adult classes

We are honored to offer a range of creative writing classes from one-night sessions to intensive courses and writing workshops that meet on a weekly or monthly basis. Whatever your writing goals, we have a class for you.

““The Lafayette Writers’ Studio classes I’ve taken have built not only my skills as a writer, they have increased my confidence in my own style and helped me find my voice. I can’t recommend the classes highly enough.””

— Anonymous

“It is amazing how much I got out of a one-month class. ”

— Kathy

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5/23 Take the Scenic Route: Writing the Braided Essay

$53.30

A braided essay, which combines multiple strands into a single essay, is amplified by elements such as juxtaposition, lateral moves, fragments, and white space. In this class we will practice writing different kinds of threads that might form the basis for your braid, including personal experience, research, and imagined scenes. Drawing from discussions in Crafting the Lyric Essay: Strike a Chord, this class will explore how incorporating multiple approaches while writing can create resonances across your threads, binding them into the braid in powerful and unexpected ways.

6/25 Diamond in the Rough: An Essay Development Workshop

$159.90

Sometimes we begin an essay with excitement and an understanding of what we’d like it to become. But then our energy lags, something isn’t quite right about the middle, and the ending remains elusive. In this three-session class, you’ll dust off that essay start and work to add depth and meaning. We’ll spend time figuring out what our essays want to be about and then work to refine them. You’ll leave with an understanding of your piece’s strengths, your instructor’s feedback, a complete essay draft, as well as a strategies and approaches you can apply to all your creative work.

7/16 Can I Say This? : Writing the Hard Stuff in Personal Essays & Memoir

$36.44

Discover how to take on the hard stuff in your writing with artfulness and clarity. In this 90-minute workshop, you’ll explore what makes certain material feel difficult to us as individual writers; examine craft techniques for approaching difficult material (such as playing with point of view, finding language in research, or rooting the writing in a place that feels sturdy and safe); and then try out some of the skills we can use to transform our own hard stories into literature. PLUS all registrants receive a copy of If This Were Fiction A Love Story in Essays.

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“I have taken several classes at Lafayette Writers’ Studio, from one-day workshops to weekly classes spanning months. All have been inspiring. The Studio directly helped me take myself more seriously as a writer, and gave me the fortitude to apply and then enroll in an MFA program. I recommend taking a class to reinvigorate your writing practice, give you new ideas and a path forward, and to meet other writers and feel part of a community. Take advantage of this treasure!
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— Nicole