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Heroine Course Catalog

Let’s Get Weird: Experimental Writing for the Genre-Fluid

with Susan Nguyen

What if your writing didn’t have to choose a single form? In this six-week class, explore hybrid work—text, image, sound, and beyond—then create your own pieces that experiment, stretch, and surprise.

generative, cohort

6 Sessions
October 29 - December 10, 2025
7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Fiction

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Poetry As Process: Ignoring the Inner Critic

with Elisabeth Blair

Let go of polish—chase surprise instead. This poetry class is a playground for freewriting, improvising, and following strange tangents to discover raw, electric language. Perfect for poets who feel stuck, stiff, or hungry to experiment and play again.

generative, creative practice

6 Sessions
October 29 - December 10, 2025
5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Poetry Advanced

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Writing Trauma, Healing, Resilience

with Tara Hardy

Write from what haunts you—not to fix it, but to face it. In this six-week cohort, we'll explore how craft tools can hold pain, how others write trauma with courage, and how writing can be part of healing, resistance, and radical honesty.

craft, workshop, personal growth

6 Sessions
October 29 - December 10, 2025
10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction

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Go I Know Not Where: Writing with Slavic Magic Tales

with Shankar Narayan

Step into Slavic folk magic: tsars, tricksters, and tales thick with transformation. Read classic stories, write your own remixes, and explore where history, myth, and mystery collide.

generative, close reading, cohort

6 Sessions
November 4 - December 16, 2025
7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Fiction

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Reading Deeply: Maidens of the Void

with Christie Valentin-Bati

In this 12-week reading intensive, explore mythic, experimental works by women writers who unmoor language, identity, and form—reading deeply into desire, memory, and ecstatic transformation.

craft, close reading

12 Sessions
November 10, 2025 - March 9, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction Advanced

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Creative Portals: Tarot and Oracle Cards for Writers

with Elise McHugh

What if your next idea came from a card pull? In this generative class, use tarot and oracle decks to spark new writing, surprise your imagination, and quiet your inner critic.

generative, creative practice, personal growth

2 Sessions
December 6 - December 13, 2025
10:00-12:00 pm PT In Person Fiction

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Rebel Poetics: Breaking, Bending, and Inventing Form

with Anne Marie Wells

Forget everything you know about poetic form. In this fast and fun generative class, you’ll bend, glitch, and invent new forms—ones rooted in identity, resistance, and surprise. Arrive ready to write, and leave with tools no rulebook could’ve given you.

generative, craft

2 Sessions
December 6 - December 13, 2025
10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Poetry Advanced

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Poetry II

with Jeanine Walker

You’ve got the basics down. Now, it’s time to sharpen your skills! In this intermediate class, you’ll read, write, and workshop poems with a focus on revision, image, metaphor, and musicality. Prepare to grow your voice with every draft.

craft, close reading, workshop

8 Sessions
January 21 - March 11, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Poetry Intermediate

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Fiction II

with Anca Szilágyi

Take your fiction further. In this intermediate class, you’ll write, revise, and read deeply—studying voice, POV, and structure while crafting your own story. You’ll also workshop with peers and leave with sharper skills and fresh pages.

craft, close reading, workshop

8 Sessions
January 26 - March 23, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction Intermediate

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Love Poems Laid Bare

with Carolyne Wright

Explore love in all its forms through poetry. In this all-levels generative class, read global love poems and write your own—about romance, grief, joy, family, friendship, and the intimacy of everyday life.

generative, workshop

6 Sessions
February 3 - March 10, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Poetry

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Fiction III

with Anca Szilágyi

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

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Poetry III

with Jeanine Walker

What happens when a poem pushes past its edges? In this ten-week course, you’ll study boundary-breaking poets, write your own daring work, and workshop in a space designed for risk, clarity, and deeper creative growth.

craft, close reading, workshop

10 Sessions
April 8 - June 10, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Poetry Advanced

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Writer’s Welcome Kit

with Paulette Perhach

This asynchronous course features online workbooks, including ten essential templates in Word and Excel to kickstart your writing life, and resources professional writers use to get published.

November 20 - November 20, 2029
 Online Asynchronous Fiction

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