Listen. Write. Revise. Create.
Meaningful writing begins with you and looking closely at the world. Sign up for individual mentoring, coaching, or small-group writing and audioethnography workshops.
Writing Workshops
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Write Teachers.
Join the Write Teachers to have dedicated time and space for up to 10 teachers to write, listen, and create in a community of educators.
Eight, two-hour sessions.
Protected time, shared presence, and focused creative writing.
The goal: generate and finish a creative nonfiction essay ready to submit.
Write Collective.
Join the Write Collective’s writing community for new and emerging writers.
• Eight, two-hour sessions.
• Protected time, shared presence, focused writing.
The goal: finish a creative nonfiction or other work.
Social Poetics.
This special documentary poetry workshop with award-winning poet Mark Nowak is offered once every semester.
Contact us to add your name to the list.
Methods.
We use what works—conversational and practical approaches that let you hear your language, sharpen ideas, and strengthen your prose and poetry. Between sessions, you’ll read short selections and write to focused prompts using a range of techniques.
Faculty.
Ed Factory coaches, mentors, and facilitators are writers grounded in strong language and critical ideas about lived experience.
Faculty are available for one-to-one support in areas connected to their own work, offering steady guidance as you shape something meaningful.
Schedule.
Book a free consultation.
Request short-notice support up to 48 hours before a deadline.
Writers under 18 register with a parent or guardian.
Seminar in Audioethnography.
Discourses of Difference is an eight-day, intensive audioethnography seminar in which participants conduct oral history interviews, engage in collective listening, and produce narrative remixes and pocket films. The work examines how American cultural values, norms, and beliefs shape perceptions of difference.
This seminar is open to those new to or familiar with oral history interviewing and creative digital work and culminates in the Hearing Collective, a live, online listening lab with narrators and the public. Participants’ projects will be included in the Young People’s Archive, a digital, transmedia public history project.
Intersted in Professional or College Credit?
Originally designed by Lisa Arrastia in 2020 as a remote graduate course for teacher licensure candidates, Discourses of Difference is now offered as a public, synchronous-online seminar held once each trimester across eight weekends, for a total of 37.5 hours.
Participants seeking college or professional credit may be able to arrange independent study, practicum, or portfolio-based credit through their home institution or professional association. The Ed Factory will provide a syllabus and hours documentation upon request. Approval and requirements are determined by the institution, supervising faculty, or professional association.
Contact us to learn more.