8,000+ creative writers since 2002 in NYC & ONLINE
8-week workshops are limited to 9-10 writers (8-wk classes) and 8 writers (6-wk classes), and generative classes (Writing Sprints and Manuscript Generator) have no more than 12-15 writers. All workshops include opportunities to share work in class and receive feedback from both the instructor and classmates. To register, please complete an application and, if required, include a sample of work (1500-2000 words).
Dates: Oct 8, 2025 to February 18, 2026
Instructor: Julia Fierro
Location: Meetings via video ten times every other Wed 7-9pm ET
Fee: $2300 (writers returning to Sackett Street – $2100)
This is a virtual class & video meetings are held every other week.
*This section of Manuscript Generator is intended for writers who have participated in a previous MG class but new writers are welcome to apply.
In this generative workshop, students have the opportunity to hand in chapters (up to 5000 words pages) every other week, and receive feedback from the instructor on these pages. The workshop is open to writers who have completed one or more chapters of a novel or memoir, as well as writers working on short story and/or essay collections. Writers participating in this course will learn how to recognize the successful techniques in their writing – what engages the reader, and how that success is achieved. Carefully planned lessons and online discussions will focus on analyzing the many choices (point-of-view, tone, characterizing details, pacing, etc.) a writer must make concerning structure, character and language. This course is intended for writers who have experience writing and workshopping.
A private conference with the instructor is included.
A writing sample is recommended to apply for this class.
Julia Fierro is the author of the novels The Gypsy Moth Summer and Cutting Teeth. She is one half of Cassidy Lucas, pen name of writing duo Julia Fierro and Caeli Wolfson Widger. Santa Monica, their first book together, was published by Harper in October 2020. Their second novel, The Last Party, set in Topanga Canyon on the westside of Los Angeles, was published in April 2022.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Julia founded The Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop in 2002, now a creative home to over 10,000 writers and named “New York City’s best writing class” by Time Out New York, the L Magazine, and Brooklyn Magazine; and a “Top Alternative to MFA programs” by Poets & Writers. Workshops are offered throughout NYC and online. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Buzzfeed, Glamour, Psychology Today, and other publications, and she has been profiled in The Observer and The Economist.
Julia has been an editor and writing coach since 2003, providing in-depth developmental feedback for authors of literary and commercial fiction. Books that she has worked on include books published by Penguin Random House, Riverhead, Simon and Schuster, Viking, Scribner, Harper Collins, Little A, Houghton Mifflin and more. She has traveled nationwide to give talks about writing, the teaching of writing, crafting creative communities, and publishing. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two children, and her father/gardening partner. She is at work on her fifth novel, a literary genre-bender set in Southern Italy during the WWII liberation.
Instructor: Ly Tran
Dates: begins Sept 17*
Location: Online (wkly video meetup Wed 7:30-9:30pm ET)
Fee: $750 ($700 for returning writers)
*no class the week of Sept 24
A writing sample is not required but recommended for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a 3-5 page sample.
Through group discussion of student work, plus that of published authors, writers in this workshop will examine the art and craft of creative nonfiction. The focus will be on learning to understand and use a full range of literary techniques in order to tell a truly compelling nonfiction story. Topics such as the use of dialogue, the creation of scene, attention to style and how to craft structure from true events will be discussed. Participants will also spend time talking about the particular responsibilities that come with writing creative nonfiction.
This workshop is open to writers working on memoir and personal essays, and writers should have writing experience.
Our online class platform includes thoughtful craft lessons to inform and inspire writers, a class homepage for discussions, book recommendations and more, and an in-line commenting tool that allows for supportive and constructive feedback.
Ly Tran is the author of the memoir, House of Sticks, chosen as “Best Book of the Year” by NPR and Vogue, and won the New York City Book Awards Hornblower Award. She has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell, Art Omi, Yaddo, and Millay Arts.
Instructor: Casey Walker
Begins: Oct 20, 2025
Location: Online (weekly video meet-up Mon 7-9pm ET)
Fee: $600 ($575 for returning writers)
A writing sample is recommended for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a sample of your writing.
Our Advanced Fiction Workshop is aimed at writers who have mastered the essentials and are looking for a community of peers ready to offer insightful, impartial feedback on works in progress. Whether you’re a writer looking to polish work for publication, looking for a fresh perspective, looking to climb the next hurdle, or simply missing the motivation and comradery only a small workshop can offer, our Fiction Workshop is designed to get you writing. Come geek out with your fellow lit nerds and walk away with a renewed sense of purpose.
Writers have two opportunities to share work with the class and receive detailed feedback and a class discussion dedicated to their writing.
Writers should have both writing and writing class experience.
Casey Walker is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and has a PhD in English Literature from Princeton University. He is the author of the novel Last Days in Shanghai. His writing has appeared in The Believer, Boston Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He is currently finishing a new novel, Mexicali, exploring the history of the Mexican-American borderlands where he was born and raised.
Dates: begins October 8, 2025
Instructor: Monica West
Location: Meetings via video every OTHER Wednesday 7-9pm ET
Fee: $1150 | $1050 for returning Sackett writers
This generative class open to novelists, memoirists, and writers working on story and essay collections.
This section of Manuscript Generator is intended for writers who have not participated in a previous Manuscript Generator class.
A writing sample is not required but recommended for this class.
Every other week you will submit up to 5,000 words of your manuscript to the instructor and she will provide you with written feedback. You’ll also have the opportunity to receive feedback from your fellow writers on your project synopsis or outline, scene exercises, and your manuscript’s opening paragraphs. The two-hour bi-weekly meetings will be the chance for you to discuss your projects and engage with writing prompts in shared group writing time. The instructor also offers a 30-minute one-on-one consultation at the end of the course to discuss your manuscript in depth.
Monica West is the author of the novel Revival Season which was a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick and a finalist for the 2022 Virginia Commonwealth University Cabell First Novelist Award. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, she received her MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow. She has received fellowships and residencies from Kimbilio Fiction, Hedgebrook, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Bread Loaf. She earned her B.A. in English Literature from Duke University and her M.A. in English and American Literature from New York University. She currently lives in Seattle where she teaches at the University of San Francisco.
Dates: begins wk of October 13
Instructor: coming soon
Location: Online (weekly video meet-up wknight tbd 7-9pm ET)
Fee: $575 ($550 for returning writers)
A writing sample is not required (but welcome) for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info.
This workshop is open to writers working in fiction and nonfiction, and writers at all levels of skill and experience are welcome to join.
Instructor: Natalie Adler
Dates: begins Oct 9 | meets once a week | Thurs 7-9pm
Location: Clinton Hill, BK
Class fee: $650 | returning writers receive a $25 discount
*class will not meet the week of 10.2
A writing sample is recommended for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a brief sample of your writing.
Our Fiction II/III Workshop is aimed at writers looking to create a regular practice and master the essentials and are looking for a community of peers ready to offer insightful, impartial feedback on works in progress. Class time is spent on in-depth discussion of student work, and analysis of published writing to inspire and inform.
Writers should have writing and writing class/workshop experience.
Natalie Adler‘s novel, WAITING ON A FRIEND, will be published by Hogarth Books in 2026.
Natalie is an editor at ReadLux, was a Center for Fiction Emerging Writer in 2022-2023, earned her PhD at Brown in Comparative Literature, and her MFA at Brooklyn College. Her fiction and essays have been published widely.
Instructor: Beth Morgan
Dates: begins Oct 1 | Wed 7-9pm
Location: Dumbo – 45 Main St, Brooklyn
Class fee: $850 | returning writers receive a $50 discount
A writing sample is required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a brief sample of your writing.
Our Fiction II/III Workshop is aimed at writers looking to create a regular practice and master the essentials and are looking for a community of peers ready to offer insightful, impartial feedback on works in progress. Class time is spent on in-depth discussion of student work, and analysis of published writing to inspire and inform.
Writers should have writing and writing class/workshop experience.
Beth Morgan is the author of A Touch of Jen, which she has also adapted for the screen. A Touch of Jen was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and named a best book of the year by The Rumpus. Her short fiction has been published in The Iowa Review, The Baffler, and The Kenyon Review online.
Instructor: Sari Wilson
Dates: begins Oct 15 | Wed 7-9pm*
Location: Prospect Heights
Class fee: $850 | returning writers receive a $50 discount
*no class wk of 11.26
A writing sample is recommended for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a brief sample of your writing.
Our Fiction Workshop is aimed at writers looking to for insightful, impartial feedback on works in progress. Class time is spent on in-depth discussion of student work, and analysis of published writing to inspire and inform.
Writers should have writing and writing class/workshop experience.
Sari Wilson is the author of the acclaimed novel Girl Through Glass, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction debut novel prize, an Amazon Book of the Month, a The Millions Best seller, and featured on NPR and in The New York Times. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Catapult, Slice, AGNI, and other publications. She is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, and residencies from The Corporation of Yaddo, Ragdale Foundation, and Byrdcliffe. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, the cartoonist Josh Neufeld. She and Josh co-edited Flashed, a linked collection of prose and comics, published by Butler University Press.
Instructor: Ted Thompson
Dates: begins wk of November 3 | meets wknight 7-9pm
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $1100 / $1000 for returning Sackett writers
A writing sample is required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a brief sample of your writing.
Our Master Fiction Workshop is a selective class aimed at writers looking to polish their work for publication. Class is taught by our most experienced advanced fiction instructor whose students have gone on to attend top MFA programs and win prestigious awards. Class time is spent on in-depth discussion of student work and typed feedback from the instructor is included, as well as a private conference.
Writers should have extensive writing and writing class/workshop experience.
A private conference with the instructor is included.
Ted Thompson is the author of The Land of Steady Habits, which was published by Little, Brown and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. The novel was adapted by Nicole Holofcener for a feature film starring Ben Mendelsohn, Edie Falco and Connie Britton, released in 2017. His short stories have been published in Tin House, American Short Fiction, One Teen Story and Best New American Voices, and he has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the MacDowell Colony. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Ted has proudly taught for Sackett for over thirteen years, as well as at Amherst College and in the Brooklyn College MFA program. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.
Instructor: Keija Parssinen
Begins: Oct 13, 2025
Location: Online (weekly video meet-up MON 7-9pm ET)
Fee: $650 ($600 for returning writers)
A writing sample is recommended for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a sample of your writing.
More than 1,000 writers have participated in The MFA Application Prep Workshop and gone on to attend MFA programs nationwide and internationally. The workshop is geared toward helping writers choose and even polish their application writing samples and personal statements, as well as giving writers advice on all aspects of the application process. Writers have two opportunities to share their writing sample pages (up to 6250 words each time) and receive detailed feedback on those samples and on their personal essay. A private conference with the instructor is also included.
Instructor: Beth Morgan
Dates: begins November 10 | Mon 7-9pm
Location: Park Slope – 273 Prospect Park W
Class fee: $750 | returning writers receive a $50 discount
A writing sample is required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a brief sample of your writing.
Our Fiction II/III Workshop is aimed at writers looking to create a regular practice and master the essentials and are looking for a community of peers ready to offer insightful, impartial feedback on works in progress. Class time is spent on in-depth discussion of student work, and analysis of published writing to inspire and inform.
Writers should have writing and writing class/workshop experience.
Beth Morgan is the author of A Touch of Jen, which she has also adapted for the screen. A Touch of Jen was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and named a best book of the year by The Rumpus. Her short fiction has been published in The Iowa Review, The Baffler, and The Kenyon Review online.