Personal Essays: An Intensive 8-Week Workshop email sanders@thereaderberlin.com to sign up! Personal essays, a vital and vibrant contemporary genre, can be as unique and heterogenous as each of us. Able to draw on the techniques of fiction, the forms of poetry, and the conceptual argumentation of an analytic essay, these essays can take whatever shape … Read more
The Short Story What are the possibilities of the short story form, and how do short stories work? Open to writers of all levels, this five-week workshop will feature 1–2 stories each week by authors like Donald Barthelme, Joy Williams, Edward P. Jones, and Ottessa Moshfegh, which we’ll discuss and then use as a jumping … Read more
In this 8-week course, students will write and workshop original TV pilots and learn how to take the next steps toward getting them off the page and onto the screen. They can expect to leave the course with a first or new pilot draft, and an understanding of how to pitch their series to producers … Read more
This workshop is designed for both experienced writers and total beginners, working in any genre. We will focus on generating new poems and writing and creating a sustainable writing practice. In this workshop we will both discuss ways to write poems “all the time”, and also ask ourselves the questions…why make poems? And why do … Read more
*This class is now full!* If you would like to be put on a waiting list for a forthcoming class with Sanders in Winter 2024, drop us a line at hello@thereaderberlin.com. Personal essays can be as unique and heterogenous as each of us. Though sometimes maligned, the personal essay is a vital and vibrant contemporary … Read more
This class is full! Michael’s next class will start April 16. If you would like to be put on the waiting list for his next class, drop him a line at michaeljeffreylee.biz@gmail.com to sign up! Writing Flash Fiction: Fast, Fierce, Compact The goal here is simple: learn to trust your instincts, get over your writing … Read more
The Essay Generator Has your nonfiction project lost momentum? Are you doubting your own writing judgment? Do you want to get something finished for once? Show up and sit down (virtually) with a small, focused workshopping group overseen by The Reader teacher, editor and author, Susanna Forrest. Susanna will draw on twenty years’ experience to … Read more
Dreamwork: A Generative Poetry Workshop In Practicalities, describing the practice of writing, Marguerite Duras writes, “It’s a matter of deciphering something already there, something you’ve already done in the sleep of your life…” What Duras is describing we might also call a dream and the work necessary to bring the writing about might be akin … Read more
What kind of stories do you want to tell, and what is the best way of telling them? Open to writers of all levels, this seven-week workshop will allow you to experiment with and develop your own writing, with an eye to generating stories that are efficient, loaded, and urgent. In the first half of … Read more
Is your writing lacking drama or focus, or are you spending too much time telling and not showing? Open to writers of all levels and genres, this screenwriting course will help you exercise your muscles in visual, dramatic writing. The objective is to learn how to take the germ of a story idea and mold it … Read more
What kind of stories do you want to tell, and what is the best way of telling them? Open to writers of all levels, this seven-week workshop will allow you to experiment with and develop your own writing, with an eye to generating stories that are efficient, loaded, and urgent. In the first half of … Read more
Divya’s popular reading series is back for a third year running! Think of it as a dream book club for writers, focused on contemporary fiction by women and non-binary authors of colour. Participants will meet once every fortnight to discuss texts, and will be supported by a curated online forum. You’ll talk about issues … Read more