Explore zuihitsu, a Japanese form that blends list, memory, and reflection into intuitive, genre-defying writing. This generative class invites you to follow your thoughts, embrace fragments, and create beauty without tidy arcs or polished conclusions.
generative, creative practice, personal growth
6 Sessions August 19, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Nonfiction
Write from instinct and the subconscious. This generative poetry class invites you to follow memory, dream, and language into unexpected places. You'll dream journal and craft poems that emerge from intuition, vulnerability, and the deep ocean within.
generative, workshop, personal growth
8 Sessions July 16, 2025 - September 3, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Poetry
How is truth shaped by culture, power, and storytelling? Through readings, discussion, and writing, youâll examine "truth" as a creative, philosophical, and political force in this part-analytic, part-generative course.
generative, close reading, cohort
4 Sessions July 16, 2025 - August 6, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Ready to publish your short work? This class breaks down the submission process with practical tools, personalized strategy, and clear guidanceâso you can send your writing out with confidence and a plan that fits you.
professional development, publishing
2 Sessions July 19, 2025 - July 26, 2025 1:10-3:10 pm PT Online Fiction
Discover the power of small stories. This class explores flash nonfictionâpersonal essays under 1,000 wordsâwith guided prompts, discussion, and craft techniques to help you write with clarity, depth, and emotional impact in a compressed form.Â
generative, craft, close reading
1 Session July 19, 2025 - July 19, 2025 1:10-4:10 pm PT Online Fiction
Learn to turn your funniest ideas into sharp, publishable humor pieces. This crash course covers structure, voice, and punchlinesâhelping you draft and shape short humor thatâs smart, surprising, and submission-ready. No comedy experience required.
generative, craft, close reading, workshop
4 Sessions July 21, 2025 - August 11, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Ready to beginâor recommit toâyour novel? This supportive class offers structure, encouragement, and craft tools to help you generate new pages, deepen your story, and build momentum that lasts through the middle stretch and beyond.
generative, craft
6 Sessions July 22, 2025 - August 26, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
Take your character from flat and forced to complex, authentic, and unforgettable in this craft-focused class. Weâll explore the emotional and psychological transformations that drive our charactersâand our narrative.
generative, craft, creative practice
4 Sessions July 23, 2025 - August 13, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Learn to write for a listening audience. This playful, practical class helps you craft vivid, spoken storytellingâperfect for podcasts, video, audio memoir, or performance. Leave with tools, techniques, and a one-minute monologue of your own.
generative, craft, workshop
2 Sessions July 23, 2025 - July 30, 2025 5:00-7:30 pm PT In Person Nonfiction
Youâve been writing poemsânow learn how they work. This beginner-friendly class offers a supportive introduction to poetic craft, helping you build skills in imagery, sound, and form so you can write with more confidence and creative freedom.
generative, craft, creative practice
4 Sessions July 24, 2025 - August 14, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Poetry
Speculative fiction lets us play, question, and rebuild reality. In this generative class, weâll read masters of the form and write our own strange, bold, world-bending storiesâleaving with new starts and new freedom on the page.
craft, close reading, creative practice
8 Sessions July 26, 2025 - September 13, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Some poems pivot, changing everything that came before. In this poetry workshop, youâll explore how a well-timed shift in tone or perspective can add depth, surprise, and emotional powerâand learn to craft poetic turns for impact.
generative, craft, workshop
6 Sessions July 26, 2025 - August 30, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Poetry
Write from the body, not just the brain. This somatic workshop blends movement, reflection, and writing to help you connect with desire, truth, and voiceâso your work speaks from a place thatâs bold, grounded, and fully your own.
generative, creative practice, personal growth
1 Session July 26, 2025 - July 26, 2025 1:10-4:10 pm PT In Person Nonfiction
Build creative momentum through fast-paced writing bursts in this energizing fiction class. Youâll generate fresh material, quiet your inner critic, and leave with story startsâand the exhilaration of finally getting words on the page.
generative, creative practice
1 Session July 26, 2025 - July 26, 2025 1:10-4:10 pm PT In Person Fiction
Youâve got a draftânow what? This supportive class helps fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid writers move from draft to done, with revision strategies for everything from big-picture structure to smoother transitions. Clarify, reshape, and bring your work closer to finished.
craft, workshop
6 Sessions July 29, 2025 - September 2, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
Learn to craft immersive worlds that resonate emotionally. This generative course explores how setting and character shape each other, helping you build story worlds that breathe, echo inner landscapes, and carry meaning far beyond the map.
generative, craft, workshop
6 Sessions July 29, 2025 - September 2, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Fiction
Lost in the fog of a draftâor unsure where to begin? This class helps you reconnect with your storyâs emotional core and build a working blueprint, with craft tools to carry you from first idea to final page.
craft, workshop
6 Sessions July 30, 2025 - September 3, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Youâve written the bookânow pitch it with power. This class helps you craft a compelling query, pitch, and proposal while staying true to your voice, giving you the tools to confidently navigate the traditional publishing landscape.
professional development, publishing
6 Sessions July 31, 2025 - September 4, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Fiction
Explore how place shapes memory, identity, and story. In this generative class, youâll write each week, read authors grappling with belonging, home, and displacement, and reflect on the quiet power of the landscapes that live inside you.
generative, creative practice
6 Sessions August 2, 2025 - September 6, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Discover how reading poems aloud can transform the way you write and revise. This one-day class blends listening, vocal practice, and revisionâand includes the opportunity to share your work at a public reading. No performance experience required.
close reading, creative practice, professional development
1 Session August 2, 2025 - August 2, 2025 1:10-4:10 pm PT In Person Poetry
When something needs to be said, writing makes it real. In this generative personal essay class, youâll shape lived experience into voice-driven work with clarity and resonance. Through guided prompts and thoughtful structure, youâll say what only you canâand uncover what the writingâs been waiting to show you.
generative, craft, creative practice
6 Sessions August 4, 2025 - September 15, 2025 5:00-7:30 pm PT Online Nonfiction
Discover how much a single day can hold. This generative workshop invites deep attention to the everyday, using art, writing, and collaborative prompts to explore observation, experimentation, and the richness hidden in ordinary moments.
generative, cohort, creative practice
4 Sessions August 5, 2025 - August 26, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Explore magical realism as a mindset, rather than a genre. In this playful, generative class, youâll experiment with writing that blends the strange and the realâcrafting stories that glow with mystery, metaphor, and emotional truth.
generative
1 Session August 12, 2025 - August 12, 2025 5:30-7:30 pm PT Online Fiction
Turn curiosity into insight. This class helps you use research as a creative toolâteaching you how to gather, structure, and integrate material in ways that deepen your writing and sharpen the story youâre truly trying to tell.
generative, craft
4 Sessions August 15, 2025 - September 5, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
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