Tap into the healing power of personal narrative and write the emotionally-charged story you need to tell. You’ll shape memory into scene, find structure in lived experience, and explore how craft can transform pain into powerful story.
generative, personal growth
5 Sessions October 11, 2025 - November 15, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Nonfiction
Plot doesn’t have to be the enemy. In this 3-hour class, learn how to keep your story moving—building tension, structure, and emotional payoff without killing your voice or your will to write.
generative, craft, close reading
1 Session October 13, 2025 - October 13, 2025 5:00-8:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Everyone has a story to tell. In this welcoming intro to creative nonfiction, you’ll explore memory, voice, and structure—leaving with new pages, fresh tools, and the confidence to keep going.
generative, craft, close reading
6 Sessions October 14, 2025 - November 18, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Nonfiction
What makes a character unforgettable? In this 8-week course, you’ll explore fears, desires, and contradictions to create emotionally rich characters who breathe, ache, and grow.
generative
8 Sessions October 14, 2025 - December 9, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Myths shape our stories—and our selves. In this immersive course, you’ll read widely, write boldly, and explore myth as both tradition and creative springboard. Expect cross-genre work, deep discussion, and a return to the stories that move you most.
generative, craft, close reading
30 Sessions October 14, 2025 - June 16, 2026 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
What shapes us when home is far away—or split across languages, borders, and generations? In this eight-week reading and writing class, we'll explore diasporic literature and write into memory, migration, and identity in this class on belonging, loss, and self-making.
generative, close reading, personal growth
8 Sessions October 15, 2025 - December 10, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Literary journalism blends storytelling with truth-telling. In this 8-week class, explore how voice, research, and personal insight combine to create essays that ask not just what happened—but why it matters.
generative, craft, workshop
8 Sessions October 15, 2025 - December 10, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Nonfiction
Essays don’t shout—they excavate. In this 6-week class, explore how personal narratives take shape through voice, memory, and emotional resonance. Write bravely. Revise deeply. Leave with pages that pulse.
generative, craft
6 Sessions October 27, 2025 - December 8, 2025 5:00-7:30 pm PT Online Nonfiction
What if your writing didn’t have to choose a single form? In this six-week class, explore hybrid work—text, image, sound, and beyond—then create your own pieces that experiment, stretch, and surprise.
generative, cohort
6 Sessions October 29, 2025 - December 10, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Fiction
Write from what haunts you—not to fix it, but to face it. In this six-week cohort, we'll explore how craft tools can hold pain, how others write trauma with courage, and how writing can be part of healing, resistance, and radical honesty.
craft, workshop, personal growth
6 Sessions October 29, 2025 - December 10, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
What makes a setting unforgettable? In this course, you’ll learn how to craft places that matter—locations that influence story, reveal character, and stay with your reader. Build worlds that feel real, even if they’re entirely imagined.
craft, close reading
6 Sessions November 3, 2025 - December 8, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
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
5 Sessions November 3, 2025 - December 8, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Step into Slavic folk magic: tsars, tricksters, and tales thick with transformation. Read classic stories, write your own remixes, and explore where history, myth, and mystery collide.
generative, close reading, cohort
6 Sessions November 4, 2025 - December 16, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Fiction
In this 12-week reading intensive, explore mythic, experimental works by women writers who unmoor language, identity, and form—reading deeply into desire, memory, and ecstatic transformation.
craft, close reading
12 Sessions November 10, 2025 - March 9, 2026 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
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, 2025 - November 20, 2025 Online Asynchronous Fiction
What if your next idea came from a card pull? In this generative class, use tarot and oracle decks to spark new writing, surprise your imagination, and quiet your inner critic.
generative, creative practice, personal growth
2 Sessions December 6, 2025 - December 13, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
Your story’s solid, but is your opening pulling its weight? In this one-day intensive, sharpen your first paragraphs for maximum impact and give agents, editors, and readers a reason to keep going.
generative, craft, close reading
1 Session December 8, 2025 - December 8, 2025 5:00-8:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Ready to take your nonfiction to the next level? This intermediate course helps you refine voice, structure, and scene, all while revising with clarity and intention. Leave with new tools, thoughtful feedback, and a polished draft.
craft, close reading, workshop
8 Sessions January 20, 2026 - March 10, 2026 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Nonfiction
Take your fiction further. In this intermediate class, you’ll write, revise, and read deeply—studying voice, POV, and structure while crafting your own story. You’ll also workshop with peers and leave with sharper skills and fresh pages.
craft, close reading, workshop
8 Sessions January 26, 2026 - March 23, 2026 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Ready to go deeper? This advanced course focuses on what makes your voice your own. You’ll revise a full story or chapter, explore structure and tone, and learn to polish work for submission. For writers with a solid foundation in craft fundamentals.
craft, close reading, workshop
10 Sessions April 6, 2026 - June 15, 2026 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
In this advanced creative nonfiction workshop, refine your voice, deepen your obsessions, and push your craft through revision, feedback, and play. This is your place to write boldly and shape work that reveals who you are on the page.
craft, close reading, workshop
10 Sessions April 7, 2026 - June 9, 2026 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Nonfiction
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