6 Sessions: Tuesdays, February 18, 25 and March 4, 11, 18, 25
7:00-9:00pm ET
Ryan Berg

12 students

This 6-week writing workshop is taught by award-winning writer Ryan Berg, author of No House to Call My Home: Love, Family and Other Transgressions.

This course invites students of all levels to confront the stories they’ve been avoiding, exploring how personal narrative blends experience, reflection, and imagination. Through readings, discussions, and workshops, we’ll investigate how authors transform difficult truths into art, using structure, pacing, dialogue, and other narrative techniques.

We’ll engage with works by writers such as Melissa Febos, Carmen Maria Machado, Joan Wickersham, Alexander Chee, Esme Weijun Wang, Kiese Laymon, and Cathy Park Hong, whose stories push boundaries by combining traditional and contemporary styles. Students will practice methods for entering their own narratives, creating original pieces, and giving thoughtful feedback to one another. Each participant will have the opportunity to workshop a piece of writing, gaining insight into how subjective experience can resonate within the broader context of the world.

Workshop Highlights:

• Instructor and peer feedback

• Generative writing exercises

One full scholarship and two partial scholarships available. To apply, please fill out this form by Sunday, February 9.