The Writers Studio

Students in Levels 3 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, which 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 virtual 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.

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