Rachel Swirsky began teaching Creative Writing in 2006, while she was attending the Iowa Writers Workshop. She taught undergraduates general fiction writing, poetry, and memoir, as well as offering specific sessions in science fiction and rewriting. She’s since taught at the Clarion West One Day Workshops; given brief workshops at conventions including WorldCon, Wiscon and Fogcon; and come in as a guest instructor at the FenCon Workshop. She began teaching at the Cat Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers in 2015, where she teaches classes on topics ranging from finding ideas to breaking the rules.
UPCOMING CLASSES:
(All classes are Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM Pacific Time unless otherwise noted)
April 7: Verses of Sky and Stars
May 5: Poetic Tools for Prose Writers
May 25: Breaking the Rules
June 9: Verses of Sky and Stars
August 11: Poetic Tools for Prose Writers
LIVE ONLINE CLASSES:
Break the Rules! Write fiction that explodes the box |
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Career Coaching How to grow and move forward as a writer |
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Detail & Image You are how you see the world |
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Fiction Workshop Hands-on discussion and critique |
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First Pages with Cat Rambo Make your novel’s first 500 words shine |
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Old Stories Into New The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Retellings |
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Poetic Tools for Prose Writers |
![]() Everyone talks about the writers’ toolbox, but how do you go about actually filling it? Poetry provides plenty of techniques applicable to prose that will help make it both more beautiful and more effective. See here for more information on signing up for the next live session. |
Ideas Are Everywhere So gather them up and write |
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Everyone talks about the writers’ toolbox, but how do you go about actually filling it? Poetry provides plenty of techniques applicable to prose that will help make it both more beautiful and more effective.
Verses of Sky and Stars Write the poetry of science fiction & fantasy |
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ON-DEMAND:
Old Stories into New The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Retellings |
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