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In this masterclass, award-winning author, journalist and screenwriter Jerry Stahl shares the techniques and ingredients you need to turn your life into a compelling book.
Tap into poetry's ancient form with Diana Arterian, a writer who has published two book-length poems that attend to history, power, family, and politics. Her recent collection, Agrippina the Younger, earned the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award and was named...
In this generative workshop, writers will examine how personal narrative can hold difficult experience on the page without sliding into confession or retraumatization. Through close reading, discussion, and guided exercises, we will work with structure, scene, emotional distance, and voice.
We’ll look at inspirational passages about parenting and creativity from mother-writers such as Shirley Jackson, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Audre Lorde, and come up with nuts-and-bolts strategies to keep your work moving forward even after you’ve been up all night with a sick child.
Maurice Carlos Ruffin, who was recently honored with a Guggenheim Award, is a Professor of Creative Writing at Louisiana State University and an instructor at Randolph College Low-Res MFA program.
Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of The Wonder Paradox: Awe, Poetry, and the Meaningful Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), as well as Doubt, and Stay, and her three poetry books include Who Said. She has taught writing in the graduate programs of The New School and Columbia University.
Students will come away with an understanding of the foundational choices you need to make before writing a novel, as well as a template to fill out and clear plan for starting or continuing your novel. Register here! www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/plan...
In this master class, you’ll learn to identify scenes and summary (exposition) as you read the work of others as well as your own writing. As a result you will get a better sense of the story you are trying to tell, which will help you improve your narrative voice as a whole.
Just a few days left to register! Students will walk away with a greater understanding of figurative language theory and techniques and gain a greater understanding of descriptive prose. www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...
Maria Dahvana Headley is the New York Times-bestselling, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award-winning author of eight books in a variety of genres, most recently Beowulf: A New Translation (FSG), The Mere Wife (FSG), and Magonia (HarperCollins).
This craft seminar will be taught by Laura van den Berg, who is the author of six works of fiction, most recently the novel State of Paradise (FSG, 2024). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
This craft seminar will be taught by Craig Morgan Teicher, who is the author of five books of poems. He also wrote Cradle Book: Stories and Fables (BOA, 2010) and the chapbook Ambivalence and Other Conundrums (Omnidawn, 2014).
Each student will leave this course with a complete book proposal, ready to take the next step on the path to publication. Register here! www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/summ...
During our time together, we will explore "tangential thinking" to unlock fresh openings for your fiction. Drawing from my own practice, inspired by poet Harryette Mullen's Urban Tumbleweed, we will use the Tanka to sharpen our observational skills.
We'll begin by analyzing and unpacking a range of performance elements (time/duration, body, sound, space, object, etc), using examples from notable writer-performers.
A must-take seminar for writers preparing to apply for fellowships, residencies, and graduate programs, from Stegner and NEA Fellow Jonathan Escoffery. Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the critically acclaimed debut story collection If I Survive You, a finalist for the 2023 Booker Prize.
Matthew Gavin Frank is the author, most recently, of the nonfiction book, Submersed: Wonder, Obsession, and Murder in the World of Amateur Submarines. He’s a professor of creative writing in the Masters of Fine Arts Program at Northern Michigan University.
Isle McElroy is the author of three novels, The Atmospherians (2021), People Collide (2023), and The Channel (forthcoming in 2027). They are currently a Shearing Fellow at UNLV and teach in the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College.
While this will be a mostly generative space, there will be opportunities to share your work and receive feedback. The workshop is genre-agnostic and open to all, designed for emerging and experienced writers. Read more and register for the workshop here! www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/work...
This craft seminar will be taught by Laura van den Berg, who is the author of six works of fiction, most recently the novel State of Paradise (FSG, 2024). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other awards. Her next novel, Ring of Night, is forthcoming in 2027.
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New dates for Ru Freeman's novel workshop! This 6-session intensive includes regular one-on-one sessions with the instructor after each workshop and upon conclusion of the session to discuss your work and next steps. The deadline to submit your writing sample is June 1.
Only a few days left to register! www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/work...
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