Upcoming Workshops & Courses
Writing with Tarot
April 8-29, 2026, weekly on Wednesdays (4 sessions) | 6-8pm | Literary Arts 716 SE Grand Ave Portland, OR 97214
Ever try doing a tarot reading for one of your characters? Writing a poem inspired by the images on a tarot card? Tarot is both deeply symbolic and highly narrative, creating a system that can inspire and guide many forms of writing. This multigenre workshop will introduce techniques for using tarot in one’s writing practice. We’ll use tarot cards to generate new ideas and new writing through writing exercises; practice character, story, and image development using tarot symbols; learn how tarot can help us plumb the depths of our ideas; and discover how to work with the Tarot from generation through revision. This class is open to writers in any genre.
No experience with tarot is necessary prior to the first workshop. You don’t have to have a tarot deck for this class, but if you do, please bring it along.
Novel Support
March 31, 2026 – May 5, 2026, weekly on Tuesdays (6 sessions) | 6-8pm | Literary Arts 716 SE Grand Ave Portland, OR 97214
Are you writing a novel? Do you want company? Writing a novel is an intensive and often lonely experience. This course brings novel writers at all stages of the process together to support each other for 8 weeks. From first draft through revision, this course is a weekly check in, a community gathering, a discussion group, an accountability buddy, a toolkit, a troubleshooting session, and a place for us to talk about our novels and writing processes as much as we need to without boring anyone. Each week, we’ll spend time checking in about our novels, discussing issues and breakthroughs, and providing feedback on each other’s work. To best suit the needs of the group, course instruction will be specifically tailored to the questions that arise during class. Participants will receive peer and instructor feedback on a small section (up to 3,000 words) of their work.
Writing with the Seasons: Spring
Saturday, April 4, 2026 | 10am-12pm | Literary Arts 716 SE Grand Ave Portland, OR 97214
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.
This gathering meets once per season. You can sign up for all four or just come to one. It’s suitable for all writing levels and genres.
Past Courses
CREATIVE WRITING
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