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(Sept. 3 & 4, 2022) Remember when writing was fun? This course consists of a 30 minute one-to-one (in-person or ONLINE) with Sarah on September 3, and a group workshop on September 4. During the one-to-one you will work through specific creative blocks with Sarah. The second day will be consist of play and experimentation to help … Read more
(Aug. 13 & 14, 2022) Television is an inherently commercial medium, and learning to write it goes hand in hand with learning how to sell it. This weekend course will introduce the craft of writing serialized television and give students guidance and tools to pitch their screenplays and series ideas to producers. Participants will be expected … Read more
Introduction to Creative Nonfiction Creative nonfiction embraces genres from memoir to reportage, travel, criticism, history, science, polemic and more, and that’s without even bringing up the multitude of voices, languages and styles it encompasses. It’s a lively and often messy arena where the definition of “factual” has often been handled just as creatively as vocabulary, … Read more
SHARON MERTINS is the Director of The Reader Berlin. A Guatemalan writer based in Berlin, she is responsible for all programming and recruiting at The Reader. She has been a featured writer on Visual Verse and her work has appeared in Jersey Devil Press, Café Irreal,, Leopardskin and Limes and The Wild Word Anthology, among others. … Read more
MARIEKE BIGG writes about bodies and culture. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, where she studied the technological transformation of human reproduction. She now writes both nonfiction and fiction about the cultural dimensions of biology and bodies. Her debut novel, Waiting for Ted (Dead Ink Press, forthcoming October 2022) was described by … Read more
JUDY MOORE is a multifunctional artist and busy little bee. She writes the web comic memoir Everything is Somewhat Repaired and is working on a gothic romance comic about the movie star Montgomery Clift. She has exhibited extensively, including at Whose Museum, the National Portrait Gallery London, and the Institute of Contemporary Art. She’s been published … Read more
SANDERS ISAAC BERNSTEIN is a writer living in Berlin. His work has appeared in newyorker.com, Los Angeles Review of Books, Hypocrite Reader, Ploughshares, Slow Travel Berlin, London Magazine, Majuscule, and The Bad Version, a literary magazine he founded and edited from 2011-2014. He holds degrees from Harvard College, the University of Oxford, and the University of Southern California, where … Read more
SARA LARSEN is an American poet living in Berlin. Her most recent book is a polyvocal exploration of punk and poetics, The Riot Grrrl Thing (Roof Books). Previous books include Merry Hell (Atelos Press) and All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous (Printing Press) – recent poems have appeared at Brooklyn Rail, NoMaterialism, and Nioques. She has been a visiting writer at Cambridge University, University of California … Read more
SASKYA JAIN is a writer based in New Delhi and Berlin. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Boston University. Her first novel, Fire Under Ash, was published by Random House India in 2014 and shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt Prize in 2015. Her second novel is forthcoming later this year with Simon & Schuster India. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals in … Read more
