Browse one-day & multi-week workshops & classes

Working on a manuscript? Learn about our year-long manuscript Groups

​APRIL

Saturday, April 4
Online​ • 3 - 5pm EST • $5 Session
Writing Your Life, with Debra Jo Immergut - FULL

Tuesday, April 7
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • $5 Session
Short Story Builder, with Kate Senecal - FULL

Saturday, April 11
Online • 3 - 5pm EST • $5 Session
Ask the Editors: The Path to Publishing Short Fiction, with Joy Baglio & Emily Everett - FULL

Friday, April 17
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • FREE
Open Community Writing, with Kate Senecal

Saturday, April 18
Online • 3 - 5pm EST • $5 Session
Launching Your Novel: Queries, Agents, & Publishing, with Joy Baglio 

Thursday, April 23
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • $5 Session
Revision Exercises for Novels and/or Short Stories, with Kate Senecal - FULL

Sunday, April 26
Online • 3 - 4:30pm EST • $5 Session
Jump-Start Your Memoir, with Celia Jeffries - FULL​

Thursday, April 30
Online • 6:30 - 8pm EST • FREE
Spring Fiction Author Reading, featuring Sara Rauch, Jennifer Rosner, Debra Jo Immergut, & Mary South

​MAY

Friday, May 1
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • FREE
Open Community Writing, with Joy Baglio

Saturday, May 2
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • $5 Session
So You Have a Novel-In-Progress? Let's Talk! Novelists' Check-in and Support Group, with Joy Baglio & Kate Senecal

Tuesday, May 5
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • 10-week workshop
10-week Generative & Community-Building Workshop, with Kate Senecal

Saturday, May 9
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • $5 Session
Basics of Scrivener, with Eric Max Williams

Friday, May 15
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • FREE
Open Community Writing, with Joy Baglio

Saturday, May 16
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • $5 Session
Creating Tiny Universes: An Evening of Flash Fiction, with Joy Baglio - FULL

Saturday, May 23
Online • 1 - 4pm EST • 3-hour workshop 
Writing Illness and the Body, with Dennis James Sweeney

Saturday, May 24
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • $5 Session
Hooked from the First Line: The Art of the Opening, ​with Joy Baglio

Saturday, May 30
Online • 1 - 4pm EST • 3-hour workshop
Creating Compelling Characters, with Carolyn Zaikowski

Sunday, May 31
Online • 3 - 5pm EST • $5 Session
Turning Real Life Into Compelling Fiction, with Ben Jackson

​JUNE

Thursdays, June 4 - July23
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • 8-week Workshop
8-week Advanced Fiction Workshop, with Kate Senecal

Friday, June 5
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • FREE
Open Community Writing, with Joy Baglio

Saturday, June 6
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • $5 Session
An Evening of Lyric and Narrative Poetry, with Carolyn Zaikowski

Sunday, June 7
Online • 1 - 4pm EST • 3-hour workshop
The Propulsive Plot: Strategies for Building Suspense in the Novel, with Debra Jo Immergut

Sunday, June 14
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • $5 Session
Writing Three-Dimensional Settings, with Carolyn Zaikowski

Thursdays, June 18 - August 6
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • $320
8-week Short Fiction Workshop, with Carolyn Zaikowski

Friday, June 19
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • FREE
Open Community Writing, with Joy Baglio

​JULY

Friday, July 3
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • FREE
Open Community Writing, with Joy Baglio

Sunday, July 5
Online • Self-Guided • 4-week workshop
Tales from the Memory Palace: Writing 6 - 100-word Memoirs, with Giulietta Nardone

Friday, July 17
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • FREE
Open Community Writing, with Joy Baglio

​AUGUST

Saturdays, August 8 - 29
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • $200
4-week Flash Fiction Intensive: Creating Tiny Universes, with Joy Baglio

Thursdays, August 13 - October 1 (8 Weeks)
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • $320
Revision Strategies for Prose Writers, with Kate Senecal

Sunday, August 16
Online • 3 - 5pm EST • $25
Submitting & Publishing Short Fiction, with Joy Baglio

Thursdays, August 13 - October 1
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • $320
8-week Revision Strategies for Prose Writers, with Kate Senecal

​SEPTEMBER

​Wednesday, September 2
Online • 6:30 - 8pm EST • $5 Session - BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
Jump Start Your Memoir, with Celia Jeffries

​Sundays, September 6 - 27 (4 weeks)
Online, Williamsburg MA • 6 - 8 EST • $200
Writing Sentences That Sing, with Joy Baglio

​Saturday, September 12
Online • 1 - 4pm EST • $60 Session
Writing Prose Poems That Sing, with Gail Thomas

​Mondays, September 14 - October 19
Online • 1 - 3pm EST • $250 Session
A Try at the Truth: Intro to Memoir Workshop, with Celia Jeffries

​Saturday, September 19 
Online • 3 - 5pm EST • $30
Hooked from the First Line: The Art of the Opening, ​with Joy Baglio

​Saturday, September 26
In-Person, Williamsburg MA • 1 - 4pm EST • $60 Session
Writing Without Fear: How to Raise Your Own Stakes as a Storyteller, with Giulietta Nardone

​OCTOBER

Saturday, October 3
Online • 1 - 3pm EST • $40 Session
Publishing Your Poems, with Gail Thomas

​Saturday, October 3
Online • 1 - 3pm EST • $30 Session
Revision Is Risky Business, with Celia Jeffries

Thursdays, October 8 - November 26
Online • 6 - 8pm EST • 8-week Workshop • $300
8-week Advanced Fiction Workshop, with Kate Senecal

​Saturday, October 10
Online • 2 - 4pm EST • $30
Hybrid Forms: Writing Between Genres, with Dennis James Sweeney

​Saturday, October 10
Online • 1 - 4pm EST • $60 Session
Dialogue That Makes Characters Real, with Drew Johnson

Saturday, October 24
Online • 2 - 4pm EST • $30 Session
Turning Real Life Into Compelling Fiction, with Ben Jackson

​NOVEMBER

Saturday, November 7
Online • 1 - 4pm EST • $50 
Creating Compelling Characters, with Carolyn Zaikowski
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Sunday, November 8
Online • 1 - 3pm EST • $30
In Our Own Words: Generative Translation, with Liz Bedell

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Learn about our year-long manuscript workshop groups

Currently, ALL WORKSHOPS ARE HELD REMOTELY. In-person workshops are held at Commons Coworking, in Williamsburg MA.