Class Types

Workshop

These are typically generative classes, in which students create new work in class or based on assignments, or students submit work to receive constructive critique from the instructor and fellow students. Workshops are typically (but not always) multi-session classes.

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Q&A
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Upcoming Classes & Workshops

Fiction
5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29 & 6/5

Writing Climate Fiction - May 2025

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Multiple Instructors
Class Level:
All Levels
Unprecedented weather events, rising temperatures, climate migration: how can we deal narratively with the enormity of these changes in our world?
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Writing Process
5/7, 5/14, 5/21 & 5/28

Developing a Writing Habit - May 2025

$
140
/
$
100
For Members
FREE!
With:
Darlene Montonaro
Class Level:
All Levels
This class will help you develop writing habits that will boost your confidence, help you find your “voice,” and keep your writing process in motion.
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Poetry
5/17, 5/24 & 5/31

Poetics of Pleasure

$
105
/
$
75
For Members
FREE!
With:
Jenna Martínez
Class Level:
All Levels
Come steep in the world of the erotic! In this three-part series, we will read and write poetry that centers on pleasure.
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Poetry
5/22, 5/29, 6/5, 6/12, 6/19 & 6/26

Intro to Poetry - May 2025

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Stephanie Ginese
Class Level:
​Emerging
Generate new poems in this six-week class designed to kick your writing into gear.
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Fiction
5/22, 5/29, 6/5, 6/12, 6/19, 6/26

Intro to Fiction - May 2025

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Nardine Taleb
Class Level:
​Emerging
Whether you are brand new to fiction writing, need inspiration, or looking to polish up on fiction fundamentals, you are welcome to Intro to Fiction.
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Nonfiction
5/28, 6/4, 6/11 & 6/18

Generative Nonfiction - May 2025

$
140
/
$
100
For Members
FREE!
With:
Annmarie Kelly
Class Level:
All Levels
Each week, we’ll examine creative nonfiction forms and draft our own pieces.
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Fiction
6/2, 6/9, 6/16, 6/23, 6/30, 7/7

Writing Contemporary Short Stories - June 2025

$
215
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Meghan Louise Wagner
Class Level:
Intermediate
A six-week intermediate workshop split between reading published work and workshopping our own
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Fiction
6/5, 6/12, 6/19, 6/26

Start Writing Right Now - June 2025

$
140
/
$
100
For Members
FREE!
With:
Tina Tocco
Class Level:
All Levels
Come experiment in this low-stress, generative class!
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Multigenre
6/9, 6/16, 6/23

Experimental Writing

$
105
/
$
75
For Members
FREE!
With:
Will Cordeiro
Class Level:
All Levels
We will play with alternative constraints; question the purposes, forms, and audiences of our work; and reinvent the writing process.
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Fiction
6/17, 6/24, 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22

Generative Fiction - June 2025

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Alida Dean
Class Level:
All Levels
Are you writing a novel? Short stories? Flash fiction? It's all welcome in this six-week generative workshop.
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Fiction
6/28, 7/3, 7/10

Worldbuilders' Support Group

$
105
/
$
75
For Members
FREE!
With:
Johnny Caputo
Class Level:
Intermediate
This three-week class will develop your skills in building immersive fictional worlds.
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Poetry
7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29 & 8/5

Every Word Must Conjure

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Denise R. Ervin
Class Level:
​Emerging
Every Word Must Conjure is a multi-week generative writing workshop that dives into the differences between denotation and connotation in poetry.
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Poetry
7/2, 7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30 & 8/6

Generative Poetry - July 2025

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Philip Terman
Class Level:
All Levels
This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new poetry or make progress on your project.
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Fiction
7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30, 8/6, 8/13, 8/20 & 8/27

Fiction Revision - Summer 2025

$
320
/
$
250
For Members
FREE!
With:
Laura Maylene Walter
Class Level:
Intermediate
In this workshop, learn about the necessary art of revision for fiction projects.
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Poetry
7/10, 7/17, 7/24, 7/31, 8/7, 8/14, 8/21 & 8/28

You Aren’t Done Yet: On Revision (Poetry Revision - Summer 2025)

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Ali Black
Class Level:
Intermediate
In this class, we will discuss the process of revision and how to go about re-visioning our poems.
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Nonfiction
7/16

How to Write About the Unspeakable

$
35
/
$
25
For Members
FREE!
With:
Lara Lillibridge
Class Level:
All Levels
This workshop will give several concrete ways to write about that which we dare not speak—whether due to trauma or privacy concerns—while remaining safe.
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Multigenre
7/21, 7/28, 8/4 & 8/11

Disability, Queerness & Possibility: A Multi-Genre Workshop

$
140
/
$
100
For Members
FREE!
With:
Rose Zinnia
Class Level:
Advanced
In this multi-class workshop, we will study essays and poems from disabled and neurodivergent writers and write and workshop our own.
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Nonfiction
7/31, 8/7, 8/14, 8/21, 8/28, 9/4

Intro to Nonfiction

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Lara Lillibridge
Class Level:
​Emerging
Everyone has a story to tell. In this 6-week class, we will generate new material as well as learn about the fundamentals of creative nonfiction.
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Writing Process
8/6, 8/13, 8/20 & 8/27

Developing a Writing Habit - August 2025

$
140
/
$
100
For Members
FREE!
With:
Darlene Montonaro
Class Level:
All Levels
This class will help you develop writing habits that will boost your confidence, help you find your “voice,” and keep your writing process in motion.
Register Here
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Poetry
8/12, 8/19, 8/26, 9/2, 9/16, 9/23

Intro to Poetry - August 2025

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Stephanie Ginese
Class Level:
​Emerging
Generate new poems in this six-week class designed to kick your writing into gear.
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Nonfiction
8/13, 8/20, 8/27, 9/3, 9/17 & 9/24

Coming Back to Your Senses: Using Sight, Sound, Touch, Taste, and Smell to Begin and Enhance Your Memoir

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Denise Tolan
Class Level:
​Emerging
This workshop will also discuss ways in which to write about difficult events in our lives using literary craft elements to help tell our stories.
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Fiction
8/14, 8/21, 8/28, 9/4, 9/18 & 9/25

Intro to Fiction - August 2025

$
210
/
$
150
For Members
FREE!
With:
Nardine Taleb
Class Level:
​Emerging
Whether you are brand new to fiction writing, need inspiration, or looking to polish up on fiction fundamentals, you are welcome to Intro to Fiction.
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