Ready to go the distance with your writing? Read and analyze stories, focus on a specific writing project, and deepen your relationship to your unique voice in this advanced level class. Leave with a complete, revised story or novel chapter.
craft, close reading, workshop
10
Sessions
June 11, 2026
7:10-9:10 pm PT
In Person
Fiction
Advanced
Ready to go deeper? This advanced course focuses on what makes your voice your own. You’ll revise a full story or chapter, explore structure and tone, and learn to polish work for submission. For writers with a solid foundation in craft fundamentals.
craft, close reading, workshop
10
Sessions
April 6 - June 15, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT
Online
Fiction
Advanced
Learn to build a sustainable writing practice that adapts to the seasons of your life. We’ll learn our own rhythms more deeply, experiment with ways to make writing more accessible, and build the muscle for a steady, lifelong writing practice.
cohort, creative practice
6
Sessions
April 11 - June 20, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT
Online
Fiction
Explore fiction essentials in this intensive: narration, plot, characterization, chronology, and scene construction. We’ll close read master works to learn how specific craft decisions shape the way a story is told.
craft
2
Sessions
April 11 - April 18, 2026
1:10-4:10 pm PT
Online
Fiction
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
May you live in interesting times. We’ll draw the connection between broader shifts in the world and our own personal transformations, generating prose and poetry that reflects our experience of living in a time and place.
generative, workshop, personal growth
6
Sessions
April 23 - June 4, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT
Online
Fiction
Intermediate
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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10
Sessions 
In Person
Fiction
Advanced