Writing Classes in NYC, New York

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 About the...

In Effective Business Writing, you'll learn how to write professional emails and other standard business documents that get results. First, you'll learn key strategies to write effectively. Then, you'll develop a variety of business documents throughout the course, including emails, proposals, and letters. The course begins with an introduction...

Develop proficiency in essential grammar topics during this seven-hour course. You'll review punctuation rules, word choice, and writing techniques to improve your business writing skills. While our other courses help you with ideas and structure, this grammar course will help you with the technical aspects and details. To present your message effectively,...

If you’re just stepping into the world of playwriting, welcome! In this 5-week class, Kara Lee Corthron will help you build a toolbox of the fundamentals, so your first play (and each play you write after that!) can be built on a strong foundation. This class might be for you if you are: A budding playwright who wants to get down to basics. A...

Break story on your pilot, construct your new series and learn about the TV business in this in-person, day-long intensive. First, spend the day developing your series pitch and structuring your pilot episode with Pilar Alessandra. Then, learn about the business of writing (selling, staffing, representation) with special guest speaker Carole...

Corporate strategy execution depends upon developing and implementing the best solution in the workplace. Success factors however, rely upon basing the solution on the right requirements, drawn from a sound and robust Business Case. A well crafted business case document outlines the rationale for undertaking a business project. It should be a formal,...

In many respects the online version of The Fledgling Course, the Narrative Nestling Course is slightly more goal-oriented. While The Fledgling Course focuses solely on the generation of ideas and content, this at home series culminates with all participants having completed the draft of some original piece of creative writing—whether it be a chapter,...

This course focuses on professional written communication. Students learn to write clear, concise, and effective business letters, memos, reports, email, texts, and proposals. Additionally, students learn to target their message for stakeholders (superiors, colleagues, employees, and clients) using effective tone, language structure, and word choice....

This writing course is focused on mastering writing for academic or professional use. Offered in 6 different levels, this writing course focuses on building sentences into paragraphs and paragraphs into essays. In the high intermediate - advanced course, you will learn proper MLA formatting and how to write various essay types (e.g. narrative, argumentative,...

Conversation Italian, movies, videos, articles and so much more. Tutto in italiano, sei pronto per impacchettare tutto e trasferirti senza problemi, ovunque in Italia!

In this 6-week online class we will study how writers in seclusion and exile have turned their fear and anxiety into creative inspiration. Each week, we will try writing exercises based on fiction writers and poets such as Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust. In the weekly chats, we will discuss the week’s exercise and explore the...

In this higher-level grammar course, students improve their English fluency and accuracy through engaging activities. Focusing on sophisticated forms such as, gerunds and infinitives, complex sentences types, reduced clauses, and appropriate word selection, students enhance their speaking and writing skills. Activities incorporate a combination of...

Join writers from all over the world and your teacher, Pulitzer Prize nominated author, TV writer, screenwriter, professor, and former HBO executive, Stephen Molton, for this unique Television Drama Weekend Intensive Workshop. Get ready to dive deep into the structure of of the pilot and learn what makes a drama pilot sell. Collaborate live through...

Are you eager to test the waters of creative writing but not sure where to start, or how? Have you written previously but been away for a while and hope to dip back in? Here you will be guided surely and safely into the writing life. There’s no pressure to work on a specific project or even settle on which type of creative writing you prefer. The...

In this weekly class we'll spend 1.5 hours a session writing to two or three new prompts. This class is meant for the most tenderfoot-ed of fledglings, participants with some workshop experience, or veterans who are looking for something new. Multifaceted prompts are designed to encourage writers of all levels to approach their work through varying...