This beginner-friendly introduction to creative nonfiction explores how memory, observation, and lived experience can become personal essays, memoir, lyric nonfiction, and more. Learn foundational craft, experiment with different forms, and discover new ways to tell the stories that matter to you.
generative, craft, workshop
6
Sessions
Thursdays, October 15 - November 19, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT
Online
Nonfiction
Introductory
Move beyond the first draft in this intermediate creative nonfiction class. Hone your craft around scene, character, image, and structure while experimenting with voice and form, then learn to revise your work with greater intention and precision. Leave with a polished draft of up to 15 pages.
generative, craft, workshop
8
Sessions
Thursdays, January 21 - March 11, 2027
10:00-12:00 pm PT
Online
Nonfiction
Intermediate
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
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
History is never a single story. Through Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s critically acclaimed novel Half of a Yellow Sun, we’ll explore African storytelling traditions in which understanding, meaning, and narrative emerge from the accumulation of many lives and perspectives.
close reading
6
Sessions
Tuesdays, October 27 - November 17, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT
Online
Fiction
How does funny serve good writing? Learn to use pattern, rhythm, expectation, and surprise to create humor that reveals character, builds intimacy, subverts assumptions, and opens unexpected avenues into difficult material.
generative, craft
1
Session
Saturday, October 24, 2026
10:00-1:00 pm PT
Online
Nonfiction
Take your personal essay from idea to polished piece. You’ll write while studying craft elements and workshop your draft several times in a supportive cohort of peers. Essays started in this class have later appeared in literary magazines and major outlets.
generative, craft, workshop
8
Sessions
Saturdays, September 26 - November 21, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT
In Person
Nonfiction
Intermediate
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6
Sessions 
Online
Nonfiction
Introductory