Ready to send your poems into the world? This class demystifies the process so you can submit your poetry with confidence. You'll research journals, build supportive systems, and screen like an editor—all while writing new work along the way.
generative, close reading, professional development, publishing
6 Sessions July 1, 2025 - August 12, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Poetry
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 July 7, 2025 - July 28, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Fiction
Write through what feels impossible. In this generative fiction class, you’ll explore how voice, structure, and storytelling can hold emotional weight, reflect rupture, and carry meaning through uncertainty. Craft fiction that responds to crisis—personal or global—with boldness, clarity, and form that fits the truth you need to tell.
generative, craft, close reading
8 Sessions July 7, 2025 - August 25, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Stuck in a cycle of procrastination? This supportive class helps you build a writing practice rooted in compassion, not pressure. We’ll reflect, learn, write together, and develop lasting habits—and you'll finish a short piece you’ve been avoiding.
generative, creative practice
8 Sessions July 7, 2025 - August 25, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Not sure what you want to write? This playful, genre-hopping class helps you explore fiction, poetry, humor, and more—through weekly experiments that shake off perfectionism and reconnect you with curiosity and the fun of creative exploration.
generative, craft, close reading
6 Sessions July 8, 2025 - August 12, 2025 5:00-8:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Reconnect with your body as a source of creative insight. This somatic-based writing class blends movement, reflection, and in-class writing to help you build trust in your intuition and develop a deeper, more sustainable relationship with your process.
cohort, creative practice
8 Sessions July 8, 2025 - September 2, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
Hook the right readers with a memoir overview that shines. This one-session class helps you craft a compelling, pitch-ready page—balancing voice, structure, and stakes to show agents and editors why your story matters now.
craft, close reading, professional development, publishing
1 Session July 9, 2025 - July 9, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Summer is for creative renewal. This joyful generative writing camp for adults invites you to embrace surprise, shake off perfectionism, and reconnect with your artistic self through prompts that draw on music, collage, ritual, and the senses. Writers, artists, and makers of all levels welcome.
generative, creative practice, personal growth
4 Sessions July 10, 2025 - July 31, 2025 6:00-8:00 pm PT In Person Poetry
Turn your fragments—half-drafted scenes, vivid lines, or forgotten ideas—into finished pieces. This supportive class helps you listen to what each piece wants to become and what it needs to get there. For writers of any genre.
craft, creative practice
6 Sessions July 10, 2025 - August 28, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
Play, explore, and let go of the need to get it right. This class draws from experimental literary traditions—like N+7, centos, and other solo and collaborative writing games—to help you rediscover movement, surprise, and the illicit joy of making something just to see where it leads.
generative, cohort, creative practice
6 Sessions July 12, 2025 - August 16, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
Scrivener can feel like a maze—but it’s also one of the best tools for organizing your drafts, notes, and ideas in one place. Learn the basics and build your project inside the program in this hands-on class.
creative practice
2 Sessions July 12, 2025 - July 19, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Explore zuihitsu, a Japanese form that blends list, memory, and reflection into intuitive, genre-defying writing. This generative class invites you to follow your thoughts, embrace fragments, and create beauty without tidy arcs or polished conclusions.
generative, creative practice, personal growth
6 Sessions July 15, 2025 - August 19, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Nonfiction
Write from instinct and the subconscious. This generative poetry class invites you to follow memory, dream, and language into unexpected places. You'll dream journal and craft poems that emerge from intuition, vulnerability, and the deep ocean within.
generative, workshop, personal growth
8 Sessions July 16, 2025 - September 3, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Poetry
How is truth shaped by culture, power, and storytelling? Through readings, discussion, and writing, you’ll examine "truth" as a creative, philosophical, and political force in this part-analytic, part-generative course.
generative, close reading, cohort
4 Sessions July 16, 2025 - August 6, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Ready to publish your short work? This class breaks down the submission process with practical tools, personalized strategy, and clear guidance—so you can send your writing out with confidence and a plan that fits you.
professional development, publishing
2 Sessions July 19, 2025 - July 26, 2025 1:10-3:10 pm PT Online Fiction
Discover the power of small stories. This class explores flash nonfiction—personal essays under 1,000 words—with guided prompts, discussion, and craft techniques to help you write with clarity, depth, and emotional impact in a compressed form.
generative, craft, close reading
1 Session July 19, 2025 - July 19, 2025 1:10-4:10 pm PT Online Fiction
Take your character from flat and forced to complex, authentic, and unforgettable in this craft-focused class. We’ll explore the emotional and psychological transformations that drive our characters—and our narrative.
generative, craft, creative practice
4 Sessions July 23, 2025 - August 13, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
You’ve been writing poems—now learn how they work. This beginner-friendly class offers a supportive introduction to poetic craft, helping you build skills in imagery, sound, and form so you can write with more confidence and creative freedom.
generative, craft, creative practice
4 Sessions July 24, 2025 - August 14, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Poetry
Explore love and loss as powerful engines of story. This generative class helps writers of all genres move beyond cliché, crafting emotionally complex work that captures intimacy, longing, and the many shapes connection can take.
craft, close reading, creative practice
6 Sessions July 24, 2025 - August 28, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Speculative fiction lets us play, question, and rebuild reality. In this generative class, we’ll read masters of the form and write our own strange, bold, world-bending stories—leaving with new starts and new freedom on the page.
craft, close reading, creative practice
8 Sessions July 26, 2025 - September 13, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Some poems pivot, changing everything that came before. In this poetry workshop, you’ll explore how a well-timed shift in tone or perspective can add depth, surprise, and emotional power—and learn to craft poetic turns for impact.
generative, craft, workshop
6 Sessions July 26, 2025 - August 30, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Poetry
Write from the body, not just the brain. This somatic workshop blends movement, reflection, and writing to help you connect with desire, truth, and voice—so your work speaks from a place that’s bold, grounded, and fully your own.
generative, creative practice, personal growth
1 Session July 26, 2025 - July 26, 2025 1:10-4:10 pm PT In Person Nonfiction
You’ve got a draft—now what? This supportive class helps fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid writers move from draft to done, with revision strategies for everything from big-picture structure to smoother transitions. Clarify, reshape, and bring your work closer to finished.
craft, workshop
6 Sessions July 29, 2025 - September 2, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
You’ve written the book—now pitch it with power. This class helps you craft a compelling query, pitch, and proposal while staying true to your voice, giving you the tools to confidently navigate the traditional publishing landscape.
professional development, publishing
6 Sessions July 31, 2025 - September 4, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Fiction
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