The Writers Studio

Level 3 is only open to students who have completed two terms of Level 2 and upon recommendation of the teacher.

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.

Craft Class

At this level students are ready to take their writing to the next level and begin to use the Craft Class to learn to read as writers, which is an essential skill for serious writers who are ready to expand their knowledge of craft and improve their writing.

Craft Class meets virtually on Tuesdays from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. ET. A reading list of the novels, poetry collections, and memoirs discussed each term is available on the Craft Class course description page. The Wednesday morning following each Craft Class, students will receive a link to a recording of the class. A podcast is also made available. Listening to the Craft Class every week is essential, especially if students can’t attend the Google Meet Craft Class on Tuesdays. Level 3 workshop teachers assign exercises based on the discussions in the weekly Craft Class, where students read as writers and learn to identify a range of narrative techniques.

First Term of Level 3: Students are not required to take Craft Class, but should follow along with the readings from the Craft Class terms that corresponds with their workshop, as the weekly exercises will be pulled from Craft Class.
Second Term of Level 3: Students receive a complimentary term of Craft Class.
Third Term of Level 3: Students start enrolling in Craft Class Taken with a Workshop.

Class Structure & Details

•Format: Weekly, unrecorded live classes via Google Meet

•What to Expect: During the two-and a half-hour, weekly Google Meet class, we will discuss techniques used in a range of literary models from Craft Class. Each student brings a weekly exercise to class that is read aloud. Students then receive oral feedback from a few classmates and the teacher.

•Who Can Join: Level 3 is only open to students who have completed two terms of Level 2 and upon recommendation of the teacher.

📌 Note: Our Google Meet sessions are highly interactive and designed to be a safe space for sharing fresh work, so they are not recorded.