FALL 2022
Writers are excited to meet in-person again and NYC classes are in high demand. We are working on adding more in-person classes. Response time for applications is at least a week. Thank you for your patience and for writing with us.
8-week IN-PERSON Advanced Fiction Writing – begins 9.15.22 – PARK SLOPE *FULL*
This class is FULL. Please fill out an application to be added to the waitlist or apply for another class.
Instructor: Austin Ratner
Dates: begins September 15th 2022, meets in-person Thursdays 7-9pm EST
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $625
A private conference with the instructor is included.
A writing sample is required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a sample of your writing.
Our Fiction Workshop is aimed at writers with a regular practice, those 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 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.
Austin Ratner is the author of the novels In the Land of the Living and The Jump Artist, winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. His non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine andThe Wall Street Journal and his short fiction has been honored with the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize. He attended the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and received his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is co-author of the textbook Concepts in Medical Physiology.
8-wk IN-PERSON Personal Essay/Memoir Writing begins 9.12.22 – PARK SLOPE *FULL*
This class is FULL. Please fill out an application to be added to the waitlist or apply for another class.
Instructor: Sarah Herrington
Dates: September 12th 2022, meets in-person Mondays 7-9pm EST
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $625
A private conference with the instructor is included.
A writing sample is not required (but welcome) for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info.
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 at all levels of skill and experience are welcome to join.
Sarah Herrington is an essayist, poet, editor and teacher. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Modern Love, Anxiety, Solver Stories and OpEd columns, the LATimes, SFChronicle, Tin House, Slice, NYLON, Salon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Interview, Entropy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Poets and Writers magazine, Oprah magazi
8-wk Advanced Personal Essay/Memoir – 9.14.22 – Union Sq. *FULL*
Instructor: Nancy Rawlinson
Dates: begins September 14th 2022, meets in-person Wednesdays 7-9pm EST *no class on 10.5.22*
Location: Union Square
Fee: $625
A private conference with the instructor is included.
A writing sample is required 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 at all levels of skill and experience are welcome to join.
8-week IN-PERSON Writing Sprints: A Generative Class (fiction & nonfiction) – begins 9.13.22 – PARK SLOPE *FULL*
This class is FULL. Please fill out an application to be added to the waitlist or apply for another class.
Instructor: Leslie-Ann Murray
Dates: begins September 13, meets in-person Tuesdays 7-9pm
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $600
A private conference with the instructor is included.
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.
Leslie-Ann Murray is a fiction writer from Trinidad & Tobago. She created Brown Girl Book Lover, a social media platform where she interviews diverse writers and reviews books that should be at the forefront of our imagination. She also produces a monthly newsletter, Come Get Your Diversity. Leslie-Ann is currently working on her first novel, This Has Made Us Beautiful. Leslie-Ann has been published in Poets & Writers, Zone 3, Ploughshares, Brittle Paper, Obsidian Literary Magazine, and Salamander Literary Magazine. Leslie-Ann has taught creative writing in France, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa, China, and New York City.
6-wk IN-PERSON Advanced Fiction Writing – begins 9.13.22 – Upper West Side *FULL*
This class is FULL. Please fill out an application to be added to the waitlist or apply for another class.
Instructor: Courtney Mauk
Dates: begins Sept. 13th 2022, meets in-person Tuesdays 7:30-9:30pm ET
Location: Upper West Side
Fee: $500
A private conference with the instructor is included.
A writing sample is required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a sample of your writing.
Our 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 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.
Courtney Elizabeth Mauk was born in Rolla, Missouri, and grew up in Copley, Ohio. She studied creative writing at Oberlin College before moving to New York City, where she received an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. She is the author of three novels: The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things, Orion’s Daughters, and Spark. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Literary Review, PANK, Wigleaf, Five Chapters, Juked, and Front Porch, among other venues, and have received several Pushcart nominations. Courtney lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side with her husband and two young sons.
8-wk IN-PERSON Writing Sprints: A Generative Class (fiction & nonfiction) – begins 9.13.22 – UNION SQUARE *FULL*
This class is FULL. Please fill out an application to be added to the waitlist or apply for another class.
Instructor: Elyssa East
Dates: begins September 13, 2022, meets in-person Tuesdays 7-9pm ET
Location: Union Square
Fee: $600
A private conference with the instructor is included.
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.
Elyssa East received her B.A. in art history from Reed College and her M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town, Elyssa’s first book, won the 2010 L. L. Winship/P.E.N. New England Award in non-fiction. A Boston Globe Bestseller, Dogtown is an Editors’ Choice selection from The New York Times Book Review and was named a “Must-Read Book” by the Massachusetts Book Awards. Michael Koryta selected Dogtown for Entertainment Weekly’s 2010 “You’ve Gotta Read This” list. Elyssa’s writing has also been published in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Dallas Morning News, The Kansas City Star, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Al Jazeera America, and on the Poetry Foundation’s website. Her short fiction is anthologized in Cape Cod Noir and USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir: USA Noir. A scene from her opera libretto, Mr. Hawthorne’s Engagement, which tells the true story of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s simultaneous secret engagements to two sisters, Sophia and Elizabeth Peabody, was performed with American Opera Project’s Composers and the Voice series. She is currently working on a novel.
Before publishing Dogtown, Elyssa created Columbia University’s Artists’ Resource Center and ran KGB Bar’s Columbia University Faculty Selects Reading Series. She has also worked as a baker, an archaeologist’s assistant, a ballet school dorm parent, a nonfiction reviews editor at Publisher’s Weekly, the Managing Director of the Maine Summer Dramatic Institute, and the Executive Producer of Shakespeare in Deering Oaks Park in Portland, Maine. Elyssa is an alumna of The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and has received awards and fellowships from The Corporation of Yaddo; the Ragdale, Jerome, and Ludwig Vogelstein Foundations; the University of Connecticut; the Phillips Library; and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She has taught Creative Writing at Columbia University, Rhode Island School of Design, SUNY Purchase and Cleveland State University and currently teaches at New York University’s Gallatin School. She grew up in Georgia and lives in New York City with her husband and son.
8-week IN-PERSON Advanced Fiction Writing – begins 9.27.22 – WILLIAMSBURG *FULL*
This class is FULL. Please fill out an application to be added to the waitlist or apply for another class.
Instructor: Mark Prins
Dates: begins September 27, 2022 – meets in-person Tuesdays 7-9pm EST
Location: Williamsburg
Fee: $625
A private conference with the instructor is included.
A writing sample is required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a sample of your writing.
Our Fiction Workshop is aimed at writers with a regular practice, those 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 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.
Mark Prins is the author of The Latinist, published by W.W. Norton in January 2022. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Mark has received fellowships from the Truman Capote Trust, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. Previously, he studied literature at Williams College and Exeter College, Oxford. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
8-week IN-PERSON Writing Sprints: A Generative Class (fiction & nonfiction) – begins 9.28.22 – PARK SLOPE
Instructor: Amy Shearn
Dates: begins September 28th meets in-person Wednesdays* 7-9pm
*Class meets 9/28, (no class 10/4), 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, (no class 11/23),11/30
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $600
A private conference with the instructor is included.
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.
Amy Shearn is the award-winning author of the novels Unseen City, The Mermaid of Brooklyn, and How Far Is the Ocean From Here. She has worked as an editor at several publications including JSTOR Daily, Joyland Literary Magazine, and Medium’s owned-and-operated publications Creators Hub, Human Parts, and Forge. Amy’s work has appeared in the New York Times Modern Love column, Slate, Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Catapult, and many other publications. Amy has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, and lives in Brooklyn with her two children.
8-week IN-PERSON Advanced Fiction Writing – begins 10.13.22 – PARK SLOPE
Instructor: Zain Khalid
Dates: begins October 13, 2022* – meets in-person Thursday 7-9pm EST
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $625
*No class on October 20th
A private conference with the instructor is included.
A writing sample is required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a sample of your writing.
Our Fiction Workshop is aimed at writers with a regular practice, those 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 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.
Zain Khalid’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, n+1, The Believer, The Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere. He is also the fiction editor at The Drift. His first novel, BROTHER ALIVE, is out from Grove Atlantic.
8-week IN-PERSON Personal Essay & Memoir Writing – begins 10.10.22* – Crown Heights
*no class on 10/31
Instructor: Elizabeth Isadora Gold
Dates: begins October 10, 2022, meets in-person Mondays 7-9pm
Location: Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Fee: $625
A private conference with the instructor is included.
A writing sample is not required (but welcome) 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 at all levels of skill and experience are welcome to join.
Elizabeth Isadora Gold’s writing about books, music, and feminism has appeared in The New York Times, The Believer, Tin House, The Rumpus, Time Out New York, and many other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, child and very small dog. Her nonfiction book, The Mommy Group: Freaking Out, Finding Friends, and Surviving the Happiest Times of Our Lives was published by Atria Books.
8-wk IN-PERSON Writing Sprints: A Generative Class (fiction & nonfiction) – begins 10.13.22 – UNION SQUARE
Instructor: Elyssa East
Dates: begins October 13, 2022, meets in-person Thursdays* 7-9pm ET
Location: Union Square
Fee: $600
*no class 11/24
A private conference with the instructor is included.
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.
Elyssa East received her B.A. in art history from Reed College and her M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town, Elyssa’s first book, won the 2010 L. L. Winship/P.E.N. New England Award in non-fiction. A Boston Globe Bestseller, Dogtown is an Editors’ Choice selection from The New York Times Book Review and was named a “Must-Read Book” by the Massachusetts Book Awards. Michael Koryta selected Dogtown for Entertainment Weekly’s 2010 “You’ve Gotta Read This” list. Elyssa’s writing has also been published in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Dallas Morning News, The Kansas City Star, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Al Jazeera America, and on the Poetry Foundation’s website. Her short fiction is anthologized in Cape Cod Noir and USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir: USA Noir. A scene from her opera libretto, Mr. Hawthorne’s Engagement, which tells the true story of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s simultaneous secret engagements to two sisters, Sophia and Elizabeth Peabody, was performed with American Opera Project’s Composers and the Voice series. She is currently working on a novel.
Before publishing Dogtown, Elyssa created Columbia University’s Artists’ Resource Center and ran KGB Bar’s Columbia University Faculty Selects Reading Series. She has also worked as a baker, an archaeologist’s assistant, a ballet school dorm parent, a nonfiction reviews editor at Publisher’s Weekly, the Managing Director of the Maine Summer Dramatic Institute, and the Executive Producer of Shakespeare in Deering Oaks Park in Portland, Maine. Elyssa is an alumna of The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and has received awards and fellowships from The Corporation of Yaddo; the Ragdale, Jerome, and Ludwig Vogelstein Foundations; the University of Connecticut; the Phillips Library; and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She has taught Creative Writing at Columbia University, Rhode Island School of Design, SUNY Purchase and Cleveland State University and currently teaches at New York University’s Gallatin School. She grew up in Georgia and lives in New York City with her husband and son.
6-wk IN-PERSON Advanced Fiction Writing – begins 11.8.22 – Upper West Side
Instructor: Courtney Mauk
Dates: begins November 8, 2022, meets in-person Tuesdays 7:30-9:30pm ET
Location: Upper West Side
Fee: $500
A private conference with the instructor is included.
A writing sample is required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a sample of your writing.
Our 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 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.
Courtney Elizabeth Mauk was born in Rolla, Missouri, and grew up in Copley, Ohio. She studied creative writing at Oberlin College before moving to New York City, where she received an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. She is the author of three novels: The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things, Orion’s Daughters, and Spark. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Literary Review, PANK, Wigleaf, Five Chapters, Juked, and Front Porch, among other venues, and have received several Pushcart nominations. Courtney lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side with her husband and two young sons.
7-week IN-PERSON Writing Sprints: A Generative Class (fiction & nonfiction) – begins 11.8.22 – PARK SLOPE
Instructor: Leslie-Ann Murray
Dates: November 8th 2022, meets in-person Tuesdays 7-9pm
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $550
A private conference with the instructor is included.
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.
Leslie-Ann Murray is a fiction writer from Trinidad & Tobago. She created Brown Girl Book Lover, a social media platform where she interviews diverse writers and reviews books that should be at the forefront of our imagination. She also produces a monthly newsletter, Come Get Your Diversity. Leslie-Ann is currently working on her first novel, This Has Made Us Beautiful. Leslie-Ann has been published in Poets & Writers, Zone 3, Ploughshares, Brittle Paper, Obsidian Literary Magazine, and Salamander Literary Magazine. Leslie-Ann has taught creative writing in France, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa, China, and New York City.
6-week IN-PERSON Advanced Fiction Writing – begins week of 11.7.22 – PARK SLOPE
Instructor: Austin Ratner
Dates: begins week of November 14, 2022 – meets in-person Mondays 7-9pm EST
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $500
A private conference with the instructor is included.
A writing sample is required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a sample of your writing.
Our Fiction Workshop is aimed at writers with a regular practice, those 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 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.
Austin Ratner is the author of the novels In the Land of the Living and The Jump Artist, winner of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. His non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine andThe Wall Street Journal and his short fiction has been honored with the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize. He attended the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and received his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is co-author of the textbook Concepts in Medical Physiology.
7-week IN-PERSON Writing Sprints: A Generative Class (fiction & nonfiction) – begins week of 11.7.22 – UNION SQUARE
Instructor: coming soon
Dates: begins week of November 7th 2022, meets in-person Tuesdays 7-9pm
Location: Union Square
Fee: $550
A private conference with the instructor is included.
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.
7-wk IN-PERSON Advanced Personal Essay & Memoir – begins wk of 11.7.22 – Union Sq.
Instructor: Nancy Rawlinson
Dates: begins week of November 7th 2022, meets in-person weeknight tbd 7-9pm EST
Location: Union Square
Fee: $575
A private conference with the instructor is included.
A writing sample is required 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 at all levels of skill and experience are welcome to join.
Nancy Rawlinson has been working as a freelance editor and writing coach since 2003, providing in-depth developmental feedback for authors of literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, and memoir. Recent books that she has worked on include books published by Harper, Picador, Scribner, Atria, Simon and Schuster, Knopf, Houghton Mifflin, Liveright, Chicago Review Press, Crown, and more.Nancy started her life as an editor and writer working for magazines and newspapers such as The Guardian, The Sun, Time Out London, and Madison magazine. She has an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. From 2006-2008 she was a nonfiction editor at Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics. As a writer she has been awarded residencies and fellowships from the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, the Ragdale Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Jentel Artist Residency Program. She trained as a coach at the NLP Center of New York and lives in Brooklyn with her two sons.
5-wk IN-PERSON Personal Essay & Memoir – begins 11.10.22 – PARK SLOPE
Instructor: Amy Shearn
Dates: begins week of November 10th 2022, meets in-person Thursdays* 7-9pm EST
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $425
*No class 11/24
A private conference with the instructor is included.
A writing sample is not required (but welcome) 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 at all levels of skill and experience are welcome to join.
Amy Shearn is the award-winning author of the novels Unseen City, The Mermaid of Brooklyn, and How Far Is the Ocean From Here. She has worked as an editor at several publications including JSTOR Daily, Joyland Literary Magazine, and Medium’s owned-and-operated publications Creators Hub, Human Parts, and Forge. Amy’s work has appeared in the New York Times Modern Love column, Slate, Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Catapult, and many other publications. Amy has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, and lives in Brooklyn with her two children.
WINTER 2023
8-week IN-PERSON Advanced Fiction Writing – begins week of 1.9.23 – PARK SLOPE
Instructor: Zain Khalid
Dates: begins week of January 9, 2023 – meets in-person weeknight tbd 7-9pm EST
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $625
A private conference with the instructor is included.
A writing sample is required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a sample of your writing.
Our Fiction Workshop is aimed at writers with a regular practice, those 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 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.
Zain Khalid’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, n+1, The Believer, The Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere. He is also the fiction editor at The Drift. His first novel, BROTHER ALIVE, is out from Grove Atlantic.
8-week IN-PERSON Writing Sprints: A Generative Class (fiction & nonfiction) – begins 9.28.22 – PARK SLOPE
Instructor: Amy Shearn
Dates: begins September 28th meets in-person Wednesdays* 7-9pm
*Class meets 9/28, (no class 10/4), 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, (no class 11/23),11/30
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $600
A private conference with the instructor is included.
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.
Amy Shearn is the award-winning author of the novels Unseen City, The Mermaid of Brooklyn, and How Far Is the Ocean From Here. She has worked as an editor at several publications including JSTOR Daily, Joyland Literary Magazine, and Medium’s owned-and-operated publications Creators Hub, Human Parts, and Forge. Amy’s work has appeared in the New York Times Modern Love column, Slate, Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Catapult, and many other publications. Amy has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, and lives in Brooklyn with her two children.
8-wk IN-PERSON Personal Essay/Memoir Writing begins week of 1.9.23 – PARK SLOPE
Instructor: Sarah Herrington
Dates: week of January 9th 2023, meets in-person weeknight 7-9pm EST
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $625
A private conference with the instructor is included.
A writing sample is not required (but welcome) for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info.
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 at all levels of skill and experience are welcome to join.
Sarah Herrington is an essayist, poet, editor and teacher. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Modern Love, Anxiety, Solver Stories and OpEd columns, the LATimes, SFChronicle, Tin House, Slice, NYLON, Salon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Interview, Entropy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Poets and Writers magazine, Oprah magazi
8-wk IN-PERSON Writing Sprints: A Generative Class (fiction & nonfiction) – begins week of 1.11.23 – Park Slope
Instructor: Amy Shearn
Dates: begins week of January 9, 2023, meets in-person WEDNESDAYS 7-9pm ET
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $600
A private conference with the instructor is included.
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.
Amy Shearn is the award-winning author of the novels Unseen City, The Mermaid of Brooklyn, and How Far Is the Ocean From Here. She has worked as an editor at several publications including JSTOR Daily, Joyland Literary Magazine, and Medium’s owned-and-operated publications Creators Hub, Human Parts, and Forge. Amy’s work has appeared in the New York Times Modern Love column, Slate, Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Catapult, and many other publications. Amy has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, and lives in Brooklyn with her two children.
8-wk IN-PERSON Advanced Personal Essay & Memoir – begins week of 1.9.23 – Union Sq.
Instructor: coming soon
Dates: begins week of January 9, 2023, meets in-person weeknight tbd 7-9pm EST
Location: Union Square
Fee: $625
A private conference with the instructor is included.
A writing sample is required 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 at all levels of skill and experience are welcome to join.
8-wk IN-PERSON Writing Sprints: A Generative Class (fiction & nonfiction) – begins week of 1.9.23 – UNION SQUARE
Instructor: coming soon
Dates: begins week of January 9, 2023, meets in-person weeknight tbd 7-9pm ET
Location: Union Square
Fee: $600
A private conference with the instructor is included.
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.
8-wk IN-PERSON Personal Essay & Memoir – begins wk of 1.9.23 – Park Slope
Instructor: coming soon
Dates: begins week of January 9, 2023, meets in-person weeknight tbd 7-9pm EST
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $625
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 at all levels of skill and experience are welcome to join.
8-wk IN-PERSON Writing Sprints: A Generative Class (fiction & nonfiction) – begins week of 1.9.23 – Long Island City
Instructor: coming soon
Dates: begins week of January 9, 2023, meets in-person weeknight tbd 7-9pm ET
Location: Long Island City
Fee: $600
A private conference with the instructor is included.
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.
8-wk IN-PERSON Personal Essay & Memoir – begins wk of 1.9.23 – Long Island City
Instructor: coming soon
Dates: begins week of January 9, 2023, meets in-person weeknight tbd 7-9pm EST
Location: Long Island City
Fee: $625
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 at all levels of skill and experience are welcome to join.
8-week IN-PERSON Fiction Writing – begins week of 1.9.23 – Long Island City
Instructor: coming soon
Dates: begins week of January 9, 2023, meets in-person weeknight tbd 7-9pm EST
Location: Long Island City
Fee: $625
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 sample of your writing.
Our Fiction Workshop is aimed at writers with a regular practice, those 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 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.