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From the Workshop Room to the L.A. Times: A Personal Essay Debut

From the Workshop Room to the L.A. Times: A Personal Essay Debut

“He wanted Los Angeles. I wanted New York.” — the premise of Matt Gerlach’s new essay in the Los Angeles...

by Writing Workshops Staff

2 months ago

Creative Writing Workshop Success Stories: Our Alumni's Recent Wins

Creative Writing Workshop Success Stories: Our Alumni's Recent Wins

3 months ago

Whitney Vale's Sermon of Swallows Takes Flight

Whitney Vale's Sermon of Swallows Takes Flight

3 months ago

Jerry Portwood and the Short Story Twenty Years in the Making

Jerry Portwood and the Short Story Twenty Years in the Making

3 months ago

Michelle Boyer: From Workshop Prompt to Anthology Publication

3 months ago

Celebrating The Best American Essays 2026

Celebrating The Best American Essays 2026

3 months ago

Alum Named a 2026 Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Poetry Fellow

Alum Named a 2026 Poets & Writers Get the Word Out Poetry Fellow

We were thrilled to see Marjorie Tesser among the ten poets selected for the 2026 Get the Word Out Poetry Fellows...

by Writing Workshops Staff

4 months ago

From the French Riviera to 1960s Casablanca: Laila Ouarrachy's Debut Novel Arrives

From the French Riviera to 1960s Casablanca: Laila Ouarrachy's Debut Novel Arrives

4 months ago

Alumni Spotlight: LaDonna Witmer Sets the Page on Fire in How I Learned

Alumni Spotlight: LaDonna Witmer Sets the Page on Fire in How I Learned

4 months ago

Keith Hood Named One Story Magazine's Adina Talve-Goodman Fellow

Keith Hood Named One Story Magazine's Adina Talve-Goodman Fellow

4 months ago

Alumni Spotlight: Courtney Kocak's Memoir GIRL GONE WILD

Alumni Spotlight: Courtney Kocak's Memoir GIRL GONE WILD

4 months ago

Rachel Kramer Bussel Launches Finders and Keepers Podcast at Open Secrets Magazine

Rachel Kramer Bussel Launches Finders and Keepers Podcast at Open Secrets Magazine

4 months ago

Meet our Instructors:

Fin Leary on Sustaining Dread in the Horror Novel: Meet the Teaching Artist

Fin Leary on Sustaining Dread in the Horror Novel: Meet the Teaching Artist

2 days ago

Kate Milliken on Point of View, Confidence, and the First Door Every Reader Walks Through

Kate Milliken on Point of View, Confidence, and the First Door Every Reader Walks Through

2 days ago

Amber Wheeler Bacon, pictured, with Interview Quote: “In my class, students will be able to articulate the narrative stakes in their stories and see which scenes can be revised to be more cohesively married to the big questions of their novel.”

Amber Wheeler Bacon on the Questions That Keep Readers Hunting

2 days ago

A picture of Samantha Mann for her blog post on Turning Your big idea into an essay collection

Samantha Mann on Turning Your Big Idea into an Essay Collection

6 days ago

Student Publication News:

Michaell Crews-Yancey's Tiny Love Story Appears in The New York Times

Michaell Crews-Yancey's Tiny Love Story Appears in The New York Times

6 days ago

JJ Kambal’s Mission Impossible Recipe Satire Lands at Points in Case

JJ Kambal’s Mission Impossible Recipe Satire Lands at Points in Case

A week ago

A Most Anticipated debut of 2026 from Debutiful

A Most Anticipated debut of 2026 from Debutiful

A week ago

Rachel Spies Finds Her Book's Shape in a Grief Writing Workshop

Rachel Spies Finds Her Book's Shape in a Grief Writing Workshop

A month ago