Learn to write in the language of dreams. Tap into surreal imagery, sensory detail, emotional truth, and impossible leaps of logic to generate vivid poetry and prose—bypassing your inner critic and making room for the wonderful and strange.
generative
1
Session
Saturday, October 10, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT
Online
Nonfiction
What makes a poem unmistakably yours? Explore the obsessions, aesthetics, and creative instincts that drive your work, deepen your personal poetics, and experiment with new ways of generating poems that only you could write.
generative
2
Sessions
Saturdays, October 10-17, 2026
10:00-1:00 pm PT
Online
Poetry
Explore the possibilities the internet offers writers, as writers. We’ll look at a range of platforms—their cultures, constraints, and style guides—set up accounts, explore their possibilities, and practice crafting and flexing our writerly voice across different formats.
cohort, creative practice, professional development
4
Sessions
Tuesdays, October 13 - November 3, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT
Online
Fiction
Advanced
In this beginner-friendly poetry class, explore how image, metaphor, sound, line, form, and voice transform language on the page. Read poets across styles and eras, experiment with poems of your own, and discover new possibilities for what a poem, and your poetry, can do.
generative, craft, close reading
6
Sessions
Wednesdays, October 14 - November 18, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT
Online
Poetry
Introductory
There are numerous ways to tell a big story. Explore linked fiction, where standalone stories connect and accumulate into a larger narrative, and discover how recurring characters, places, themes, and perspectives can open new possibilities for your own writing, one story at a time.
generative, close reading, cohort
6
Sessions
Thursdays, October 15 - November 19, 2026
7:10-9:10 pm PT
In Person
Fiction
Explore poetry as spellwork in this two-week class. Write incantatory poems, design personal rituals, and build a sacred, sustainable writing practice rooted in magic and self-trust.
generative, craft
2
Sessions
Wednesdays, October 21-28, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT
Online
Poetry
Introductory
Discover the freedom of writing in fragments: tiny scenes, flashes of memory, stray sentences, and other pieces that can carry surprising emotional weight. Play with juxtaposition, arrangement, and silence as you explore what fragments can reveal without explaining everything.
generative
1
Session
Saturday, October 24, 2026
10:00-1:00 pm PT
Online
Nonfiction
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
Mondays, October 26 - November 23, 2026
7:10-9:10 pm PT
Online
Fiction
Intermediate
A poem is made of many moving parts. Explore the essential elements of poetic craft—from image and metaphor to sound, syntax, and lineation—through weekly lessons, prompts, and feedback you can complete at your own pace.
generative, craft, close reading
6
Sessions
October 26 - December 11, 2026
Online Asynchronous
Poetry
Introductory
Curious about how publishing works and what path is right for you? Explore your options, clarify your goals, and build a strategy that supports your creative vision in this five-week introduction to the publishing industry.
professional development, publishing
6
Sessions
Tuesdays, October 27 - December 8, 2026
7:10-9:10 pm PT
In Person
Fiction
Explore how personal narratives take shape through voice, memory, and emotional resonance in this six-week class. We’ll study master works for craft, then put our own stories down on the page.
generative, craft
6
Sessions
Wednesdays, October 28 - December 9, 2026
5:00-7:30 pm PT
Online
Nonfiction
What can your writing be? What lies beyond the familiar? Whether you’re a lifelong weirdo or itching to break the rules and surprise yourself, this class invites you to experiment with form, structure, and genre in pursuit of your most authentic writing.
generative, craft
6
Sessions
Mondays, November 9 - December 14, 2026
5:00-7:30 pm PT
Online
Fiction
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, close reading
2
Sessions
Saturdays, December 5-12, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT
Online
Poetry
Advanced
In this intermediate class, you’ll read, write, and workshop poems with a focus on image, metaphor, and musicality. You’ll practice giving, receiving, and integrating feedback in a workshop setting and develop a more intentional revision practice as you write and revise new work.
craft, close reading, workshop
8
Sessions
Wednesdays, January 20 - March 10, 2027
10:00-12:00 pm PT
Online
Poetry
Intermediate
Push your poetry beyond familiar territory in this ten-week advanced workshop. Study how boundary-breaking poets use rhetoric, image, and form to take language into unexpected territory, then experiment with these possibilities in your own work as you write and workshop new work.
craft, close reading, workshop
10
Sessions
Wednesdays, April 7 - June 9, 2027
10:00-12:00 pm PT
Online
Poetry
Advanced
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, 2029
Online Asynchronous
Fiction
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Session 
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Nonfiction
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