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At Ease in a Troubled World: Writing Emotional Landscapes

with Esther Lin

We’ll explore how poetry can hold multiple emotional currents at once: ecstasy beside grief, thrill alongside uncertainty. You’ll draft new poems and build your skill in writing the complexity of your lived experience.

generative, craft, workshop

6 Sessions
April 30 - June 4, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Poetry

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Intro to Revision and Editing

with Grace Bialecki

Demystify revision. Learn the differences between developmental editing, line editing, and proofreading as well as how to tell what your work needs. Leave with a clear, step-by-step framework for revising your work.

craft, close reading, workshop

1 Session
April 27 - April 27, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction Advanced

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Movies that Move Us: The Art of the Film Review

with Jon Lanthier

This is a class for people with opinions about movies. You’ll read great film reviews and write your own, grounded in how you felt when you watched it. Whether you loved it or hated it, this is the place to let it rip!

generative, close reading

6 Sessions
May 2 - June 13, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT In Person Fiction

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Spellbound: Poetry as Alchemy

with Marci Calabretta 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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Weird Ways to Start Writing

with Elise McHugh

Has your work or approach gotten stale and predictable? We’ll focus on unconventional ways to generate new work and explore your interests from fresh angles, inviting spontaneity and surprise back into your writing.

generative, cohort, creative practice

5 Sessions
April 29 - June 3, 2026
7:10-9:10 pm PT In Person Fiction

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Worldbuilding for All Genres

with Andrea Karin Nelson

Learn to build richer story worlds on the page, whether you’re writing fiction or nonfiction. We’ll explore setting, culture, history, and environment and discover how deeply-realized worlds enhance everything that happens inside them.

craft

1 Session
May 16 - May 16, 2026
10:00-1:00 pm PT In Person Fiction

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Write Your Story: Writing to Heal

with Ingrid Ricks

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, cohort, personal growth

5 Sessions
May 9 - June 13, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Nonfiction

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Writing the Hard Stuff: A Craft Workshop

with Kevin O'Rourke

How do you write about things like grief, loss, and war without overwhelming your reader or minimizing the emotional impact of the experience? We’ll study masters who’ve done it and apply their approaches to our own works in progress.

generative, close reading, workshop

6 Sessions
June 6, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT In Person Fiction

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