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Upcoming Classes & Workshops

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 (FULL)

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

Generative Fiction - Apr 2025 (FULL)

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.