Master Class: Writing Your Life Story $300
This is an intensive master class in the art of writing memoir.  The instructor will help students find their own voices, and in the process come closer to creating a unique rendition of their own experiences, turning each life story into something people will want to read. Students will discuss and analyze each other’s writing, as well as read selected sections from published memoirs.  Please submit 8-10 pages of your own prose to Lewis Frumkes at the Writing Center in order to gain admission to the class.
Wed. 5:30 – 7:30pm; 3/7 – 3/28 (4 sessions)
Hunter College Campus Schools, 71 East 94^th Street
Daphne Merkin is a writer for The New York Times Magazine. She has also had her own cultural column at the New Yorker and is the author of Dreaming of Hitler and Enchantment.
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Master Class: Beginning Fiction with Alison Espach $300
This is a course designed for the beginning writer of fiction. You will be writing original fiction that you will present to the class for critique. You will also play the role of editor, providing critiques for your peers.  In class we will read a diverse selection of novels, and we will read the work as writers, which means to analyze and discuss the elements of crafts and narrative strategies.
Tue. 6:00 – 9:00pm; 3/13 – 4/17 (5 sessions)
Hunter College Campus Schools, 71 East 94^th Street
Alison Espach is the author of The Adults, her debut novel, which received great praise from The New York Times Book Review. Alison received her MFA in Fiction from Washington University in St. Louis, where she taught creative writing. Her short fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, Five Chapters, Del Sol Review, and Sentence.
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Master Class: Writing Lyrics That Succeed and Endure $350 NEW!
The goal of this workshop is to enable students to reach farther and write better. Among topics to be covered: what we value in a lyric; using different vocabularies; dramatic development: rewriting; rhyming, structure, commercial, producer, and artist demands; finding new attitudes, subjects, and perspectives; developing a personal style; collaboration; and the marketplace: writing  in a universal voice, new opportunities in film, theater, and animation. Guidance will be provided on how to achieve that special quality that makes a lyric both lasting and successful: universal, relatable, and touching the greatest number of people.
Thu. 7:00 – 9:00pm; 4/19 – 5/24 (6 sessions)
Hunter College Campus Schools, 71 East 94^th Street
Marty Panzer has collaborated with Barry Manilow resulting in over 30 songs recorded by Mr. Manilow, including Even Now, It's a Miracle, This One's For You, and All the Time.  With Steve Dorff, he co-wrote the Kenny Rogers classic, Through the Years. Recordings by Manilow, Rogers, Julio Iglesias, Michael Crawford, and others, have earned 35 gold and platinum albums, four million-play awards, and record sales in excess of 70 million units. Mr. Panzer has written and produced over 100 songs for the Walt Disney Company.
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Master Class: Writing Comedy with Bruce Jay Friedman $270 NEW!
A rare, three day intensive course in which students will learn how to write comedy sketches for film, novels, short stories, or stage with a genuine literary icon.
Tue, Wed, Thu. 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.; Dates TBA (3 Sessions)
Location: Hunter College Campus Schools, 71 East 94^th Street
Bruce Jay Friedman one of the most original comedic minds this country has ever produced, has worked in all of these forms having written the novels: Stern, About Harry Towns, The Dick, and Tokyo Woes; the plays: Scuba Duba, The Heartbreak Kid, The Lonely Guy, and Doctor Detroit; the non-fiction books: The Lonely Guy’s Book of Life, Even the Rhinos Were Nymphis, Sexual Pensees, Three Balconies; and his new memoir Lucky Bruce.
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Fiction Writing $310
Explore various elements of the craft of fiction including sensory detail, character, dialogue, story and point of view through in-class and at-home exercises. Limited enrollment.
Section 1: Mon. 5:30 – 7:30pm; 2/6 – 4/2 (8 sessions, skips 2/20)
Section 2: Tue. 5:30 – 7:30pm; 2/7 – 3/29 (8 sessions)
Hunter College, 68^th Street Campus
Grace Edwards is the author of five novels. She has an MA in creative writing and is the recipient of two CAPS Awards for fiction.
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The Story of Your Life: The Craft of Writing Memoirs  $160
Are you working toward publication or composing a personal reflection? This workshop will focus on what you want to say and help you say it effectively. In-class exercises illuminate aspects of the craft that can be applied directly to your work.
Wed. 1:00 – 3:00pm; 2/15 – 2/29 (3 sessions)
Hunter College, 68^th Street Campus
Sidney Offit has written two novels, ten books for young readers, and Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen. He was senior editor of Intellectual Digest, book editor of Politics Today, and contributing editor of Baseball Magazine. For more than three decades he has served on the boards of the Authors Guild and PEN, American Center as curator of the George Polk Journalism Awards.
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Writing for the Theater $310
How is playwriting inherently different from other forms of writing? In particular, how is writing a story to be told through live actors before an audience different from writing for the screen or for a single reader? How do you make your ideas effective onstage? Students will be encouraged to think like a playwright as they work on a one-act play.
Thu. 6:30 – 9:30pm; 3/8 - 4/26 (8 sessions)
Hunter College Campus Schools, 71 East 94^th Street
Spence Porter is a playwright whose plays have received 17 productions in the U.S. and Europe.  He has an A.B. from Harvard College and a M.F.A. from the Ohio University School of Theater.
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