Join Alexis Coe, a historian praised for her "form-shattering" and "myth-crushing" narrative nonfiction, for a dynamic workshop where you’ll learn how to break the mold, reinvigorate tired topics with bold narrative techniques, and experiment with writing across various platforms. In this session, Coe will teach you how to: 

• Weaponize irreverence against historical clichés
• Unearth the weird, wild, and woefully overlooked stories hiding in plain sight
• Write history that people actually want to read
• Hop genres and platforms

About the Instructor:

Alexis Coe is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling presidential historian and senior fellow at New America, a bi-partisan think tank. Coe is the leading presidential biographer of her generation, known for her unique insights, engaging style, and ability to reach larger, more diverse audiences in different mediums.

Her books have achieved critical and commercial success. She is the author of, most recently, You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George of Washington. Her next book, Young Jack: A Biography of John F. Kennedy, 1917-1957, will be published in 2026, and her first book, Alice+Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis, debuted in 2014.

​In 2024, Coe went on a 13-stop cross-country discussion tour for New America. Her project, "How Should a President Be," is in anticipation of America's 250th anniversary in 2026. Coe frequently appears on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, History, PBS, and other networks. She was a consulting producer on, and featured in, Doris Kearns Goodwin's Washington series on the History Channel. She is a frequent guest on NPR and hosted the podcasts No Man's Land and Presidents Are People Too!