Finding the Poet Within

with Holly Day

New to poetry or just finding your way back? This beginner-friendly class explores craft through playful prompts, readings, and reflection. Leave with a few new poems—and the confidence to keep going.

generative, craft

6 Sessions
April 22 - May 27, 2026
7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Poetry Intermediate

with Janine Kovac

Navigating 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
April 22 - April 29, 2026
7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Fiction

with Jenny Asarnow

Go beyond the page. We’ll explore audio storytelling through close listening, discussion, and generative prompts. You’ll learn what it means to write for the ear and experiment with the form’s possibilities.

close reading

6 Sessions
April 22 - May 27, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Fiction

with Carolyne Wright

May you live in interesting times. We’ll draw the connection between broader shifts in the world and our own personal transformations, generating prose and poetry that reflects our experience of living in a time and place.

generative, workshop, personal growth

6 Sessions
April 23 - June 4, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction Intermediate

with Wendy Kendall

Ready to revise your novel? This class will help you clarify what to cut, what to revisit, what to add, and how to actually do it. You’ll revise your own work as you learn techniques for revising character arcs, plot, pacing, dialogue, and more.

cohort, workshop, professional development

8 Sessions
April 23 - June 11, 2026
7:10-9:10 pm PT In Person Fiction

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
April 25 - June 6, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT In Person Fiction

with Beth Slattery

In this fun, generative class, we’ll shadow the crow as trickster, observer, and scavenger to spark new writing. In short, focused sessions, you’ll generate bold material and learn strategies to revive and reinvigorate stalled work. Caw!

generative, craft

2 Sessions
April 25 - May 2, 2026
1:10-4:10 pm PT Online Fiction

with Alex Madison

Struggling with flat endings? We’ll look at how endings emerge from a story’s internal movement. You’ll study great endings, write to generative and revision exercises, and develop a stronger ability to identify where and how a story wants to close.

generative, craft, close reading

1 Session
April 25 - April 25, 2026
10:00-1:00 pm PT In Person Fiction Advanced

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

with Kate Carmody

Get feedback on your work in this supportive, writer-centered workshop for revising essays and memoir. Responses will be guided by your priorities, questions, and goals. Leave with better sense of how your work is landing and next steps to consider.

craft, cohort, workshop

8 Sessions
April 27 - June 22, 2026
5:00-7:30 pm PT Online Nonfiction Advanced

with Lyzette Wanzer

A comprehensive course on the business side of being a writer for writers of color with a consistent practice and body of work writing in any and all genres. Leave with an author bio, CV, and submitted work.

cohort, professional development

6 Sessions
April 28 - June 2, 2026
5:00-7:30 pm PT Online Fiction Advanced

with Paulette Perhach

Struggling to finish? Learn a compassionate, approachable system to break projects into doable steps, let go of perfectionism, build momentum, and finally bring your work to completion. For writers at any stage of the journey.

craft, creative practice, professional development

1 Session
April 29 - April 29, 2026
10:00-1:00 pm PT Online Fiction

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

with Kate Carmody

In this 6-week class, explore how personal narratives take shape through voice, memory, and emotional resonance. We’ll study master works and write our own.

generative, craft

6 Sessions
April 29 - June 3, 2026
5:00-7:30 pm PT Online Nonfiction Intermediate

with Noah Zanella

Great songs are poetry set to music. For writers of all genres who love music and are curious about the craft of lyric writing. We’ll study notable songwriters alongside poets and draw inspiration from our favorite songs for our own writing.

generative, craft

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

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

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

with Elise McHugh

Know what you’re signing. We’ll break down key clauses, negotiable terms, and common pitfalls so you can read agreements critically and navigate your book contracts with greater confidence.

cohort, professional development, publishing

5 Sessions
May 4 - June 8, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction

with Jasmine Griffin

Turn your ex into a dusty old vampire who prefers lurking to conversing. You’ll write poetry that explores the personal through myth, monsters, and imaginative speculative fiction frameworks.

generative, close reading

6 Sessions
May 5 - June 9, 2026
7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Poetry

with Tina Tocco

For anyone struggling to write. You’ll get prompts and constraints to curb overthinking and get you going, and accountability, structured writing time, and optional homework assignments to keep you going.

generative

6 Sessions
May 5 - June 9, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction

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

with Joanna Demarest

From a strong opening to stage presence, learn to deliver stories that captivate your audience, whether you’re at a mic, a pitch meeting, or the dinner table. This class culminates in a student showcase on stage.

generative, craft, workshop

5 Sessions
May 7 - June 4, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Nonfiction

with Gail Folkins

Every place has a story to tell, shaped by history, culture, memory, and change. Explore the art of place-based writing, weaving together narrative, research, and observation to create compelling essays that bring the natural world to life.

generative, craft, workshop

6 Sessions
May 7 - June 11, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Nonfiction

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

Class Catalog

Finding the Poet Within

with Holly Day

Scrivener Fundamentals

with Janine Kovac

The Art of Audio Storytelling

with Jenny Asarnow

Alchemy of Memory: Writing Witness and Transformation

with Carolyne Wright

First Draft to Fabulous Final: Revising Your Commercial Fiction Novel

with Wendy Kendall

Writing the Hard Stuff: A Craft Workshop

with Kevin O'Rourke

Murder of Crows: A Writing Kickstarter

with Beth Slattery

Writing “The End”

with Alex Madison

Intro to Revision and Editing

with Grace Bialecki

Creative Nonfiction Workshop

with Kate Carmody

Building a Career as a Writer of Color

with Lyzette Wanzer

Finish With Confidence

with Paulette Perhach

Weird Ways to Start Writing

with Elise McHugh

The Art of the Personal Essay

with Kate Carmody

The Poetics of Songwriting

with Noah Zanella

At Ease in a Troubled World: Writing Emotional Landscapes

with Esther Lin

Movies that Move Us: The Art of the Film Review

with Jon Lanthier

Publishing Fundamentals III: Book Contract Basics

with Elise McHugh

Becoming the Creature: Speculative Poetry

with Jasmine Griffin

Start Writing Right Now

with Tina Tocco

Reading Like A Writer

with Radhika Sharma

The Art of Oral Storytelling

with Joanna Demarest

Writing About Nature

with Gail Folkins

Write Your Story: Writing to Heal

with Ingrid Ricks

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