Listen.
Teach.
Write.
Revise.
Create.
The Ed Factory is a center for workshops, seminars, and individual writing support that bring people together to study language, experience, and the cultural ideas shaping everyday life while engaging in creative production. Participants read, listen, write, and develop new work in small groups.
Join a workshop or seminar, or book individual coaching through writing support.
Upcoming
Live, Online Seminars
SUMMER 2026
Discourses of Difference — an eight-day intensive seminar in listening and audioethnography (oral history remix). Begins 6 June.
Boundaries: Power, Schools, Work, & Life — a one-day workshop.
FALL 2026
Engaging the Brat: Rethinking Classroom Management— a four-day seminar across two weekends.
2026 Fall Institute | Public Inquiry as Liberatory Education — an institute in procurriculum and program design for educators and youth workers.
Microstories — a two-day workshop across two Saturdays.
Write — a monthly writing workshop and studio once per week across six weeks.
Fall Haiku — a one-day poetry workshop with documentary poet Mark Nowak.
Celluloid Closet — A new seminar series beginning with “Celluloid Closet: Foundations,” a study of queer cinema history and representation.
Sign up for Fieldnotes or connect with us directly to learn more about our upcoming workshops and seminars.
WRITING WORKSHOPS.
The Ed Factory’s writing workshops are small, live online groups for collective writing and inquiry. Participants work with narrative practice, documentary materials, and shared prompts to examine experience, perception, and social conditions through language. Workshops support work already underway or the beginning of new pieces through writing and discussion.
SEMINARS.
Seminars examine education, cultural life, institutions, and social experience through reading, listening, discussion, and creative production. Participants engage critical texts and multimedia while producing original work that explores how power, history, and perception shape everyday life.
PROSE LAB.
Prose Lab one-on-one sessions use writing to guide inquiry, decisions, and action. Work may focus on projects, applications, publication, research, work challenges, or major next steps. Sessions build clearer thinking, stronger prose, concrete goals, and practical habits for moving through work, school, and life.
THE TEACHERS INSTITUTE
The Teachers Institute is a fellowship for educators who want to work at the intersection of writing, cultural study, and classroom practice. Fellows meet across the year with visiting scholars, develop classroom projects, and participate in a community of educators engaged in public intellectual work.
Program Archive
Over the years, The Ed Factory has hosted seminars, workshops, and symposia bringing together educators, writers, and artists working with narrative, history, art, and public life.