In this six-week course, we’ll explore how to turn lived experience into writing that stays with its reader. Through close reading, guided reflection, and generative prompts, we’ll study how personal essays take shape—from flashes
Most people don’t set out to write a memoir. They do it because something in their life won’t leave them alone—a memory that surfaces in quiet moments alone. Some write it off as overthinking or rumination, but if you’ve found yourself circling a mystery, this class
Autofiction straddles the real and imagined, offering writers a way to explore the emotional truths of lived experience without being bound by hard facts and accuracy.  In this sixteen-week workshop, we’ll explore the ins
American writers are often taught to keep stories tidy: clear arcs, legible realism, characters who behave as expected. Latin American literature offers a different inheritance—elastic, intuitive, imaginative, adn deeply rooted in cultural interiority. In this lineage, the boundary between the real
This class meets IN PERSON at Hugo House in Capitol Hill. Audio stories feel intimate by nature—a voice in your ear, a moment unfolding in real time, punctuated by breath and silence—creating connection in a way
Humor looks effortless on the page…until you try to writing it yourself. In this one-day class, you’ll explore how short humor actually works: the setups that build tension, reversals that catch readers off goals, and tonal shifts that make a
Most of us carry a private archive of bad jobs: the long shifts that made weeks blur into each other, the cubicle that felt like a holding cell, the gig that taught us
This class meets IN PERSON at Hugo House in Capitol Hill. Most writers eventually feel it—that subtle shift when reading stops being purely immersive and starts becoming analytical. You’re halfway through a
George Eliot once called her writing "a set of experiments in life," and nowhere is that truer than in Middlemarch: her sweeping, tender, incisive study of a town and the people who
Flash fiction is small but mighty: it asks for the precision of poetry, the heart of a short story, and the courage to leave things unsaid. In this six-week generative workshop, we’ll focus
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