This week: Last call on "The Call"// And! A webinar on Finding Your Writing Voice
Plus early bird price on summer offerings ends 5/31!
The self-guided course, The Call: A Course on Creative Witness has opened, and registration will remain open this week! What you get:
Videos of original hour-long interviews from 2022 with poets/essayists Ross Gay, Erika Meitner, and Sean Singer. (Two talks with Ross and one each with Erika and Sean.)
Supplemental readings and lecture materials in the Wet Ink platform.
Feedback from and discussion with a cohort of other students taking the course.
Access to the materials until 6/19/23.
Price: Sliding scale, $100/$75. There are also three scholarship spots still available. More information can be found here.
On Wednesday 5/24 at 2PM Eastern, I will be giving a webinar called “Finding Your Voice: Flex Who You Are & Enliven Your Prose” through Craft Talks.// $25, replay available
In this webinar, you will:
DIVE deeply into thinking about voice and diction
LEARN strategies for becoming the writer only you can be
DRAW on all that you know and are to bring your writing to life
LEARN strategies for finding your way (back) into your life narratives and telling them in compelling ways
This webinar is for…
Intermediate writers of essay and memoir
Those interested in how master writers create compelling prose
Writers who want new strategies for reconnecting with and enlivening their work
SUMMER COURSES// July 10-August 13// EARLY BIRD PRICE ENDS 5/31
Writing the Lyric Essay: When Poetry and Nonfiction Play
A course for essayists interested in infusing your work with fresh new possibilities, or for poets who wants to try essay!
Memoirist Megan Baxter returns to guide you through crafting a memoir from life’s twists and turns.
Flash Fiction: Form and Fracture
A course for writers of all levels and genres interested in creating unique and innovative flash fiction, taught by our new instructor, author of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction Kami Westhoff.
These five-week online asynchronous courses take place in the Wet Ink platform. Students log on during the week according to their own schedules and respond to discussion questions and writing exercises, give feedback to peers, and receive feedback from peers and instructor. Courses also include written lecture materials and readings. Early bird price: $250.
ALSO AVAILABLE NOW:
Drop-In Generative Writing Workshops
Zoom-based workshops with prompts and short model readings. Suitable for essayists, poets, writers of flash fiction. Two sessions left in the 2023 series: Saturdays May 27th and June 24th, 12-3PM ET. $75 per session. Take one or both.
Creativity Jumpstart Self-Paced Course
This self-paced course includes four weeks' worth of lessons, including prompts, lecture materials in written and video form, and readings. This one is entirely self-paced. (You go through it individually on your own time.) Available now. $45.
Happy writing and happy late May!
I’ve too many family events and commitments the rest May and most of June to sign up for The Call but I’m hoping it will run again as it sounds fascinating.