Storyboard Seminar
The Storyboard Seminar: A Year-Long Community
Designed for writers working on ambitious, fact-based creative prose projects in fiction or nonfiction, this year-long program will combine two in-person week-long residencies with two remote semesters of intensive mentorship, guidance, feedback and craft instruction. Working together to study issues of ethics, process and writerly craft, The Storyboard Seminar—run by award-winning writer Lauren Markham, and featuring special guests—will help participants become stronger writers and make significant progress toward completion of their manuscript.
The Storyboard Seminar includes:
- A twice/month interactive, small-group craft class of up to 12 writers focusing on: issues of ethics, process and craft; the development of a year-long work plan; generative writing exercises; and discussions of published work.
- Monthly individual meetings with instructor to discuss writing goals, submissions, issues of craft, assigned and independent readings, and writing struggles progress
- Individualized feedback on up to 200 pages of writing
- A group workshop of roughly fifty pages
- Priority consideration for the in-person Storyboard Residency in Moraga, California.
APPLY BY FEBRUARY 1, 2026
Community. Connection. Accountability.
Who is Storyboard Seminar for?
- Anyone working in isolation on an ambitious, fact-based writing project who is seeking community, connection and accountability
- Journalists, fiction writers, essayists, memoirists or academics hoping to make significant headway on a book or magazine project
- Writers struggling to wayfind through their work, and in search of structured support
- Writers in search of community, accountability and and expanded toolbox for both research and writing
- Fiction writers and memoirists looking to infuse their art with reporting or research methods
- Academics looking to broader their research and writing to a more general audience
- Writers at the early stages of a project who need support figuring out how to chart a path forward
- Writers who didn’t attend an MFA or journalism program and who are looking for structure and support for their project
Your Seminar Leader
Meet Lauren Markham
Lauren Markham is a writer based in California whose work regularly appears in outlets such as Harper's, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine and VQR, where she is a contributing editor. She is the author of the award-winning The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, the California Book Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize shortlisted A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging (2024) and Immemorial (2025). She teaches the year-long Storyboard Seminar and is the co-director of Storyboard.
Where and When
Bi-weekly online small group sessions and priority consideration for the in-person summer residency on the Saint Mary's College campus in Moraga, California from June 8 - June 14, 2026.
Costs
Tuition for the Storyboard Seminar is $7,900.
Info Sessions
Join Lauren Markham for an online info session to learn more about Storyboard Residency.
- December 6, 2025 — 5:00 - 6:00 PST
- Wednesday, December 10th: 5:00-6:00 p.m. PT (Register here.)
- Tuesday, January 6th, 5:00-6:00 p.m. PT (Register here.)