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.””
“It is amazing how much I got out of a one-month class. ”
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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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What makes an essay an essay? For me, it’s the thinking work – the way the writer does more than just tell a story but uses that story to (as Andre Aciman says) speculate, explore, propose, and reconsider some kind of thought, argument, or idea. In this session we’ll discuss the difference between memoir and essay, examine the way different essayists think on the page, and then do a few exercises to spark some thinking work of our own.