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Viable Paradise
Viable Paradise is a unique one-week residential workshop in writing and selling commercial science fiction and fantasy. The workshop is intimate, intense, and features extensive time spent with best-selling and award-winning authors and professional editors currently working in the field.
Prerequisites: Application with cover letter and 8,000 word manuscript.
Location: Boston
Categories: Science Fiction, Fantasy
Level: Advanced
Class size: 24
Price: $2,450.00
Start date: August, 2023
Website: https://viableparadise.com/
GrubStreet
Ready to work with professional actors to bring your script to life? Want to get your script produced, get an agent, or apply for an MFA program? In this intensive forum, you will polish and complete a full-length screenplay or television pilot.
Prerequisites: At least one act or thirty pages of a screenplay or television pilot completed.
Location: Boston
Categories: Screenplay
Level: Advanced
Course length: 10 sessions (3 hours)
Class size: 9
Price: $700.00
Start date: January, 2023
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/advanced-scriptwr...
GrubStreet
Writing the first draft of your memoir can be daunting. Determining its scope, narrative voice, and perhaps the most challenging of all, figuring out how to handle time, are no easy tasks. But guidance in a group setting of peers facing similar questions can help. This class will tackle these big-picture issues and ultimately help you find your book structure and refine your story.
Prerequisites: Please come to the first class with a copy of "an elevator pitch" for your memoir.
Location: Boston
Categories: Memoir
Level: Intermediate
Course length: 8 sessions (3 hours)
Class size: 10
Price: $530.00
Start date: May, 2023
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/memoir-in-progres...
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GrubStreet
The class will include in-depth workshops of student writing, discussions on the art of the personal essay, and readings of works in the genre, including but not limited to pieces by Matthew Salesses, Jerald Walker, Roxane Gay, and more.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Boston
Categories: Essay
Level: Intermediate
Course length: 8 sessions (3 hours)
Class size: 12
Price: $530.00
Start date: November, 2023
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/developing-your-p...
In this six-week class, we will explore an array of acclaimed novels in order to learn more about the genre of historical fiction, and to improve and expand our own works of historical fiction. Each week we’ll read excerpts from two historical novels and discuss these readings in class.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Boston
Categories: Fiction
Level: Any
Course length: 6 sessions (3 hours)
Class size: 12
Price: $385.00
Start date: November, 2023
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/historical-fictio...
GrubStreet
Whether you want to expand your knowledge, experiment with new forms, or just produce fresh work, this fun, intensive class will give you the opportunity, over six weeks, to write six new short stories or scenes (500 to 1000 words) that might stand alone or be part of longer work.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Boston
Categories: Short Story
Level: Any
Course length: 6 sessions (3 hours)
Class size: 12
Price: $385.00
Start date: Open all year round
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/6-weeks-6-stories...
GrubStreet
Whether you're looking to experiment, produce new works for a collection, or work on revisions, this workshop offers the opportunity to broaden and deepen your knowledge of poetry. Each week, we’ll study the craft and vision of contemporary poets and respond to in-class prompts.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Boston
Categories: Poetry
Level: Intermediate
Course length: 6 sessions (3 hours)
Class size: 13
Price: $385.00
Start date: June, 2023
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/6-weeks-6-poems-26/
GrubStreet
In this fun, intensive class, over the course of six weeks, writers will produce six short essays (between 500 and 1,000 words each). Each week we will look at model essays, and students will respond to prompts based on the works we have read. At the end of the class, students will leave with a path forward to possible publication for their half-a-dozen essay drafts!
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Boston
Categories: Essay
Level: Any
Course length: 6 sessions (3 hours)
Class size: 12
Price: $385.00
Start date: Open all year round
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/6-weeks-6-essays-...
GrubStreet
Sometimes the smallest moment (or the shortest essay) holds the greatest revelation. But when it comes to writing our own lives, it can be difficult to know where to begin. This course is for writers who are ready to produce new essays, but need the inspiration and accountability to get started.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Boston
Categories: Essay
Level: Intermediate
Course length: 6 sessions (3 hours)
Class size: 12
Price: $385.00
Start date: May, 2023
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/6-weeks-3-essays-4/
GrubStreet
Got a book project that you can't seem to finish? We're here to help. Bring your book-length project, in any genre, and we'll help you take meaningful next steps towards completion. We'll start with discussing productivity, motivation strategies, and study the routines of working writers.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Boston
Categories: Book
Level: Intermediate
Course length: 6 sessions (3 hours)
Class size: 12
Price: $355.00
Start date: Open all year round
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/the-finish-line-c...
GrubStreet
Writing a novel can be an incredible journey of self-discovery. Not only is finding time to write difficult, but overcoming psychological blocks and narrative slumps takes patience and practice. In this workshop, students will generate new material each week based on prompts from the instructor.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Boston
Categories: Book, Fiction
Level: Any
Course length: 6 sessions (3 hours)
Class size: 12
Price: $355.00
Start date: Open all year round
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/jumpstart-your-no...
GrubStreet
In this generative class, writers will receive a weekly prompt to write a nonfiction flash essay (100 to 1,000 words), share their work for feedback, and then revise their essays outside of class time. Students will walk away with 4 pieces in various states of completion, as well as resources for where to submit flash for publication.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Boston
Categories: Essay
Level: Any
Course length: 4 sessions (3 hours)
Class size: 12
Price: $260.00
Start date: June, 2023
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/4-weeks-4-flash-e...
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