THE SACKETT STREET WRITERS' WORKSHOP (www.sackettworkshop.com)

The Sackett Street Writers' Workshop offers classes in Brooklyn and
Manhattan in Fiction Writing (day and night classes), Novel Writing, Nonfiction Writing, MFA Application Prep Workshop, Post-MFA Writing Workshop, Poetry Writing (day and night classes) and a NEW Flash Fiction Workshop.

All Sackett Street workshops are taught in the comfort of instructors'
homes and are limited to eight writers to insure individual attention.
Sackett Street instructors are professional writers, teachers and
editors, who have earned MFA degrees from prestigious writing programs
and have taught at major universities.

Sackett Street students have been accepted into top MFA programs and
have been published, awarded fellowships and accepted at world-wide
conferences and residencies.

See www.sackettworkshop.com for more information, upcoming workshops
schedule and to apply.

SPRING WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:

1) 6-week - Daytime Poetry Writing begins Friday, May 23rd 11am-1pm
Weekday TBA late morning/early afternoon
Instructor Heather Aimee O'Neill
Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
$350
* 3 spots available

2) 8-week - Daytime Fiction Writing begins Thursday, May 29th 11am-1pm
Weekday TBA late morning/early afternoon
Instructor Heather Aimee O'Neill
Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
$395
* 3 spots available

3) 8-week - Flash Fiction Writing begins wk. of 5/26
Weeknight TBA 7:30-9:30pm
Instructor Kate Hill Cantrill
Park Slope, Brooklyn
$395

4) 8-week - Fiction Writing I begins wk of 5/26
Weeknight TBA 7:30-9:30pm
Instructor Nancy Rawlinson
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$395

5) 8-week - Novel Writing begins Tuesday, June 3rd
Tuesdays 7:30-9:30pm
Instructor Heather Aimee O'Neill
Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
$395

6) 8-week - Fiction Writing III begins wk of 6/2
Weeknight TBA 7:30-9:30pm
Instructor Eric Rosenblum
Park Slope, Brooklyn
$395

7) 8-week - Fiction II Workshop begins wk. of 6/22
Weeknight TBA 7:30-9:30pm
Instructor Kate Hill Cantrill
Park Slope, Brooklyn
$395

8) 8-week - MFA Application Prep Workshop begins wk of 7/21
Weeknight TBA 7:30-9:30pm
Instructor Nancy Rawlinson
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$395

9) 8-week - Nonfiction Writing begins wk of 7/21
Weeknight TBA 7:30-9:30pm
Instructor Nancy Rawlinson
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
$395

Workshop fee includes private conferences with the instructor.
Each writer will meet privately with the instructor for a detailed analysis.
Please see www.sackettworkshop.com to apply.
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Testimonials from Sackett Street Writers' Workshop alumni (see
www.sackettworkshop.com):

Sackett Street is a true find in the world of writing workshops. The
instructors have it all: faith in their students' abilities, clarity
in explaining even the subtleties of writing technique, a sense of
humor, and an incredible dedication to their workshops - so that every
student receives individualized attention and nurturing. I have
learned more in eight weeks of workshop than I even knew there was to
learn.
- J. Delamatre, accepted at Columbia, NYU, and University of Houston
MFA Programs

While I participated in several excellent workshops before stumbling
upon Sackett Street, I can honestly say that the program's Advanced
Fiction Workshop trumped them all. This was MFA-level workshopping -
I couldn't recommend the program more.
– J. Martin, accepted into the Johns Hopkins MFA Program

Sackett Street workshops are a writer's dream--critical in a way that
is also supportive, analytical beyond mere deconstruction. The
instructors have an enthusiasm for the art of writing that is
infectious. I merely loved to write when I came here. Now it is my
passion.
- T. Lisenbee, musician
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Julia Fierro, Workshop Director and Instructor of Advanced Workshops, is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow and worked with Marilynne Robinson, Frank Conroy, Ethan Canin, Chris Offutt, Lan Samantha Chang and Francine Prose.
She founded The Sackett Street Writers' Workshop in 2002 and nearly 500 writers have participated in Sackett Street workshops.
She has taught Creative Writing in the Honors Program at Hofstra University and Fiction Writing at the University of Iowa.
Julia recently contributed to Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer (Random House), an interactive guide to the craft of narrative writing.

Anna Solomon, Instructor of Intermediate and Advanced Fiction-Writing Workshops, was a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she taught Fiction Writing and studied with Elizabeth McCracken, Marilynne Robinson, Chris Offutt and Ethan Canin. She has been awarded a scholarship to the Breadloaf Writers' Conference.
Before Iowa, Anna worked as a reporter and producer at NPR, where her feature stories won several awards.
Her stories have been published in numerous magazines and recently had a story published in One Story magazine.

Caeli Widger, Instructor of Intermediate and Advanced Fiction-Writing, graduated from Wellesley College and received her MFA from the University of Montana's Creative Writing Program.
She was awarded a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center in 2001 and has attended the Napa Valley and Yellow Bay Writer's Conference. She was selected as one of two Summer Teaching Fellows at the University of Montana where she taught creative writing and literature.
Caeli, a published poet, recently had a short story published in the Madison Review and Another Chicago Magazine.

Nancy Rawlinson, Instructor of Nonfiction Writing, has worked as a journalist and editor in both the U.S. and her native England. She received her MFA in Nonfiction from Columbia University.
Nancy has been a creative writing coach for four years.
In 2003 she was awarded a residency at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony and a fellowship from The Ragdale Foundation.

Kate Hill Cantrill, Instructor of Fiction Writing, received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers. Her writing has appeared in numerous literary publications including: StoryQuarterly, The Believer, Quick Fiction, Pindeldyboz, Mississippi Review, Diagram, Drunken Boat, Swink, and others. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and awarded residencies at both Jentel and the Corporation of Yaddo.
Kate has taught at both the University of the Arts and the University of Texas in Austin, where she also ran the Utter Reading Series.

Heather Aimee O'Neill, Instructor of Fiction-Writing, teaches literature and creative writing at CUNY Hunter College and is the former co-director of one of New York's most prominent reading series, The Speakeasy Reading Series. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied with Peter Cameron, Valerie Martin and Joshua Henkin.
Her work has been published in several literary journals, including Spinning Jenny, Bostonia, and Many Mountains Moving. A freelance writer for various publications, she writes the monthly book column Across the Page for AfterEllen.com.

Taylor Larsen, Instructor of Fiction Writing, is a graduate of the Columbia University MFA Program in Fiction Writing where she worked with David Plante, Jaime Manrique, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Nathan Englander, Mark O'Donnell, and Jonathan Dee. She has also studied at Yale University with Tom Perrotta and the Breadloaf Writers Conference with Julia Alvarez.
Taylor was nominated by Jaime Manrique to read her novel in the Columbia University Faculty Selects Reading Series at KGB Bar. Taylor is both a short story writer and a novelist.
She currently teaches writing and literature courses at BMCC in Manhattan.

Aria Sloss, Instructor of Fiction Writing, received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she studied with Lan Samantha Chang, Ethan Canin, Marilynne Robinson, and Charles D'Ambrosio.
She has been awarded fellowships by the Iowa Arts Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Yaddo Corporation. Her story, "Toward a Theory of Blindness," won the 2008 Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers, and will be published next spring. She currently works as an Editoral Assistant at Harvard University Press.

Eric Rosenblum, Instructor of Fiction Writing, has published fiction and non-fiction in Guernica Magazine, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Reader. He has taught writing and literature at the Pratt Institute, Syracuse University, and Yeshiva University.
Eric has studied fiction writing with George Saunders, Mary Gaitskill, and Brian Evenson. He holds a BA in English from Ohio University and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Syracuse University.

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