Welcome to The Ministry of Words! We are a teaching collective of three acclaimed, award-winning writers offering classes in four disciplines: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and screenwriting. Our writing has been recognized by institutions such as the Pulitzer, the National Book Awards, the National Book Critics Circle, the Emmy Awards, Lambda Literary, the American Library in Paris, the Carol Shields Prize, the National Endowment for the Arts, and more.

Classes are structured as follows:

• Spring Term: a four-month generative online class that meets every other week with faculty, focused on building your body of work. During this semester, we’ll explore in-class writing exercises while establishing habits and frameworks that will help you sustain your writing practice.

• Fall Term: a four-month online workshop that meets every other week with faculty, where we’ll work together to shape and revise your work. We’ll have time and space for everyone to workshop multiple pieces. We’ll also discuss and—if this is a goal of yours—work toward publication.

Beyond classes, we’ll also offer:

• Cross-disciplinary lectures throughout the year open to all participants.

• Space for a shared online writing session that brings together all four classes on the weeks we’re not meeting.

• Opportunities to form community: our hope is that the relationships you make will be long-lasting (many of our former students have been meeting regularly for years).

Other details:

• The first fall class will start the week of August 26, 2026 across the disciplines of fiction and nonfiction.

• We’ve finished our first round of spring 2026 classes! The next round of 2027 spring classes will start the week of February 3, 2027 across the disciplines of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and screenwriting.