Whatever your chosen genre, the classes offered through the Glen Online provide the opportunity to hone your craft with the personal guidance of one of the highly regarded writers featured in Image. You complete assignments at your own pace, over a maximum time period of six months, and discuss your writing with your mentor one-on-one over email. The private Glen Online forum on Image’s discussion board, ArtsandFaith.com, gives you easy access to readings and assignments and enables you to share your work with other students.
What to Expect in Your Class
• Six lectures, containing genre-specific definitions, practical advice, and anecdotal material to help you get to the next level in your writing.
• Six reading assignments—essays, stories, poems, or books— specific to the genre and formal aspects of the material you are exploring.
• Six writing assignments, which your instructor will respond to with detailed written critiques.
• A one-time cost of $595, which provides all of the above plus up to six months of one-on-one mentorship with an an accomplished and thoughtful instructor.
Click below to learn more about our current class offerings:
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Questions? Call Taylor Olsen at 206.281.2988, or email her at admin@glenonline.org.













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