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Teen Summer: Say It Like You Mean It
GrubStreet
This course focuses on mastering dialogue in writing, including its role in plot advancement and character development. Students will receive practical exercises, craft talks, and optional activities such as Q&As, reading parties, and open mics.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/workshop/teen-summer-say-it-like-y...
Categories: Screenplay, Short Story, Book, Kids, and Nonfiction
Start date:
August, 2024
Price:
Free
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Length:
1 week (August 12 to August 16)
Class size: 12 seats max
This course focuses on speculative fiction for teens, emphasizing memory-guided world-building. Participants will explore their DreamSpaces and learn to create narratives influenced by folklore and personal memories. The course includes discussions on works by authors like Nalo Hopkinson and Misha Green.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/find-a-class
Categories: Short Story, Book, Fiction, and Kids
Start date:
August, 2024
Price:
Free
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Length:
1 week
Class size: 12 seats max
Teen Summer: August Week of Creative Writing
GrubStreet
The course is tuition-free, offering a balanced mix of craft sessions and optional activities. It includes readings, writing exercises, and a focus on various genres such as short fiction, poetry, scriptwriting, and essays.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/find-a-class
Categories: Short Story, Essay, Fiction, Kids, Nonfiction, and Poetry
Start date:
August, 2024
Price:
Free
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Length:
1 week (Aug 19 – Aug 23, 2024)
Class size: 12 seats max
Radical Revision: A Poetry Workshop
GrubStreet
This workshop focuses on the revision process in poetry, emphasizing strategies to enhance drafts. Participants will examine strategies for revision and discuss various drafts by poets to inform their writing choices.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/
Categories: Nonfiction and Poetry
Start date:
September, 2024
Price:
$85.00
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Length:
1 session, 3 hours long
Class size: 12 seats maximum
This generative class encourages writers to repurpose old drafts into new pieces. It includes exercises to inspire recycling and reinventing former works rather than merely revising them.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/
Categories: Book, Essay, Fiction, Memoir, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Short Story
Start date:
September, 2024
Price:
$85.00
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Length:
One session, 3 hours long
Class size: 12 seats maximum
The Interior Lives of Characters
GrubStreet
In this class, we’re exploring the art of inventing new worlds in the small space that is the short story. We’ll experiment with different tools for developing speculative worlds, whether they be sci-fi, fantasy, surrealism, magical realism, horror, or otherwise
Website: https://grubstreet.org/find-a-class
Categories: Fiction, Short Story, and Adult
Start date:
October, 2024
Price:
$280.00
Based in Boston
Level: Intermediate
Length:
4 weeks (1 session per week)
Class size: 12 seats max
Developing Your Short Fiction
GrubStreet
In this course, we'll learn and practice the tried-and-true elements of fiction—style, voice, character, narrative, dialogue, point of view, and revision—with an emphasis on the short story form. Classes will include discussions on various elements of craft and close readings of essays on writing and published stories.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/find-a-class
Categories: Fiction and Short Story
Start date:
October, 2024
Price:
$560.00
Based in Boston
Level: Intermediate
Length:
8 weeks (1 session per week)
Class size: 12 seats max
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Developing Your Short Fiction
GrubStreet
This course focuses on advancing mid-stage projects through the elements of fiction, including style, voice, character, narrative, dialogue, and revision. Participants engage in discussions, close readings, and workshops, writing and revising two complete stories (up to 25 pages each) with detailed feedback.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/workshop/
Categories: Fiction and Short Story
Start date:
October, 2024
Price:
$560.00
Based in Boston
Level: Intermediate
Length:
8 weeks (one 3-hour session per week)
Class size: 12 seats max
Writing Fight Scenes
GrubStreet
A three-hour seminar focusing on the craft of writing compelling fight scenes in fiction. Attendees will engage in discussions and practical writing exercises, drawing on examples from notable authors.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/find-a-class/
Categories: Book and Fiction
Start date:
September, 2024
Price:
$85.00
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Length:
1 session (3 hours)
Class size: 12 seats max
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Writing through heartbreak and loss can provide a tool for discovering the insight lurking beneath the pain. Such writing will stir readers’ emotions, even helping process their own pain. Instructor Andrea Meyer will assign readings and writing exercises to help you tell your darkest, scariest, and most gratifying stories.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/
Categories: Fiction, Short Story, Book, Essay, and Nonfiction
Start date:
August, 2024
Price:
$250.00
Based in Boston
Level: Advanced
Length:
4 sessions, 3 hours each
Class size: 12 seats max
Prerequisites: At least one act or thirty pages of a screenplay or television pilot completed.
