Individual Courses [2025 Creative Writing]

Unleash your creativity and hone your skills with one of our creative writing courses this year. Explore a variety of genres with experienced instructors, receiving personalized feedback and prompts to fuel your craft. Whether it's nonfiction, poetry, or fiction, our generative courses will bring out the best in your writing.

• 12 different courses
• Suggested reading
• Generative writing prompts
• Experienced instructors
  
• Certificate of completion.

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Courses run Saturdays from 2-5 PM EST (unless otherwise indicated)

01/18 - Journaling 101: How To Do It and Where To Start
Keith Walter Dow (author of Karmic Purgatory and Co-Founder of DRC)

02/15 - The Braided Essay: Weaving Stories, Plots, and Thoughts Into One
Tyler Carroll (author of Fact & Memory and Co-Founder of DRC)

03/08 - Intro to Memoir
Jessica Danger (author of No Heroic Measures and Director of Education at DRC)

04/12 - Therapeutic Writing: Writing as a Means of Healing
Adam Magers, LPCC (author of Odysseus and the Oar)

05/17 - Writing the Weird: Studies in Lyric Essay and Flash Creative Nonfiction
Michael Ramos (author of The After)

06/14 - The Art of Dialogue
Matt Smythe (author of Revision of a Man)

07/12 - Focused Fiction: Plot, Action, and Using Setting as a Character
Nicholas Efstathiou (author of Killers in Their Youth)

08/16 - The Firsts: A Study of First Scenes, Lines, and Other Initial Literary Landmarks
Marty Skovlund Jr (author of Send Me and Violence of Action)

09/13 - Flow - Writing, Breathing, Moving
George Briones III (Omni-Athlete Training)

10/11 - Military Scaries: How to Create Horror Stories From Your Military Experience
Nick Orton (author of The Transcript and Tales From the Grid Square)

11/15 - Dissecting the Short Story
Michael Jerome Plunkett (author of Zone Rouge)

12/13 - To Be Announced (but, honestly.. class with Officer Coliccio is gonna be a great way to end the year no matter what.)
Benjamin Busch (author of Dust to Dust)