In this advanced creative nonfiction workshop, refine your voice, deepen your obsessions, and push your craft through revision, feedback, and play. This is your place to write boldly and shape work that reveals who you are on the page.
craft, close reading, workshop
10
Sessions
June 9, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT
Online
Nonfiction
Advanced
What happens when a poem pushes past its edges? In this ten-week course, you’ll study boundary-breaking poets, write your own daring work, and workshop in a space designed for risk, clarity, and deeper creative growth.
craft, close reading, workshop
10
Sessions
April 8 - June 10, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT
Online
Poetry
Advanced
Real life is messy and good memoir honors that. Explore the parts of your story that complicate you—flaws, contradictions, shadows, and hard truths—and learn to write the self with depth, perspective, and radical honesty.
generative
1
Session
April 11 - April 11, 2026
10:00-1:00 pm PT
Online
Nonfiction
Learn to build a sustainable writing practice that adapts to the seasons of your life. We’ll learn our own rhythms more deeply, experiment with ways to make writing more accessible, and build the muscle for a steady, lifelong writing practice.
cohort, creative practice
6
Sessions
April 11 - June 20, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT
Online
Fiction
Explore fiction essentials in this intensive: narration, plot, characterization, chronology, and scene construction. We’ll close read master works to learn how specific craft decisions shape the way a story is told.
craft
2
Sessions
April 11 - April 18, 2026
1:10-4:10 pm PT
Online
Fiction
Start a story and finish it! In this beginner-friendly class, you'll explore basic fiction craft and practical tools to help you keep writing through the last page. Leave with at least one complete short story draft.
generative, craft
8
Sessions
April 14 - June 2, 2026
7:10-9:10 pm PT
Online
Fiction
Intermediate
Deep dive into dialogue! We’ll explore dialogue’s ability to define character, create tension, reveal what’s unsaid, and move the story forward. Each week, we’ll experiment with a different approach and see what it offers our writing.
craft
6
Sessions
April 14 - May 26, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT
In Person
Fiction
Mortality makes our time here meaningful. We’ll explore the essence of what it means to be human, using illness, aging, and health as subjects for art. Through close reading and prompts, you’ll develop new work rooted in the realities of the body.
generative, close reading, personal growth
4
Sessions
April 15 - May 6, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT
Online
Nonfiction
Advanced
For those who want to write with more ease. We’ll use mindfulness and meditation techniques to shift our relationship to writing by supporting attention, working with resistance, clearing the noise, and more.
creative practice
6
Sessions
April 16 - May 21, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT
Online
Fiction
A flash workshop for writers who love sharp voice and tight form. You'll explore micro writing’s power and play through fun, guided prompts. Great for creatives wanting a reset or a low-pressure way to write again.
generative
1
Session
April 18 - April 18, 2026
10:00-1:00 pm PT
Online
Fiction
Make the actual writing easier on yourself by creating the architecture of your novel first. You’ll clarify character, plot, theme, and structure, ensuring all elements cohere into a strong narrative.
generative, craft, workshop
8
Sessions
April 18 - June 13, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT
Online
Fiction
Take your personal essay from idea to polished piece. You’ll write while studying craft elements, and you’ll workshop your draft several times. Essays from this class have later appeared in literary magazines and major outlets.
generative, craft, workshop
8
Sessions
April 18 - June 13, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT
In Person
Nonfiction
Intermediate
Let art be the muse as you write poetry and prose in response to exhibits around the city. You’ll visit four or five small, intimate museums around Seattle and write to prompts designed to awaken fresh language and perspective in your work.
generative, workshop
6
Sessions
April 18 - May 23, 2026
1:10-3:10 pm PT
In Person
Fiction
Dive into South Asian myth and its fierce divine creatures. In this generative class, you’ll move beyond realism to create powerful work shaped by ancient stories, animal intensity, and epic imagination.
generative, close reading, cohort
2
Sessions
April 18 - April 25, 2026
10:00-2:00 pm PT
Online
Fiction
Ready to shape your poems into a body of work? We’ll tease out the throughlines in your poetry, revise and generate new work around those themes, explore the art of sequencing and structure, and build toward a collection of your own.
generative, craft
3
Sessions
April 18 - May 2, 2026
10:00-1:00 pm PT
Online
Poetry
Advanced
Sharpen your sentences without the stress. This grammar class for creative writers covers essential tools like tense, punctuation, and flow—helping your work land clearly with confidence and style. No jargon, no shame, no diagramming required.
generative, craft
3
Sessions
April 20 - May 4, 2026
5:00-6:30 pm PT
Online
Fiction
Watch movies like a filmmaker. Each week, we’ll watch a film, break it down, and talk about what makes it work. For movie buffs, screenwriters, and anyone who likes their cinema wild at heart and weird on top.
close reading, cohort
8
Sessions
April 22 - June 10, 2026
6:00-9:00 pm PT
In Person
Fiction
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
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
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
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
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
In this fun, generative class, we’ll shadow the crow as trickster, observer, and scavenger to spark new writing. You’ll write bold new material and practice strategies for reviving and reinvigorating stalled work. Caw!
generative, craft
2
Sessions
April 25 - May 2, 2026
1:10-4:10 pm PT
Online
Fiction
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
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10
Sessions 
Online
Nonfiction
Advanced