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Class Catalog

Place, Presence, Pen: Embodied Nature Writing

with Jessica Gigot

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

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Meditations in an Emergency: Writing Crisis

with Nora Lange

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

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Writing for Procrastinators

with Beth Slattery

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

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Adventures in Genre & Form

with Mayur Chauhan

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

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Sentence Craft: Emotion, Tension, Momentum

with Bella Bravo

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

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Writing From the Body

with Camellia Freeman

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

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Write Your Memoir’s Overview

with Theo Nestor

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

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Flash Fiction Fundamentals

with Elan Barnehama

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

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From Fragment to Finished Piece

with Rachel Sobel

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

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Creative Playground: Risk, Joy, and Experimentation

with Elise McHugh

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

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Scrivener Fundamentals

with Janine Kovac

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

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Writing Short Fiction: From Blank Page to Last Page

with Holly Day

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

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Ain’t Gonna Lie: Writing “Truth”

with Shankar Narayan

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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Submit Strategically: Short Fiction, Essays, and Poetry

with Alle Hall

Ready to publish your short work? This class breaks down the submission process with practical tools, personalized strategy, and clear guidance—so 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

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Short but Mighty: Crafting Flash Nonfiction

with Kate Carmody

Discover the power of small stories. This class explores flash nonfiction—personal essays under 1,000 words—with guided prompts, discussion, and craft techniques to help you write with clarity, depth, and emotional impact in a compressed form. 

generative, craft, close reading

1 Session July 19, 2025 - July 19, 2025 1:10-4:10 pm PT Online Fiction

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Writing Short Humor & Telling Big Jokes

with Mayur Chauhan

Learn to turn your funniest ideas into sharp, publishable humor pieces. This crash course covers structure, voice, and punchlines—helping you draft and shape short humor that’s 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

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Novel Immersion

with Elise Hooper

Ready to begin—or recommit to—your 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

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Character Arcs: Conflict, Crisis, and Change

with Elizabeth Villamán

Take your character from flat and forced to complex, authentic, and unforgettable in this craft-focused class. We’ll explore the emotional and psychological transformations that drive our characters—and our narrative.

generative, craft, creative practice

4 Sessions July 23, 2025 - August 13, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction

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Writing Love and Loss

Explore love and loss as powerful engines of story. This generative class helps writers of all genres move beyond cliché, crafting emotionally complex work that captures intimacy, longing, and the many shapes connection can take.

craft, close reading, creative practice

6 Sessions July 24, 2025 - August 28, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction

Imagined Realities: Speculative Fiction Survey

with Evan Ramzipoor

Speculative fiction lets us play, question, and rebuild reality. In this generative class, we’ll read masters of the form and write our own strange, bold, world-bending stories—leaving 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

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High Intensity Fiction Generator

with Monika Sengul-Jones

Build creative momentum through fast-paced writing bursts in this energizing fiction class. You’ll generate fresh material, quiet your inner critic, and leave with story starts—and 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

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Beyond the First Draft

with Megan Boatright

You’ve got a draft—now 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

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Worldbuilding: Setting and Psyche

with Scott Driscoll

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

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Finding the Heart of Your Story

with Stephanie Dethlefs

Lost in the fog of a draft—or unsure where to begin? This class helps you reconnect with your story’s 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

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