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Upcoming Classes & Workshops
Nonfiction
4/22, 5/6 & 5/20
Being on a Broken Planet: Personal Essays & Environmental Repair
$
105
/
$
75
For Members
FREE!
With:
Sydney Landon Plum
Class Level:
All Levels
The quest is to consider whether writing (and reading) can improve the human relationship with nature.
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Fiction
4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27 & 6/3
Elements of Story for Revising Novelists
$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Jody Gerbig
Class Level:
All Levels
In this class, you will learn tried-and-true methods of structuring stories so you can adapt them to best suit yours.
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Writing Process
4/30
Intro to Developing a Writing Habit - April (FULL)
$
35
/
$
25
For Members
FREE!
With:
Darlene Montonaro
Class Level:
All Levels
This two-hour lecture will provide the foundational concepts that we’ll work with in the four-week Developing a Writing Habit Class.
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Reading Series
5/6, 6/3, 7/1 & 8/5
Read Like a Writer: Short Fiction - Session Two - May 2025
$
70
/
$
50
For Members
FREE!
With:
Matt Weinkam
Class Level:
All Levels
Join us for this reader series class where we will take a deep dive into the craft of one short story each month.
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Writing Process
5/7, 5/14, 5/21 & 5/28
Developing a Writing Habit - May 2025
$
140
/
$
100
For Members
FREE!
With:
Darlene Montonaro
Class Level:
All Levels
This class will help you develop writing habits that will boost your confidence, help you find your “voice,” and keep your writing process in motion.
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Nonfiction
5/14
Capturing Family Stories
$
35
/
$
25
For Members
FREE!
With:
Julia Grawemeyer
Class Level:
All Levels
This workshop is generative, so we will write beginnings of pieces about family with brief constructive feedback during the workshop.
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Poetry
5/22, 5/29, 6/5, 6/12, 6/19 & 6/26
Intro to Poetry - May 2025
$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Stephanie Ginese
Class Level:
Emerging
Generate new poems in this six-week class designed to kick your writing into gear.
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Fiction
5/22, 5/29, 6/5, 6/12, 6/19, 6/26
Intro to Fiction - May 2025
$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Nardine Taleb
Class Level:
Emerging
Whether you are brand new to fiction writing, need inspiration, or looking to polish up on fiction fundamentals, you are welcome to Intro to Fiction.
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Nonfiction
5/28, 6/4, 6/11 & 6/18
Generative Nonfiction - May 2025
$
140
/
$
100
For Members
FREE!
With:
Annmarie Kelly
Class Level:
All Levels
Each week, we’ll examine creative nonfiction forms and draft our own pieces.
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Fiction
6/2, 6/9, 6/16, 6/23, 6/30, 7/7
Writing Contemporary Short Stories - June 2025
$
215
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Meghan Louise Wagner
Class Level:
Intermediate
A six-week intermediate workshop split between reading published work and workshopping our own
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Fiction
6/5, 6/12, 6/19, 6/26
Start Writing Right Now - June 2025
$
140
/
$
100
For Members
FREE!
With:
Tina Tocco
Class Level:
All Levels
Come experiment in this low-stress, generative class!
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Multigenre
6/9, 6/16, 6/23
Experimental Writing
$
105
/
$
75
For Members
FREE!
With:
Will Cordeiro
Class Level:
All Levels
We will play with alternative constraints; question the purposes, forms, and audiences of our work; and reinvent the writing process.
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Nonfiction
6/10
Transforming Family History
$
35
/
$
25
For Members
FREE!
With:
Kelly Boyer Sagert
Class Level:
All Levels
In Transforming Family History, you'll learn about ten issues to consider when you want to gather together this family lore to craft an engaging book.
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Multigenre
6/12
The Thrill of the Game: Literary Sportswriting
$
26.25
/
$
18.75
For Members
FREE!
With:
Mandy Shunnarah
Class Level:
All Levels
Whether you love team sports, action sports, or individual physical pursuits, you'll deep dive into memory to bring sports to life.
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Fiction
6/17, 6/24, 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22
Generative Fiction - June 2025
$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Alida Dean
Class Level:
All Levels
Are you writing a novel? Short stories? Flash fiction? It's all welcome in this six-week generative workshop.
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Business of Writing
6/18
Selling Your Nonfiction Book Before Writing It: How to Craft a Winning Proposal
$
35
/
$
25
For Members
FREE!
With:
Alex DiFrancesco
Class Level:
All Levels
Get the inside view on what an editor looks for, how to sell yourself and your idea, and how to sell a book without writing one (yet!)
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Reading Series
6/26, 7/24, 8/28
Just Calm Down: Female Anger in Contemporary Literature
$
105
/
$
75
For Members
FREE!
With:
Susan Petrone
Class Level:
All Levels
In this readers series, we’ll explore a trend in contemporary literature that legitimizes female anger, in particular anger around motherhood.
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Poetry
7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29 & 8/5
Every Word Must Conjure
$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Denise R. Ervin
Class Level:
Emerging
Every Word Must Conjure is a multi-week generative writing workshop that dives into the differences between denotation and connotation in poetry.
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Poetry
7/2, 7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30 & 8/6
Generative Poetry - July 2025
$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Philip Terman
Class Level:
All Levels
This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new poetry or make progress on your project.
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Fiction
7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30, 8/6, 8/13, 8/20 & 8/27
Fiction Revision - Summer 2025
$
320
/
$
250
For Members
FREE!
With:
Laura Maylene Walter
Class Level:
Intermediate
In this workshop, learn about the necessary art of revision for fiction projects.
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Poetry
7/10, 7/17, 7/24, 7/31, 8/7, 8/14, 8/21 & 8/28
You Aren’t Done Yet: On Revision (Poetry Revision - Summer 2025)
$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Ali Black
Class Level:
Intermediate
In this class, we will discuss the process of revision and how to go about re-visioning our poems.
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Multigenre
7/21, 7/28, 8/4 & 8/11
Disability, Queerness & Possibility: A Multi-Genre Workshop
$
140
/
$
100
For Members
FREE!
With:
Rose Zinnia
Class Level:
Advanced
In this multi-class workshop, we will study essays and poems from disabled and neurodivergent writers and write and workshop our own.
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Business of Writing
7/22, 7/29 & 8/5
Intro to Copywriting
$
105
/
$
75
For Members
FREE!
With:
Jackie Mantey
Class Level:
All Levels
This introductory course will equip you with the essential skills to craft compelling, engaging, and persuasive content across various platforms.
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Writing Process
7/30
Intro to Developing a Writing Habit - July 2025
$
35
/
$
25
For Members
FREE!
With:
Darlene Montonaro
Class Level:
All Levels
This two-hour lecture will provide the foundational concepts that we’ll work with in the four-week Developing a Writing Habit Class.
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Nonfiction
7/31, 8/7, 8/14, 8/21, 8/28, 9/4
Intro to Nonfiction
$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Lara Lillibridge
Class Level:
Emerging
Everyone has a story to tell. In this 6-week class, we will generate new material as well as learn about the fundamentals of creative nonfiction.
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Fiction
8/4
Getting Started with Historical Fiction - August 2025
$
35
/
$
25
For Members
FREE!
With:
Katharine Beutner
Class Level:
All Levels
Bring the past to life with a master class on the craft of historical fiction
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Writing Process
8/6, 8/13, 8/20 & 8/27
Developing a Writing Habit - August 2025
$
140
/
$
100
For Members
FREE!
With:
Darlene Montonaro
Class Level:
All Levels
This class will help you develop writing habits that will boost your confidence, help you find your “voice,” and keep your writing process in motion.
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Poetry
8/7
Wild Transmissions: Queer Poetics and Craft
$
35
/
$
25
For Members
FREE!
With:
Lex Mal
Class Level:
All Levels
This class will explore queerness as poetics, helping you, as writers of poems, to engage in the ancient, teeming, wide-eyed conversation that is poetry.
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Business of Writing
8/7
I’m Ready to Submit My Writing to Magazines and Journals—But How? (August 2025)
$
35
/
$
25
For Members
FREE!
With:
Tina Tocco
Class Level:
All Levels
In this workshop, you’ll learn where to find publications that are looking for work, proper manuscript format, and submission etiquette.
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Poetry
8/12, 8/19, 8/26, 9/2, 9/16, 9/23
Intro to Poetry - August 2025
$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Stephanie Ginese
Class Level:
Emerging
Generate new poems in this six-week class designed to kick your writing into gear.
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Nonfiction
8/13, 8/20, 8/27, 9/3, 9/17 & 9/24
Coming Back to Your Senses: Using Sight, Sound, Touch, Taste, and Smell to Begin and Enhance Your Memoir
$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Denise Tolan
Class Level:
Emerging
This workshop will also discuss ways in which to write about difficult events in our lives using literary craft elements to help tell our stories.
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Fiction
8/14, 8/21, 8/28, 9/4, 9/18 & 9/25
Intro to Fiction - August 2025
$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Nardine Taleb
Class Level:
Emerging
Whether you are brand new to fiction writing, need inspiration, or looking to polish up on fiction fundamentals, you are welcome to Intro to Fiction.
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