Are you writing a novel?
The Unconventional Novel: A Year of Writing and Revising Support
A year long novel incubator for novels that break the mold and writers seeking to experiment with forms, genres, and craft techniques. If you’re asking if this course is for you, it probably is.
Miranda Schmidt
Miranda Schmidt is a writer living in Portland, Oregon whose work circles the folkloric, the familial, queer magic, and the more-than-human world. Leafskin (Stillhouse Press 2025) is their debut novel and The Cemetery Cure (dancing girl press 2026) is their new poetry chapbook.
The Cemetery Cure is a small book of spells, an underworld journey of the body brushing up against the life/death veil and finding new form there.
Online Writing Workshops This Season
Short Story Mornings
Start your day with short stories! Read five short stories. Write and workshop one. Over six weeks, we’ll explore how varied the short story form can be, focusing on craft elements and writing techniques.
Roots in Old Stories
In this course, we’ll study writing that engages with folklore in a wide variety of ways: speculative memoir that tangles with witch tales, poems that draw on botanical lore, short story fairy tale retellings, mythic poetry and fiction, and more.
Writing with Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems
In this generative online writing class, we'll embrace the ways that plants, animals, and ecosystems influence our writing practices — considering how our work shifts and grows around these influences.