Tuesdays 6-8PM over Zoom, plus 1 additional hour asynchronous instruction per week
9/13, 9/20, 9/27 10/4, 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, 11/1 (make-up class, if needed: 11/8)
$400 with financial aid available to residents of Greater Philadelphia (Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties)
Applications open August 15th. Apply by August 30th, 11:59pm, using the link below, including for financial aid.
Please note: if accepted, payment is due 9/6 by 5pm. 

In this Introduction to Journalistic Writing course, we will explore journalism from straight news to narrative longform and hone skills like developing news judgment, finding stories, interviewing, reporting, researching, and understanding audiences. For models, we will read from a wide range of newspapers, magazines, and websites. We may consider works ranging from Mayukh Sen's profile of Princess Pamela, "She Was a Soul Food Sensation. Then, 19 Years Ago, She Disappeared." for Food52 to Jennifer Senior's Pulitzer Prize-winning feature "Twenty Years Gone" for The Atlantic. In addition to in-class writing exercises along the way, students will write and workshop drafts of a straight news article and a feature.

Kristen Martin (she/her) is a writer and cultural critic. Her debut narrative nonfiction book AMERICAN ORPHAN will be published by Bold Type Books. Her writing has been published in The New York Times Magazine, NPR, The Atlantic, Lapham’s Quarterly, The Baffler, and elsewhere. She received an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Università degli Scienze Gastronomiche in Italy, where she was a Fulbright-Casten Family Scholar. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Columbia University, and CUNY Baruch College, as well as for the Philadelphia literary community Blue Stoop. She lives in Philadelphia.