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- Exercises in Creativity: Poetry Workout
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REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.
Create and share your poetry in a supportive workshop environment. Explore innovative techniques and diverse sources of inspiration, overcome creative blocks and take your poetry to a new level through writing exercises and guided revision.
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- Explore Creative Writing
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Build confidence in your creative writing through prompts, supportive fellow writers and guided exercises. Discover fresh ideas and develop your voice, and you may find it easier to get started than you thought.
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- The Artist's Way: A Short Course
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Rediscover your creativity through a guided exploration of Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way." Reflect and explore tools to overcome creative blocks and reconnect with your creative self.
Required book: The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. Please purchase the book prior to the start of class.
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- Poems You Should Know
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Explore how to read and understand poetry through analysis of works ranging from the classics to the contemporary. Join for a fun and inspiring journey featuring poems from Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Mary Oliver and many more. Required text: "The Poetry Reader: An Anthology" by Mark Yakich.
Textbook: Yakich, Mark, editor. The Poetry Reader: An Anthology. Bloomsbury Academic, 2005. [ISBN-13: 979-8765104101]
The textbook is included in the course fee and will be provided on the first day of class.
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- The Art of the Personal Essay
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Turn your experiences and observations into compelling personal essays. Explore techniques for shaping ideas, developing your unique voice and writing about topics ranging from the everyday to the extraordinary.
Date change from catalog.
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- The Poetics of Place: Books That Heighten Our Attention to the World
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Explore how landscapes have inspired great literature through poetry and prose by the likes of Henry David Thoreau, Louise Glück, Alice Oswald and others. Deepen your appreciation for both literature and the natural world through thoughtful discussion and shared inquiry.
Required book: Spacecraft Voyager 1 by Alice Oswald. Please purchase the book prior to the start of class.
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- Gaelic Literature & Culture
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Learn about the fascinating world of Gaelic Literature from ancient times to the modern era. Guided by an instructor with a master’s degree in Gaelic Literature and Culture, discover influential works, authors and cultural traditions.
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- Creative Writing Workshop
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For writers with previous creative writing or workshop experience, this class digs into your opening chapters. Share work, receive feedback and use revision guidance to sharpen your writing and move your project forward.
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- Exercises in Creativity: Poetry Workout
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Create and share your poetry in a supportive workshop environment. Explore innovative techniques and diverse sources of inspiration, overcome creative blocks and take your poetry to a new level through writing exercises and guided revision.
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- The Villain's Journey: How to Create Villains Readers Love to Hate - Zoom Only
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Dates: 10/24/2026-11/14/2026
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Day(s): Sa
Sessions: 4
Seats Available: 11
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Course Fee: $114.00
Instructor: Debbie Burke
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Villains are antagonists but antagonists are not necessarily villains. Trace a villain's quest for power and control while examining different types of opposition in storytelling. Valuable for writers of fiction, nonfiction and memoir. Required text: "The Villain's Journey: How to Create Villains Readers Love to Hate" by Debbie Burke
Course fee includes required textbook.
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- The Novel Challenge - Zoom Only
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Dates: 10/28/2026-12/2/2026
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Day(s): W
Sessions: 5
Seats Available: 16
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Course Fee: $84.00
Instructor: Kathy Dunnehoff
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Celebrate National Novel Writing Month alongside fellow writers and work on your novel every day for 30 days. Discuss the craft of writing, overcome common challenges and finish the month ready to begin revising.
No class 11/25.
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- The Four Questions: Fiction Workshop
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Create fictional characters that propel your story forward. Explore four critical questions that strengthen character development and shape the foundation of your novel or short story. Through lectures, writing prompts and readings, apply these techniques to a new story or work in progress.
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- The Four Questions: Fiction Workshop
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Create fictional characters that propel your story forward. Explore four critical questions that strengthen character development and shape the foundation of your novel or short story. Through lectures, writing prompts and readings, apply these techniques to a new story or work in progress.
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