Classes at the Attic

Poets Studio is based on the idea that focusing on goals is the key to lasting growth as a poet. Poets Studio is a weekly workshop that will run from Sep - May for 30 weeks. It is designed to give form and focus to your poetry writing. The Poets Studio is open to applications from all poets. Poets join the Poets Studio as members and attend for the entire session. This creates the Poets Studio's special experience: a steady, supportive, and comprehensive study of your poetry among other poets.

Read more about the Poets Studio.

Deadline to apply is Sep 18, 2022

To Apply: Please send ten (10) pages of poems and a 250 words "Statement of Goals" to the Attic Institute.

APPLY NOW

All students must show proof of Covid-19 vaccination. 

This popular tune-up workshop will be run twice this summer, in July and August. It's the kind of study every writer needs, an opportunity to write from studying your own life experiences and then seeing what new subjects that leads you to. The supportive approach emphasizes observation as the route to achieve new material, new possibilities, and new pieces, whether you are writing fiction, memoir, or poems. The approach teaches you new skills that you can use for all your future writing, as well as how to transfer your observations into clear notes, jottings, studies, and pieces of new writing. This method of writing is one of the foundational skill sets that all writers should practice. It hones your concentration on details and the language that comes from those details, and it releases you into new zones for your memories and ideas to emerge. Our focus will be almost entirely on making new pieces of writing. Included in your tuition is a signed copy of the tenth anniversary edition of David's book, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces, with a Foreword by Chuck Palahniuk, which we will use as a "textbook" for the workshop. 

Register for this Workshop

This is scheduled to be an in-person workshop. Joining via Zoom is available. 

To protect students, faculty, staff, and our community, the Attic Institute requires verification of full vaccination status of all students in order to participate in in-person workshops. Vaccinations must be completed two weeks prior to the first meeting of the workshop. 

Please email a copy of a jpg./photo of one of the following acceptable proof of vaccination to info@atticinstitute.com:   

1. The record of immunization from a healthcare provider or pharmacy
2. A copy of the COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card
3. A copy of medical records documenting the vaccination
4. A copy of immunization records from a public health, state, or tribal immunization information system 
5. A copy of any other official documentation that contains the type of vaccine administered, date(s) of administration, and the name of the healthcare professional(s) or clinic site(s) administering the vaccine(s).