Join us for this hands-on opportunity to explore questions every writer asks. What kind of sentence captures anxiety? Thought? A reminiscent narrator? A feeling of euphoria? Exhaustion? The style of the sentence–the diction, imagery, syntax, rhythm, and sound–isn't frivolous decoration, but content. Come to class prepared to try out different ways of writing sentences. You’ll begin to learn how to write sentences that do more than move the story along.
Nina Schuyler is an award-winner author. Her short story collection, In This Ravishing World, won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, the W.S. Porter Prize for Short Story Collections, and the Prism Prize for Climate Literature. Her novel Afterword won the Foreword INDIE Book of the Year Award for Literary and Science Fiction. Her novel The Translator won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for General Fiction. She teaches creative writing at Stanford Continuing Studies, and for the independent bookstore, Book Passage. Nina’s weekly Substack newsletter, Stunning Sentences, can be found at ninaschuyler.substack.com. Her newest novel, Open the Floodgates, will be published on September 15, 2026 by Reverberations Books and is available for preorder now.
This program is presented in collaboration with the California Writers Club of Marin.