Nerissa Nields

• Weekly Zoom Writing Workshops for All Genres
• Youth Zoom Writing Workshops
• Manuscript Groups

Nerissa has hosted writing groups from her home in Northampton since 2003. The writing space is magical, as anyone who’s written there will tell you. The magic extends through the InterWebs while we must practice social distance. The community and inspiration are as strong as ever.

Nerissa Nields holds a BA from Yale University, having graduated cum laude with honors in English.  She has taught Creative Writing and English at The Madeira School in McLean, VA and the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, CT. Since 2003, she has run writing groups for adults and youth out of her home in Northampton, MA. In addition, she has taught songwriting at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival in Lyon’s Colorado at their Song School. She has published a young adult novel, two works of non-fiction, and three books of poetry. She has written thousands of songs and recorded and released 20 albums worth, on major and independent labels. She is now at work on her MFA in Writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Interested in joining Nerissa for a 10 week Writing It Up In the Garden workshop? 

All kinds of writers are welcome: we are poets, novelists, songwriters, memoirists, journalers and bloggers. Join a group, find your muse and your tribe and write that piece you’ve always wanted to create.

Interested in getting an alert when registration opens for Fall 2021 sessions? Let us know here and we’ll send you one.

How to Register:

(1) Fill out the application here.

(2) Finalize payment per the instructions onscreen.

Note: If the Fall 2021 session is full, you will have the option to receive a refund, or to apply your deposit towards the next session of classes.

Registration will open for the Fall 2021 sessions soon.