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
Writing with Tarot
This multigenre workshop will introduce techniques for using tarot in one’s writing practice: from working with tarot symbols to revising narrative arcs card spreads. No tarot experience necessary.
Writing with Nature Magic
Through astrology, divination, seasonal cycles, and other earth-based traditions, we’ll create rituals to connect with inspiration, align writing rhythms with the movements of nature, revise with spells, and much 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.