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Free Masterclass: From the Page to the Stage
Free Masterclass: From the Page to the Stage
Most writers are introverts. But these days, audiences want to hear from their writers directly. And writers who give great readings sell more of their work. What's an introverted writer to do? Join Western's Graduate Program in Creative Writing and Performance Coach Andrew Sellon for an invigorating hour learning to make your words resonate with an audience -- and how to build the courage to get in front of one.
Free Masterclass: Braids & Blends: Fusing Forms in Your Writing
Free Masterclass: Braids & Blends: Fusing Forms in Your Writing
What happens with the sonnet meets the ghazal, or when an abecedarian merges with a haibun? Explore how writers twist and combine poetic forms to create something new, and try your hand at making your own unique mix. (No experience with forms or poetry required!) Join Western's Graduate Program in Creative Writing (GPCW) for an hour exploring poetic forms with contemporary poet & GPCW faculty, Erica Reid. ericareidpoet.com
Free Masterclass: Top Tips for Increasing Tension in Your Story
Free Masterclass: Top Tips for Increasing Tension in Your Story
Free Masterclass: Proetic Linescape: From Prose to the Poetic Line
Free Masterclass: Proetic Linescape: From Prose to the Poetic Line
Lyric prose can be a gateway to creating poetry, and poetry can be forged in prose. Inspired by Jennifer Elise Foerster’s workshop, The Poetic Line, we will consider lyric prose and its deliberate poetic transformation. Using syntax and rhythm, we will seek an indirect relationship between prose and the “facetious lineation” of the poetic line, working toward writing that shimmers between both. Join Western's Graduate Program in Creative Writing for this free, hour-long class with poetry faculty Byron Aspaas.
Cameron McGill's "Loaner" | The Kenyon Review
Cameron McGill's "Loaner" | The Kenyon Review
Vol. XLVII, No. 4
"Why Clearing Stormfall With a Chainsaw is a Lot Like Writing Prose"
"Why Clearing Stormfall With a Chainsaw is a Lot Like Writing Prose"
The forest had fallen sideways. The trees piled horizontal across the trail, tangled in brush and each other. This forest, on the eastern slope of Washington’s Cascade Mountains, had burned seven y…
Free Masterclass: The Many Streams of Income Available to Genre Fiction Writers & Publishers
Free Masterclass: The Many Streams of Income Available to Genre Fiction Writers & Publishers
How do fiction writers really make a living in the year 2026? What does it look like to publish and earn an income in the modern era of publishing? Spend an hour with three directors in the Graduate Program of Creative Writing who are actively working in the fiction writing and publishing industry. Learn more about how they, their colleagues, and their students are creating various income streams from their fiction writing and publishing projects.
Screenplaying Podcas: You & Me & Chaz & Rodney
Screenplaying Podcas: You & Me & Chaz & Rodney
This episode, Screenwriting Director James Napoli from interviews , whose award-winning short film "You & Me & Chaz & Rodney" premiered at the 15th Annual . The film's story? -- "After making a plan to hook up with boys for the first time, two curious teens must instead confront their own shifting friendship and the underlying pressures to take the next step." Indeed, the pressure on teens is intense, and brings that idea, the film it sparked, and the ways it informed directorial decisions into compelling focus during this informative and thoughtful podcast. Our theme music is by Levgen Poltavasky at Pixabay, and our audio wizard is Mr. Mike Janowski. Thank you for supporting our podcast about the art of movies and the lost art of conversation!
Masterclass: The Land Beneath Your Feet: All Writing is Place-Based Writing
Masterclass: The Land Beneath Your Feet: All Writing is Place-Based Writing
Memorable writing is rooted in a deep sense of place. In this workshop, we examine landscape and place as the container for the stories we have to tell whether we write fiction or fantasy, poetry or essay. This class looks at the importance of place and provides tips on how to create it, before showing how it can be used to establish mood, atmosphere, and even, character. Join Western's Graduate Program in Creative Writing faculty member, Karen Auvinen, in this free one-hour class.
Masterclass: Fact vs. Truth in True Story Screenwriting
Masterclass: Fact vs. Truth in True Story Screenwriting
The phrase "based on a true story" can invite some snarky comments. There is an impression that movies take a great many liberties with the truth. But the screenwriter's job is to interpret, not report. In this course, we'll look at how intelligent script design can enhance an audience's emotional engagement and get at a certain truth that is hiding within the basic facts of a true life story. Join Western's Graduate Program in Creative Writing for an hour with Screenwriting Director & podcast host James Napoli. This class is best suited for writers looking to enhance their techniques of theme and character; writers who are developing stories about real people. All writers & creatives welcome.
Low-Residency Screenwriting MFA
Low-Residency Screenwriting MFA
Discover the Graduate Program in Creative Writing focusing on Screenwriting, where you can hone your storytelling and film production skills.
Writers of the Future Podcast with Kevin J. Anderson
Writers of the Future Podcast with Kevin J. Anderson
Retired NASA astrophysicist Alan Smale concludes his Apollo Rising trilogy with Burning Night. Explore alternate-history Cold War tension on the Moon and compared with L. Ron Hubbard's prescient 1948 story, “240,000 Miles Straight Up.”
The Teeth on My Wrist by Elizabeth Bradfield
The Teeth on My Wrist by Elizabeth Bradfield
I wear my grandmother’s teeth on my wrist. She mostly
Looking Out from the Inscape of the Self: An Interview with Elizabeth Bradfield
Looking Out from the Inscape of the Self: An Interview with Elizabeth Bradfield
Anyone who looks out from the inscape of the self and asks how they are connected to the world—air, trees, water, concrete, beetles, stars, seasons—in a full way is writing ecopoetry. Introduction here is an ancient saying attributed to 12th-century Chinese teacher Qingyuan Weixin: “First mountains are mountains, and rivers are rivers. Then after some years, one may notice that mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers. Finally, as the years accumulate and one goes…
Screenplaying Podcast: Harold and Maude
Screenplaying Podcast: Harold and Maude
A fascinating duality among the folks at the and the as they discuss (debate?) the classic 1971 offbeat romance "Harold and Maude." What does the passage of time do to our experience of art? Is there a universal message in a story that can cut across generations? These are just some of the provocative topics on display in this edition of Screenplaying. Please enjoy our many disagreements! Our theme music is by Levgen Poltavasky at Pixabay, and our audio wizard is Mike Janowski. Thank you for supporting our podcast about the art of movies and the lost art of conversation!
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Begin Your Application
Register for The Eco-Urgency of Science-Storytelling Partnerships
Register for The Eco-Urgency of Science-Storytelling Partnerships
Climate change, water scarcity, species extinction. The science and the data are clear. Our planet is in an environmental crisis. So, why aren’t we doing more about it? Writer Joe Fassler and scientist Brooke Zanetell believe storytelling is the missing ingredient. In this 60-minute virtual Masterclass Joe and Brooke discuss the power of stories and the need to re-story nature in our shared quest to restore it. Partnerships are a big theme of this interactive session and whether you are a writer, a scientist, or both, you’ll leave with the first steps you can take in the journey to share your story, partner with others, and inspire environmental action. Join Western Colorado University's Graduate Program in Creative Writing in hosting faculty member, Joe Fassler, and Assistant Professor of Western’s Clark Family School of Environment & Sustainability, Brooke Zanetell, for this hour together.
GPCW Masterclasses
GPCW Masterclasses
Join free online creative writing masterclasses led by Western’s faculty and authors. Learn, connect, and grow your craft at no cost.
Screenplaying Podcast: Independent Filmmaker Focus: Saverio
Screenplaying Podcast: Independent Filmmaker Focus: Saverio
What's it like to direct a short film and take it on the festival circuit? This episode of Screenplaying features Screenwriting Director James Napoli from in conversation with Writer/Director Ellen Ancui, whose terrific film SAVERIO was screened at and uses a seriocomic approach to look at the issue of elder abandonment. Ellen shares insights into the directing process, how her film came together, how her background in theater played into the realization of her first film project, and lots more. Find out more about Ellen and the film at . Our theme music is by Levgen Poltavasky at Pixabay and our audio wizard is Mike Janowski. Thanks for listening to our podcast about the art of movies and the lost art of conversation!
Grad Programs Remain Accessible Despite Federal Loan Changes
Grad Programs Remain Accessible Despite Federal Loan Changes
Across the country, graduate students are feeling the ripple effects of major federal financial aid shifts. The phase-out of Graduate PLUS (Grad PLUS) loans and…
Nature Writing MFA / MA
Nature Writing MFA / MA
Wayfarer Magazine | Substack
Wayfarer Magazine | Substack
The Changemaker's Practice: Turning Your "Why" into Your Work
The Changemaker's Practice: Turning Your "Why" into Your Work
Genre Fiction MFA / MA
Genre Fiction MFA / MA
Poetry MFA / MA
Poetry MFA / MA
Screenplaying Podcast: Pretend I'm Not Here
Screenplaying Podcast: Pretend I'm Not Here
Screenwriting MFA / MA
Screenwriting MFA / MA
Master of Arts in Publishing
Master of Arts in Publishing
Lost Wolves of Yellowstone Film Showing with CBFF
Lost Wolves of Yellowstone Film Showing with CBFF
"Calling all film lovers" by the Gunnison Country Times
"Calling all film lovers" by the Gunnison Country Times
Mari Sandoz’s Legacy Lives On: Nature Writing Students Claire Thompson and Lizbeth Bárcena Awarded First Scholarships
Mari Sandoz’s Legacy Lives On: Nature Writing Students Claire Thompson and Lizbeth Bárcena Awarded First Scholarships
Poetry Collection Spring 2025 - The Westerner
Poetry Collection Spring 2025 - The Westerner
Repeat Offender - Terrain.org
Repeat Offender - Terrain.org
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Explore Western's MFA
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Apply to Western's Graduate Program in Creative Writing
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Publishing M.A.
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Screenwriting MFA/M.A.
Summer 2025 Electives Course Catalog
Summer 2025 Electives Course Catalog
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Nature Writing MFA/M.A.
JS Mayank Becomes Co-Writer of "Man’s Search For Meaning’
JS Mayank Becomes Co-Writer of "Man’s Search For Meaning’
War by Gary Copeland Lilley
War by Gary Copeland Lilley
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Salmon Weather
Chaotic Cupids: When Love Goes Awry
Chaotic Cupids: When Love Goes Awry
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Across the Aisle
Register for Fragmentation in Poetry Masterclass
Register for Fragmentation in Poetry Masterclass
Memories of Lucinda Eco
Memories of Lucinda Eco
Facing It by Yusef Komunyakaa, published on Poetry Foundation
Facing It by Yusef Komunyakaa, published on Poetry Foundation
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Native Voices: Indigenous American Poetry, Craft and Conversations
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