CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS
(July 17, 2009)
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Creative-Writing Workshops at Emerson College are designed for the learner who seeks to develop creative-writing skills and knowledge of popular creative-writing genres. Participants may enroll in one or several non-credit workshops, to strengthen creative and technical abilities to write nonfiction or fiction.
WHO SHOULD ENROLL
Creative-Writing Workshops are open to writers of all levels who would like to explore new creative-writing possibilities or extend their creative-writing repertoires. Classes are formatted to include analysis, discussion, and workshop opportunities for writers who value the importance of receiving critique and feedback about their work. Courses are noncredit, and are held in the evening, to accommodate the working professional. Participants must have a minimum of a high school diploma or GED in order to enroll in courses and workshops offered by the Department of Professional Studies and Special Programs.
COURSES
CE0710 Sketch Comedy Writing10-session workshop, offered fall semester $650.00
This intensive workshop is designed to guide participants through the process of writing sketch comedy--from the initial pitch to the finished script. Participants will learn a variety of techniques for generating ideas, and will work as part of a group to craft polished, performance-ready sketches for both the stage and screen. CE0712 Short Story Writing
10-session workshop, offered fall semester $650.00
This course is a workshop for the short-story writer who wants to focus on defining his/her voice, learn new techniques, and develop the ability to edit his/her original stories and produce publication-ready stories. Workshop discussion of participants' stories will be supplemented by discussion of writing technique and occasional analysis of published fiction. CE0714-9 Memoir Writing
10-session workshop, offered spring semester $650.00
Great memoirs allow readers to contemplate their own experiences through the author's writing. Participants will consider a spectrum of perspectives on the art of remembering, found in memoirs both short and long. Participants will read and discuss memoirs in class, and learn narrative-writing techniques used to engage the reader. Also participants will apply some of the memoir-writing strategies they learn to their own writing.CE0722-YR Mystery Writing
10-session workshop offered Summer Session I through Summer Session II $650.00
What is a mystery? What distinguishes it from other genres of fiction? What makes some mysteries more successful than others? In this class participants will work toward writing a first-draft mystery narrative. By using plot devices well-known to mystery writers, such as in-depth characterization of protagonists, colorful settings, tones, and exercises in point of view, the class will understand how a mystery is constructed from the ground up. More practical issues of revisions, submitting manuscripts to agents and editors, query letters, and synopses also will be discussed.
CE0716 Poetry Writing
What is a mystery? What distinguishes it from other genres of fiction? What makes some mysteries more successful than others? In this class participants will work toward writing a first-draft mystery narrative. By using plot devices well-known to mystery writers, such as in-depth characterization of protagonists, colorful settings, tones, and exercises in point of view, the class will understand how a mystery is constructed from the ground up. More practical issues of revisions, submitting manuscripts to agents and editors, query letters, and synopses also will be discussed.
CE0716 Poetry Writing
10-session workshop, offered spring semester $650.00
Participants will work toward mastering the craft of writing poetry. The use of sound, rhythm, images, word, line, and syntax will be covered in this workshop. Learners also will explore such topics as methods to generate poems, learn a poet's vocabulary, and revise poems. Writers will refine their poems through workshop critiques and discussion.
CE0718-YR Romance Writing
Participants will work toward mastering the craft of writing poetry. The use of sound, rhythm, images, word, line, and syntax will be covered in this workshop. Learners also will explore such topics as methods to generate poems, learn a poet's vocabulary, and revise poems. Writers will refine their poems through workshop critiques and discussion.
CE0718-YR Romance Writing
10-session workshop offered Summer Session I through Summer Session II $650.00
Find your voice as a writer of one of the most popular and profitable literary genres, romance writing. Create thrilling adventures that focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people and lead your reader to believe in happy endings. Participants will explore style and point of view, as well as strengthen technique to craft dialogue, flashbacks, foreshadowing, and dramatic tension. Writers will share their work, receive feedback and become skilled at finding a market for their romantic stories.
CE0720-YR Travel Writing
Find your voice as a writer of one of the most popular and profitable literary genres, romance writing. Create thrilling adventures that focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people and lead your reader to believe in happy endings. Participants will explore style and point of view, as well as strengthen technique to craft dialogue, flashbacks, foreshadowing, and dramatic tension. Writers will share their work, receive feedback and become skilled at finding a market for their romantic stories.
CE0720-YR Travel Writing
10-session workshop offered Summer Session I through Summer Session II $650.00
Travel writing inspires adventure and encourages armchair exploration of exotic places around the world. As writers, this relatively new literary genre provides an opportunity to shape your experiences into meaningful, entertaining, and informative essays, articles, guidebooks and travel memoirs so that others may experience your journeys. Participants will learn about the different styles and varieties of travel writing, read examples of successful travel writing to understand effective methods of composing essays and articles, and strengthen their writing craft. They also will learn how and where to market their work.
Creative Writing Course Schedule (PDF)
INSTRUCTORS
Juliane Corey, instructor of Memoir Writing
Juliane Corey received her M.F.A. from Emerson College. She has written nonfiction on such broad topics as family clannishness, fire eating, strictly enforced bed rest, Portugal, Guinness, spy cameras, and spicing up the typical bridal shower. Her work has been published in Charles River Review and the Boston Herald. Juliane also teaches dance and yoga and recently birthed twins.
Regie O'Hare Gibson, instructor of Poetry Writing
Regie O'Hare Gibson received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from New England College. He has taught and lectured at universities, theaters and various other venues in seven countries including Italy, where he received the 2008 Absolute Poetry Award. He and his work appear in the New Line Cinema film Love Jones, a film based on events in his life. NPR Radio has featured Regie numerous times and Regie has been nominated for a Boston Emmy Award for his work for WGBH Channel 2's Art Close Up. Regie received the Walker Scholarship for poetry from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and is a Chernin Center for the Arts Writer's Fellow. He has been published in Poetry Magazine, Harvard's Divinity Magazine and The Iowa Review among others. Regie's volume of poems Storms Beneath the Skin received the Golden Pen Award.
Alden Jones, instructor of Travel Writing
Alden Jones teaches writing and literature at Emerson College. She has taught creative writing in such exotic locations as New York University and Cuba, and as a visiting professor with Semester at Sea. Her travel essays and short stories have appeared in The Best American Travel Writing, AGNI, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, The Barcelona Review, and Time Out New York. Alden has participated in Bennington Writing Seminars, and has degrees in writing and literature from Brown University and New York University.
Kevin Miller, instructor of Short Story Writing
Kevin Miller has published fiction in Ascent, Chicago Review, Confrontation, Puerto Del Sol, and other magazines. His non-fiction work has appeared in Harvard Review, Ploughshares, The American Prospect, and American Movie Classics Magazine. Awarded the Gold Key Honor Society Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2000, Kevin has also taught at Tufts University, Northeastern University and The University of Iowa.
David Mogolov, instructor of Sketch Comedy Writing
David Mogolov is the head of the writing department at ImprovBoston, where he has been writing and performing since 2002. He teaches sketch comedy writing at the theater, and is the head writer and a performer for The Ruckus, ImprovBoston's first sketch comedy troupe. His one-person comedies One Night at T.F. Green and I Got in a Fight have been staged for repeated runs, and T.F. Green was selected as part of the 2003 Single File Festival in Chicago. His other writing credits include the play Diptych, and film The Third Date, a finalist in the 2008 Boston Film Race.
Roseanne Montillo, instructor of Mystery Writing
Roseanne Montillo has taught writing and literature at the Osher Institute at Tufts University, Lesley University, and Northeastern University. She also has taught creative writing at several community centers in the Boston metropolitan area. Roseanne's book, Halloween and Commemorations of the Dead is scheduled to be published by Chelsea House Publishers. Ms. Montillo earned her B.F.A. and M.F.A. at Emerson College.
Hillary Rettig, instructor of Romance Writing
Hillary Rettig has published short stories in The New Press, and in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Her nonfiction book, The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World Without Losing Your Way, was published by Lantern Books in 2006. Hillary currently is writing an historical novel with romantic themes, and is teaching workshops related to time management and overcoming writer's block at Grub Street. Hillary belongs to the New England chapter of Romance Writers of America. She studied at Cornell University, studied fiction writing at the 92nd Street YMCA in New York City, and studied with Ursula K. LeGuin at the Clarion Science Fiction Workshop.
TUITION AND PAYMENTS
Tuition is due upon registration for all Creative Writing Workshops offered through the Department of Professional Studies and Special Programs. Tuition is calculated per course and individuals must pay tuition in full prior to participating in the workshop(s) of their choice.
Participants may incur additional course-related expenses. Such additional expenses are separate from tuition costs and payments.
Emerson College reserves the right to change any provision of its programs and courses at any time. The College specifically reserves the right to change its tuition rates and any other financial charges. The College also reserves the right to rearrange its courses and class hours, to drop courses for which registration falls below the minimum enrollment, and to change instructor assignments.
Travel writing inspires adventure and encourages armchair exploration of exotic places around the world. As writers, this relatively new literary genre provides an opportunity to shape your experiences into meaningful, entertaining, and informative essays, articles, guidebooks and travel memoirs so that others may experience your journeys. Participants will learn about the different styles and varieties of travel writing, read examples of successful travel writing to understand effective methods of composing essays and articles, and strengthen their writing craft. They also will learn how and where to market their work.
Creative Writing Course Schedule (PDF)
INSTRUCTORS
Juliane Corey, instructor of Memoir Writing
Juliane Corey received her M.F.A. from Emerson College. She has written nonfiction on such broad topics as family clannishness, fire eating, strictly enforced bed rest, Portugal, Guinness, spy cameras, and spicing up the typical bridal shower. Her work has been published in Charles River Review and the Boston Herald. Juliane also teaches dance and yoga and recently birthed twins.
Regie O'Hare Gibson, instructor of Poetry Writing
Regie O'Hare Gibson received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from New England College. He has taught and lectured at universities, theaters and various other venues in seven countries including Italy, where he received the 2008 Absolute Poetry Award. He and his work appear in the New Line Cinema film Love Jones, a film based on events in his life. NPR Radio has featured Regie numerous times and Regie has been nominated for a Boston Emmy Award for his work for WGBH Channel 2's Art Close Up. Regie received the Walker Scholarship for poetry from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and is a Chernin Center for the Arts Writer's Fellow. He has been published in Poetry Magazine, Harvard's Divinity Magazine and The Iowa Review among others. Regie's volume of poems Storms Beneath the Skin received the Golden Pen Award.
Alden Jones, instructor of Travel Writing
Alden Jones teaches writing and literature at Emerson College. She has taught creative writing in such exotic locations as New York University and Cuba, and as a visiting professor with Semester at Sea. Her travel essays and short stories have appeared in The Best American Travel Writing, AGNI, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, The Barcelona Review, and Time Out New York. Alden has participated in Bennington Writing Seminars, and has degrees in writing and literature from Brown University and New York University.
Kevin Miller, instructor of Short Story Writing
Kevin Miller has published fiction in Ascent, Chicago Review, Confrontation, Puerto Del Sol, and other magazines. His non-fiction work has appeared in Harvard Review, Ploughshares, The American Prospect, and American Movie Classics Magazine. Awarded the Gold Key Honor Society Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2000, Kevin has also taught at Tufts University, Northeastern University and The University of Iowa.
David Mogolov, instructor of Sketch Comedy Writing
David Mogolov is the head of the writing department at ImprovBoston, where he has been writing and performing since 2002. He teaches sketch comedy writing at the theater, and is the head writer and a performer for The Ruckus, ImprovBoston's first sketch comedy troupe. His one-person comedies One Night at T.F. Green and I Got in a Fight have been staged for repeated runs, and T.F. Green was selected as part of the 2003 Single File Festival in Chicago. His other writing credits include the play Diptych, and film The Third Date, a finalist in the 2008 Boston Film Race.
Roseanne Montillo, instructor of Mystery Writing
Roseanne Montillo has taught writing and literature at the Osher Institute at Tufts University, Lesley University, and Northeastern University. She also has taught creative writing at several community centers in the Boston metropolitan area. Roseanne's book, Halloween and Commemorations of the Dead is scheduled to be published by Chelsea House Publishers. Ms. Montillo earned her B.F.A. and M.F.A. at Emerson College.
Hillary Rettig, instructor of Romance Writing
Hillary Rettig has published short stories in The New Press, and in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Her nonfiction book, The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World Without Losing Your Way, was published by Lantern Books in 2006. Hillary currently is writing an historical novel with romantic themes, and is teaching workshops related to time management and overcoming writer's block at Grub Street. Hillary belongs to the New England chapter of Romance Writers of America. She studied at Cornell University, studied fiction writing at the 92nd Street YMCA in New York City, and studied with Ursula K. LeGuin at the Clarion Science Fiction Workshop.
TUITION AND PAYMENTS
Tuition is due upon registration for all Creative Writing Workshops offered through the Department of Professional Studies and Special Programs. Tuition is calculated per course and individuals must pay tuition in full prior to participating in the workshop(s) of their choice.
Participants may incur additional course-related expenses. Such additional expenses are separate from tuition costs and payments.
Emerson College reserves the right to change any provision of its programs and courses at any time. The College specifically reserves the right to change its tuition rates and any other financial charges. The College also reserves the right to rearrange its courses and class hours, to drop courses for which registration falls below the minimum enrollment, and to change instructor assignments.
