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Class Catalog
Heroine Course Catalog

Introduction to Publishing Short Work

with Ruth Joffre

Ready to publish your short work? Learn how to research magazines, craft a strong cover letter and bio, and build a sustainable submissions process—so your stories start reaching their readers. 

publishing

2 Sessions
March 21, 2026
1:10-3:10 pm PT Online Fiction

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Creative Nonfiction III

with Beth Slattery

In this advanced creative nonfiction workshop, refine your voice, deepen your obsessions, and push your craft through revision, feedback, and play. This is your place to write boldly and shape work that reveals who you are on the page.

craft, close reading, workshop

10 Sessions
April 7 - June 9, 2026
10:00-12:00 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 9 - May 14, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction

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Crimes and Perversions: Writing the Complex Self

with Kimberly Dark

Real life is messy and good memoir honors that. Explore the parts of your story that complicate you—flaws, contradictions, shadows, and hard truths—and learn to write the self with depth, perspective, and radical honesty.

generative

1 Session
April 11 - April 11, 2026
10:00-1:00 pm PT Online Nonfiction

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Writing With the Rhythms of Your Life

with Mayur Chauhan

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

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The Ultimate Craft Class

with Steve Almond

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

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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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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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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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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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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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Alchemy of Memory: Writing Witness and Transformation

with Carolyne Wright

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

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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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The Art of the Personal Essay

with Kate Carmody

In this 6-week class, explore how personal narratives take shape through voice, memory, and emotional resonance. We’ll study master works and write our own. 

generative, craft

6 Sessions
April 29 - June 3, 2026
5:00-7:30 pm PT Online Nonfiction Intermediate

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