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May 26 @ 8:00 PM EDT - June 30 @ 10:00 PM EDT
Make the rhythm of your poetry run, skip, and dance! We'll learn the fundamentals of repeating rhyth...
May 27 @ 1:00 PM EDT - July 1 @ 3:00 PM EDT
Inspired by Jehanne Dubrow's craft book, The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma, this ...
May 27 @ 7:00 PM EDT - 8:00 PM EDT
Meet Lacey N. Dunham, instructor for our Novel Overhauler workshop, and have all your questions about the program answered! The Writer’s Center staff will be on hand, too, to address any logistical questions. Register below! About the Program Application Deadline: June 15, 2026 Workshop Dates: Begins July 16, meeting biweekly for ~6 months Cost: $2,600 | […]
May 28 @ 9:00 AM EDT - June 4 @ 10:30 AM EDT
In this workshop you’ll discover over 30 practical, budget-friendly book marketing strategies, from ...
May 28 @ 7:00 PM EDT - July 23 @ 9:30 PM EDT
This workshop invites poets to excavate the foundations of English-language poetry — from Old Englis...
May 29 - June 19
Discover how a single moment can hold an entire world: write bold, luminous flash fiction in this fl...
May 29 - June 19
Whether you are an organized planner or a writer who flies by the seat of their pants, a novel still...
May 30 @ 10:00 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT
You may think you don't have the time, energy, or inspiration to write because of your hectic lifest...
May 31 @ 1:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT
Find your creativity with fun exercises in poetry, memoir, and fiction. You’ll take home two origina...
June 1 @ 7:00 PM EDT - June 29 @ 9:00 PM EDT
In this multi-week writing workshop, writers will be immersed in a safe space to experiment, fail, a...
June 1 @ 7:00 PM EDT - July 13 @ 9:30 PM EDT
In this generative workshop, we’ll explore very short prose forms, focusing on flash fiction, prose ...
June 2 @ 7:00 PM EDT - June 23 @ 9:30 PM EDT
Learn how to pack a powerful punch when writing persuasively! This four-week workshop covers the pro...
June 4 @ 7:00 PM EDT - June 25 @ 9:00 PM EDT
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815 United States
Bethesda, MD 20815 United States
This course is designed to help young adult writers shape those pages into an unputdownable introduc...
June 6 @ 9:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT
Memory is rarely objective truth, but it tells an important story that affects our identities and th...
June 6 @ 10:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT
Write your life story as you lived it, one moment at a time. This interactive workshop teaches write...
June 6 @ 10:00 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT
Every character in your story has a past. The events that occurred in a character’s life before they...
June 6 @ 1:00 PM EDT - June 27 @ 3:00 PM EDT
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815 United States
Bethesda, MD 20815 United States
This generative poetry workshop begins with a grounding exercise that prepares participants to begin...
June 8 - June 22
Take your dialogue to the next level with this online three-week intensive course. Good dialogue doe...
June 8 @ 6:00 PM EDT - 9:00 PM EDT
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815 United States
Bethesda, MD 20815 United States
Spend an evening learning about and practicing the art of public speaking. This in-person coaching s...
June 8 @ 7:00 PM EDT - 9:30 PM EDT
Personal essays are perhaps the genre that has the largest array of publication possibilities—litera...
June 9 @ 7:00 PM EDT - 9:00 PM EDT
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815 United States
Bethesda, MD 20815 United States
This workshop introduces the writing salon as both a format and a practice, offering writers the liv...
June 10 @ 7:00 PM EDT - July 15 @ 9:00 PM EDT
This workshop will offer a practical plan that takes you from the mere germ of an idea all the way t...
June 13 @ 10:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT
Ready to write that novel or memoir? Or have you started a large writing project and need some sound...
June 13 @ 11:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT
Write about mental health with intention. Along with general guidelines, examples from popular media...
June 15 - July 6
In this generative poetry course, we will immerse ourselves in the landscape of contemporary poetry ...
June 16 @ 7:00 PM EDT - 9:00 PM EDT
Even the most disciplined writers encounter creative stalls, moments when the page feels resistant a...
June 16 @ 7:00 PM EDT - 9:00 PM EDT
These days, writers increasingly are expected to be their own best publicists, which can be a challe...
June 17 @ 6:00 PM EDT - July 8 @ 8:00 PM EDT
Stuck on where to take your short story or novel? Bored of the typical workshop critique format? In ...
June 17 @ 7:00 PM EDT - July 8 @ 8:30 PM EDT
Learn how to recognize a premise, extract the humor, and hone it into a stand-up act or funny story....
June 17 @ 7:00 PM EDT - July 15 @ 9:00 PM EDT
An introduction to narrative writing and experimentation through historical research. Learn how to w...
June 20 @ 10:00 AM EDT - June 27 @ 12:30 PM EDT
Through focused discussion and practical examples, participants will learn how to assess readiness, ...
June 20 @ 11:30 AM EDT - 1:30 PM EDT
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815 United States
Bethesda, MD 20815 United States
This generative workshop invites writers to explore what becomes visible when we write toward the li...
June 27 @ 10:00 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT
Writing a novel takes commitment, but it doesn’t need to be daunting. Learn how to generate a handfu...
June 27 @ 10:00 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT
Some of your favorite poems may be villanelles, whether or not you know the form. Guided by an inter...
July 1 @ 7:00 PM EDT - July 22 @ 9:00 PM EDT
Whether you are crafting an essay or writing a memoir, the tools of fiction can bring depth and susp...
July 2 @ 10:00 AM EDT - August 6 @ 12:30 PM EDT
Writing poems is discovery on paper, and good poems surprise and delight the poet as much as anyone....
July 6 - July 27
This six-week interactive class is designed to give you the skills to write rich descriptive sentenc...
July 9 @ 1:00 PM EDT - August 20 @ 3:00 PM EDT
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815 United States
Bethesda, MD 20815 United States
This workshop studies how poems can respond to paintings, photographs, monuments, advertisements, fi...
July 9 @ 7:00 PM EDT - September 10 @ 9:00 PM EDT
In this 10-week intermediate to advanced workshop, writers will complete a feature-length screenplay...
July 10 - August 28
Are you serious about writing a novel but struggling? This intermediate course will examine the eigh...
July 11 @ 10:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT
Where do you begin your life story and how do you guarantee it is interesting to others? With ten cr...
July 11 @ 10:00 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT
Strengthening the conflict in any type of fiction will bump up the tension and turn limp, ordinary f...
July 11 @ 10:00 AM EDT - July 25 @ 12:30 PM EDT
This workshop will cover how to research prospective funders, the elements of a good proposal, and h...
July 11 @ 11:00 AM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT
We will read and then write poems and stories starting from close observation of our day, from wakin...
July 14 @ 7:00 PM EDT - 8:30 PM EDT
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815 United States
Bethesda, MD 20815 United States
Prompts will spark memories, characters, and places, turning them into poems, scenes, dialogues, and...
July 16 @ 9:00 AM EDT - July 23 @ 10:30 AM EDT
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to craft a winning podcast pitch, get booked on the right shows, ...
July 16 @ 6:30 PM EDT - 8:30 PM EDT
What if the most powerful story you ever write is also the shortest? In this workshop, we'll explore...
July 16 @ 7:30 PM EDT - December 10 @ 10:00 PM EST
Revise your novel in 6 months! Have you written a novel but don’t know where to begin revising? Or maybe you’re feeling stuck in the middle of drafting your novel and need help moving forward to the end? This intensive, six-month novel revision workshop is open to writers of all genres and forms of the […]
July 19 @ 2:00 PM EDT - 5:00 PM EDT
Writing can be both a creative act and a path toward healing. In this workshop, we’ll explore the pr...
July 21 @ 7:00 PM EDT - 9:30 PM EDT
Become the next David Lynch -- apply dream logic to your fiction, poetry, and hybrid work. Participa...
July 21 @ 7:00 PM EDT - August 25 @ 9:30 PM EDT
Deep reading and insightful questions are the hallmarks of this course. If you have previous worksho...
July 25 @ 10:00 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT
You have a great idea for a story. Do you dive in and just begin writing, or start by drafting an ou...
July 27 @ 6:30 PM EDT - 8:30 PM EDT
Discover the core steps of self-publishing from a 40-time bestselling author. Explore editing, writi...
July 30 @ 7:00 PM EDT - August 13 @ 9:00 PM EDT
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815 United States
Bethesda, MD 20815 United States
When Mary Oliver tells us to let the soft animal of love what love, we know exac...
August 2 @ 3:00 PM EDT - August 16 @ 5:00 PM EDT
Do you ever think to yourself: “Why is it so hard to get my ideas out of my head and onto the page?”...
August 3 @ 6:30 PM EDT - August 24 @ 8:30 PM EDT
This class offers the key concepts of plotting and pacing while delving into different genres. Begin...
August 3 @ 7:00 PM EDT - August 10 @ 8:30 PM EDT
This one-day, generative workshop will help you brainstorm a heist story, explore how heists immerse...
August 5 @ 7:00 PM EDT - August 19 @ 9:00 PM EDT
Build your literary muscles by practicing a mix of five contemporary and traditional forms: sonnets,...
August 7 - August 28
Do you have a finished draft of a novel but don’t know what to do next? This workshop will take you ...
August 9 @ 11:00 AM EDT - 1:30 PM EDT
In the Persona Poem, or Dramatic Monologue, the poet writes in the voice of another real or imagined...
August 15 @ 10:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT
Writers will explore how honesty and vulnerability can strengthen personal narrative. Through guided...
August 15 @ 3:00 PM EDT - 6:00 PM EDT
When the first draft is complete, the real work begins. You should not be your only editor, but you ...
August 16 @ 2:00 PM EDT - 4:00 PM EDT
What does it mean to write from a wound? What does it mean to write from a scar? There are readers o...
August 20 @ 7:00 PM EDT - 9:00 PM EDT
Lead with the future — not background — for lead-ership, especially in a crisis. That’s the most imp...
August 20 @ 7:00 PM EDT - 10:00 PM EDT
The Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815 United States
Bethesda, MD 20815 United States
Our poetic inspirations are a kind of chosen family. In this workshop, we will explore the ways we c...
August 22 @ 10:00 AM EDT - 11:30 AM EDT
Your query letter is your first introduction to a potential agent--which is to say, your first intro...
August 23 @ 11:00 AM EDT - 1:30 PM EDT
To explore some of the fine points of meter, we will examine how metrical patterns can vary between ...
August 29 @ 1:00 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT
This craft talk and generative workshop examines how absence, memory, and longing operate in fiction...