UTV Master Classes
January 10-25, 2025
While specific master classes differ slightly in format, they share a common goal: to offer highly motivated writers an intensely sympathetic reading of their work, with strategic suggestions for revision. We encourage all participants to respond to each other’s work and to each other in the same spirit.
Registration for all master classes is limited to 8. Groups meet three times a week for a total of six 3-hour sessions. You will also meet at least once one-to-one with your instructor. Manuscript Coaching groups are smaller, with full manuscripts submitted no later than November 15. Coaching participants meet once as a group and then in individual sessions twice a week with your instructor.
Please choose from the menu below in making your selection. Click on each image for a full description.
Fiction
Fiction
with Tommy Orange
Open to writers of fiction both short and long, this master class offers a select group of novelists or short story writers the chance to share their work with accomplished peers
Narrativa
con Alberto Chimal
Un taller de creación nueva y puesta en escena de textos anteriores. Para cuentistas y/o novelistas.
Writing the Imagination
with Sheree Reneé Thomas
For writers of speculative fiction, short and long. Find the deep magic that makes your work sing for the reader.
Poetry
Poetry
with TBD
This workshop is based on Gustave Flaubert’s sense that a writer can imagine anything. It is often in the confluence of contradiction, found in metaphor and simile, where the most profound human experiences can be found. Fiction writers who also write poetry, as well as poets who also write fiction, are particularly welcome.
Poesía
con TBD
Para cualquier escritor, la poesía es un exigente reto disfrazado de libertad. Al parecer, expresarse poéticamente debe ser un ejercicio espontáneo y nacido de la inspiración.
Writing of Witness
Writing Of Witness
with Jennifer Clement
Open to writers with projects ranging from memoir to autobiography to texts that defy easy categorization, writing of witness is an invitation to pursue the truth in a voice more subjective than journalism but just as committed to revealing the stories of our time.
Escritura y testimonio
con Sandra Lorenzano
Para escritores con proyectos que nacen de la experiencia personal, con un alcance que llega a tocar los temas sociales implicados. Para ensayistas, cronistas, periodistas y quienes inventan formas nuevas.
Investigative Journalism
Cutting Edge on Climate:
Open Source Bootcamp for Reporters
with Gisela Pérez de Acha
Our 2025 journalism master class offers early- to mid-career journalists the opportunity to sharpen the lens they bring to investigating and contextualizing climate change via a six-part introduction to open source investigative reporting.
Manuscript Coaching
Our Manuscript Coaching sessions are intended for advanced writers with drafts of book-length projects or projects close to completion. Unlike group master classes, they offer one-on-one consultations with meticulous review and guidelines for revision.
Poetry Manuscript Coaching
with Keetje Kuipers
A small intensive format for poets with manuscripts ready for an expert eye. This will be a mixture of one-on-one consultations and group manuscript workshops. Open to both full-length and chapbook-length manuscripts-in-progress.
Fiction Manuscript Coaching
with Ayşegül Savaş
A small intensive format for writers with book-length projects ready for an expert eye, primarily via individual consultations. Open to both fiction and non-fiction projects.
Coaching en narrativa
con Socorro Venegas
Un taller más íntimo para escritores con libros en puerta, con una lectura a fondo mayormente a través de consultas individuales. Para proyectos de narrativa y no-ficción.