based on a photo by Koon-Fung Ng

Patricia Eakins is a writer for whom teaching and learning are an integral part of her art. She is committed to the community of writers who enter her private fiction workshops.

She has enjoyed her adult creative-writing students at The New School and in her writer's-residency class in Woodstock, New York; her undergraduate fiction writers at Trinity College (Hartford, CT) and at NYU; and the architects and other design students in her writing-for-architecture-and-the-arts seminars at New York Institute of Technology. She is fully prepared to teach a wide range of workshops and classes.

Creative Writing Workshops

• Image Power: Writing from the Senses
• "The Cap of Hades: A Point-of-View Workshop"
• "The Stories You Have to Tell"
• "Fetching the Far, Farring the Fetch: Varieties of Experiment"
• "Fables and Fantasies: Writing the Irreal"

Specialized Professional Writing Classes

• Writing for the Design Professions
• Technical Writing
• Business Writing

Survey Literature Courses

• 18th, 19th and 20th Century British and American Fiction

Literary Genre Studies

• "Fetching the Far, Farring the Fetch: Survey of Experimental Literature"
• "Fables and Fantasies: Survey of the Long, Broad Tradition"

Basic Composition Studies

• First and Second Semester Freshman Composition
• Honors Curriculum, Second Semester Freshman Composition