Learn to write flash fiction that leaves your reader punch-drunk and speechless. This generative workshop explores compression, voice, and subtextâhelping you craft powerful stories in under 300 words that resonate far beyond their final line.
generative, craft, workshop
8 Sessions August 28, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Summer is for creative renewal. This joyful generative writing camp for adults invites you to embrace surprise, shake off perfectionism, and reconnect with your artistic self through prompts that draw on music, collage, ritual, and the senses. Writers, artists, and makers of all levels welcome.
generative, creative practice, personal growth
4 Sessions July 31, 2025 6:00-8:00 pm PT In Person Poetry
Turn your fragmentsâhalf-drafted scenes, vivid lines, or forgotten ideasâinto finished pieces. This supportive class helps you listen to what each piece wants to become and what it needs to get there. For writers of any genre.
craft, creative practice
6 Sessions August 28, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
Play, explore, and let go of the need to get it right. This class draws from experimental literary traditionsâlike N+7, centos, and other solo and collaborative writing gamesâto help you rediscover movement, surprise, and the illicit joy of making something just to see where it leads.
generative, cohort, creative practice
6 Sessions July 12, 2025 - August 16, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
Scrivener can feel like a mazeâbut itâs 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 July 12, 2025 - July 19, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Stuck at the starting line? This supportive, low-pressure class helps you build momentum, finish a complete short story, and discover the joy of writing without perfectionism. Great for writers ready to stop stalling and start finishing.
generative, craft, creative practice
6 Sessions July 14, 2025 - August 18, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Explore zuihitsu, a Japanese form that blends list, memory, and reflection into intuitive, genre-defying writing. This generative class invites you to follow your thoughts, embrace fragments, and create beauty without tidy arcs or polished conclusions.
generative, creative practice, personal growth
6 Sessions July 15, 2025 - August 19, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Nonfiction
Write from instinct and the subconscious. This generative poetry class invites you to follow memory, dream, and language into unexpected places. You'll dream journal and craft poems that emerge from intuition, vulnerability, and the deep ocean within.
generative, workshop, personal growth
8 Sessions July 16, 2025 - September 3, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Poetry
How is truth shaped by culture, power, and storytelling? Through readings, discussion, and writing, youâll examine "truth" as a creative, philosophical, and political force in this part-analytic, part-generative course.
generative, close reading, cohort
4 Sessions July 16, 2025 - August 6, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Ready to publish your short work? This class breaks down the submission process with practical tools, personalized strategy, and clear guidanceâso you can send your writing out with confidence and a plan that fits you.
professional development, publishing
2 Sessions July 19, 2025 - July 26, 2025 1:10-3:10 pm PT Online Fiction
Discover the power of small stories. This class explores flash nonfictionâpersonal essays under 1,000 wordsâwith guided prompts, discussion, and craft techniques to help you write with clarity, depth, and emotional impact in a compressed form.Â
generative, craft, close reading
1 Session July 19, 2025 - July 19, 2025 1:10-4:10 pm PT Online Fiction
Learn to turn your funniest ideas into sharp, publishable humor pieces. This crash course covers structure, voice, and punchlinesâhelping you draft and shape short humor thatâs smart, surprising, and submission-ready. No comedy experience required.
generative, craft, close reading, workshop
4 Sessions July 21, 2025 - August 11, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Ready to beginâor recommit toâyour novel? This supportive class offers structure, encouragement, and craft tools to help you generate new pages, deepen your story, and build momentum that lasts through the middle stretch and beyond.
generative, craft
6 Sessions July 22, 2025 - August 26, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
Take your character from flat and forced to complex, authentic, and unforgettable in this craft-focused class. Weâll explore the emotional and psychological transformations that drive our charactersâand our narrative.
generative, craft, creative practice
4 Sessions July 23, 2025 - August 13, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Learn to write for a listening audience. This playful, practical class helps you craft vivid, spoken storytellingâperfect for podcasts, video, audio memoir, or performance. Leave with tools, techniques, and a one-minute monologue of your own.
generative, craft, workshop
2 Sessions July 23, 2025 - July 30, 2025 5:00-7:30 pm PT In Person Nonfiction
Youâve been writing poemsânow learn how they work. This beginner-friendly class offers a supportive introduction to poetic craft, helping you build skills in imagery, sound, and form so you can write with more confidence and creative freedom.
generative, craft, creative practice
4 Sessions July 24, 2025 - August 14, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Poetry
Speculative fiction lets us play, question, and rebuild reality. In this generative class, weâll read masters of the form and write our own strange, bold, world-bending storiesâleaving with new starts and new freedom on the page.
craft, close reading, creative practice
8 Sessions July 26, 2025 - September 13, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Some poems pivot, changing everything that came before. In this poetry workshop, youâll explore how a well-timed shift in tone or perspective can add depth, surprise, and emotional powerâand learn to craft poetic turns for impact.
generative, craft, workshop
6 Sessions July 26, 2025 - August 30, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Poetry
Write from the body, not just the brain. This somatic workshop blends movement, reflection, and writing to help you connect with desire, truth, and voiceâso your work speaks from a place thatâs bold, grounded, and fully your own.
generative, creative practice, personal growth
1 Session July 26, 2025 - July 26, 2025 1:10-4:10 pm PT In Person Nonfiction
Build creative momentum through fast-paced writing bursts in this energizing fiction class. Youâll generate fresh material, quiet your inner critic, and leave with story startsâand the exhilaration of finally getting words on the page.
generative, creative practice
1 Session July 26, 2025 - July 26, 2025 1:10-4:10 pm PT In Person Fiction
Youâve got a draftânow what? This supportive class helps fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid writers move from draft to done, with revision strategies for everything from big-picture structure to smoother transitions. Clarify, reshape, and bring your work closer to finished.
craft, workshop
6 Sessions July 29, 2025 - September 2, 2025 5:00-7:00 pm PT In Person Fiction
Learn to craft immersive worlds that resonate emotionally. This generative course explores how setting and character shape each other, helping you build story worlds that breathe, echo inner landscapes, and carry meaning far beyond the map.
generative, craft, workshop
6 Sessions July 29, 2025 - September 2, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Fiction
Lost in the fog of a draftâor unsure where to begin? This class helps you reconnect with your storyâs emotional core and build a working blueprint, with craft tools to carry you from first idea to final page.
craft, workshop
6 Sessions July 30, 2025 - September 3, 2025 10:00-12:00 pm PT Online Fiction
Youâve written the bookânow pitch it with power. This class helps you craft a compelling query, pitch, and proposal while staying true to your voice, giving you the tools to confidently navigate the traditional publishing landscape.
professional development, publishing
6 Sessions July 31, 2025 - September 4, 2025 7:10-9:10 pm PT Online Fiction
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