This eight-week class features a weekly, one-hour discussion via Google Meet.

Students at this level have a solid grounding in the tenets and technical terms that are the building blocks of The Writers Studio approach. Using weekly exercises from the Writers Studio Craft Class focus turns to enriching the work by creating an individual voice and tapping into an underlying emotion. This class asks students to recognize the specific qualities that make a narrative or poem engaging and entertaining to the reader. Students work toward sustaining a narrative voice that will propel them to the end of a story, and they study what the benefits and pitfalls of the narrator might be, and how to deepen a mood and develop their characters.

In the third term of Level 3, students enroll in the Craft Class as well as the workshop. Students are entitled to one complimentary term of Craft Class.

Open only to students who have completed two terms of Level 2 and upon recommendation of the teacher.

You can take this class using any device that connects to the Internet, though students find computers and tablets more comfortable than phones. Technical support is available throughout the course. Class size is limited to 12 students.

Instructor

Writers Studio Teacher

Kaecey McCormick

Kaecey McCormick is a poet and fiction writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work appears in literary journals such as Poet Lore, The Baltimore Review, The Pinch Journal, Clockhouse, On the Seawall, The Heartland Review, Poetry South, Jabberwock Review, Pedestal Magazine, and Sky Island Journal. She is the author of Sleeping with Demons (2023) and Pixelated Tears (2018), and served as Poet Laureate for the city of Cupertino, California. Her writing has received numerous honors, including the Connecticut Poetry Prize, the Dare to Dream Poetry Prize, and multiple awards in the Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize, as well as nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She has enjoyed support from the Community of Writers and the Good Hart Artist Residency. When she’s not writing or teaching, she spends her time hiking, painting, and reading.

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