Poetry

Here’s where the ordinary and the extraordinary collide. Experimenting with craft and form, poets create whole worlds in just one line or image. They distill where they have been and what they know, shaped with luminous detail. Interested in songwriting? Here’s where song lyrics are born as well.  You’ll discover the many ways to tempt your muse to the page and forge what follows into full blaze.

Fiction

From the real to the surreal,  commonplace to unconventional,  fiction writers learn how evocative narrative works: the power of provocative hooks, engaging characters, and a variety of story architectures that weave together complex lives. Inclined toward scripts? This is where you’ll also learn the full weight of dialogue. Focusing on developing a repertoire of voices, you’ll learn the narrative devices that lend themselves to stage or screen as well as the page.

Creative Nonfiction

Here’s where truth plays its hand in spades. Creative nonfiction writers deploy the devices of great fiction - but for crafting true stories. They take these skills into field assignments, practicing inventive moves through humor, memoir, editorial, travel writing, long-form journalism, and many others. Straddle the tenuous line between fact and fiction; (dare to) bring your truth to the page!

Short Form Creative Writing

Brief and boundary breaking, this hybrid form breaks all the rules of genre and reassembles them into rapier-like literary gems. This is not about writing the usual report or short story. It’s creating prose poems, flash fiction, micro essays, comics, graphic text, even innovative digital media. It’s combining playful structure and compressed language. It’s tackling a blank page in ways no one genre can do alone!

This is only the beginning. Check out the program’s “Added Attractions!”