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Walrus Courses, San Telmo (2026)

21/09/2026

Women Writers from Around the World

This course brings together six contemporary masters of the short story, writers whose work spans continents, languages, and literary traditions, united by precision of voice and an unflinching eye for the interior lives of their characters. We’ll read Claire Keegan (Ireland), whose spare, devastating stories have redefined contemporary short fiction; Yiyun Li (China/USA), whose stories move fluidly between displacement, grief, and quiet resilience; Mavis Gallant (Canada), the expatriate short-story virtuoso whose Paris-set fiction remains unmatched in its psychological acuity; and more.

Across six sessions, we’ll explore how a diverse cast of women writers handle displacement, family, silence, and cultural inheritance, and how each has shaped the short story as a form. Join us on Saturday mornings as we travel the world together!

Saturdays 10-11:30am, October 17-November 21
Taught at Walrus Books (Estados Unidos 617)
82,000 pesos for the 6-week course

Originally from Canada, Rebecca Wolpin has called Buenos Aires home for the last two decades. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from Princeton University and teaches foreign exchange students in the International Studies Department at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella. Rebecca is also an avid translator, specializing in academic texts, including the books A History of Argentina: From the Spanish Conquest to the Present by Ezequiel Adamovsky (Duke University Press, 2024), Between the Pen and the R***e by Claudia Gilman (LASA, 2026), and Lessons From the Perpetrator Turn in Latin America (2010-2020) by Ana Ros Matturro (forthcoming) about Chilean cinema and the dictatorship. She has directed The Walrus School since 2016.

Spots are limited! Sign up today: [email protected]

10/09/2026

The Odyssey: Myth, Culture, History

Written nearly three thousand years ago, The Odyssey remains one of the greatest and most engaging stories ever told. In this six-week course, we will focus on a close reading of selected fragments while also looking at the world in which this work emerged. We will consider what the epic poem can tell us about ancient Mediterranean society, how myths preserve and reshape cultural memories, and why this particular story continues to be retold, translated, and analyzed across centuries.

This course is designed for curious readers rather than specialists. No previous knowledge of Greek history or classical literature is required. Our conversations will explore ideas about hospitality, travel, power, family, war, and what it means to be human or belong somewhere. Whether this is your first encounter with The Odyssey or a return to a story that already forms part of your life, join us as we retrace one of the oldest journeys in literature, and discover why it still speaks to us.

Tuesdays 7:15-8:45pm, October 6-November 10
Taught at Walrus Books (Estados Unidos 617)
82,000 pesos for the 6-week course

Emmanuel A. Pardo is a historian and teacher based in Buenos Aires. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Stony Brook University and lived in the United States while pursuing his doctorate. He currently teaches History in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at St. Andrew’s Scots School. His academic research has focused on the history of film criticism in Argentina and on the ways culture shapes how societies understand themselves and their pasts. He has a longstanding interest in stories, not only as works of art, but as ways of making sense of history, identity, and the world around us. An avid reader and teacher, Emmanuel is particularly interested in bringing ideas and works of literature from different historical eras into lively conversation.

To sign up: [email protected]

08/09/2026

Centering the Rainbow Tapestry: An LGBTQ+ Poetry Workshop

LGBTQ+. The acronym, itself, is a pluralism — much like the rainbow, and its many coloured bands, which has been a symbol of the q***r community for decades. In this six-week course, we will explore diverse threads of LGBTQ+ experience through the poems of over a dozen q***r authors. From awakening and sensuality, to sanctity, power, and belonging, the poems we read will speak to different moments of LGBTQ+ life, straddling both the individual and the universal. Course participants will also have the option to write and workshop poems that explore q***r experiences. All are welcome to join.

Mondays 7:15-8:45pm, October 5-November 16 (no class Oct. 12)
Taught at Walrus Books (Estados Unidos 617)
82,000 pesos for the 6-week course

Born in the Rust Belt city of Buffalo, New York, Alex Mogavero has lived in Buenos Aires for close to a decade. He studied Spanish Language and Literature at Buffalo State University, as well as English and Creative Writing. Since finishing his BA, he’s racked up a number of certificates in education and counselling, and is currently studying psychology at the University of Buenos Aires. When he’s not teaching languages or literature, you might find him reading Tarot, baking bread, or playing Brahms on the viola.

To sign up: [email protected]

28/07/2026

Contemporary Canadian Fiction

Canadian fiction is often synonymous with Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, and occasionally Mavis Gallant. But in fact there is a whole generation of writers who followed them. Writers who have pushed Canadian fiction past its familiar terrain of small-town Ontario and prairie farmland. Writers who explore the immigrant experience, the realities of Indigenous life, and the margins of national identity. In this course we will explore authors such as Alexander MacLeod, Vincent Lam, and Eden Robinson. They all came of age in a Canada that was different than the one Atwood and Munro wrote into being, and their fiction reflects it: more diverse and less settled in a single inherited landscape. We’ll ask what “Canadian literature” means once it’s no longer centered on a particular regional or cultural inheritance, and how questions of belonging, displacement, and identity get reworked by writers who have inherited the canon but do not feel entirely at home in it. Take the plunge and come explore vibrant new voices in Canadian short fiction!

Saturdays 10-11:30 am, August 22-September 26
72,000 pesos for the 6-week course
In-person at Walrus Books (Estados Unidos 617)

Originally from Canada, Rebecca Wolpin has called Buenos Aires home for the last two decades. She holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University and teaches foreign exchange students in the International Studies Department at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella. Rebecca is also an avid translator, specializing in academic texts, including the books A History of Argentina: From the Spanish Conquest to the Present by Ezequiel Adamovsky (Duke University Press, 2024), Between the Pen and the R***e by Claudia Gilman (LASA, 2026), and Lessons From the Perpetrator Turn in Latin America (2010-2020) by Ana Ros Matturro (Duke University Press, forthcoming) about Chilean cinema and the dictatorship. She has directed The Walrus School since 2016.

To sign up: [email protected]

18/05/2026

🔥🔥🔥NEW ONLINE COURSE!!! 🔥🔥🔥

***Jane Austen's Juvenilia***
Jane Austen’s juvenilia comprises her works written between the ages of eleven and eighteen. Teeming with her trademark wit and irony, these early writings turn the expectations placed on young women in the late eighteenth century upside down, creating a world where excess, absurdity, and rebellion take center stage.

In this six-week course, we will explore Austen’s juvenilia and early works as the foundation of her literary world and discover how these playful, exaggerated texts already contain the themes that will define her later novels. Whether you are new to Austen or revisiting her with fresh eyes, join us for thoughtful, lively discussions of her earliest—and most uninhibited—creations.

Thursdays 7-8:30pm, June 4-July 16 (no class July 9)
72,000 pesos for the 6-week course
Online via Zoom

Paloma Apesteguía holds a B.A. in English from Universidad del Salvador. Born in Argentina and briefly raised in the United States, she’s always lived between languages—and loves the spaces where they meet. She studied Creative Writing at the University of Oxford in 2025 and has recently returned from a year-long exchange program as a Language Assistant at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, USA. An aspiring author at work on her first novel, she is passionate about fiction that brings us closer to understanding ourselves and each other.

To sign up: [email protected]

27/04/2026

A World Unraveling: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

This six-week course explores Things Fall Apart, a groundbreaking novel by renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe that transformed how African literature was read and understood around the world. First published in 1958, it offers a powerful, clear-eyed portrayal of Igbo life before and during the arrival of British colonial rule.

At its center is Okonkwo, one of modern literature’s most compelling tragic figures, whose rise and fall unfolds against a society undergoing irreversible change. Week by week, we will discuss the novel's portrayal of life under colonial rule and explore Achebe's boundary-pushing prose. Join us to discuss one of the greatest works of literature ever produced.

Wednesdays 7:15-8:45pm, May 13-June 17
72,000 pesos for the 6-week course
In-person at Walrus Books (Estados Unidos 617)

Originally from Bristol, UK, Joe Santamaria is a literature tutor, journalist, and podcaster based in Buenos Aires. He holds a BA in English and Related Literature from the University of York and an MPhil in Irish Literature from Trinity College Dublin. For the past eight years, he has taught literature and critical reading, specialising in poetry and prose analysis. He is the senior poetry analyst at PoemAnalysis.com, the world’s largest poetry analysis website, where he writes critical essays and develops educational resources. He is also the co-host of the poetry podcast Beyond the Verse, which was named one of the world’s best poetry podcasts by Podcast Review.

To sign up: [email protected]

22/04/2026

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A Century in Flux: Six Poems That Define the 20th Century

What can a single poem reveal about its time? How do poets respond to crisis, upheaval and transformation, and how do their voices shape the way we understand history?

This six-week course explores the twentieth century through six influential poems, each offering a distinct perspective on a period marked by war, cultural rupture, political struggle, and shifting ideas of identity. Moving from the aftermath of the First World War through mid-century poetic experiments and into late-century reflection, the course traces how poets have grappled with a world in flux.

Each week, we will focus on one poem, reading it closely and discussing both its historical context and its formal choices. Along the way, we will encounter a wide range of styles, from the prophetic intensity of W. B. Yeats to the modernist fragmentation of T. S. Eliot and the powerful lyric voice of Maya Angelou, to consider how different poetic approaches respond to shared pressures in radically different ways.

Classes are discussion-led and designed for curious readers who want to deepen their engagement with poetry. No prior experience is required—just a willingness to read attentively, share ideas, and explore how a handful of poems can illuminate an entire century.

Tuesdays 7:15-8:45pm, May 12-June 16
72,000 pesos for the 6-week course
In-person at Walrus Books (Estados Unidos 617)

Originally from Bristol, UK, Joe Santamaria is a literature tutor, journalist, and podcaster based in Buenos Aires. He holds a BA in English and Related Literature from the University of York and an MPhil in Irish Literature from Trinity College Dublin. For the past eight years, he has taught literature and critical reading, specialising in poetry and prose analysis. He is the senior poetry analyst at PoemAnalysis.com, the world’s largest poetry analysis website, where he writes critical essays and develops educational resources. He is also the co-host of the poetry podcast Beyond the Verse, which was named one of the world’s best poetry podcasts by Podcast Review.

To sign up: [email protected]

15/10/2025

COMING UP IN NOVEMBER…

Crafting the Voice: A Creative Writing and Reading Workshop

The voice is the heart of literature. It picks us up and carries us along the journey as it unfolds on the page before us. At times, this voice is off-putting, or requires patience for us to find our way into the unique cadence and tone we are met with. Often, though, for those of us who have writers we return to time and again, the voice is precisely the lure that keeps us coming back for more. We can recall the voice of the beloved writer–albeit conveyed through the narrator or speaker–with vividness and proximity.

In this 6-week course, we will explore, through various forms and genres, the construction of voice. Reading will encourage us to understand how writers capture a voice in order to shape meaning, as seen through poetry by Carol Ann Duffy and Marie Howe, short stories by Jamaica Kincaid and George Saunders, and creative nonfiction by Jo Ann Beard and Allie Middleton.

Accompanying the reading will be our own dive into the construction of voice through short in-class exercises and the workshopping of longer pieces written at home. By the end of the course, participants will have at least one polished piece, in addition to, hopefully, a more solidified sense of their voice, answering questions like: Who are we as writers? What do we have to say? How does it come out of us? And how can the natural personalities of our voice be expressed on the page thoughtfully and with intention?

Wednesdays 7-8:30pm, Nov. 5-Dec. 10
59,000 pesos for the 6 week course
Taught online via Zoom

Mackenzie Levitan was born in the United States but moved to Buenos Aires in 2013 after finishing her undergraduate degree in Written Arts and Latin American Studies at Bard College. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from UNTREF in 2019 as a poet and essayist. She teaches literature at a local high school, tutors students who are preparing for international exams and is currently editing a translation of Emily Dickinson’s poetry.

Reserve your spot today: [email protected]

07/10/2025

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The Short Stories of Raymond Carver and John Cheever

While from opposite sides of the USA and completely different social backgrounds, what unites these two former drinking buddies is their mastery of the short story form to express — though in very different ways — their character’s individual struggles and corresponding societal constraints in the context of a non-existent, or at best elusive, American Dream.

Usually set in the Pacific Northwest and peopled with down and out characters that can’t seem to get a break, Raymond Carver’s stories are written in a spare prose style that serves to highlight working-class realities in a genre that has become known as ‘dirty realism’.

John Cheever, on the other hand, often uses a more elaborate and figurative language to depict the miseries of commuter boredom and infinite lawn maintenance in the affluent East Coast suburbs of the 1950s and 1960s.

This six-week course will devote three classes to each author while we read and discuss classics such as Carver’s “Why Don’t You Dance?” and Cheever’s “The Swimmer”.

Thursdays 7:15-8:45pm, October 30-December 4
Taught at Walrus Books (Estados Unidos 617)
59,000 pesos for the 6 week course

Cayley Taylor lives in Buenos Aires but is originally from Canada. She holds an undergraduate degree in English Literature and Philosophy and an MA in Social and Political Thought. In addition to working as an editor and translator, she has taught literature courses in Canada, Mexico, and Argentina.

To sign up, please write to us at: [email protected]

03/10/2025

Poetry: An Odyssey Into a Misunderstood Genre

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Poetry! Pretty much all of us have read it at some point in our lives, and willingly or unwillingly, we’ve also probably tried to write it. But what, exactly, is a poem? And perhaps more importantly — what makes a good one? During this six-week course, we will read a wide range of contemporary poems in search of answers to these questions. As we learn from the likes of Jenni Fagan, James Merrill, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ada Limón, Ocean Vuong, and Anne Carson, students will be invited to write, read, and workshop their own poems. No previous experience reading or writing poetry is needed — just a willingness to show up, bare your heart, and have fun!

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Mondays 7:15-8:45pm, October 20-December 1 (no class Nov. 24)
Taught at Walrus Books (Estados Unidos 617)
59,000 pesos for the 6 week course

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Born in the Rust Belt city of Buffalo, New York, Alex Mogavero has lived in Buenos Aires for close to a decade. He studied Spanish Language and Literature at Buffalo State University, as well as English and Creative Writing. Since finishing his BA, he’s racked up a number of certificates in education and counselling, and is currently studying psychology at the University of Buenos Aires. When he’s not teaching languages or literature, you might find him reading Tarot, baking bread, or playing Brahms on the viola.

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To sign up, please write to us at: [email protected]

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