In the How to Pitch Editors Master Class we'll be opening up our folders of story pitches, email correspondences, and expensively framed acceptance letters. We'll talk about generating pitch ideas, building a portfolio, talking to editors, sending cold pitches, developing editorial relationships, and networking. This is a two-day jump start for new and mid-career freelancers.

Ben Mauk is a full-time freelance writer. He writes feature articles and essays for The New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, and The New Yorker online, among other publications. He is a grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award. He has received accolades from the Western Writers of America, and the Overseas Press Club of America, and was a finalist in feature writing for the 2018 National Magazine Award.

This class is in English.

Instructor: Ben Mauk

Cost: €100.

In this master class, we'll demystify the process of submitting to literary journals. Participants will learn how to approach the submission process and discover new journals, write cover letters and capsule biographies, keep track of submissions, follow up on rejection letters, and more.

This is a two-day master class for writers of all genres (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and literary translation) who wish to be more strategic and effective in their approach to literary publication. Sample literary journals and other resources will be provided.

This class is taught in English.

Weekend seminar. €100.

Instructor: Kathleen Heil

Location: Neukölln.

Academic writing can be daunting even to fluent non-native English speakers. This course makes clear the expectations for good English academic prose and offers concrete strategies for producing lucid and compelling articles, dissertations, and monographs.

We’ll learn general principles of argumentation and structure before turning our attention to the nuances of style. Special attention will be paid to the difference between German and English academic conventions, but this course is applicable to students from all linguistic and academic backgrounds.

Students are encouraged to submit a writing sample but it is not required. The course includes a one-on-one consultation and individualized feedback of participants' academic writing. This class is taught in English.

Two day workshop + private consultation €160

Instructor: Madeleine LaRue

Location: Neukölln.

In the How to Pitch Editors Master Class we'll be opening up our folders of story pitches, email correspondences, and expensively framed acceptance letters. We'll talk about generating pitch ideas, building a portfolio, talking to editors, sending cold pitches, developing editorial relationships, and networking. This is a two-day jump start for new and mid-career freelancers.

This class is taught in English.

Weekend seminar. €100.

Instructor: Ben Mauk

Location: Neukölln.

In the How to Pitch Editors Master Class we'll be opening up our folders of story pitches, email correspondences, and expensively framed acceptance letters. We'll talk about generating pitch ideas, building a portfolio, talking to editors, sending cold pitches, developing editorial relationships, and networking. This is a two-day jump start for new and mid-career freelancers.

Ben Mauk is a full-time freelance writer. He writes feature articles, essays, and reportage for The New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The New Yorker online, Granta, and elsewhere. He is a grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Matthew Power Literary Reporting Award. He has received awards, honors, or citations from the American Society of Magazine Editors, the Western Writers of America, and the Overseas Press Club of America.

This class is in English.

Two-day seminar.
Saturday, November 17 & Sunday, November 18. 10:00 - 15:00.

Cost: €100.

Location: Neukölln.

Whether you’re an experienced writer mired in the middle of a project or an absoulute beginner trying to get your first words onto paper, Write Every Day will help unleash your creative mind. This class is 10 class hours and takes place in both 4- and 5-day versions.

Each day we’ll touch on different aspects of craft: point of view and narrative distance, character, tension and plot, detail and setting, and the possibilities of form and structure. We’ll look to writers who do these things exceptionally well, examining their secrets for inspiration. Fired up by what we’ve learned, we’ll turn to in-class writing exercises, generating new material that is fresher and stranger than we thought possible.

This class is open to writers of all levels of experience, English and ESL speakers.

Instructor: Mia Bailey. Details here.

Meets M-Th @18:30 in Neukölln. 12 class hours. €150.

Whether you’re an experienced writer mired in the middle of a project or an absoulute beginner trying to get your first words onto paper, Write Every Day will help unleash your creative mind.

Each day the week we’ll touch on different aspects of craft: point of view and narrative distance, character, tension and plot, detail and setting, and the possibilities of form and structure. We’ll look to writers who do these things exceptionally well, examining their secrets for inspiration. Fired up by what we’ve learned, we’ll turn to in-class writing exercises, generating new material that is fresher and stranger than we thought possible.

This class is open to writers of all levels of experience, English and ESL speakers.

Cost: €125.

“I intend to paint large moveable pictures which will function between the easel and the mural.” Jackson Pollock, Guggenheim Application (1947)

As visual artists, our work is tied to the written word whether we like it or not. (Even "Untitled" is a title.) We write artists' statements, catalogue texts, project proposals, and grant applications. Surviving and thriving as an artist often depends on how well we can write about our work.

In Writing for Visual Artists, students will learn how to write about what they do as artists and why they do it. We’ll review key elements of art writing, including clarity in form and syntax, concrete detail, narrative, and structure. We’ll focus on the artists’ statement in all its variations, whether as project proposal or manifesto. Inspired by modern and contemporary examples, we’ll do in-class and take-home exercises, sound out new ideas and give feedback. Students will leave with the tools to write concisely and authentically about their visual art practice, and with ideas for further art-writing experiments.

This class is open to artists and writers of all levels of experience.

Cost: €90.

This intensive week-long course considers the long-form nonfiction magazine story as its own specialized genre: a collaboration by writer, editor, and subject. In five daylong classes, we'll walk through the stages of research, reporting, drafting, revision, and editing. We'll look at classics of the genre both conservative and experimental, discuss philosophies and theories of nonfiction writing, conduct workshops designed to help you generate pitches and drafts, and discuss story structure and fact-checking.

225€.

In the How to Pitch Editors Master Class, instructor Ben Mauk will open up his folder of pitches and stack of rejections, email correspondences, and expensively framed acceptance letters. We'll talk about generating pitch ideas, building a portfolio, talking to editors, sending cold pitches, developing editorial relationships, networking--all the stuff they don't teach you in MFA classes. This is a two-day jump start for new and mid-career freelancers.

Location: Neukölln/Kreuzberg

€90.

In the How to Pitch Editors Master Class, instructor Ben Mauk will open up his folder of pitches and stack of rejections, email correspondences, and expensively framed acceptance letters. We'll talk about generating pitch ideas, building a portfolio, talking to editors, sending cold pitches, developing editorial relationships, networking--all the stuff they don't teach you in MFA classes. This is a two-day jump start for new and mid-career freelancers.

€90.