2026 Workshops Session I
Character-Centered Storytelling
The core of this intensive fiction workshop consists of the fearless sharing of your work with the class. Everyone will submit either an excerpt or short story, so that when we meet in person in June, we will all be prepared to carefully give feedback. I will deliver short craft talks each day on a variety of subjects: character, dialogue, plot, etc. You will also meet individually with me so that you will have a clear plan of attack for next steps. Taught by Trey Ellis
Fiction
Coming soon! Taught by Lisa Page
Fiction
Coming soon! Taught by Adam Sexton
Crafting the Best Literary Fiction
Our Fiction Workshop will focus on a detailed review of novel chapters, short stories, and other narratives. Writers will receive practical critiques to create tailored strategies for rewriting. The class will work collaboratively on exercises to sharpen writing skills as well to create new work. We will examine what makes a great sentence and paragraph, and consider narrative voice, narrative suspense, and metaphor. All workshop members will receive the individual time and focus necessary to take their writing to the next level. Taught by Sergio Troncoso
Opening Moves: Building Beginnings That Grab Readers
The first ten pages of any project—novel, short story, essay, or memoir—are critical for grabbing the attention of readers, editors, and agents. While workshopping the first ten pages of your submission and analyzing successful openings of published work, we’ll examine and discuss genre, audience, setting, tone, interiority, scene, perspective (point of view), “voice,” sentence structure, pacing, and other craft elements that work to create compelling openings in fiction and nonfiction. Taught by Sybil Baker
Memoir: Writing the Difficult Topic
Why should anyone care about your story? Find out how to make readers (and publishers) engage with your nonfiction. This workshop will focus on translating complex experiences into narratives that resonate on a personal and cultural level. All writers will leave with a clearer map for next steps in their journey as a writer. Taught by Mary Collins
Personal Anthropology: Reporting in the First Person
First-person writing about topics of broad concern can be electrifying, rousing readers to see their surroundings anew. In this creative nonfiction writing workshop, you’ll explore strategies for connecting personal experience to larger ideas in the arts and culture, in your manuscripts. We’ll read in-depth nonfiction that combines memoir with on-the-ground reporting and historical research, and discuss works from great practitioners, past and present, to see how they did it. Taught by Kate Bolick
Screenwriting
Coming soon! Taught by Derek Green