Ghosts reflect to us both the uncanny and the all too familiar. Their terrifying power can be used to hurt or to heal in narrative. Join horror author Elizabeth Kilcoyne in exploring the spirit realm through writing, and visit it on October 27 with Marley Knockers Paranormal! Elizabeth Kilcoyne is ...

This class will explore the history of tropes and cliches and go over the most popular and successful examples of tropes in genre fiction. We’ll also take time to experiment with tropes of our own in a writing activity, testing a “vanilla” draft and a “reinvention” draft. Let’s improve and ...

Historical fiction is the backbone of a multitude of genres and getting it right can make your book ‘set back in time’ truly sing. If you are considering a mystery set in the 1960s, romance in the 1750s, literary fiction in the era of Jane Austen, or any other book ...

Oftentimes, a monster in a story is a “recycled” version of one we’ve encountered before: a fresh kind of vampire, werewolf, witch, etc. Yet no matter how much time goes by, and how many monsters we meet, we seem to never get tired of them. Why is that? This course ...

This class will help writers wanting to explore historical subjects, whether it be for memoirs, family histories, or historical fiction. The class will cover story and story types, choosing point of view, dialogue and setting, all viewed through the lens of time. There also will be extensive discussion of goals and practical methods for historical research ...