Our Writing Workshops
Every great city needs a great home for writers. The Center would like to be yours. We always strive to make our classes the most inviting and rewarding available, offering an intimate environment to study with award-winning, world-class writers. We keep our class sizes small, so each student benefits from personal attention from the instructor and gets workshopped at least twice during a course. We want students to feel that they’ve gotten a true person-to-person experience.
Each class is specially designed by the instructor, so whether you're a fledgling writer or an MFA graduate polishing your novel, you'll find a perfect fit here. Our brand-new, state of the art Brooklyn building allows us to offer four times the classes of our old space. Starting in 2016 we began offering one-day boot camps for students who can't make the weekly commitment of a full course, or want to concentrate deeply on a specific aspect of craft. We have also been expanding our online courses, conducted fully in the digital realm via WetInk, so students who aren't near New York can be a part of our community.
Members of The Center receive a 10% discount on tuition but we're committed to making our classes accessible to all students (click here to find out more). If you've taken a class with us before, you're also entitled to 10% off tuition for any class. We also allow students to pay via installments if you are unable to pay the full tuition up front. Please contact our Writing Programs Director to learn more.
We’re more than just a classroom, we're a community.
Writing the College Application Personal Essay led by Ariel Lewiton
Monday – Thursday, 10:30am-1:30pm, July 8 – 11 & July 15 – 18
$750
Introduction to Creative Fiction led by Mahogany Browne
Tuesday – Friday, 10:30am-1:30pm, July 23 – 26
Monday – Thursday, 10:30am-1:30pm, July 29 – August 1
$750
Writing Workshops:
Weird Fiction led by Paul La Farge
Tuesdays, 6:30-9:00pm, July 10 – August 13, 6 Sessions
$445.50 members | $495 nonmembers
Writing and Remembering led by Dinitia Smith
Every Other Wednesday, 6:30-9pm, February 13 – April 24, 6 Sessions
Introduction to the Novel led by David Gordon
Tuesdays, 6:30-9:00pm, February 26 – April 2, 6 Sessions
The Story Laboratory led by Stefan Merrill Block
Wednesdays, 6:30-9:00pm, March 13 – April 17, 6 Sessions
Speculative Fiction led by Jaroslav Kalfař
Class postponed - Start Date TBD
Revising and Editing Your Work For Submission led by Dawn Raffel
Class postponed to fall - Start date TBD
Threading The Needle: Writing Your Novel-In-Stories led by Regina Porter
Tuesdays, 6:30-9:00pm, April 2 – May 7, 6 Sessions
Inventing New Ways To Move A Story Forward led by Idra Novey
Every Other Wednesday, 6:30-9:00pm, April 3 – June 12, 6 Sessions
One Day Boot Camps:
The Working Writer's Toolkit led by Brian Gresko
Saturday, 1:00-5:30pm, July 13, 1 Session
$90 members | $100 nonmembers
Book Proposals 101 led by Brian Gresko
Saturday, 1:00-5:30pm, August 3, 1 Session
$90 members | $100 nonmembers
Writing Dystopias (and Utopias) led by Paul La Farge
Saturday, 1:00-5:30pm, April 13, 1 Session
Let’s Hear It: Crafting Memorable Voices In Fiction led by Mira T. Lee
Saturday, 1:00-5:30pm, May 4, 1 Session
Storying The Self led by T Kira Madden
Saturday, 1:00-5:30pm, May 18, 1 Session
Process Makes Perfect led by Tony Tulathimutte
Saturday, 1:00-5:30pm, June 1, 1 Session
Online Classes:
Jumpstart Your Novel: Twelve Weeks To A First Draft led by Bonnie Nadzam
Class moved to summer - Start date TBD
Horror Fiction led by Jac Jemc
Live Meetings Wednesdays, 7:30-9:00pm EST, Week Of May 8 – June 12, 6 Sessions
Refund Policy: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please let us know as soon as possible. We can only offer full refunds if you cancel one week prior to the start of class. After that, before the start date of class, we can offer a 50% refund. We cannot refund day-of cancellations or refund or partially refund the fee once the class has begun.
Please get in touch with Writing Programs Director Thierry Kehou if you'd like a refund. His email is thierry@centerforfiction.org.
