We are pleased to present exciting educational offerings this fall!
We are pleased to announce our fall 2025 Image Seminars & Intensives, an opportunity to dive deeper into your craft, guided by faculty from our community who understand the unique impulses and challenges facing artists at the intersection of art and faith.
Image Seminars and Intensives are designed for:
- Writers and thinkers of all levels, both published and unpublished, who wish to engage seriously in their craft or think about big questions.
- People interested in growing in a cohort setting, offering and receiving thoughtful feedback.
- Writers who are interested in receiving guidance from world-class faculty, who have also proven themselves in their own craft and in the classroom.
These workshops and seminars are for writers and art-appreciators of all levels who wish to develop their craft in an environment uniquely oriented toward asking the big questions of life, faith, and doubt. If you are yearning for a compassionate community, seeking to learn more about yourself, hoping for a thorough review of your work, or wishing for a supportive place to grow, these classes are for you.
$195 Seminars* | $895 Intensives
* Cinema seminar valued at $195 and offered with a "pay-what-you-can" option.
About Image Intensives & Seminars
We are pleased to announce our latest Image Intensives and Seminars, an opportunity to dive deeper into your craft, guided by faculty from our community who understand the unique impulses and challenges facing artists at the intersection of art, faith, and mystery.
Image Intensives offer an intimate, concentrated, MFA style learning experience with world-class faculty. These offerings are capped at 12 students, include weekly reading and writing assignments, and they provide 1:1 manuscript review and feedback from your instructor.
Image Seminars offer the unique opportunity to learn from an Image faculty in a cohort of like-minded creatives. Without the weekly assignments and feedback found in Image Intensives, our seminars provide a lighter lift, while still offering connection with an artistic community and an infusion of experience and insights from leaders in their creative disciplines.
With a variety of online learning offerings, our Image Intensives and Seminars are bound to meet your particular creative needs in this season of your craft and life!
Our Fall 2025 Instructors
All faculty in Image classes are chosen not only for their own critical success in their fields, but also for their educational experience and their engagement with questions at the heart of faith, doubt, art, mystery, and their intersections. Our faculty are world-class writers and educators.
About Mary Margaret Alvarado
Mary Margaret Alvarado’s writing has been published in Image, The Rumpus, VQR, The Boston Review, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Point, Cagibi, The Iowa Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Outside, by the Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere, and thrice shortlisted in The Best American. A former Iowa Arts Fellow and Provost’s Post-Graduate Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa, where she earned her MFA, Mia is the author of American Weather (NewLights Press), a book-length illustrated essay about gun violence and disarmament, Chrome of Iris, a daybook that won the 2023 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest, and Hey Folly (Dos Madres), a collection of poems. With Sarah Rose Nordgren she edits Lionstooth, a new book series forthcoming from West Virginia University Press, that publishes shorter works of fiction and creative nonfiction that “stay with the trouble” in an age of ecological crisis. Mia lives with her family in Colorado where she runs a nonprofit, Brave Irene’s, and teaches in prison.
About Gareth Higgins
Gareth Higgins, Ph.D. was born in Belfast and grew up during the northern Ireland Troubles. He has been involved in violence reduction and peace-building for over three decades, and later founded the zero28 project, a post-sectarian peace-building initiative. He is co-founder of the Wild Goose, Movies & Meaning, and New Story Festivals, and he founded The Porch Community. His books include Cinematic States: Stories We Tell, the American Dreamlife, and How to Understand Everything, The Seventh Story: Us, Them, and the End of Violence (co-authored with Brian McLaren), How Not to be Afraid, and A Whole Life in Twelve Movies: A Cinematic Journey to a Deeper Spirituality (co-authored with Kathleen Norris). Gareth is well known as an invitational guide and transformative storyteller, and leads retreats in Ireland and the United States. Learn more at www.theporchcommunity.net and www.irelandretreats.com
About Melissa Pritchard
Image Fiction Editor Melissa Pritchard is the nationally recognized, award-winning author of twelve books, including her most recent, Flight of the Wild Swan, a fictionalized biography of Florence Nightingale. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Flannery O’Connor Award, the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, a Carson McCullers Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. A 2025 Georgia Author of the Year finalist, her story collection, The Carnation Milk Palace, will be published in January 2027. Professor emerita of English and women’s studies at Arizona State University, Melissa lives in Columbus, Georgia. www.melissapritchard.com
About J.C. Scharl
J.C. Scharl is a poet and playwright. Her poetry has appeared in many outlets, including the BBC, the New Ohio Review, the Hopkins Review, The Lamp, and many others. She is the author of the poetry collection Ponds and two verse plays (Sonnez Les Matines, 2023, and The Death of Rabelais, 2025).
FAQ
For additional questions, please email Sara Arrigoni, Image's publisher, at sarrigoni@imagejournal.org.
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