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

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

Intro to Fiction - Spring 2025

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Nardine Taleb
Class Level:
​Emerging
This class will explore the components of fiction (e.g., voice, dialogue, plot) in a variety of short stories.
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Writing Process
1/7, 1/14, 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11, 2/18, & 2/25

Furthering Your Writing Habit through Feedback - January 2025

$
360
/
$
280
For Members
FREE!
With:
Katie Daley
Class Level:
Intermediate
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.
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Writing Process
1/8, 1/15, 1/22 & 1/29

Developing a Writing Habit - January 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
1/8, 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5 & 2/12

Intro to Nonfiction - Spring 2025

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Lara Lillibridge
Class Level:
​Emerging
In this 6-week class, we will generate new material as well as learn about the fundamentals of creative nonfiction.
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Poetry
1/9, 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, 2/6 & 2/13

Intro to Poetry - Spring 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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Poetry
1/13 - 6/16

2025 Poetry Intensive

$
720
/
$
600
For Members
FREE!
With:
Meg Thompson
Class Level:
Advanced
This class is designed to advance your knowledge, make significant progress on your manuscript and gain momentum toward its completion.
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Fiction
1/16 - 6/19

2025 Story Intensive

$
720
/
$
600
For Members
FREE!
With:
Liz Breazeale
Class Level:
Advanced
Get serious about your short story writing in this six-month intensive
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Fiction
1/20 - 6/23

2025 Novel Intensive

$
720
/
$
600
For Members
FREE!
With:
Kyle Winkler
Class Level:
Advanced
Get serious about your novel in this six-month intensive
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Nonfiction
1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2/19 & 2/26

Generative Nonfiction - Jan 2025

$
160
/
$
115
For Members
FREE!
With:
Annmarie Kelly
Class Level:
Intermediate
Each week, we’ll examine creative nonfiction forms and draft our own pieces.
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Fiction
2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/3 & 3/10

Generative Fiction - Feb 2025

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Alida Dean
Class Level:
All Levels
This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new work or make progress on your project.
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Memoir
2/4, 2/11, 2/18, 2/25 & 3/4

Four Building Blocks of Memoir - Februrary 2025

$
175
/
$
125
For Members
FREE!
With:
Kelly Boyer Sagert
Class Level:
All Levels
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.
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Writing Process
2/5, 2/12, 2/19 & 2/26

Developing a Writing Habit - February 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
2/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/4, 3/11 & 3/18

Generative Poetry - Feb 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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Poetry
2/12, 2/19, 2/26, 3/5, 3/12 & 3/19

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

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
La Shaun phoenix Moore
Class Level:
This six-week generative writing course will explore contemporary poets, primarily in the Slam poetry community.
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Multigenre
2/24, 3/3 & 3/10

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

$
105
/
$
75
For Members
FREE!
With:
Nicole Arocho Hernández
Class Level:
All Levels
All genres — We will explore how the combination of text with visual elements help us deconstruct language’s power through anti-colonial lenses.
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Fiction
3/3, 3/10, 3/24, 3/31, 4/7, 4/14, 4/21 & 4/28

Fiction Revision - Spring 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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Nonfiction
3/4, 3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/1, 4/8, 4/15 & 4/22

Nonfiction Revision - Spring 2025

$
320
/
$
240
For Members
FREE!
With:
Jason Harris
Class Level:
Intermediate
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.
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Poetry
3/6, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/17 & 4/24

Poetry Revision - Spring 2025

$
320
/
$
250
For Members
FREE!
With:
Conor James Bracken
Class Level:
All Levels
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.
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Memoir
3/12, 3/19, 3/26, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16, 4/23 & 4/30

Intermediate Memoir - March 2025

$
350
/
$
250
For Members
FREE!
With:
Judah Leblang
Class Level:
Intermediate
This course is designed for students actively engaged in writing a memoir.
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Fiction
3/20, 3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/17 & 4/24

Intermediate Speculative Fiction Workshop - Spring 2025

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Johnny Caputo
Class Level:
Intermediate
By the end of this class, you will have examined techniques of some of the best writers of short speculative fiction.
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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

$
280
/
$
200
For Members
FREE!
With:
Naazneen Diwan
Class Level:
All Levels
Through conscious surrender and creation, we tap into what is longing for our attention to be rebirthed and restored.
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Nonfiction
4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29 & 5/6

Generative Nonfiction - Apr 2025

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Negesti Kaudo
Class Level:
All Levels
Each week, we’ll examine creative nonfiction forms and draft our own pieces.
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Poetry
4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29 & 5/6

Generative Poetry - Apr 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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Writing Process
4/2, 4/9, 4/16 & 4/23

Developing a Writing Habit - April 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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Fiction
4/2, 4/9, 4/16, 4/23, 4/30 & 5/7

Generative Fiction - Apr 2025

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Alida Dean
Class Level:
All Levels
This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new work or make progress on your project.
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Poetry
4/9, 4/16, 4/23 & 4/30

Queer Poetics & Trans/Forms: A Poetry Workshop

$
140
/
$
100
For Members
FREE!
With:
Rose Zinnia
Class Level:
All Levels
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.
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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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Fiction
5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29 & 6/5

Writing Climate Fiction - May 2025

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Johnny Caputo
Class Level:
All Levels
Unprecedented weather events, rising temperatures, climate migration: how can we deal narratively with the enormity of these changes in our world?
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