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StoryStudio Chicago
- Business Skills: Business Writing
- Writing: Fiction / Journaling & Memoir / Non-Fiction / Other Writing / Poetry / Screenwriting
Year Established: 2003
Website: www.storystudiochicago.com
Learning Types Offered
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About Us
USE YOUR WORDS!
StoryStudio Chicago is dedicated to fostering confidence and creativity in writing and storytelling through teaching, discussion, performance and community building.
Writers and performers of all levels - from aspiring writers to professionals - are encouraged to participate.
*Fiction/Creative Non-Fiction/Screenwriting Courses and Ongoing Workshops
*Membership Program
*Certificate in Creative Writing
*Online Magazine and Student Discussion Forums
*Business Writing Classes
*Individual Instruction
*Youth Institute
Whether you write for business or for personal expression, StoryStudio can help you tell your story better.
Non Fiction Workshop
If you’ve been working on creative non-fiction pieces like essays, bits of memoir, or blog posts, then take advantage of this workshop to share your drafts and receive useful critical feedback to keep… more info
Novelists Roundtable
A brand new concept! The Novelists Roundtable is for novelists currently working their way through a novel or are contemplating beginning one. It’s not a class and it’s not a workshop. It’s an ongoing… more info
StoryStudio Open House
If you’re thinking about taking a writing class, come on by for the next Prospective Student Open House. We’re a relaxed bunch here at StoryStudio and promise you’ll have a nice time meeting other… more info
Write-a-Thons
Life is crazy busy and we don’t always get in as much writing as we’d like. StoryStudio is here to help! Devote a full day to your writing and come to one of our weekend Write-a-Thons. These writing… more info
Writing Your Life
Do you want to write down your interesting life experiences? Do you have family stories that should be recorded before they’re lost? Have you been journaling for a while, but are now ready to get some… more info
Young Writers Creative Writing Camp
Do you love to write? Do you spend your free time scribbling in notebooks, scratching poems in the margins of your math homework, and daydreaming about stories and characters? Dream of writing a best… more info
Jill Pollack
Jill Pollack is an award-winning writer, editor and communications consultant whose work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, trade periodicals, and political journals. She is the author of three books… more info
Pete Coco
Pete Coco is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and former Fiction Coordinator for Talk/Art. He maintains and writes for the weblogs "Impeccable Jones" and "Babies Are Fireproof"… more info
Danny Kravitz
Danny Kravitz is a writer and screenwriter with more than six completed screenplays. He was awarded First Place in the 1998 "Fade In" Magazine screenwriting competition and has two screenplays… more info
Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas is an arts and entertainment features writer for the Chicago Sun-Times. His work has also appeared in Esquire, Playboy, Chicago magazine and on Salon.com. Book-wise, he has assisted on biographies… more info
Jack Helbig
Jack Helbig is a theater critic, arts writer, and essayist for various publications. He regularly writes for the Chicago Reader and the Daily Herald. He is also a playwright; his musical adaptation, Hotel… more info
Annette Gendler
Annette Gendler is a creative nonfiction writer. Her work has appeared in Under the Sun, South Loop Review and on flashquake.com. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at Queens University… more info
Kriste Peoples
Kriste Peoples brings her love of creative writing, teaching and storytelling all the way from Tempe, Arizona, where she earned her MFA in creative writing. She has extensive experience as a writing instructor… more info
Elizabeth Reeder
Elizabeth Reeder is a fiction writer whose short fiction has appeared in respected journals and anthologies in the UK and the US (e.g. Womenâs Press, Polygon, Hanging Loose, Chapman (Edinburgh)).… more info
Claudine Guertin
Claudine Guertin received her MFA in fiction writing from Queens University of Charlotte. Her writing has appeared in CAPPERâS, Chicago Social, Permission magazine, Pipes & Timbrels and other… more info
Jason Hardy
Jason Hardy loves all forms of fiction, but he has a special affection for science fiction and fantasy, which he has been reading since he was ten and writing since he was twelve. He is the author of… more info
T.K. Kim
T.K. Kim is a freelance journalist who has written for both newspapers and magazines. He has covered an eclectic range of topics from crime to the white supremacist movement . Kimâs work has appeared… more info
Paige Warren
Alyson Paige Warren holds an MFAW from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She teaches writing at StoryStudio Chicago, Loyola University, and in the “High Jump” program with the Latin School… more info
Molly Backes
M. Molly Backes has taught students of all ages and abilities. As an English teacher in a struggling rural New Mexico school, she designed and taught curricula to a wide spectrum of students, with a close… more info
Rebecca Rine-Stone
Rebecca Rine-Stone can’t get enough of Story Studio. She used to work the front desk a few moons ago and now she’s back! After getting her MFA in creative writing from Roosevelt University, she’s… more info
Mary Hamilton
Mary Hamilton is the co-host and co-founder of the QUICKIES! Reading Series, named by Time Out Chicago as the best reading series of 2008. Her work has been published by Pindeldyboz, Word Riot, Eclectica,… more info
Elizabeth Bagby
Elizabeth Bagby is a Chicago writer and editor. Her work has appeared in the anthologies The Writing Group Book and Life Sentences, in the periodicals Dramatics and Conversely, and on stage with Sansculottes… more info
Baird Harper
Baird Harper’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Mid-American Review, CutBank, and Best New American Voices among others. He holds an M.A. in English from the University of Montana… more info
Ellen Blum Barish
Ellen Blum Barish has a masters degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Her feature articles have appeared in Newsweek, Self, the Chicago Tribune’s Sunday… more info
Elizabeth Wetmore
Elizabeth Wetmore is a 2002 graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a 2006-2007 recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as several grants from the Illinois Arts Council.… more info
Lee Strickland
Lee Strickland’s fiction has appeared in Gettysburg Review, Sou’wester, Other Voices, StoryQuarterly, and River Oak Review. Her short stories have won an Illinois Arts Council grant and a “100 Distinguished… more info
Kate Ancell
Kate Ancell is a writer and journalist, who has covered every topic under the sun and lived to tell the tale. While living in London Kate was a managing editor for Conde Nast, wrote an award-winning cookbook… more info
Sarah Terez Rosenblum
Sarah Terez Rosenblum is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Sun Times and The Shepherd Express, among other publications. As a playwright and director, she has put up shows in Milwaukee,… more info
Scott Onak
Scott Onak holds an MFA from the University of Idaho and has stories published and forthcoming in Mid-American Review, cold-drill, and Quick Fiction. He has taught English and creative writing at the… more info
Kate Harding
Since receiving her MFA in fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2005, Kate Harding mostly been writing non-fiction—co-authoring a book on body image and contributing to numerous websites, including… more info
Kate Harding
Since receiving her MFA in fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2005, Kate Harding mostly been writing non-fiction—co-authoring a book on body image and contributing to numerous websites, including… more info
Erin O'Neill
Erin O’Neill has published more than 200 pieces in publications including ELLE, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun Times and Military.com. She holds a BA in English and Sociology… more info
Catherine Brady
Catherine Brady is the author of three short story collections, including Curled in the Bed of Love, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and The Mechanics of Falling, winner of… more info
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