Great songs are poetry set to music. For writers of all genres who love music and are curious about the craft of lyric writing. Weâll study notable songwriters alongside poets and draw inspiration from our favorite songs for our own writing.
generative, craft
6
Sessions
June 4, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT
Online
Poetry
Weâll explore how poetry can hold multiple emotional currents at once: ecstasy beside grief, thrill alongside uncertainty. Youâll draft new poems and build your skill in writing the complexity of your lived experience.
generative, craft, workshop
6
Sessions
June 4, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT
In Person
Poetry
This is a class for people with opinions about movies. Youâll read great film reviews and write your own, grounded in how you felt when you watched it. Whether you loved it or hated it, this is the place to let it rip!
generative, close reading
6
Sessions
May 2 - June 13, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT
In Person
Fiction
Turn your ex into a dusty old vampire who prefers lurking to conversing. Youâll write poetry that explores the personal through myth, monsters, and imaginative speculative fiction frameworks.
generative, close reading
6
Sessions
May 5 - June 9, 2026
7:10-9:10 pm PT
Online
Poetry
For anyone struggling to write. Youâll get prompts and constraints to curb overthinking and get you going, and accountability, structured writing time, and optional homework assignments to keep you going.
generative
6
Sessions
May 5 - June 9, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT
Online
Fiction
Read well to write well. In this class, weâll explore reading as an extension of your creative practice. Youâll practice reading outside familiar territory and learn to read like a writer, with an eye for craft.
craft, close reading
6
Sessions
May 6 - June 10, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT
Online
Fiction
Every place has a story to tell, shaped by history, culture, memory, and change. Explore the art of place-based writing, weaving together narrative, research, and observation to create compelling essays that bring the natural world to life.Â
generative, craft, workshop
6
Sessions
May 7 - June 11, 2026
5:00-7:00 pm PT
Online
Nonfiction
Tap into the healing power of personal narrative and write the emotionally-charged story you need to tell. Youâll shape memory into scene, find structure in lived experience, and explore how craft can transform pain into powerful story.
generative, cohort, personal growth
5
Sessions
May 9 - June 13, 2026
10:00-12:00 pm PT
Online
Nonfiction
Give your prose its music by borrowing from poetry. Weâll explore rhythm, tone, and sonic textureâand 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
Are your poems feeling too safe and predictable? Weâll explore craft techniques that create surpriseâassociative leaps, tonal shifts, and disrupted languageâto 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
For those seeking a healing creative outlet. Writing will be our vehicle for self reflection, personal discovery, and processing lived experiences. Weâll 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
Learn to build richer story worlds on the page, whether youâre writing fiction or nonfiction. Weâll 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
This crash course will take you through the creative and business aspects of professional travel writing. Weâll 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
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
Write from that which holds all our stories: the body. Weâll delve into personal history, identity, and the truths our flesh carries. Youâll 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
Your strong emotions carry potent creative force. In this generative poetry workshop, youâll 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
Respond to the poems that move you with poems of your own. Weâll read and analyze a dozen contemporary examples of the form. And youâll 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
A list is always more than just a list. Weâll explore what a list says about the list-maker, explore lists throughout history, and write our own. Youâll 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
Explore the ways visual art can inspire new writing and infuse energy into existing projects. We'll take a field trip to the Frye Art Museum for inspiration and create and write from our own images, letting what we see guide our words.
1
Session
June 6 - June 6, 2026
10:00-2:00 pm PT
In Person
Fiction
Introductory
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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6
Sessions 
Online
Poetry
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