Sackett Street Writers

Writing Workshops on Sackett Street

Class Schedule

Sackett Street workshops are limited to eight writers and meet in private spaces in Brooklyn, in the instructors’ homes NYC-wide, and online. Every class includes the opportunity to have work critiqued in class, written feedback from both the instructor and classmates, and private consultations with the instructor.

A $250 deposit is required to reserve a spot (refundable up to two weeks before the class start date). To register, please complete the application and include a sample of work (1500-2000 words).

All returning writers receive a discount – $25 discount for writers returning for a second workshop and $50 discount for writers returning for a third or more workshop.

Looking for ONLINE CLASSES?

Check out our Online Workshops in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction and Novel Intensive!

Not sure what class is right for you?

Submit an application and we’ll let you know!

6-week Master Fiction Workshop with Tracy O’Neill – begins week of 7.9 – Park Slope

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Writers participating in this selective workshop will learn to recognize successful techniques in their fiction–what engages the reader, and how that success is achieved. In-class discussions will focus on analyzing student work, particularly the many choices (point-of-view, tone, detail, pacing, etc.) a writer must make concerning structure, character and language. Each writer will have two opportunities to have his or her work critiqued in class (up to 25 pages each time) and will receive typed feedback from both the instructor and his or her classmates.

A private conference with the instructor is included.

This course is intended for writers who have extensive writing and workshopping experience.

Begins: week of July 9, 2018
Day/ Time: weeknight tbd 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Instructor: Tracy O’Neill
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $495.00

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Tracy O’Neill is the author of The Hopeful. In 2015, she was named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan Prize, and was a Narrative Under 30 finalist. In 2012, she was awarded the Center for Fiction’s Emerging Writers Fellowship. Her fiction has appeared in Granta, LitHub, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Literarian, New World Writing, Narrative, and Guernica. She has published nonfiction in The Atlantic, the New Yorker, Bookforum, Rolling Stone, Grantland, Vice, The Guardian, VQR, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her column Body Language appears in Catapult. She currently teaches at the City College of New York and is editor-in-chief of the literary journal Epiphany.

6-week Advanced Fiction Writing with Rachel Lyon – begins 7.9 – Park Slope

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 Writers participating in this course will learn to recognize successful techniques in their fiction–what engages the reader, and how that success is achieved. In-class discussions will focus on analyzing student work, particularly the many choices (point-of-view, tone, detail, pacing, etc.) a writer must make concerning structure, character and language. Each writer will have two opportunities to have his or her work critiqued in class (up to 25 pages each time) and will receive typed feedback from both the instructor and his or her classmates.

A private conference with the instructor is included. This course is intended for writers who have extensive writing and workshopping experience.

Begins: July 9, 2018
Day/ Time: Mondays 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Instructor: Rachel Lyon
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $495.00
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Rachel Lyon’s debut novel, Self-Portrait with Boy, is forthcoming from Scribner in February ’18. Her short stories have appeared in Joyland, Iowa Review, Saint Ann’s Review, and other publications. She is a cofounder of the reading series Ditmas Lit in her native Brooklyn NY.

6-week Fiction II/III – begins 7.19 – Upper West Side with Chandler Klang Smith

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Writers participating in this course will learn to recognize successful techniques in their fiction–what engages the reader, and how that success is achieved. In-class discussions will focus on analyzing student work, particularly the many choices (point-of-view, tone, detail, pacing, etc.) a writer must make concerning structure, character and language. Each writer will have two opportunities to have his or her work critiqued in class (up to 25 pages each time) and will receive typed feedback from both the instructor and his or her classmates.

A private conference with the instructor is included. This course is intended for writers who have extensive writing and workshopping experience.

Begins: July 19, 2018
Day/ Time: Thursdays 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Instructor: Chandler Klang Smith
Location: Upper West Side
Fee: $495.00
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Chandler Klang Smith is a graduate of the MFA creative writing program at Columbia University. Her new novel The Sky Is Yours (Hogarth/Crown, 2018) was listed by Entertainment Weekly as a “Best New Book.” The Wall Street Journal called it “mesmeric… a great and disturbing debut,” and NPR described it as “a wickedly satirical synthesis that underlines just how fractured our own realities can be during periods of fear, unrest, inequality and instability.” Chandler has worked as an editorial assistant at literary agencies and as a ghostwriter. She is currently serving as a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards for the second year in a row. She teaches and tutors in New York City.

8-week Master Fiction Workshop – begins week of 9.10.18 – Park Slope

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Writers participating in this selective workshop will learn to recognize successful techniques in their fiction–what engages the reader, and how that success is achieved. In-class discussions will focus on analyzing student work, particularly the many choices (point-of-view, tone, detail, pacing, etc.) a writer must make concerning structure, character and language. Each writer will have two opportunities to have his or her work critiqued in class (up to 25 pages each time) and will receive typed feedback from both the instructor and his or her classmates.

A private conference with the instructor is included.

This course is intended for writers who have extensive writing and workshopping experience.

Begins: week of September 10, 2018
Day/ Time: weeknight tbd 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Instructor: tbd
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $595.00

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8-week Creative Nonfiction II Workshop – week of 9.10.18 – Park Slope

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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, personal essays or in-depth journalism. Writers should have some writing and writing class experience.

A writing sample is required to register for this class.

A private conference with the instructor is included.

Instructor: tbd
Begins: week of September 10, 2018
Day/Time: weeknight tbd 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $595

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8-week Fiction Writing Workshop I/II – begins week of 9.10.18 – Park Slope

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A writing sample is not necessary to apply for this workshop. Please fill out name, contact info, and writing/writing class experience fields below.

In this workshop, writers will learn how to manipulate the tools of fiction-writing (point-of-view, plot, characterizing detail, tone, etc.) to craft complete and unique stories that engage the reader. In-class critiques and exercises, as well as lectures and feedback from the instructor, are used to help students further develop their writing. This course is intended for writers with some writing experience who are looking to learn more about what makes a story, “a story.”

A private conference with the instructor is included.

Instructor: tbd
Begins: week of September 10, 2018
Day/Time: weeknight tbd 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $595

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8-week Creative Nonfiction I/II – begins week of 9.10.18 – Park Slope

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A writing sample is not required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info.

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. In-class writing prompts will be used to inspire and motivate students to produce new work.

This workshop is open to writers working on memoir, personal essays or in-depth journalism.

A private conference with the instructor is included.

Instructor: tbd
Begins: week of September 10, 2018
Day/Time: weeknight tbd 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $595

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8-week Fiction Writing II/III – begins week of 9/10/18 – Upper West Side

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A writing sample is required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and writing sample.

Writers participating in this course will learn to recognize successful techniques in their fiction–what engages the reader, and how that success is achieved. In-class discussions will focus on analyzing student work, particularly the many choices (point-of-view, tone, detail, pacing, etc.) a writer must make concerning structure, character and language. Each writer will have two opportunities to have his or her work critiqued in class (up to 25 pages each time) and will receive typed feedback from both the instructor and his or her classmates.

A private conference with the instructor is included. This course is intended for writers who have writing and workshopping experience.

Instructor: tbd
Begins: week of September 10, 2018
Day/Time: weeknight tbd 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Location: Upper West Side
Fee: $595

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20-wk Manuscript Generator (meets every other week) – for writers working on novels, memoirs, story and/or essay collections – begins week of 9.10.18 – Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn

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This generative workshop meets ten times total, and every OTHER week. Students have the opportunity to hand in excerpts (up to 20 pages max) every meeting, and receive feedback from the instructor on these pages. The workshop is open to writers working on novels, memoirs, 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. In-class 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 some experience writing and workshopping.

Begins: week of September 10, 2018
Day/Time: weeknight tbd (class meets every other week) 7pm – 9pm
Instructor: Heather Aimee O’Neill
Location: Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn
Fee: $1300.00

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Heather Aimee O’Neill has worked with hundreds of novelists in Sackett Street’s popular Novel Intensive Workshop (online and in Brooklyn). A novelist, essayist and poet, her most recent collection of poetry, Obliterations, is co-authored with Jessica Piazza and forthcoming by Red Hen Press. A recent Lambda Literary Poetry Fellow, her poetry chapbook, Memory Future, won the University of Southern California’s Gold Line Press Award, chosen by judge Carol Muske-Dukes. She is a freelance writer for publications such as Time Out New York, Parents Magazine and Salon.com.

8-week Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop – begins week of 9.10.18 – Park Slope

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A writing sample is required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info, writing experience and a writing sample.

Writers participating in this course will learn to recognize successful techniques in their fiction–what engages the reader, and how that success is achieved. In-class discussions will focus on analyzing student work, particularly the many choices (point-of-view, tone, detail, pacing, etc.) a writer must make concerning structure, character and language. Each writer will have two opportunities to have his or her work critiqued in class (up to 25 pages each time) and will receive typed feedback from both the instructor and his or her classmates.

A private conference with the instructor is included. This course is intended for writers who have extensive writing and workshopping experience.

Begins: the week of September 10, 2018
Day/ Time: weeknight tbd 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Instructor: tbd
Location: Park Slope
Fee: $595.00
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