Writer’s Studio

Past Courses

A movie clapper and blank notebook on a wood table.
WRIT52611

Audiences watch movies and read fiction hoping to be blown away—to go on emotional journeys so powerful they linger in the mind as lived experience. Learn to captivate readers of your own through...

Collage of two images. On the left: headshot of Mary Ruth Clarke. On the right: the movie poster for Meet the Parents.
WRIT21802

Learn the ins and outs of writing for television—where the action is—from veteran screenwriter, playwright, and co-writer of Meet the Parents, Mary Ruth Clarke. With the proliferation of streaming...

A collage of three book covers. On the left: Seinfeldia. In the middle: When Women Invented Television. On the right: Pop Star Goddesses.
WRIT42806

Led by New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, whose narrative nonfiction works include Seinfeldia, When Women Invented Television, Sex and the City and Us, and Mary and Lou and...

A man in a blue shirt focuses on his laptop screen as he jots down notes in a nearby open book.
WRIT32850

In this class you will birth, nurture, and release one brand-new flash fiction story. You will engage in extensive revisions of your work, and close readings and analysis of ten sudden fiction stories...

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WRIT22402

This course is designed for writers who want to develop a one-act play on which they have already begun work.  This may include a script than runs anywhere from 20 to 40 pages in length.  We will...

Two theatrical masks and a scroll on a wooden surface.
WRIT22401

Course Description: 

This course is designed for beginning or intermediate playwrights who want to explore and develop short form plays. Ten-Minute Play Festivals are happening all over the country...

The Thinker by Rodin
WRIT52801

Writers write because they have something to say, to convince others of their view of the human condition. There’s a message nagging at them, a message they feel compelled to get out into the world...

People in a circle writing
WRIT52806

How is your good writing connected to how your readers read? Whatever your field or your audience, your writing style can meet your readers’ implicit expectations about how sentences, paragraphs, and...

Focused woman typing on computer.
WRIT52807

We often hear about bringing emotional intelligence to our personal interactions and conversations, but what about our writing? In today's largely remote environment, we create and maintain...