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.
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 Seasons: Winter
In these quarterly gatherings we’ll meet to be inspired by the turn of the world. Through brief readings, writing prompts, and generative exercises, we’ll welcome in and attune our writing to the time of year.
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.
Upcoming Fall & Winter Workshops & Courses
Short Story Mornings
January 12 - February 16 (6 sessions) | 11:30 am -1:30 pm PT | in person at The Attic Institute in Portland, Oregon
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. We’ll learn about creating characters, building plot, developing setting, exploring theme and symbol, and writing sentences that sing. Participants will write one short story in this workshop, receiving peer and instructor feedback in a supportive environment to help them revise.
Roots in Old Stories: Writing with Folklore, Mythology, and Fairy Tales
January 28 - March 4, 2027 Thursdays (6 sessions) | 6-8pm| in person with Literary Arts in Portland, Oregon
Folkloric writing can take many forms. From the overtly fantastical to the strangely realistic, the old tales are flexible. They shift over times and tellers. Their presence in our work can move from obvious to subtle. 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. Through discussion, reflection, and generative writing exercises, we’ll consider how we use old stories and lore in our own work. Suitable for writers at all stages, you can use this course to start a new project or continue work on an ongoing one. Prose writers, poets, and all writers between are welcome.
Writing with the Seasons: Winter
January 9, 2027 | 10am-noon | in person with Literary Arts in Portland, OR
Does what you write or how you write it change with the seasons? In these quarterly gatherings we’ll meet to be inspired by the turn of the world. From autumn leaves to springtime flowers, rain and snow and sun, we’ll consider nature’s shifts and how we can incorporate them into our writing practice. We’ll also reflect on the impact of climate change on our seasonal rhythms and on our writing. Through brief readings, writing prompts, and generative exercises, we’ll welcome in and attune our writing to the time of year.
Writing with Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems
January 16- February 20 | 10am-noon PT | online with Writing Workshops
Do you write with your cat in your lap or your dog sitting next to you? Do you enjoy writing under trees or in gardens? Many of us write in partnership with the more-than-human beings that surround us, whether or not we fully realize it. 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.
The Unconventional Novel: A Year of Writing and Revising Support
One Year beginning January 2027 Tuesdays from 8pm-10pm ET/6pm-8pm PT | online with Writing Workshops
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.
Upcoming Info Sessions:
Tuesday, October 27, 2026 | 5:30 - 6:00 PM PT (8:30 - 9:00 PM ET) Register
Monday, November 30, 2026 | 6:00 - 6:30 PM PT (9:00 - 9:30 PM ET) Register
Past Courses
CREATIVE WRITING
Short Story Mornings | The Attic
Writing with Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems | Writing Workshops
Writing with Nature Magic | The Loft
Performing Your Work | Literary Arts
The First 10 Pages | The Loft
Writing with Tarot | Literary Arts
Nature Writing | Salem Public Library
Novel Support | Literary Arts
Your Novel’s First Pages | Literary Arts
Natures of Narrative Structure: Seeking Your Novel’s Shape | The Loft
Writing with the Seasons | Literary Arts
Intermediate Fiction | Linfield University
Speculative Memoir Workshop | Deschutes Public Library
Experiments in Narrative Structure Workshop | Portland Book Festival
Writing Feminist Fairy Tales | The Loft
Advanced Creative Writing | Fiction | Portland Community College
Beginning Creative Writing | Fiction | Portland Community College
Beginning Creative Writing | Prose | University of Washington
LITERATURE, COMPOSITION & RESEARCH
Northwest Literature | Portland Community College
College Writing – Environmental Writing | Portland Community College
Film as Art | Portland Community College
College Writing – Feminist Literature | Portland Community College
Writing with Research | hybrid, online, and f2f | Portland Community College
College Writing | hybrid course | Portland Community College
College Writing | University of Washington
World Literature – Fairy Tales | online | Renton Technical College
College Writing and Writing with Research | online and f2f | Renton Technical College
Technical Writing | Renton Technical College