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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6
Sessions 
Online
Fiction
Advanced
