May 9th
1–2pm EDT
Meets 8 Times
Explore the world of poetry from the comfort of your own home with online classes that cover topics like sonnets, haikus, and free verse, allowing participants to improve their writing skills and gain a deeper appreciation for the art form.
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The Writers Studio @ Google Meet
Unlock your most intimate and private stories through personal writing in this online workshop. Develop narrative and lyric voices to turn even the most difficult subject matter into inspiration for your fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Broaden your sense of what is possible in your own work and receive constructive critiques from teachers and fellow students.
May 9th
1–2pm EDT
Meets 8 Times
Jun 11th
8–9pm EDT
Meets 8 Times
Jun 19th
8–9pm EDT
Meets 8 Times
Jun 26th
8–9pm EDT
Meets 8 Times
Unleash the power of poetry as you learn to pack a maximum punch with a minimum of words. Discover specialized techniques, demands, and forms of poetry, and master the art of writing exquisite verses that captivate the soul.
Jul 9th
12am–11:45pm EDT
Meets 2 Times
Aug 13th
12am–11:45pm EDT
Meets 2 Times
The Writers Studio @ Google Meet
Develop your narrative and lyric voices in this introductory poetry workshop. Broaden your sense of what is possible in your work as you explore various literary styles and approaches. Join us online to deepen your understanding of the technique and receive constructive critiques from both teachers and fellow students.
Jul 2nd
7:30–8:30pm EDT
Meets 8 Times
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Unleash the power of your words and discover the magic of poetry in this immersive workshop at 92nd Street Y. Join us as we embark on a journey to explore the boundless possibilities of crafting and sharing poems while delving into the depths of our inner worlds. Let the soundhouse of your whole body resonate with the joy of poetic expression.
Gotham Writers Workshop @ Zoom Conference
Unleash the power of poetry as you learn to pack a maximum punch with a minimum of words. Discover specialized techniques, demands, and forms of poetry, and master the art of writing exquisite verses that captivate the soul. Whether you write for publication or simply for yourself, this workshop will guide you toward creating poetry that resonates and inspires.
92nd Street Y @ Live Interactive Online Classroom
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 many 92Y appearances over the years. Morrison was The Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities,...
Experience the beauty and power of poetry as you explore the art of gratitude and daily practice. Join us for a four-week workshop where you'll discover how to infuse your writing with vulnerability, immediacy, and the magic of everyday moments. No prior writing experience is required.
92nd Street Y @ Live Interactive Online Classroom
Explore poetry and visual art in this online seminar with an in-person museum visit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art American Wing. Immerse yourself in the works of American women poets like Phillis Wheatley, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Gwendolyn Brooks, while discovering the art of their contemporaries. This course is perfect for anyone, from beginners to experienced artists.
92nd Street Y @ Live Interactive Online Classroom
The space of the poem offers you the opportunity to free yourself. The work of the poem is to tell the truth: at all costs, in every place, no matter what. It has been said that the poet is the undoing of the family, because the poem reveals its secrets. The craft of undoing is necessary to the work of constructing meaning, no matter your subject matter. Poetry is not only where we go to confront the past, but to free ourselves of it. In this...
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 as Kaveh Akbar, Nick Laird, Elizabeth Bishop, Lucille Clifton, Charles Bukowski, Wallace Stevens,...
SF Creative Writing Institute @ Virtual Classroom
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. There will be significant opportunity for extended correspondence with your mentor, who will provide...
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online Classroom
Explore William Carlos Williams, the literary doctor who illuminated the essence of American modernism. Discover his blend of observation, vernaculars, and the haunting history of the nation, as well as his impact on the postwar avant-garde. Uncover his influence of Williams on writers and artists such as Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, and Steve Reich in this captivating course.
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, their fear of self-exposure and endless doubt. This method also helps writers try on different...
This four-week workshop will lead you through the construction of a short story, from conception to revision, with the goal of having a potentially publishable piece to submit to literary journals or genre fiction magazines by the end of the class. Students will read two short stories per week, develop a story of their own through exercises and drafting, critique one another’s first draft, and then submit a revised piece at the beginning of the...
This 4-week workshop offers a brief history and introduction to the intersection of new media and poetry. We will read and write poetry that crosses boundaries and engages modern technology and media tools to make poetry more accessible and appeal to a broader audience. Students will study the work of a new generation of tech-savvy young writers, who are transforming poetry by combining graphics, video, podcasting and other social media with traditional...
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 wrote, “You have to saturate yourself with English poetry in order to compose English prose.”) Have...
Your favorite writers and poets of speculative literature (including science fiction, fantasy, and horror) use narrative techniques like persona narrators, point of view, 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, magical beings and systems, and sentient cities and starships to speculate about past...
The Big Frame: Poetry as a Tool for Re-Seeing the World Your perspective matters. How you see the world—the way you meet even the smallest moment—affects everyone and everything in the world around you. The stories you tell yourself and others create the big conversation—what are we doing here? What does it mean to be alive? But practically speaking, how do we change our perspective? How might our stories limit us? How do we re-see...
You already know how to write a poem, but you want to reinvigorate and nourish your writing practice. If you’re looking for feedback, community, a reason to write more, a way to break through blocks, and find fresh ideas and inspiration, if you are looking to take your poetry to the next level, write and revise new work, give and receive feedback, and get your work published, this is the class for you! In this six-week workshop poets will read,...
Deepen your relationship with the world through the power of poetry. Explore the connections between outer and inner landscapes as you build bridges of words with the self, others, and the natural world. Discover how a poetic practice can transform your perspective in this transformative playshop.
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