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
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
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
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
Learn to turn your funniest ideas into sharp, publishable humor pieces. This crash course covers structure, voice, and punchlines—helping you draft and shape short humor that’s smart, surprising, and submission-ready. No comedy experience required.
generative, craft, close reading, workshop
4 Sessions July 21, 2025 - August 11, 2025 5:00-7:00 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
Learn to write for a listening audience. This playful, practical class helps you craft vivid, spoken storytelling—perfect for podcasts, video, audio memoir, or performance. Leave with tools, techniques, and a one-minute monologue of your own.
generative, craft, workshop
2 Sessions July 23, 2025 - July 30, 2025 5:00-7:30 pm PT In Person Nonfiction
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
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
Learn to craft immersive worlds that resonate emotionally. This generative course explores how setting and character shape each other, helping you build story worlds that breathe, echo inner landscapes, and carry meaning far beyond the map.
generative, craft, workshop
6 Sessions July 29, 2025 - September 2, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Fiction
Lost in the fog of a draft—or unsure where to begin? This class helps you reconnect with your story’s emotional core and build a working blueprint, with craft tools to carry you from first idea to final page.
craft, workshop
6 Sessions July 30, 2025 - September 3, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online 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
Explore how place shapes memory, identity, and story. In this generative class, you’ll write each week, read authors grappling with belonging, home, and displacement, and reflect on the quiet power of the landscapes that live inside you.
generative, creative practice
6 Sessions August 2, 2025 - September 6, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Discover how much a single day can hold. This generative workshop invites deep attention to the everyday, using art, writing, and collaborative prompts to explore observation, experimentation, and the richness hidden in ordinary moments.
generative, cohort, creative practice
4 Sessions August 5, 2025 - August 26, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Explore magical realism as a mindset, rather than a genre. In this playful, generative class, you’ll experiment with writing that blends the strange and the real—crafting stories that glow with mystery, metaphor, and emotional truth.
generative
1 Session August 12, 2025 - August 12, 2025 5:30-7:30 pm PT Online Fiction
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