The Rosemont College Writer's Studio courses are noncredit offerings affiliated with Rosemont College’s Creative Writing MFA Program. Our mission is to provide graduate students from any program, as well as other members of the broader Philadelphia writing community, with affordable access to focused writing and publishingworkshops and masterclasses. Each Writer's Studio course is limited to 12 students, ensuring a personalized and engaging learning experience. Additionally, courses require a minimum of 3 students to proceed, ensuring that each offering is viable and productive.
Master Classes are offered on campus. They are open to non-students and alumni for a fee and are free for current Rosemont students. All one-day Master Classes include brunch in the Rosemont cafeteria.
Workshops are six weeks and are conducted online, providing convenient access to participants regardless of their location. Additionally, these workshops are eligible for the Rosemont College alumni discount, allowing alumni to continue their professional development at a reduced cost. Rosemont alumni use discount code: alum at checkout to receive discount.
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The Rosemont College Writer's Studio courses are noncredit offerings affiliated with Rosemont College’s Creative Writing MFA Program. Our mission is to provide graduate students from any program, as well as other members of the broader Philadelphia writing community, with affordable access to focused writing and publishingworkshops and masterclasses. Each Writer's Studio course is limited to 12 students, ensuring a personalized and engaging learning experience. Additionally, courses require a minimum of 3 students to proceed, ensuring that each offering is viable and productive.
Master Classes are offered on campus. They are open to non-students and alumni for a fee and are free for current Rosemont students. All one-day Master Classes include brunch in the Rosemont cafeteria.
Workshops are six weeks and are conducted online, providing convenient access to participants regardless of their location. Additionally, these workshops are eligible for the Rosemont College alumni discount, allowing alumni to continue their professional development at a reduced cost. Rosemont alumni use discount code: alum at checkout to receive discount.
Use the buttons below to share which Rosemont College Writer's Studio Workshop is your favorite!
Writing Feminist Fairy Tales -- REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
$450
Writing Feminist Fairy Tales with Christina Rosso-Schneider
Mondays 6-8 PM (Zoom) February 17-March 24, 2025
Fairy tales often portray women as weak and submissive to their male counterparts. These stories define women as objects, powerless to change their circumstances. And if these women defy the role society has established for them, they are depicted as old, ugly, and evil. This, however, is just one way to look at fairy tales and the female characters they house.
Join local author and bookstore owner Christina Rosso-Schneider for a six-week workshop exploring how to write feminist fairy tales. This class will study the work of Angela Carter, who coned the term 'feminist fairy tales,' as well as several contemporary writers, with the purpose of examining how changing various aspects of a fairy tale can shape it into something new. The class will culminate in everyone writing feminist fairy tales. All writing levels and genre are welcome.
Christina Rosso-Schneider (she/they) lives and writes outside of Philadelphia with her two rescue pups and bearded husband. Together, they run an independent bookstore and event space called “A Novel Idea on Passyunk.” In 2016, she received an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in English from Arcadia University. She is the author of Creole Conjure (Maudlin House) and She is a Beast (APEP Publications). Her fiction and nonfiction work centers around gender, sexuality, fairy tales, and the occult, and has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize. When she isn’t writing or working at the bookstore, she teaches in the humanities department at Moore College of Art. She also offers a variety of writing and occult-based classes through “A Novel Idea” and local nonprofits.
Writing Feminist Fairy Tales with Christina Rosso-Schneider
Mondays 6-8 PM (Zoom) February 17-March 24, 2025
Fairy tales often portray women as weak and submissive to their male counterparts. These stories define women as objects, powerless to change their circumstances. And if these women defy the role society has established for them, they are depicted as old, ugly, and evil. This, however, is just one way to look at fairy tales and the female characters they house.
Join local author and bookstore owner Christina Rosso-Schneider for a six-week workshop exploring how to write feminist fairy tales. This class will study the work of Angela Carter, who coned the term 'feminist fairy tales,' as well as several contemporary writers, with the purpose of examining how changing various aspects of a fairy tale can shape it into something new. The class will culminate in everyone writing feminist fairy tales. All writing levels and genre are welcome.
Christina Rosso-Schneider (she/they) lives and writes outside of Philadelphia with her two rescue pups and bearded husband. Together, they run an independent bookstore and event space called “A Novel Idea on Passyunk.” In 2016, she received an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in English from Arcadia University. She is the author of Creole Conjure (Maudlin House) and She is a Beast (APEP Publications). Her fiction and nonfiction work centers around gender, sexuality, fairy tales, and the occult, and has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize. When she isn’t writing or working at the bookstore, she teaches in the humanities department at Moore College of Art. She also offers a variety of writing and occult-based classes through “A Novel Idea” and local nonprofits.
Writing Romance -- REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
$450
Writing Romance with Amanda Arista
Saturdays 10AM-12PM (Zoom) February 22-March 29, 2025
Romance is the cornerstone of the publishing world with a subgenre for anyone's taste. Whether you love a good star-crossed lovers or enemies-to-lovers trope, this course will help you find your romantic story and teach you some tools to begin telling it. With some help from popular fiction and movies, we will start with crafting a strong hero and a perfectly matched romantic lead. And of course, we don't forget about the secondary characters trying to get them together and the antagonists plotting to keep them apart. While creating a setting that will submerge your readers into your story, we will dig dee into the stakes of the world and create a backbone to your story that will keep your readers turning the page.
Amanda was born in Illinois, raised in Corpus Christi, lives in Dallas but her heart lies in London. Good thing she loves to travel. During the summer after second grade, she read every book in the young adult section of the library, much to the surprise of the local librarian. So she started making up her own stories and hasn’t stopped. Along with her BA in English & Psychology and her MA in Education, Amanda is a graduate of the SMU The Writer’s Path and taught other aspiring authors for six years in the program. She has delivered lectures at several writer conferences and loves discussing craft, character, and structure.
Writing Romance with Amanda Arista
Saturdays 10AM-12PM (Zoom) February 22-March 29, 2025
Romance is the cornerstone of the publishing world with a subgenre for anyone's taste. Whether you love a good star-crossed lovers or enemies-to-lovers trope, this course will help you find your romantic story and teach you some tools to begin telling it. With some help from popular fiction and movies, we will start with crafting a strong hero and a perfectly matched romantic lead. And of course, we don't forget about the secondary characters trying to get them together and the antagonists plotting to keep them apart. While creating a setting that will submerge your readers into your story, we will dig dee into the stakes of the world and create a backbone to your story that will keep your readers turning the page.
Amanda was born in Illinois, raised in Corpus Christi, lives in Dallas but her heart lies in London. Good thing she loves to travel. During the summer after second grade, she read every book in the young adult section of the library, much to the surprise of the local librarian. So she started making up her own stories and hasn’t stopped. Along with her BA in English & Psychology and her MA in Education, Amanda is a graduate of the SMU The Writer’s Path and taught other aspiring authors for six years in the program. She has delivered lectures at several writer conferences and loves discussing craft, character, and structure.
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