Academy Archive

In this class, we'll explore entry points into sexy flash (flash-y sex?), including elements of play and dialogue.

In this Master Class taught by book critic Ruth Franklin, we’ll examine how thinking and writing critically about art and culture can deepen our practice as creative writers.

A Master Class to loosen our hesitations and unlock material—images, feelings, memories—for our writing.

A class on the idea of duende, "a sound of trouble in the voice… something beyond technical competence or even technical virtuosity”—and the possibilities of troubling narrative voices in fiction.

A class on America's Artistic Outliers: Black Female Poets. We will contemplate, deconstruct, and interrogate the work of three African American women poets: Jayne Cortez, Wanda Coleman, and Carolyn Rodgers.

A class on literary companions and why they're necessary—and what they offer—for the writer.

In this class, we will look at a number of interesting novels and analyze how they begin: what they set in motion and what makes us want to read on.