Your Final Writing Class
In Brooklyn & Online
With literally just Tony Tulathimutte
As seen in The Guardian and Air Mail
CRIT is an eight-week class consisting of workshops, written feedback, mentoring, and seminars on:
Close reading
Revision
Research
“Writers' block”
Plot
Perspective
Character
Dialogue
Form
Description
Style
Publishing
Freelancing
Querying agents
Working with editors
Publicity
Making money
With a focus on longterm success and community, we throw bookswap events and maintain a network for alums. We’ve helped students sign with agents, land book deals (28 and counting), get jobs, and win awards. Here's what past students say, and here are the complete rules.
PLUS:
Guest Talks
Each session features three guests:
Mar 2025 - Online
(3/5 - 4/26)
Melissa Broder
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Rachel Kushner
May 2025 - In Person
(5/21 - 7/26)
Nicole White
Kaveh Akbar
(via satellite)
Rax King
Some PAST GUESTS:
(full list here)
Alexandra Kleeman
Andrea Long Chu
Beth Morgan
Brandon Taylor
C Pam Zhang
Carmen Maria Machado
Catherine Lacey
Charlotte Shane
Doreen St. Felix
Emily Gould
Emily Witt
Emma Cline
Fatima Mirza
Garth Greenwell
Hua Hsu
Jackie Ess
Jamie Hood
Jenny Zhang
Jia Tolentino
Jonathan Franzen
Kaitlyn Greenidge
Lauren Groff
Mary HK Choi
Mitchell S. Jackson
Raven Leilani
Rayne Fisher-Quann
RO Kwon
Sloane Crosley
Vauhini Vara
Zaina Arafat
Financial aid
The current fee is $900; financial aid is available based on need and available funds.
Intensive
We meet twice a week, a workshop and a seminar. You’ll do lots of reading. Each manuscript gets 750+ words of feedback and line edits from each other participant. Sample feedback letters here.
Form a group
Why pay for a workshop if you've already learned the basics? We heavily encourage making your own connections in the class; you’ll have access to an alumni listserv, Slack channel, events, and the occasional master class. Many classes have gone on to form writing groups. Hopefully this’ll be the last class you pay for.
Selective
We only have one instructor, so we have to be picky. Each session consists of nine writers chosen from an applicant pool averaging ~150 per session. No credentials or recs required, just a writing sample.
career Prep
When the class is over, we meet one-on-one to plan your writing projects and career. You get access to templates for cover letters, queries, pitches, submission trackers, professional rate calculators, invoices, and a spreadsheet of publications, residencies, agencies, MFAs, and other resources. We also help you query agents when ready.
Events
We periodically host the CRIT Bookswap, a party for all alumni to mingle, and occasional one-off master classes on subjects like journalism, screenwriting, and playwriting.
Genre-agnostic
The curriculum skews toward fiction, but we also welcome creative nonfiction writers.