The Writing Program for Black Women Writers

Launched in 2022, our Writing Program offers live, virtual classes, workshops, and seminars designed specifically for Black women writers.

Led by instructors, authors, creatives, and editors, our courses focus on craft, structure, revision, and voice, giving writers the tools and support to strengthen their work and deepen their practice. 1000+ students have been served to date.
 
 

non-fiction
Narrative Essay Writing for Healing & Liberation | 4-Week Online Writing Workshop
This online writing class offers a creative and sacred space for Black women writers to explore and harness the power of narrative essay writing as ritual, as a transformative and healing practice.
Non-Fiction
Narrative Essay Writing for Healing & Liberation | 4-Week Online Writing Workshop
$259.00
Exploring Memoir: Personal Story & Power for Creative Nonfiction Writers | 4-Week Online Writing Workshop
Exploring Memoir is your gateway to discovering the art of writing memoir, where your personal experiences shape narratives that resonate, heal, and inspire. This 4-week writing class is designed for Black women writers new to memoir writing, giving you the tools to reflect, create, and connect with your unique voice.
Non-Fiction
Exploring Memoir: Personal Story & Power for Creative Nonfiction Writers | 4-Week Online Writing Workshop
$269.00
Capturing The Dreamscape: Using Your Dreams to Spark Your Writing | 2-Week Online Writing Workshop
In this writing class for Black women writers, we’ll establish a dream journaling practice, learn ways to incorporate our dreams in writing, explore how to use dream themes in our stories, discuss techniques to create vivid descriptions, and share our experiences and writing.
Craft, Fiction, Non-fiction
Capturing The Dreamscape: Using Your Dreams to Spark Your Writing | 2-Week Online Writing Workshop
$149.00
Archiving the Self: Embodied Self-Reflection for Memoir Writers | 4-Week Online Writing Workshop
In this writing class for Black women writers, students will work with one memory to follow how the story is shaped by our listening and questioning. This is an embodied craft course that supports healing and wellness as much as it builds a foundation for memoir writing.
Non-fiction
Archiving the Self: Embodied Self-Reflection for Memoir Writers | 4-Week Online Writing Workshop
$259.00
On August Wilson & Spike Lee: Writing the Voice of Your Neighborhood | 4-Week Online Writing Workshop
In this writing class for Black women writers, students will explore how to write stories rooted in place, culture, and community by studying the work of August Wilson and Spike Lee, two legendary storytellers who transformed their neighborhoods into living, breathing characters.
Fiction, Non-fiction
On August Wilson & Spike Lee: Writing the Voice of Your Neighborhood | 4-Week Online Writing Workshop
$279.00
Love & Apology Letters for Black women: The Audacity to Heal | 4-Week Online Writing Workshop
In this writing class for Black women writers, we’ll explore the art of Love and Apology letters, not as polite gestures, but as audacious acts of truth, repair, and self-reconnection. Letters that tell stories, pick up where the conversations ended...or never began.
Fiction, Non-fiction
Love & Apology Letters for Black women: The Audacity to Heal | 4-Week Online Writing Workshop
$249.00