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In this course, you will learn to enhance and augment your creative writing ability. This poetry class is one that will assist in your creative writing process and upon completion you will gain confidence in writing some of the best poetry you have written. Materials Needed to Fully Participate: Pencil/Pen Notebook An open mind Important Note:...

Improve your writing by reading exciting poets! If you're a beginning reader of poetry or an already practicing poet, come discover the secrets of poetic form, metaphor, imagery, rhythm, and much more by looking deeply into the works of a wide range of poets – from Shakespeare and the classics to the best international, American, and LA poets—such...

Our Online Level I workshop is an introduction to the philosophy on which The Writers Studio was founded in 1987 by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Philip Schultz. Persona writing, a method of borrowing the voice and temperament of accomplished writers, offers writers the imaginative distance and perspective they need to overcome their negative inclinations,...

Our Online Level I workshop is an introduction to the philosophy on which The Writers Studio was founded in 1987 by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Philip Schultz. Persona writing, a method of borrowing the voice and temperament of accomplished writers, offers writers the imaginative distance and perspective they need to overcome their negative inclinations,...

92Y brings together a group of the nation’s most celebrated Black scholars, critics and writers for a year-long series on all the novels of Toni Morrison—from The Bluest Eye (1975), which she wrote between her day job as a book editor and her life as a single mother; to God Help the Child, from which she read on our stage in 2015, the last of...

The SF Creative Writing Institute’s monthly Drop-in Poetry Workshops are one-off, three-hour workshops taught by a variety of talented instructors with different styles and themes. Poets of all levels are invited to join us for inspiration, lessons & techniques, generative prompts, sharing and feedback.  Drop-ins are a great way to get a...

Online Advanced Poetry (Video) Students at this level are writing poetry with an increased focus on creating an individual voice and emotional richness. Each week, the teacher assigns an exercise based on readings from the concurrent Craft Class. Students submit their weekly exercises and provide weekly feedback to a few of their classmates. Everyone...

Writing prose poetry is exciting, fun, and challenging. Prose poems vary a great deal. They display an abundance of different narrators and approaches: the one common element is that sentences, rather than free or metrical verse, drive the writing. In this six-week class, you will sample diverse exercises based on accessible, yet artistically challenging...

The Writers Studio has been helping writers online for 20 years using our custom, easy to use online classrooms. Our online students publish, win awards, and achieve full creative expression. Students get personal feedback from the teacher every week. Are you a dedicated prose writer, but sometimes just want to write a poem? (As Vladimir Nabokov...

Masters of speculative fiction and poetry (including science fiction, fantasy, and horror) use narrative techniques like persona narrators, point of view, mood, and tone as well as worldbuilding to craft fantastic and imaginative worlds that parallel, reflect, and critique our own real world. Imagining utopias, dystopias, dinosaurs, aliens, monsters,...

In this 6-week online workshop you will find inspiration, play, experiment with new forms and generative exercises, explore the craft of poetry, create and edit new work, and share and receive feedback, support, and encouragement in a relaxed, intimate environment. We will meet as a group via Zoom each week for lectures and workshopping. Lessons, assignments,...

Send your book out without self-doubt. Instead, work with one of our editors to get your manuscript in shape.   In this month-long one-on-one intensive, an experienced published author will closely read your entire book and mentor you, giving focused editorial feedback on the first 25 pages and an editorial letter to guide revision of the rest....