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4/22, 5/6 & 5/20

Being on a Broken Planet: Personal Essays & Environmental Repair

Sydney Landon Plum

$

105

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Class Level:

FREE!

FREE!

The quest is to consider whether writing (and reading) can improve the human relationship with nature.

5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27, 6/3, 6/10, 6/17, 6/24

Finding Your Memoir - May 2025

$

350

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Class Level:

FREE!

FREE!

Craft-focused course with generative writing both in and out of class, and informal feedback from the instructor.

Capturing Family Stories

Julia Grawemeyer

$

35

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Class Level:

FREE!

FREE!

This workshop is generative, so we will write beginnings of pieces about family with brief constructive feedback during the workshop.

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

Generative Nonfiction - May 2025

$

140

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Class Level:

FREE!

FREE!

Each week, we’ll examine creative nonfiction forms and draft our own pieces.

Transforming Family History

Kelly Boyer Sagert

$

35

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Class Level:

FREE!

FREE!

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.

Selling Your Nonfiction Book Before Writing It: How to Craft a Winning Proposal

Alex DiFrancesco

$

35

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Class Level:

FREE!

FREE!

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!)

Ekphrastic Streets: A Picture Says 100 Words

Jen Jones Donatelli

$

52.50

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Class Level:

FREE!

FREE!

Put your creativity in motion and let your pen lead the way!

How to Write About the Unspeakable

Lara Lillibridge

$

35

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Class Level:

FREE!

FREE!

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.

7/21, 7/28, 8/4 & 8/11

Disability, Queerness & Possibility: A Multi-Genre Workshop

$

140

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Class Level:

FREE!

FREE!

In this multi-class workshop, we will study essays and poems from disabled and neurodivergent writers and write and workshop our own.

7/31, 8/7, 8/14, 8/21, 8/28, 9/4

Intro to Nonfiction

Lara Lillibridge

$

210

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Class Level:

FREE!

FREE!

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.

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

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Class Level:

FREE!

FREE!

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.

Honoring Mary Rynes

2021 Celebration of Writers

Check out the accomplishments of local writers in 2021

2020 Celebration of Writers - Nonfiction

Check out the accomplishments of local nonfiction writers in 2020

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