Learn How to Write a Novel, Join Tom Bromley for a writing master class.
Learn How to Write a Novel
Join Tom Bromley for a writing master class and finish your first draft in 3 months.
No Second-Guessing: Writing with Confidence
GrubStreet
In this class, meant for fiction writers of all levels struggling with their identity and self-worth as writers, we’ll use a series of prompts to explore, poke at, and undress our humanity, a subjectivity rooted in lived experience and the untethered imagination that frames every piece of writing.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/no-second-guessin...
Categories: Book, Fiction, and Short Story
Start date:
March, 2024
Price:
$75.00
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Length:
1
(3 hours)
Class size: 12
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Advanced Playwriting Workshop
GrubStreet
In this six-week course, you will get to sharpen your craft, learn revision techniques, and hear your work read aloud by professional actors. Each week, the instructor will share a short craft lesson, lead group discussions, facilitate breakout rooms, and guide you through writing exercises with skill focused prompts.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/advanced-playwrit...
Categories: Playwriting
Start date:
April, 2024
Price:
$400.00
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Class size: 25
Prerequisites: For writers age 13 - 18 ONLY.
Picture Book Revision
GrubStreet
In this eight-week class, you will come to class with three picture book manuscripts and craft six bold revisions (two new revisions for each story—usually up to 800 words), fiction or nonfiction, with an eye on submitting to children's book agents and editors in today's competitive and ever-shifting market.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/picture-book-revi...
Categories: Book and Fiction
Start date:
April, 2024
Price:
$520.00
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Class size: 12
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Writing Motherhood
GrubStreet
This workshop is for writers who have become mothers (self-defined), or mothers who need to write. In this six-week class, we will read and discuss texts on the topic of motherhood from a diversity of perspectives, and explore and interrogate our own relationship with motherhood through our writing.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/writing-motherhoo...
Categories: Essay, Poetry, and Nonfiction
Start date:
April, 2024
Price:
$390.00
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Class size: 30
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
6 Weeks, 3 Essays
GrubStreet
When it comes to writing about our lives and the wider world, 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.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/6-weeks-3-essays-9/
Categories: Essay and Nonfiction
Start date:
March, 2024
Price:
$390.00
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Length:
3
(3 hours)
Class size: 25
Prerequisites: For writers age 13 - 18 ONLY.
6 Weeks, 6 Stories
GrubStreet
GrubStreet's workshop offers a chance to start six new short stories over six weeks. Classes include in-class writing exercises exploring plot, form, character, theme, setting, and language, with shared work for in-class workshops and craft discussions. It includes readings from authors like Gabriel García Márquez, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jhumpa Lahiri for analysis.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/6-weeks-6-stories...
Categories: Fiction and Short Story
Start date:
April, 2024
Price:
Free
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Class size: 30
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Intro to the Personal Essay
GrubStreet
If you want to learn the art of writing personal essays, but have no idea where to begin (or you need a refresher), this course is for you. Over six weeks, you will learn the essentials of the personal essay and put them into practice by writing your own drafts.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/intro-to-the-pers...
Categories: Essay and Nonfiction
Start date:
April, 2024
Price:
$375.00
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Class size: 12
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
6 Weeks, 6 Essays
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.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/young-adult-write...
Categories: Essay and Nonfiction
Start date:
April, 2024
Price:
$405.00
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Class size: 25
Prerequisites: For writers age 13 - 18 ONLY.
Jumpstart Your Writing
GrubStreet
Through a series of engaging writing exercises, we will mine our experiences and imagination for material and bring what we find to life on the page, constructing characters and settings, shaping vivid dialogue, creating imagery, and exploring the nuances of voice.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/jumpstart-your-wr...
Categories: Book, Fiction, Memoir, Nonfiction, and Poetry
Start date:
April, 2024
Price:
$375.00
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Class size: 25
Prerequisites: For writers age 13 - 18 ONLY.
Novel in Progress
GrubStreet
In class, we will do writing exercises, discuss craft issues (characterization, plot, point of view, etc.), analyze excerpts from published novels, and read scenes from our own work, providing guidance and feedback in an environment that recognizes the specific challenges of the novel in progress.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/novel-in-progress...
Categories: Book and Fiction
Start date:
April, 2024
Price:
$540.00
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Class size: 25
Prerequisites: For writers age 13 - 18 ONLY.
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/findaclass/class/developing-your-s...
Categories: Fiction and Short Story
Start date:
April, 2024
Price:
$560.00
Based in Boston
Level: Intermediate
Class size: 12
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
In this generative workshop, you'll learn how to write short personal essays commonly found in popular, mainstream publications. Each week you’ll examine a variety of these essays from a variety of commercial, popular and niche magazines, newspapers, websites and journals, learning the craft of writing them.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/writing-and-publi...
Categories: Nonfiction and Publishing
Start date:
April, 2024
Price:
$405.00
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Class size: 12
Prerequisites: Come prepared to write, and bring a brief one to two paragraph description of your project.
