Class Types

Workshop

These are typically generative classes, in which students create new work in class or based on assignments, or students submit work to receive constructive critique from the instructor and fellow students. Workshops are typically (but not always) multi-session classes.

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Upcoming Classes & Workshops

Poetry
4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29 & 5/6

Generative Poetry - Apr 2025 (FULL)

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.
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.
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.
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?
Nonfiction
5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27, 6/3, 6/10, 6/17, 6/24

Finding Your Memoir - May 2025

Craft-focused course with generative writing both in and out of class, and informal feedback from the instructor.
Writing Process
5/7, 5/14, 5/21 & 5/28

Developing a Writing Habit - May 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.
Poetry
5/17, 5/24 & 5/31

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.
Poetry
5/22, 5/29, 6/5, 6/12, 6/19 & 6/26

Intro to Poetry - May 2025

Generate new poems in this six-week class designed to kick your writing into gear.
Fiction
5/22, 5/29, 6/5, 6/12, 6/19, 6/26

Intro to Fiction - May 2025

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.
Nonfiction
5/28, 6/4, 6/11 & 6/18

Generative Nonfiction - May 2025

Each week, we’ll examine creative nonfiction forms and draft our own pieces.
Fiction
6/2, 6/9, 6/16, 6/23, 6/30, 7/7

Writing Contemporary Short Stories - June 2025

A six-week intermediate workshop split between reading published work and workshopping our own
Multigenre
6/9, 6/16, 6/23

Experimental Writing

We will play with alternative constraints; question the purposes, forms, and audiences of our work; and reinvent the writing process.
Fiction
6/17, 6/24, 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22

Generative Fiction - June 2025

Are you writing a novel? Short stories? Flash fiction? It's all welcome in this six-week generative workshop.
Fiction
6/28, 7/3, 7/10

Worldbuilders' Support Group

This three-week class will develop your skills in building immersive fictional worlds.
Poetry
7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29 & 8/5

Every Word Must Conjure

Every Word Must Conjure is a multi-week generative writing workshop that dives into the differences between denotation and connotation in poetry.
Poetry
7/2, 7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30 & 8/6

Generative Poetry - July 2025

This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new poetry or make progress on your project.
Nonfiction
7/16

How to Write About the Unspeakable

This workshop will give several concrete ways to write about that which we dare not speak—whether due to trauma or privacy concerns—while remaining safe.
Multigenre
7/21, 7/28, 8/4 & 8/11

Disability, Queerness & Possibility: A Multi-Genre Workshop

In this multi-class workshop, we will study essays and poems from disabled and neurodivergent writers and write and workshop our own.
Nonfiction
7/31, 8/7, 8/14, 8/21, 8/28, 9/4

Intro to Nonfiction

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.
Writing Process
8/6, 8/13, 8/20 & 8/27

Developing a Writing Habit - August 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.
Poetry
8/12, 8/19, 8/26, 9/2, 9/16, 9/23

Intro to Poetry - August 2025

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

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.
Fiction
8/14, 8/21, 8/28, 9/4, 9/18 & 9/25

Intro to Fiction - August 2025

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.