Screenwriting, Short Stories and Essays, Oh My!
Need some guidance on getting those New Year's writing resolutions off the ground? Don't miss our upcoming January classes.
Great to see some of you in Writers’ Room this morning! Don’t forget that we’re doing it every morning at 8am ET this week—and our regularly scheduled 8am PT Wednesday Writers’ Room is tomorrow.
If you want a little extra guidance on getting your creative projects off the ground, we also have a trio of very exciting classes starting this month.
First of all, there’s just one seat left in the Personal Essay Incubator with Narratively Contributing Editor Caroline Rothstein. If you want to learn how to write, pitch and publish compelling personal essays this year, make that last seat yours! Starts tonight!
Screenwriting Bootcamp: Starts Jan. 20
Are you a journalist or essayist who has always wanted to try your hand at a screenplay? 2026 is your chance to commit. Bill Gullo is a very accomplished Hollywood screenwriter and longtime educator. In this fun, fast-paced class, he’ll show you how to write a “vomit draft” of a screenplay in eight weeks. Throughout these eight weeks, Bill will walk you through all the details of how to get that full first draft finished in a way that allows you to move forward with intention. Starts next week!
How to Write Your Best Short Story: Jan. 22
We’ve heard this from many of you now: Nonfiction is great, but we also want to learn how to write short fiction! Well, we have the absolute best person on tap to teach that — longtime editor of The Best American Short Stories, Heidi Pitlor! In How to Write Your Best Short Story, an intimate three-hour seminar, Heidi will offer a rare look inside a beloved American genre, guiding writers in exploring how to make informed decisions in order to write stories that ultimately engage, transport and move readers. Just 4 seats left!
Then around the corner in February we have classes coming up on The Fine Art of Deep Revision, How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal, Writing First-Person Essays on Raw and Difficult Topics, a 6-week workshop on getting started with fiction, and how to use magical realism in your memoir.
Full details on all of our winter Narratively Academy writing classes are here.
