24PearlStreet Online Writing Program

Find a Fall Workshop that Meets Your Needs

24PearlStreet meets the needs of all writing genres and levels. Browse our catalog for workshops ranging from 1, 4, or 8-week virtual LIVE or asynchronous experiences with experienced faculty.

Browse the Online Catalog

Upcoming 3-Hour Sprint Workshop

A Handful of Quick Starts
Martha Collins
November 5th from 1-4 pm EST

Identify or refine subjects you'd like to address in poems, including "difficult" subjects you may have been anxious or uncomfortable pursuing. Leave this workshop with a handful of new poetic strategies.

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Poetry Workshops in October

The Art of Getting it Wrong - LIVE
Brendan Constantine
October 31 to November 4, 2022
1-week virtual LIVE, Poetry

Participants will liberate their strongest poetry by embracing its most common obstacles, including their own perceived limitations.

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What's the Big Idea? Ambitious Poems in Uncertain Times
Sarah Rose Nordgren
October 31 to November 25, 2022
4-week asynchronous, Poetry

By the end of the class, students will have written and revised four new poems, expanded their identities as poets and people, and formed a community with other poets whose words aim to take on the world.

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Prose Workshops in October

The Image and the Word: a Collaborative Workshop for Writers and Photographers
Joanne Dugan
October 24 to November 18, 2022
4-week asynchronous, Multi-Genre

This highly experimental workshop will encourage and inspire students to combine text and image to create stories in a new way.

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Permission and the New Memoirist: Story Ownership and Truth-Telling
Elissa Altman
October 24 to November 18, 2022
4-week asynchronous, Non-Fiction

This highly experimental workshop will encourage and inspire students to combine text and image to create stories in a new way.

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Against Silence: Finding Your Way Into Memoir
Susanna Sonnenberg
October 24 to November 18, 2022
4-week asynchronous, Non-Fiction

Open to writers at all levels, “Against Silence” is a rigorous class that will help you pinpoint those particularly sticky and elusive subjects that you desperately want to write about, yet just haven’t figured out how.

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Featured Work by 24PearlStreet Faculty

Dementia, My Darling
by Brendan Constantine
Read at the Dodge Poetry Festival