ADULT WRITERS

School One’s LitCenter can help new and serious writers find your voice and extend your creativity. Adult writers can enroll in evening classes at School One’s LitCenter throughout the year, participate in a book club, or attend a writing critique group.

2024 Classes. Coming Soon.

Please direct any questions to dianac@school-one.org.

2022-2023 Classes

Tiny Love Stories

In this four-week class we will read different types of prose, we will write original pieces, and we will workshop and revise our work. The theme I chose for this class “Love Stories” will be the theme of our readings and writings. We will explore and consider love in its different forms as an act of curiosity, exploration,be it the love of writing or the love in our different relationships, the love of places or things, people or whatever you choose to write about. This is a generative craft workshop: in-class writing exercises and immediate feedback will help inspire and hone your writing process. By the end, you'll have a short piece of writing for yourself or to share.

Writing From Life

In this six week class we will share stories about ourselves or the women in our lives. Marriages, childhood, affairs, death--this is what lives are made of. How do we write about relationships? We will read and write, learn how to craft our own memories or experiences (or those of others) into a work of creative nonfiction. This is a generative craft workshop: in-class writing exercises and immediate feedback will help inspire and hone your writing process. By the end, you'll have a short piece of writing for yourself or to share.

From Here to There: Journeys, Travels, and Changes

In this six-week class we will explore the idea of journeys, both inward and outward, and then write fiction and memoir about some of the important journeys we have taken in our lives. Remember, one does not have to have traveled to have journeyed! Many of us think of travel and we think of a train journey or trek across a foreign land or up a mountain, but the last two years have changed things. What does it mean to "travel" during isolation? How do we depart our circumstances during lockdown? What kinds of journeys do we take when we don't actually go anywhere?

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For more information about School One's LitCenter, contact Diana Champa, call (401) 331-2497, or complete our online inquiry form.

“The challenge for every writer is to draw her reader fully into the character's experience. Scenes are where the action of a story comes alive and invites the reader in. Scenes are where the story is lived.”

— Hester Kaplan, Author and Goat Hill writer

“Writing is like detective work: to reveal the story, you pull at the threads which will force the story to reveal itself. My goal as a teacher is to help you understand how to spot the clues.”

— Mark Fogarty, Writer and GrubStreet Instructor

“We turn to fiction to be transported, thrilled, immersed in the new and strange. Science Fiction and Fantasy takes us to these other worlds, and provides perspective on our own.”

— Amanda Kallis, Writer and School One Faculty

“We’re at a point in the world right now where we need empathy if we’re going to make any kind of progress. This is the best time for theater; it’s the antidote to apathy”.

— Ben Jovilet, Writer and GrubStreet Instructor

“I believe that openness and innovation are integral to teaching. This is certainly reflected in School One’s philosophy.”

— Victor Wildman, Frequency Writers and Creative Writing Instructor

“I’m excited about our new offerings this fall at School One’s LitCenter—expanding into genres like poetry, screenwriting, playwriting, and publishing, in addition to our existing fiction and personal essay/memoir workshops.”

— Ethan Gilsdorf, Author & GrubStreet Providence Coordinator

ADULT WRITERS

School One’s LitCenter can help new and serious writers find your voice and extend your creativity. Adult writers can enroll in evening classes at School One’s LitCenter throughout the year, participate in a book club, or attend a writing critique group.

Write Rhode Island Announced Winners

At School One, we teach students to think, write, analyze, and create. As a community, we treat each other with care and respect. We appreciate each other’s differences as people and as learners.