Finding the Heart of Your Story
You sit down to writeâŚand suddenly everything feels foggy. You know the story matters, but youâre not sure what itâs about. You can describe the plot, but not the deeper thread. You feel the momentum
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Finding the Poet Within
For the late-night scribblers. The Notes app confessionalists. The ones writing poems in the margins of everything else. If youâve been keeping your poetry closeâor are just beginning to fall in love with the formâthis class
Journaling the Journey
A life is made of many storylines. We move through departures, thresholds, losses, surprises, teachers, trials, and returnsâmost of it without ever naming the moment. Journey stories endure across cultures
Nonfiction Book Proposal Intensive
You know that topic you bring up at every partyâurban farming, the science behind workplace burnout, universal basic income, the math behind Magic the Gathering? Most writers never realize that passion contains the bones of a book. So
Comics for People Who Can’t Draw
This class meets IN PERSON at Hugo House in Capitol Hill. You donât need to be âgood at drawingâ to make comics. Yes, really!  Comics are built on choicesâwhat to show, what to
Shadow Play: The Craft of Horror
Horror gives us permission to look directly at what weâre taught to avoid. Built on the tension between fear and fascinationâit draws us toward the things we resist, the things we repress, the things we pretend we canât see. In horror, these
Care and Radical Revision: A Poetry Workshop
Revision asks something rare of us: to return to our own words with honesty, curiosity, and an open mind. It is a practice in both craft and devotionâan act of tending to a poem until it
The Writer in Public: Crafting Your Artistic Identity
How do you promote yourself as an artist without losing yourself in the process? Forget hustle cultureâs algorithmic approach to personal branding. This class is all about what it means to make your public persona a creative
Speculative Fiction Workshop Intensive
Speculative fiction is where big ideas meet big ambition: new worlds, strange magic, future histories, haunted houses, portals, planets, systems, shadows. Ideas are easy; sustaining a project of this scale is the real challenge. This sixteen-week intensive is
Prose Style: The Art of the Sentence, the Art of the Paragraph.
This class meets IN PERSON at Hugo House in Capitol Hill. First-rate writers use all the sentence forms, and they use particular forms not at random but to intensify meaning
