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Class Catalog
Heroine Course Catalog

Reading Like A Writer

with Radhika Sharma

Read well to write well. In this class, we’ll explore reading as an extension of your creative practice. You’ll practice reading outside familiar territory and learn to read like a writer, with an eye for craft.

craft, close reading

6 Sessions
May 6 - June 10, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction

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Leaps & Swerves: Creating Surprise in Poetry

with Dilruba Ahmed

Are your poems feeling too safe and predictable? We’ll explore craft techniques that create surprise—associative leaps, tonal shifts, and disrupted language—to make your poems more astonishing, dazzling, and alive.

generative, close reading

1 Session
May 9 - May 9, 2026
10:00-1:00 pm PT Online Poetry

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Fully Alive in the Moment: Writing with The Four Agreements

with Naa Akua

For those seeking a healing creative outlet. Writing will be our vehicle for self reflection, personal discovery, and processing lived experiences. We’ll write poems grounded in principles for living a life of integrity.

cohort, personal growth

4 Sessions
May 13 - June 3, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction

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Intro to Travel Writing

with Rachel Werner

This crash course will take you through the creative and business aspects of professional travel writing. We’ll cover research, the art of communicating a sense of place, pitching, and viable paths in the field. Leave with one or two draft pitches.

generative, workshop, professional development

2 Sessions
May 16 - May 30, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Nonfiction Intermediate

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Writing the Body

with Steve Almond

Write from that which holds all our stories: the body. We’ll delve into personal history, identity, and the truths our flesh carries. You’ll read and study master writers exploring this topic and generate some writing of our own.

generative, craft, close reading

1 Session
May 30 - May 30, 2026
1:10-4:10 pm PT Online Fiction

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Spellbound: Poetry as Alchemy

with Marci Cancio-Bello

Your strong emotions carry potent creative force. In this generative poetry workshop, you’ll explore language as invocation and spellwork, crafting charged work that channels rage, grief, longing, and more into powerful form.

generative, personal growth

1 Session
May 30 - May 30, 2026
10:00-1:00 pm PT Online Poetry

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In Answer to Another: Writing the “After” Poem

with Anne Marie Wells

Respond to the poems that move you with poems of your own. We’ll read and analyze a dozen contemporary examples of the form. And you’ll gain tools for transforming homage, argument, and influence into original work.

craft, close reading

1 Session
June 6 - June 6, 2026
10:00-1:00 pm PT Online Poetry

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Writer’s Welcome Kit

with Paulette Perhach

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 - November 20, 2029
 Online Asynchronous Fiction

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