Workshop is designed to get you writing. Come geek out with your fellow lit nerds and walk away with a renewed sense of purpose.

Writers have two opportunities to share work with the class and receive detailed feedback and a class discussion dedicated to their writing.

Writers should have both writing and writing class experience.

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12-wk VIRTUAL Manuscript Generator I (novels, memoirs, story & essay collections) – begins wk of 9.14.25

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Dates: begins wk of September 14, 2025
Instructor: Monica West
Location: Meetings via video every OTHER *wknight tbd* 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.

This section of Manuscript Generator is intended for writers who have not participated in a previous Manuscript Generator class.

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.

The workshop is open to writers who have completed one or more chapters of a novel or memoir, as well as writers working on short story and/or essay collections. Writers participating in this course will learn how to recognize the successful techniques in their writing – what engages the reader, and how that success is achieved. Carefully planned lessons and online discussions will focus on analyzing the many choices (point-of-view, tone, characterizing details, pacing, etc.) a writer must make concerning structure, character and language. This course is intended for writers who have some experience writing and workshopping.
A private conference with the instructor is included.

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Monica West is the author of the novel Revival Season which was a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick and a finalist for the 2022 Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, she received her MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow. She has received fellowships and residencies from Kimbilio Fiction, Hedgebrook, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Bread Loaf. She earned her B.A. in English Literature from Duke University and her M.A. in English and American Literature from New York University. She currently lives in Seattle where she teaches at the University of San Francisco.

6-week ONLINE Writing Autofiction – begins wk of 10.6.25

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Dates: begins wk of October 6
Instructor: coming soon
Location: Online (weekly video meet-up wknight tbd 7-9pm ET)
Fee: $575 ($550 for returning writers)

A writing sample is not required (but welcome) for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info.

Start, finish, or polish your autofiction story in this supportive, genre-defying workshop in which we’ll explore the blurry space between novel and memoir that is autofiction. This popular modern sub-genre houses work from writers as varied as Sherman Alexie, James Baldwin, Elif Batuman, Alexander Chee, Teju Cole, Annie Ernaux, Sheila Heti, Ernest Hemingway, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Ben Lerner, and Ocean Vuong, many of whom we’ll read in this workshop. Open to writers both new to autofiction and long familiar with it, this course will explore the origins and merits of this at-times contentious sub-genre and examine the craft unique to it. Students will read published examples, write to autofiction prompts, and workshop each other’s writing.

This workshop is open to writers working in fiction and nonfiction, and writers at all levels of skill and experience are welcome to join.

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6-week Advanced Fiction – begins week of 9.14.25 – Clinton Hill

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Instructor: Natalie Adler
Dates: begins wk of September 14 | meets once a week | wknight tbd 7-9pm
Location: Clinton Hill, BK
Class fee: $650 | returning writers receive a $25 discount

A writing sample is required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a brief sample of your writing.

Our Fiction II/III Workshop is aimed at writers looking to create a regular practice and master the essentials and are looking for a community of peers ready to offer insightful, impartial feedback on works in progress. Class time is spent on in-depth discussion of student work, and analysis of published writing to inspire and inform.

Writers should have writing and writing class/workshop experience.

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Natalie Adler‘s novel, WAITING ON A FRIEND, will be published by Hogarth Books in 2026.
Natalie is an editor at ReadLux, was a Center for Fiction Emerging Writer in 2022-2023, earned her PhD at Brown in Comparative Literature, and her MFA at Brooklyn College. Her fiction and essays have been published widely.

8-week Master Fiction Intensive – begins wk of 11.3.25 – Park Slope

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Instructor: Ted Thompson
Dates: begins wk of November 3 | meets wknight 7-9pm
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $1100 / $1000 for returning Sackett writers

A writing sample is required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a brief sample of your writing.

Our Master Fiction Workshop is a selective class aimed at writers looking to polish their work for publication. Class is taught by our most experienced advanced fiction instructor whose students have gone on to attend top MFA programs and win prestigious awards. Class time is spent on in-depth discussion of student work and typed feedback from the instructor is included, as well as a private conference.

Writers should have extensive writing and writing class/workshop experience.

A private conference with the instructor is included.

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Ted Thompson is the author of The Land of Steady Habits, which was published by Little, Brown and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. The novel was adapted by Nicole Holofcener for a feature film starring Ben Mendelsohn, Edie Falco and Connie Britton, released in 2017. His short stories have been published in Tin House, American Short Fiction, One Teen Story and Best New American Voices, and he has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the MacDowell Colony. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Ted has proudly taught for Sackett for over thirteen years, as well as at Amherst College and in the Brooklyn College MFA program. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.

8-wk Advanced Fiction – begins wk of 11.3.25 – Park Slope

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Instructor: coming soon
Dates: begins week of November 3 | wknight tbd 7-9pm
Location: Park Slope
Class fee: $850 | returning writers receive a $50 discount

A writing sample is required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a brief sample of your writing.

Our Fiction II/III Workshop is aimed at writers looking to create a regular practice and master the essentials and are looking for a community of peers ready to offer insightful, impartial feedback on works in progress. Class time is spent on in-depth discussion of student work, and analysis of published writing to inspire and inform.

Writers should have writing and writing class/workshop experience.

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Beth Morgan is the author of A Touch of Jen, which she has also adapted for the screen. A Touch of Jen was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and named a best book of the year by The Rumpus. Her short fiction has been published in The Iowa Review, The Baffler, and The Kenyon Review online.

8-week Writing Sprints (all genres) generative class – begins week of 11.3.25 – Park Slope

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Instructor: coming soon
Dates: begins week of November 3| meets once a wk | wknight tbd 7-9pm
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $750 | $700 for returning Sackett writers

A writing sample is not required (but welcome) for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info.

Writing Sprints is an exercise-intensive course designed to “unstick” writers struggling to start or continue new projects, boosting writing productivity.  The course relies heavily on writing exercises (for both fiction & nonfiction writers).  Students will produce a ton of new work in this class, and receive feedback on that work from the instructor and his or her classmates. This class is for writers of all levels looking for inspiration and motivation.

This workshop is open to writers working in all genres, and writers at all levels of skill and experience are welcome to join.

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8-week Personal Essay & Memoir I/II – begins week of 11.3.25– Park Slope

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Instructor: coming soon
Dates: begins week of Nov 3| meets once a week | 7-9pm
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $850 | $800 for returning writers

A private conference with the instructor is included.

A writing sample is recommended for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a 3-5 page sample.

Through group discussion of student work, plus that of published authors, writers in this workshop will examine the art and craft of creative nonfiction. The focus will be on learning to understand and use a full range of literary techniques in order to tell a truly compelling nonfiction story. Topics such as the use of dialogue, the creation of scene, attention to style and how to craft structure from true events will be discussed. Participants will also spend time talking about the particular responsibilities that come with writing creative nonfiction. In-class writing prompts will be used to inspire and motivate students to produce new work.

This workshop is open to writers working on memoir and personal essays, and writers should have both writing and workshopping experience.

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