Fiction! Essays! Non-fiction! Creative non-fiction! Academic writing! Journalism! Poetry! Dive into any of these genres in  Writer’s Paradise . This craft-intensive program offers weekly peer-critique groups, copious feedback from faculty, seminars on fiction and creative non-fiction, workshops to sharpen skills and generate ideas, and one-on-one and online critique. Deepen your engagement with your own writing, build critical reading skills, and refine your editorial eyes and ears. We’ll study stories, essays, a novel, and poems that allow us to study writing strategies. Students will be introduced to close, critical reading practices, and, in short, learn to read like writers. Students may enroll for 8 credits either first or second session, or for the full 16-credit session.

In addition to intensive writing and study of the craft, you’ll engage in writing-related activities that explore the creative process and the written word, including weekend day retreats to delve deep into your writing process in the peace and tranquility of Evergreen's Organic Farm. 

Writer’s Paradise   is designed to help beginning and accomplished writers to develop skills that they can use artistically, academically, and professionally. Regular weeknight sessions will include lectures, workshops, seminar, and guided critique group opportunities. Classroom work emphasizes the critique process, fine tuning, generating work, close reading, and practices of literary study. Readings will include selection on the craft writing along with examples of brilliant prose, essays, and poetry by diverse contemporary authors.

The program schedule is designed for students with jobs and those who wants to work intensively on writing. The schedule is summer-friendly. Students may enroll for the full 10-week quarter or for either of the 5-week sessions. Students can expect to have significant time with faculty, as well as opportunities to work independently and with strong peer support.

A unique aspect of the program is strategically-timed weekend retreats. We'll have two full-weekend retreats per session during which we'll meet all day Saturday and Sunday for workshops, walks, sharing work, and discussion.  We will also use these times for guest speakers and workshops.

Some students will choose to engage in a series of local and regional hikes along with sensory exercises to expand the creative process. These techniques will enable you to engage in and maintain a creative space regardless of what your future holds.

Other students will develop varied writing-related group activities to fortify their writing experiences with support from the faculty.

*This program may help future Master in Teaching Students to fulfill the 12-credits in expository and other writing.  The program may also help current MIT students to meet English Language Arts endorsements. Please contact faculty (  parkesn@evergreen.edu  ) to further discuss this, or see us at academic fair for summer.