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Heroine Course Catalog

Writing Short Fiction: From Blank Page to Last Page

with Holly Day

Start a story and finish it! In this beginner-friendly class, you'll explore basic fiction craft and practical tools to help you keep writing through the last page. Leave with at least one complete short story draft.

generative, craft

8 Sessions
April 14 - June 2, 2026
7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Fiction Intermediate

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The Secrets of Dialogue

with Rachel Sobel

Deep dive into dialogue! We’ll explore dialogue’s ability to define character, create tension, reveal what’s unsaid, and move the story forward. Each week, we’ll experiment with a different approach and see what it offers our writing.

craft

6 Sessions
April 14 - May 26, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Fiction

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Forms of Care: Writing the Mortal Body

with Gabriela Frank

Mortality makes our time here meaningful. We’ll explore the essence of what it means to be human, using illness, aging, and health as subjects for art. Through close reading and prompts, you’ll develop new work rooted in the realities of the body.

generative, close reading, personal growth

4 Sessions
April 15 - May 6, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Nonfiction Advanced

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Write More, Suffer Less

with April Davila

For those who want to write with more ease. We’ll use mindfulness and meditation techniques to shift our relationship to writing by supporting attention, working with resistance, clearing the noise, and more. 

creative practice

6 Sessions
April 16 - May 21, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction

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Tiny & Mighty: A Micro Writing Workshop

with Mayur Chauhan

A flash workshop for writers who love sharp voice and tight form. You'll explore micro writing’s power and play through fun, guided prompts. Great for creatives wanting a reset or a low-pressure way to write again.

generative

1 Session
April 18 - April 18, 2026
10:00-1:00 pm PT Online Fiction

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Building the Novel: Structuring Your Story

with Elizabeth Villamán

Make the actual writing easier on yourself by creating the architecture of your novel first. You’ll clarify character, plot, theme, and structure, ensuring all elements cohere into a strong narrative.

generative, craft, workshop

8 Sessions
April 18 - June 13, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction

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The Most Personal Essay

with Nicole Hardy

Take your personal essay from idea to polished piece. You’ll write while studying craft elements, and you’ll workshop your draft several times. Essays from this class have later appeared in literary magazines and major outlets.

generative, craft, workshop

8 Sessions
April 18 - June 13, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT In Person Nonfiction Intermediate

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Museum as Muse: Writing Alongside Exhibits

with Deborah Woodard

Let art be the muse as you write poetry and prose in response to exhibits around the city. You’ll visit four or five small, intimate museums around Seattle and write to prompts designed to awaken fresh language and perspective in your work.

generative, workshop

6 Sessions
April 18 - May 23, 2026
1:10-3:10 pm PT In Person Fiction

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Burning Mare Under the Sea: Writing with Fantastic Beasts of South Asian Mythology

with Shankar Narayan

Dive into South Asian myth and its fierce divine creatures. In this generative class, you’ll move beyond realism to create powerful work shaped by ancient stories, animal intensity, and epic imagination.

generative, close reading, cohort

2 Sessions
April 18 - April 25, 2026
10:00-2:00 pm PT Online Fiction

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Assembling a Poetry Collection

with Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet

Ready to shape your poems into a body of work? We’ll tease out the throughlines in your poetry, revise and generate new work around those themes, explore the art of sequencing and structure, and build toward a collection of your own.

generative, craft

3 Sessions
April 18 - May 2, 2026
10:00-1:00 pm PT Online Poetry Advanced

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Grammar for Writers

with Geraldine Woods

Sharpen your sentences without the stress. This grammar class for creative writers covers essential tools like tense, punctuation, and flow—helping your work land clearly with confidence and style. No jargon, no shame, no diagramming required.

generative, craft

3 Sessions
April 20 - May 4, 2026
5:00-6:30 pm PT Online Fiction

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Film Club: American Independent Cinema

with Andrew Bell

Watch movies like a filmmaker. Each week, we’ll watch a film, break it down, and talk about what makes it work. For movie buffs, screenwriters, and anyone who likes their cinema wild at heart and weird on top. 

close reading, cohort

8 Sessions
April 22 - June 10, 2026
6:00-9:00 pm PT In Person Fiction

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Finding the Poet Within

with Holly Day

New to poetry or just finding your way back? This beginner-friendly class explores craft through playful prompts, readings, and reflection. Leave with a few new poems—and the confidence to keep going.

generative, craft

6 Sessions
April 22 - May 27, 2026
7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Poetry Intermediate

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Scrivener Fundamentals

with Janine Kovac

Navigating 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
April 22 - April 29, 2026
7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Fiction

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The Art of Audio Storytelling

with Jenny Asarnow

Go beyond the page. We’ll explore audio storytelling through close listening, discussion, and generative prompts. You’ll learn what it means to write for the ear and experiment with the form’s possibilities.

close reading

6 Sessions
April 22 - May 27, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Fiction

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First Draft to Fabulous Final: Revising Your Commercial Fiction Novel

with Wendy Kendall

Ready to revise your novel? This class will help you clarify what to cut, what to revisit, what to add, and how to actually do it. You’ll revise your own work as you learn techniques for revising character arcs, plot, pacing, dialogue, and more. 

cohort, workshop, professional development

8 Sessions
April 23 - June 11, 2026
7:10-9:10 pm PT In Person Fiction

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Writing the Hard Stuff: A Craft Workshop

with Kevin O'Rourke

How do you write about things like grief, loss, and war without overwhelming your reader or minimizing the emotional impact of the experience? We’ll study masters who’ve done it and apply their approaches to our own works in progress.

generative, close reading, workshop

6 Sessions
April 25 - June 6, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT In Person Fiction

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Murder of Crows: A Writing Generator

with Beth Slattery

In this fun, generative class, we’ll shadow the crow as trickster, observer, and scavenger to spark new writing. You’ll write bold new material and practice strategies for reviving and reinvigorating stalled work. Caw!

generative, craft

2 Sessions
April 25 - May 2, 2026
1:10-4:10 pm PT Online Fiction

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Writing “The End”

with Alex Madison

Struggling with flat endings? We’ll look at how endings emerge from a story’s internal movement. You’ll study great endings, write to generative and revision exercises, and develop a stronger ability to identify where and how a story wants to close.

generative, craft, close reading

1 Session
April 25 - April 25, 2026
10:00-1:00 pm PT In Person Fiction Advanced

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Intro to Revision and Editing

with Grace Bialecki

Demystify revision. Learn the differences between developmental editing, line editing, and proofreading as well as how to tell what your work needs. Leave with a clear, step-by-step framework for revising your work.

craft, close reading, workshop

1 Session
April 27 - April 27, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction Advanced

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Creative Nonfiction Workshop

with Kate Carmody

Get feedback on your work in this supportive, writer-centered workshop for revising essays and memoir. Responses will be guided by your priorities, questions, and goals. Leave with better sense of how your work is landing and next steps to consider.

craft, cohort, workshop

8 Sessions
April 27 - June 22, 2026
5:00-7:30 pm PT Online Nonfiction Advanced

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Building a Career as a Writer of Color

with Lyzette Wanzer

A comprehensive course on the business side of being a writer, designed for writers of color with a consistent practice and body of work writing in any genres. Leave with an author bio, CV, and submitted work.

cohort, professional development

6 Sessions
April 28 - June 2, 2026
5:00-7:30 pm PT Online Fiction Advanced

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Finish With Confidence

with Paulette Perhach

Struggling to finish? Learn a compassionate, approachable system to break projects into doable steps, let go of perfectionism, build momentum, and finally bring your work to completion. For writers at any stage of the journey.

craft, creative practice, professional development

1 Session
April 29 - April 29, 2026
10:00-1:00 pm PT Online Fiction

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Weird Ways to Start Writing

with Elise McHugh

Has your work or approach gotten stale and predictable? We’ll focus on unconventional ways to generate new work and explore your interests from fresh angles, inviting spontaneity and surprise back into your writing.

generative, cohort, creative practice

5 Sessions
April 29 - June 3, 2026
7:10-9:10 pm PT In Person Fiction

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