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Upcoming Classes & Workshops

Fiction
1/6, 1/13, 1/27, 2/3, 2/10 & 2/17

Intro to Fiction - Spring 2025 (FULL)

This class will explore the components of fiction (e.g., voice, dialogue, plot) in a variety of short stories.
Writing Process
1/7, 1/14, 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11, 2/18, & 2/25

Furthering Your Writing Habit through Feedback - Jan 2025 (FULL)

Have you started developing a writing habit and are now ready to take your writing to the next level? Then it is time to incorporate feedback and revision.
Reader Series
1/7, 2/4, 3/4 & 4/1

Read Like a Writer: Short Fiction - Session One - Jan 2025

Join us for this reader series class where we will take a deep dive into the craft of one short story each month.
Writing Process
1/8, 1/15, 1/22 & 1/29

Developing a Writing Habit - January 2025 (FULL)

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.
Nonfiction
1/8, 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5 & 2/12

Intro to Nonfiction - Spring 2025

In this 6-week class, we will generate new material as well as learn about the fundamentals of creative nonfiction.
Poetry
1/13 - 6/16

2025 Poetry Intensive

This class is designed to advance your knowledge, make significant progress on your manuscript and gain momentum toward its completion.
Fiction
1/16 - 6/19

2025 Story Intensive

Get serious about your short story writing in this six-month intensive
Fiction
1/20 - 6/23

2025 Novel Intensive

Get serious about your novel in this six-month intensive
Reader Series
1/21, 2/4 & 2/18

Reading Contemporary Poetry - January 2025

Join Marion and Barbara to discuss these celebrated books by three masters of modern poetry.
Business of Writing
1/25

I’m Ready to Submit My Writing to Magazines and Journals—But How?

In this workshop, you’ll learn where to find publications that are looking for work, proper manuscript format, and submission etiquette.
Fiction
2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/3 & 3/10

Generative Fiction - Feb 2025

This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new work or make progress on your project.
Memoir
2/4, 2/11, 2/18, 2/25 & 3/4

Four Building Blocks of Memoir - Februrary 2025

If you want to write your memoir but have struggled to get started or otherwise feel stuck, then “Four Building Blocks of Memoir” may be the solution.
Writing Process
2/5, 2/12, 2/19 & 2/26

Developing a Writing Habit - Feb 2025 (FULL)

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.
Writing Groups
2/6, 2/20, 3/6, 3/20, 4/3, 4/17, 5/1 & 5/15

Click Submit: Submitters Workshop & Accountability Group - Spring 2025

Get serious, connected, and perhaps even published with the guidance, structure, and help of this workshop and accountability group.
Poetry
2/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/4, 3/11 & 3/18

Generative Poetry - Feb 2025

This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new poetry or make progress on your project.
Poetry
2/12, 2/19, 2/26, 3/5, 3/12 & 3/19

Elemental: Contemporary Inspiration From the Stage and Page - Jan 2025

This six-week generative writing course will explore contemporary poets, primarily in the Slam poetry community.
Fiction
2/13

Getting Started with Historical Fiction - Feb 2025

Bring the past to life with a master class on the craft of historical fiction
Multigenre
2/24, 3/3 & 3/10

Haunting the Obedient Tongue: Hybridity as Anti-Colonial Praxis - Feb 2025

All genres — We will explore how the combination of text with visual elements help us deconstruct language’s power through anti-colonial lenses.
Business of Writing
3/3, 3/10, 3/17 & 3/24

Crafting the Query Letter You Need

In this fast-paced four-week workshop, you'll create a query letter with an in-depth understanding of how to write your book's pitch.
Business of Writing
3/4

Writing a Successful Nonfiction Book Proposal

This class will provide a toolkit for writing a successful book proposal.
Nonfiction
3/4, 3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/1, 4/8, 4/15 & 4/22

Nonfiction Revision - Spring 2025

This workshop will focus on works-in-progress that you would like feedback on from people who may or may not be familiar with your writing.
Poetry
3/6, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/17 & 4/24

Poetry Writing & Revision

In this class, we will practice both radical and focused revision strategies while reading and discussing the work of published poets, pre- and post-revision.
Fiction
3/22

Grand Openings: The All-Important First Page

This intense focus on the first page enables participants to identify specific techniques that they can then use to strengthen and shape their first pages.
Nonfiction
4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29 & 5/6

Generative Nonfiction - Apr 2025

Each week, we’ll examine creative nonfiction forms and draft our own pieces.
Poetry
4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29 & 5/6

Generative Poetry - Apr 2025

This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new poetry or make progress on your project.
Writing Process
4/2, 4/9, 4/16 & 4/23

Developing a Writing Habit - April 2025

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.
Fiction
4/2, 4/9, 4/16, 4/23, 4/30 & 5/7

Generative Fiction - Apr 2025

This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new work or make progress on your project.
Multigenre
4/5

The Art of Multiperspectivity

We’ll specifically analyze what multiple perspectives do for a story (and why we can’t achieve the same effect with only one perspective).
Fiction
4/7

To Live: Giving Voice to the Nonhuman Narrator

In this generative workshop, participants will study various examples of flash that give voice to the often-silent characters in our lives.
Poetry
4/9, 4/16, 4/23 & 4/30

Queer Poetics & Trans/Forms: A Poetry Workshop

In this multi-class workshop, we will explore the world of queer and trans poetics and forms, brainstorm, write, play, & invent our own poems, & share.
Business of Writing
4/14 & 4/21

Negotiation for Writers: How to Ask For & Get What You Deserve

This workshop covers strategic tips and best practices to help you ask for and get what you deserve.
Nonfiction
4/22, 5/6 & 5/20

Being on a Broken Planet: Personal Essays & Environmental Repair

The quest is to consider whether writing (and reading) can improve the human relationship with nature.
Fiction
4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27 & 6/3

Elements of Story for Revising Novelists

In this class, you will learn tried-and-true methods of structuring stories so you can adapt them to best suit yours.
Writing Process
4/30

Intro to Developing a Writing Habit - April 2025

This two-hour lecture will provide the foundational concepts that we’ll work with in the four-week Developing a Writing Habit Class.