The course: What If This Ends Well? Rewriting Stories of Dystopia and Apocalypse in Time to Change the Narrative Cormac McCarthy's Road. Atwood's Handmaid's Tale. Mad Max, The Walking Dead. Books, film, and Continue reading →

The Course: Rewilding Prose The natural world has often been reduced in writing workshops and craft books to “setting”—a static stage backdrop behind which the human drama, or plot, or “real story” unfolds. Continue reading →

The course: The Breakthrough The trick here will be to astonish ourselves. To outfox and outwrite ourselves. This nonfiction workshop seeks to provide us with ways to leap into ideas we Continue reading →

The Course: What the Land Inspires Literary critic Frank Stewart described writers whose work focuses on nature as “bringing together the scientific and the poetic,” to render something bigger than the Continue reading →

The Course: This nonfiction workshop will focus on the art of scientific storytelling in facing the challenges of the Anthropocene. Our aim is to learn together how to tell vivid science-smart Continue reading →

The course: This nonfiction course will center on long-form nature writing, personal essays, and a wealth of contemporary work inspired by the more-than-human world. We’ll examine ways of portraying our changing Continue reading →

The course: The World Through New Eyes When we step out into our surroundings, our senses build a world for us full of sights and sounds and textures that we understand Continue reading →

The course: This will be a 6-week prose workshop that will be about using the physical world around us to access our inner depths and draw out the best stories we Continue reading →

The course: Crossing the Threshold As Ecclesiastes and Fleetwood Mac teach us: life moves in seasons. How have writers throughout time navigated the transformative passages of human and greater-than-human life? The Continue reading →