Class Location

East Side

Other Class Locations

Upcoming Classes & Workshops

Poetry
1/9, 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, 2/6 & 2/13

Intro to Poetry - Spring 2025

Generate new poems in this six-week class designed to kick your writing into gear.
Multigenre
2/1

Winter Writing Retreat 2025

Knock out a new poem or two, draft a chapter of a novel or memoir, or revise that essay or story you have been working on.
Writing Process
3/5

Let the Writing Make the Rules

In this intensive course, we will deepen our understanding of the voice, the shape, and the themes that our work seeks to articulate.
Business of Writing
3/8 & 3/15

Self-Publishing Made Simple: A Complete Guide to Publishing, Marketing, and Growing Your Author Career

In this 4-hour session, we’ll walk you through the steps of the self-publishing process, from designing a professional book to promoting and funding it
Fiction
3/18

Secondary Characters: Populating Your Story with Figures Who Entice & Intrigue

This craft talk will help us look at some of our favorite secondary characters in speculative fiction and what makes them work so well.
Nonfiction
3/19

Turning Research into Compelling Nonfiction - March 2025

In this class we'll explore how to turn research into compelling nonfiction (for essays or a book project).
Fiction
3/20, 3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/17 & 4/24

Intermediate Speculative Fiction Workshop - Spring 2025

By the end of this class, you will have examined techniques of some of the best writers of short speculative fiction.
Multigenre
3/22

Writing Beyond Our Wounds

Participants will learn ways to use writing and creativity to find their way back to themselves and to persevere through challenging times.
Poetry
3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8 and 5/15

I Can Hear Her Breathing: Poems that Build New Worlds

Through conscious surrender and creation, we tap into what is longing for our attention to be rebirthed and restored.
Poetry
4/3

Poetry Mad Libs: Borrowing Form to Reinvigorate Writing

In this workshop, we’ll look closely at mentor poems to study the specifics of their structure and then use them as a mad-libs-style frame for our own work.
Fiction
5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29 & 6/5

Writing Climate Fiction - May 2025

Unprecedented weather events, rising temperatures, climate migration: how can we deal narratively with the enormity of these changes in our world?
Poetry
5/3, 5/10 & 5/17

Poetics of Pleasure

Come steep in the world of the erotic! In this three-part series, we will read and write poetry that centers on pleasure.