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Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Memoir, Essay, Writing for Performance

Talking to the Dead: Writing Grief and Loss

Instructor: Cass Donish. Grief is love with nowhere to go. Learn to write with it, toward it, and through it—without looking away.

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Level: Open to all levels
Length: 10 sessions
Start: April 8, 2025 , 5:00pm PT
Format: Online
Poetry, Reading

Poetry III

Instructor: Jeanine Walker. This generative workshop builds on craft foundations, examining the rhetoric of contemporary published poets. Students will participate in a supportive workshop where they are creatively encouraged to grow. 

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Level: Intermediate, Advanced
Length: 10 sessions
Start: April 9, 2025 , 10:00 am PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Memoir, Novel, Short Story, Essay, Writing for Performance

Family Matters: Writing Life Stories

Instructor: Nicole Treska & Nora Lange. Learn to shape your lived experience into fiction or nonfiction stories, with readings, craft lessons, and workshopping to bring your family stories to life.

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Level: Open to all levels
Length: 8 sessions
Start: April 9, 2025 , 5:00pm PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Writing for Performance

A Ghosting of Tanukis: Writing with Spirit Beings

Instructor: Shankar Narayan. Explore spirit beings from various cultural traditions, draw connections between cultures, and use these mythologies to fuel your own writing this two-session generative intensive.  

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Level: Open to all levels
Length: 2 sessions
Start: April 12, 2025 , 10:00am PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, The Writing Life, Reading, Writing for Performance

Journaling the Journey

Instructor: Emma Stockman. You are the hero of your own story, even when it feels like you’re standing still. Use ‘the journey’ as a journaling framework to find meaning and transformation in your own experiences.

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Level: Open to all levels
Length: 10 sessions
Start: April 12, 2025 , 10:00am PT
Format: In Person
Poetry, Reading

Breaking Down History: Remixing Poetic Narratives

Instructor: Daemond Arrindell. History is more than just one story. Use form and disruption to uncover hidden angles and reshape personal and collective narratives.

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Level: Intermediate
Length: 6 sessions
Start: April 14, 2025 , 5:00pm PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, The Writing Life, Essay, Writing for Performance

Publishing Your Personal Essay

Instructor: Kaelie Giffel. Ready to publish? This class will guide you through revision, submission strategies, and pitching—so your personal essays find their perfect home.

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Level: Intermediate, Advanced
Length: 8 sessions
Start: April 15, 2025 , 5:00pm PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Writing for Performance

Catching Fire with Poetic Forms & Freedoms

Instructor: Carolyne Wright. From sonnets to sestinas, discover how poetic forms can spark imagination and elevate your writing. Plus, experiment with inventing some poetic form variations of your own!

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Level: Intermediate
Length: 8 sessions
Start: April 15, 2025 , 5:00pm PT
Format: In Person
Poetry

Finding the Poet Within

Instructor: Holly Day. What makes a poem powerful? In this poetry fundamentals class, experiment with language, rhythm, and form to craft poetry that sings—both on the page and out loud. 

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Level: Introductory
Length: 4 sessions
Start: April 17, 2025 , 7:10pm PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Young Adult/Children's Lit, Novel, Short Story, Writing for Performance

Experiments in Translation and Adaptation

Instructor: Lola Rogers. Explore translation as a form of adaptation: experimenting with voice, style, and context to reimagine stories for new audiences.

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Level: Intermediate
Length: 1 session
Start: April 19, 2025 , 10:00am PT
Format: In Person
Poetry, Reading

Forming Form: Shaping Free-Verse Poetry

Instructor: Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet. Shape your free verse into its fullest form—experiment, refine, and let your poems reveal their true structure.

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Level: Intermediate, Advanced
Length: 2 sessions
Start: April 19, 2025 , 1:10pm PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Memoir, Short Story, Essay

Green Expectations: Writing Our Relationship to Nature

Instructor: Claudia Castro Luna. From myth to metaphor, trees and plants root our stories in something deeper and older than ourselves. Over eight weeks, we’ll write, reflect, and create with nature as our guide.

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Level: Open to all levels
Length: 8 sessions
Start: April 22, 2025 , 5:00pm PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, The Writing Life, Reading, Memoir, Essay, Writing for Performance

Engaging Your Ancestors

Instructor: Camellia Freeman. Open portals to the past, and play with time, space, memory, myth, and imagination to unearth stories waiting to be told. 

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Level: Open to all levels
Length: 8 sessions
Start: April 22, 2025 , 5:00pm PT
Format: In Person
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Writing for Performance

Reading Across Cultures: South Asian Urdu Poetry

Instructor: Shankar Narayan. Step into this millennium-long poetic conversation and create your own work inspired by one of the world’s most lyrical literary traditions.

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Level: Open to all levels
Length: 8 sessions
Start: April 23, 2025 , 7:10pm PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

The Writer’s Laboratory: Experiments in OuLiPo

Instructor: Gabriela Denise Frank. Push the boundaries of your creative limits using the power of constraints! Through hands-on experimentation, we’ll spark unexpected, brilliant ideas and emerge with wild, weird and wonderful writing starts. 

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Level: Intermediate
Length: 6 sessions
Start: April 24, 2025 , 5:00pm PT
Format: Online
Poetry

Don’t Blink: Nightmare Poetics

Instructor: Marci Cancio-Bello. Explore poetry’s role in witnessing, processing, and reshaping haunting material in this one-day generative class.

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Level: Intermediate, Advanced
Length: 1 session
Start: April 26, 2025 , 10:00am PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, The Writing Life, Memoir, Novel, Writing for Performance

Starting the Search for a Publisher

Instructor: Elise McHugh. Mystified by the world of publishing? Learn the publishing options available to you & your manuscript in this three-week publishing intensive. Walk away with a plan to take your manuscript from submission to book deal.

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Level: Open to all levels
Length: 4 sessions
Start: April 26, 2025 , 10:00am PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Writing for Performance

Letters of Love

Instructor: Naa Akua. Love is a practice. Through meditation, writing, and discussion, we’ll explore how to bring more love—of self and others—into our creative lives.

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Level: Open to all levels
Length: 4 sessions
Start: May 1, 2025 , 5:00pm PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, The Writing Life, Short Story, Essay, Writing for Performance

Start Submitting: Poems, Short Stories, Essays

Instructor: Tina Tocco. Take the guesswork out of submissions! Learn how to research and submit your short work to literary journals and magazines with confidence. 

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Level: Open to all levels
Length: 1 session
Start: May 3, 2025 , 1:10pm PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Writing for Performance

Reading Across Cultures: Asian Diaspora & Defiance

Instructor: Susan Nguyen. From joy to rage, grief to desire—AAPI writers are telling powerful stories. Join us to read, discuss, and create writing that resists and reclaims.

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Level: Open to all levels
Length: 8 sessions
Start: May 8, 2025 , 5:00pm PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Poetry

Museum as Muse: Writing Alongside Exhibits

Instructor: Deborah Woodard. Let art be your muse as you write poetry and prose in response to exhibits across the city.

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Level: Open to all levels
Length: 6 sessions
Start: May 10, 2025 , 1:10pm PT
Format: In Person
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Novel, Short Story, Essay, Writing for Performance

Exploring Non-Human Animal Perspectives

Instructor: Meghan Lamb. What happens when the parrot tells the story? Step into the mind of the non-human narrator in this generative craft workshop.

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Level: Open to all levels
Length: 4 sessions
Start: May 14, 2025 , 7:10pm PT
Format: Online
Poetry, Reading

Hey, You: Adventures in the Poetic Second Person

Instructor: Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet. Who is “you” in a poem? An invitation, an accusation, a mirror? Explore the many possibilities of second-person address in this craft-focused poetry class.

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Level: Intermediate, Advanced
Length: 1 session
Start: May 24, 2025 , 1:10pm PT
Format: Online
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, The Writing Life, Writing for Performance

Narrative Reclamation: The Self & Community

Instructor: Zain Shamoon. This class is dedicated to the role of storytelling in finding relief from distress; students will learn how to use storytelling for personal and communal reclamation.

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Level: Open to all levels
Length: 2 sessions
Start: May 31, 2025 , 1:10pm PT
Format: Online