Past and present offerings.
Classes
Current Classes
Portland Creativity Classes
Deepen your creative practice and connect with artists of all mediums. Classes will:
Help you establish creative habits
Guide you in breaking down limiting beliefs
Foster community and accountability
Provide structured time for you to work on your projects
Allow you to meet like-minded people
In- Person: Meeting at Novel (643 Congress St. Portland, ME) on Mondays from 7-8:30pm.
Virtual: Subscribe on Patreon to receive weekly hour-long lesson plans.
In-Person Writing Classes
Donation-based and open to the public, these classes take place in Portland, Maine. No registration required, just come with a notebook or computer!
1st Tuesdays from 5-6pm at the Portland Public Library (downtown location).
3rd Tuesday from 6-7:30 pm at Back Cove Books.
April In-Person Writing Workshop
If you keep daydreaming about that book, short story, or blog you want to start—this workshop is for you!
Over three sessions, you will:
Make measurable progress on your writing project
Build community with other writers
Get tailored feedback on your writing
Participate in feedback sessions for other writers
Meet one-on-one with Emma
Saturdays in April, 10:30am-12pm in Portland, Maine.
Curriculum Designed for Schools
AP Literature Podcasting Final Project (Fountain Valley School of Colorado): A week-long course focusing on using podcasts as a form of argument. Students learned how to write for audio and how to adapt rhetorical strategies for podcasts. We discussed how to structure a podcast to be both engaging and informative. We explored questions such as “are podcasts and other media replacing long-form essays as the dominant form of argument in our digital society?”
Voicemail Project (Morse High School): A 3-day identity-based sound and storytelling class working with students in the CPP Program, an alternative educational setting that fosters personal growth, academic achievement, and community engagement. Through interdisciplinary, project-based learning, CPP provides a learning environment that honors each individual’s needs, promotes growth and opportunity, and forges a path to graduation.
Audio Documentary Podcasting Intensive (Hamilton College): A three-day intensive workshop focused on audio documentary and ethical interviewing. Students learned how to prepare for interviews, record interviews, transcribe tape, and edit audio. We discussed non-extractive journalism, how to cold email interview subjects, and how to analyze audio.
Spanish Audio News Stories (Waynflete School): A 3-day course where students in “Spanish 3 Intensive" worked on a unit about the news, writing and researching their own news story. Students were then taught to transform these pieces into audio journalism. Students found news clips, music, and recorded their own narration to create an original podcast.
Audio Documentary Podcasting Intensive (Waynflete School): A semester-long after school offering for high schoolers interested in learning the basics of print journalism and audio documentary. Students learned how to prepare for interviews, record interviews, transcribe tape, and edit audio. Classes focused on discussed non-extractive journalism, research practices, and ethical interviewing.
The History of Song Podcast Intensive (Germantown Friends School): Virtual class focusing on research and recording techniques, blending information sharing with hands-on activities for students.
Native American History Book Review Podcast (Waynflete School): Over the course of a month, students created book reviews of various books by different Native Maine authors. This enabled them to explore subjects like research, critique, interviews, and oral history.
The "Audio Documentary Podcasting Intensive" course taught to Philosophy students at Hamilton College.