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Heroine Course Catalog

What We Really Mean to Say: Using Poetic Techniques in Prose

with Joe Wilkins

Give your prose its music by borrowing from poetry. We’ll explore rhythm, tone, and sonic texture—and learn concrete techniques to make your sentences not only look good, but sound incredible on the page.

generative, craft, close reading

1 Session
May 9 - May 9, 2026
1:10-4:10 pm PT Online Fiction Advanced

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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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Worldbuilding for All Genres

with Andrea 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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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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Sleight of Hand for Writers

with Kimberly Lee

Explore the seven principles of sleight of hand, then apply it to your writing! Perfect for new writers wanting to subvert, surprise, and delight their readers, and for writers looking to make writing feel like magic again.

generative, craft

2 Sessions
May 16 - May 23, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction 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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Creative Cataloging: Your Life in Lists

with Sarah Campbell

A list is always more than just a list. We’ll explore what a list says about the list-maker, explore lists throughout history, and write our own. You’ll leave with new approaches to list-making as a tool for journaling and fueling creativity.

generative, personal growth

2 Sessions
June 6 - June 13, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Nonfiction

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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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