This class is dedicated to the role of storytelling in finding relief from distress; students will learn how to use storytelling for personal and communal reclamation.
2 Sessions May 31, 2025 - June 7, 2025 1:10-3:10 pm PT Online Fiction
The smallest details tell the biggest stories. Learn how to craft vivid, unforgettable characters in this hands-on craft class.
1 Session May 31, 2025 - May 31, 2025 1:10-4:10 pm PT Online Fiction
Know what you’re signing. Learn to decipher publishing contract terms and negotiate with confidence.
4 Sessions May 31, 2025 - June 21, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
You’ve written the poems—now what? Learn how to shape your manuscript into a compelling, cohesive collection that flows seamlessly from start to finish.
2 Sessions June 7, 2025 - June 14, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Poetry
Slip into the wolf’s skin and let fairy tales reshape your poetry in this punchy, generative Poem Plus Prompt session.
1 Session June 9, 2025 - June 9, 2025 5:00-6:00 pm PT Online Fiction
An ongoing playwriting group for writers who want to share work, learn craft, and connect with other writers.
1 Session June 12, 2025 - June 12, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
Explore the power of quiet, image-rich storytelling through Japanese poetry, fiction, and film. This immersive course invites close attention, cross-cultural reflection, and a deeper understanding of how stillness and suggestion can speak louder than explanation.
craft, close reading
4 Sessions June 16, 2025 - July 7, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Ready to send your poems into the world? This class demystifies the process so you can submit your poetry with confidence. You'll research journals, build supportive systems, and screen like an editor—all while writing new work along the way.
generative, close reading, professional development, publishing
6 Sessions July 1, 2025 - August 12, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Poetry
Explore your connection to the natural world through writing rooted in presence and sensory experience. This generative class invites you to slow down, pay attention, and shape what you notice into language that blooms on the page.
generative, personal growth
4 Sessions July 7, 2025 - July 28, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Fiction
Write through what feels impossible. In this generative fiction class, you’ll explore how voice, structure, and storytelling can hold emotional weight, reflect rupture, and carry meaning through uncertainty. Craft fiction that responds to crisis—personal or global—with boldness, clarity, and form that fits the truth you need to tell.
generative, craft, close reading
8 Sessions July 7, 2025 - August 25, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Stuck in a cycle of procrastination? This supportive class helps you build a writing practice rooted in compassion, not pressure. We’ll reflect, learn, write together, and develop lasting habits—and you'll finish a short piece you’ve been avoiding.
generative, creative practice
8 Sessions July 7, 2025 - August 25, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Summer is for creative renewal. This joyful generative writing camp for adults invites you to embrace surprise, shake off perfectionism, and reconnect with your artistic self through prompts that draw on music, collage, ritual, and the senses. Writers, artists, and makers of all levels welcome.
generative, creative practice, personal growth
4 Sessions July 7, 2025 - July 31, 2025 6:00-8:00 pm PT In Person Poetry
Not sure what you want to write? This playful, genre-hopping class helps you explore fiction, poetry, humor, and more—through weekly experiments that shake off perfectionism and reconnect you with curiosity and the fun of creative exploration.
generative, craft, close reading
6 Sessions July 8, 2025 - August 12, 2025 5:00-8:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Refine your prose from the inside out. In this fiction craft class, you’ll explore how writing style and sentence-level choices shape a reader’s experience. Hone your voice and discover how rhythm, texture, emotion, and tension in syntax can bring your story to life.
generative, craft, close reading
4 Sessions July 8, 2025 - July 29, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT In Person Fiction
Reconnect with your body as a source of creative insight. This somatic-based writing class blends movement, reflection, and in-class writing to help you build trust in your intuition and develop a deeper, more sustainable relationship with your process.
cohort, creative practice
8 Sessions July 8, 2025 - September 2, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
Hook the right readers with a memoir overview that shines. This one-session class helps you craft a compelling, pitch-ready page—balancing voice, structure, and stakes to show agents and editors why your story matters now.
craft, close reading, professional development, publishing
1 Session July 9, 2025 - July 9, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Learn to write flash fiction that leaves your reader punch-drunk and speechless. This generative workshop explores compression, voice, and subtext—helping you craft powerful stories in under 300 words that resonate far beyond their final line.
generative, craft, workshop
8 Sessions July 10, 2025 - August 28, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Turn your fragments—half-drafted scenes, vivid lines, or forgotten ideas—into finished pieces. This supportive class helps you listen to what each piece wants to become and what it needs to get there. For writers of any genre.
craft, creative practice
6 Sessions July 10, 2025 - August 28, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
Play, explore, and let go of the need to get it right. This class draws from experimental literary traditions—like N+7, centos, and other solo and collaborative writing games—to help you rediscover movement, surprise, and the illicit joy of making something just to see where it leads.
generative, cohort, creative practice
6 Sessions July 12, 2025 - August 16, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
Scrivener can feel like a maze—but it’s also one of the best tools for organizing your drafts, notes, and ideas in one place. Learn the basics and build your project inside the program in this hands-on class.
creative practice
2 Sessions July 12, 2025 - July 19, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Stuck at the starting line? This supportive, low-pressure class helps you build momentum, finish a complete short story, and discover the joy of writing without perfectionism. Great for writers ready to stop stalling and start finishing.
generative, craft, creative practice
6 Sessions July 14, 2025 - August 18, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
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 July 15, 2025 - 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, you’ll 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
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