Class Catalog

This generative workshop will explore “hermit crab” forms for our poems, prose, and prose poems. Just as a hermit crab adapts to various “homes,” we’ll explore the craft of borrowed forms from historical timelines to horoscopes.

In this short session, we’ll recover audience from the taboo, declare whom exactly we’re writing for, and discuss how we engage with readers’ expectations. This course includes exercises and a short reading.

This full-day class featuring guests from small and large presses offers an introductory overview of the literary fiction and nonfiction publishing business. Students will pitch their books to one another and offer feedback, as well as receive an extensive packet with resources.

This workshop is welcome to anyone who works in healthcare. Students will read work by medical providers and patients and then write about what we notice in our bodies, thoughts, and feelings, creating room for empathy, understanding, and connection.

Whether you’re writing a memoir or researching a new subject for your novel, quality information is vital. We’ll discuss the importance of going beyond the internet, conducting fieldwork, and managing interviews.

How do memoirists keep their voices distinct while honoring the voice of family members? We will read excerpts from memoirs and study their use of interviews, dialogue, letters, speculation, invention, and memory. Come with photos or mementos of the family you wish to write about.

Las emociones evocadas en un texto narrativo son memorables y consiguen dejar una impresión duradera en nuestras lectoras y lectores. Por lo tanto, al momento de crear historias poderosas, el objetivo es mostrar las emociones, no simplemente contarlas.

Let’s return to the vistas, doorways, and rooms from our former lives to glean the importance of place in story. We’ll examine some fine examples and then generate new work; expect to be surprised by how far your memory stretches.

This class is will go on a generative, prompt-based journey to explore different ways that dialogue manifests and examine how to get speech out of the body and onto the page.

In this course, memoir author and book coach Ingrid Ricks teaches mindset-changing techniques for conquering psychological obstacles and accountability strategies she employs to finish a manuscript.

This generative workshop offers a series of exercises to help us excavate, wander around, and examine actual places–call it lyric cartography or lyric biography of place. Come prepared to write, drawn, share, and listen.

This workshop course offers a supportive environment for writers of all genres who create in the military gaze–writing about war, its impact, and military service. This class is offered with pay-what-you-can tuition.

This class will explore the nonfiction story through points of view, scene, reflection, and form. Using generative writing, reading, and an introduction to the workshop model, we will investigate our own personal stories.

Nature writing has roots throughout global majority cultures. In this class, we’ll read nature-centered poetry, essays, and fiction with writing prompts derived from practices that attune us to the more-than-human world.

A prominent god in the Hindu pantheon, Vishnu, the preserver, maintains cosmic balance. This generative and analytical class turns to key texts from the mythology and uses them to fuel our own diverse, electric pieces.

Our stories are a means for connection—part reportage and part reflection, personal essays reveal hidden truths about ourselves and our societies. This interactive workshop includes discussion and individual writing sessions.

For BIPOC, this class offers an overview of the publishing business. We'll discuss subverting the "white gaze", building networks of support, and writing query letters with agents and editors working to change the industry from within.

In this two-session workshop, we’ll do lots of exercises relating to desire and need that serve to strengthen relevant character backstory as well as organic forward motion in your novel or memoir.

This workshop will explore different hybrid forms of writing based on the language we encounter in our interactions with the world around us–the loci where poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction meet.

In this discussion class, we’ll examine strategies for researching and portraying lives unlike our own. We'll work on writing exercises and discuss texts and interviews with authors who write responsibly and respectfully across elements of identity.

The people we love have a way of showing up in our fiction and nonfiction. How do we tell our truths and stay compassionate to theirs? This class will navigate the ethics and perils of writing uncomfortable truths.

This exploratory camp fosters creative writing development through an engaging mix of prose and poetry readings, craft exercises, and artistic activities. The week will culminate with a presentation of student work.

In this workshop, participants will craft personal experiences into a compelling and captivating story and read them aloud, examining how the written and spoken word differ with performance as another element of craft.

What if we turned missing into a form–a portal of joy, curiosity, and sorrow? This class will use the form of a "Miss You" to deepen our memories and boundless ability to make the present moment bloom into the extraordinary.