creative writing workshop

  • The Creative Writing Class That Changed My Life

    The Creative Writing Class That Changed My Life

    One could sense this passion in all of us. It seemed to fill the classroom as if it were part of the oxygen.

  • Can Writing Be Taught?

    Electric Literature and Catapult.co recently announced a new series of writing workshops and classes: Our goal is to connect emerging and unpublished writers with some of the most dynamic and interesting literary writers in NYC, and create the kind of…

  • The Rumpus Interview with Susanne Paola Antonetta

    The Rumpus Interview with Susanne Paola Antonetta

    Poet and memoirist Susanne Paola Antonetta discusses literary bias, feminism, and the origin of her nom de plume.

  • Call Yourself Ishmael

    Finally, a practical way to pursue your dream career as both writer and pirate. For ten days in April, you can set sail for the Caribbean with the Writing at Sea program organized by environmental journalist, writer, and poet Elizabeth…

  • States of Mystery

    States of Mystery

    The solution is that there is no good answer. There are no rules. A family member is lost. Friends disappear.

  • Sperm Puppets All

    Writing and sex have a lot in common, least enjoyable their knack for making participants feel vulnerable and insecure. But when anything goes, writers produce work that is beautiful for this very vulnerability: Believe it or not, the resulting scenes…

  • Steve Almond and the Irresistible Narrator

    Writer and Rumpus contributor Steve Almond has a handful of spaces left in two classes he’s teaching at the Grotto in San Francisco on July 19. How to Write Riveting Scenes examines some of the best scenes written in literature…

  • Writing Workshops Defined

    If you’re ready to join a writing workshop or you’re thinking about it, you’ll surely want to know what may happen to you while attending one. That’s why Amy Klein compiled on a handy glossary of commonly-uttered workshop criticisms along…

  • All Roads Lead to Writing

    Over at The Millions, Rumpus contributor Nick Ripatrazone looks at the many and varied paths that bring writers to the profession and considers the benefits of time spent studying subjects other than creative writing: Although I have drifted toward the science…

  • Lorelei Lee Will Help You Write

    Lorelei Lee, longtime Rumpus contributor, lover of books and creative writing scholar, is teaching “Sex, Death, Laughter, Disease: Writing and the Body,” a six-week class on corporeal creative writing hosted by the Center for Sex and Culture, SF. You can…