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Yearlong in Poetry

with Bill Carty

Build a lasting poetry practice in this in-person yearlong cohort. Write weekly, workshop regularly, and craft 20–30 polished pages while deepening your voice and submitting for publication.

generative, craft, close reading

30 Sessions
Thursdays, September 24, 2026 - June 3, 2027
7:10-9:10 pm PT In Person Poetry

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SLIDING SCALE: A Little Weird Goes A Long Way: Finding Ideas for Speculative Fiction

with Tara Campbell

The world is already stranger than fiction. Learn playful techniques for transforming everyday ideas into speculative stories. Leave with three fresh story starts and new ways to find the extraordinary in the ordinary.

generative

1 Session
Saturday, September 26, 2026
10:00-1:00 pm PT In Person Fiction Advanced

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Writing About Death

with Katherine Standefer

How do we find language for death? Explore how writers reckon with illness, decline, grief, mortality, and decomposition while making room for beauty, complexity, and the visceral. Write into your own experiences and leave with a new essay draft that finds language for what can feel impossible to say.

generative, craft, close reading

6 Sessions
Wednesdays, September 30 - November 4, 2026
7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Fiction Advanced

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Liminal: Writing from Spaces In Between

with Anne Liu Kellor

Love and loss. Hope and uncertainty. Joy and grief. Through generative writing, reflection, and small-group sharing, you’ll explore the complex emotions that coexist within us and transform them into new poems, essays, and stories.

generative, cohort, personal growth

1 Session
Saturday, October 3, 2026
1:10-4:10 pm PT Online Nonfiction

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The Joys of Microprose

with Grace Bialecki

Stuck at the blank page? Meet microprose. Write vivid, compressed pieces while discovering how working small can unlock fresh ideas, sharpen your craft, and make experimentation and revision feel far less intimidating. Leave with at least three new micro-pieces.

generative, close reading, workshop

4 Sessions
Mondays, October 5-26, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction

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Yearlong in Songwriting

with Noah Zanella

Spend nine months exploring songwriting as a creative form. You’ll study the craft of some incredible records, experiment with a range of lyric-writing techniques, and hone your ear for language as you build toward a collection of original songs. For musicians and writers.

generative, close reading, workshop

30 Sessions
Tuesdays, October 6, 2026 - June 15, 2027
5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Poetry

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Yearlong in Poetry II: Advanced Craft

with Dilruba Ahmed

Push beyond your poetic comfort zone in this nine-month advanced workshop. Study diverse mentor texts, dig deeper into metaphor, syntax, structure, image, music, and more, and experiment with innovative contemporary forms as you generate and workshop a body of new work.

generative, craft, cohort

30 Sessions
Wednesdays, October 7, 2026 - June 16, 2027
5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Poetry Advanced

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Dreams: Writing from the Subconscious

with Mayur Chauhan

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

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The Poems Only You Can Write: Honing Your Poetic Voice

with Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet

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

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Writing for the Internet: Tweets, Longreads, Video Essays, and More

with Monika Sengul-Jones

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

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Poetry I

with Jeanine Walker

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

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An Introduction to Linked Stories

with Lauren Hohle

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

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Spells and Incantations: Building Poetry Ritual

with Tanya Young

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

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Writing in Fragments

with Mayur Chauhan

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

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Place, Presence, Pen: Embodied Nature Writing

with Jessica Gigot

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

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Poetry I (ASYNCHRONOUS)

with Michelle Peñaloza

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

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Publishing Fundamentals I: Pathways for Your Book

with Elise McHugh

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

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The Art of the Personal Essay

with Kate Carmody

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

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Go Ahead, Get Weird: Experimenting with Form and Structure

with Kate Carmody

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

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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, close reading

2 Sessions
Saturdays, December 5-12, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Poetry Advanced

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Poetry II

with Jeanine Walker

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

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Poetry III

with Jeanine Walker

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

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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, 2029
 Online Asynchronous Fiction

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