Creative Writing Classes

I teach generative classes that help writers tap into the liberating power of constraints, the complexities of aliveness, and creative practices that nurture the artistic self.

This winter, I’m offering generative classes and workshops (all live and online):

• Winter Solstice Writing Ritual | 1 session, December 21 | 4 p.m. PT | Online via Morbid Anatomy
  Winter Solstice is a turning of tides—a cosmic solar return—a time for ritual and reflection. An opportunity to move slowly and to contemplate what has passed, what we can release, and what we wish to invoke in the year to come. As a creative community, we'll take part in the ancient tradition of honoring the year’s darkest day and welcoming the rising light. Part generative writing, part guided ritual, this workshop offers prompts designed to stir introspection and honor the natural cycle of life and death. We’ll write individually, celebrate communally, and close the hour with firelight in a welcoming and inclusive space.

• Winter Writing Circle hosted by me | Theme: Creative Renewal | Online - Full!
  3 sessions: Thursdays, January 9, 16, and 23, 2025, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. PT
  These circles are intimate gatherings designed to spark new writing and conviviality. In January, I’m offering something special: the chance to reorient your creative self and imagine how you’d like your artistic practice to grow in 2025. It’s a good fit for those interested in: Re-envisioning or clarifying who we are as artists/creatives today (versus who we have been); shaking off dullness and recalibrating a spirit of making in the new year; and exploring and deepening the “why" and the “how" pulsing beneath our work. Contact me to be added to the waitlist. $115 for the series.

• Recharge Your Writing Life | 6 sessions, Tuesdays, Jan 21 to Feb 25, 2025 | 5 to 7 p.m. PT | Online via Literary Arts - Seats open
  Equal parts strategy, community building, generative writing, and experimental writing, this class will help writers deepen self-knowledge and spark curiosity and while crafting artistic habits that nourish. A good fit for writers who want to reimagine their creative life. We’ll discuss methods for working through blocks and rejection, simple rituals that refill the well, and ways to make time for creativity in a busy world. Each session will offer prompts for reflection, literary tinctures, and creative practices that unite body, heart, and intellect.

• Writing the Necropastoral: Generative Experiments in Occult Ecopoetics | 6 sessions, Thursdays, Feb 13 to Mar 20, 2025, Online via Morbid Anatomy, 4 to 6 p.m. Pacific / 7 to 9 p.m. Eastern
  In this generative writing class, poet Joyelle McSweeney’s vivid, pulsing notion of the Necropastoral will guide our artmaking into spectral nextness and uncanny entanglement—an ectoplasmic examination of ecology, mortality, poetics, and landscape. Each session will explore biological principles such as mutation, proliferation, contamination, and decay as creative forces for writing. Our embodied experiences—for we are each, right now, living in the Necropastoral—will fuel experimental and unexpected new writing.

  We’ll explore works by Don Mee Choi, Kim Hyesoon, Jane Wong, CA Conrad, and Maya Jewell Zeller, whose hybrid and haunted poetry, prose, and translation expose the modern-day roots of the Necropastoral’s tentacles. We’ll consume heady draughts of inspiration in each session, then brew our own literary elixirs.

• Finishing School: Individual Writing in Community | Online
  Sometimes, to get writing done, we need camaraderie—and an appointment on the calendar. Finishing School is a space to work on individual projects in community. Think of it as study buddies, a virtual cafe, an accountability date… There’s no preparation, no homework, and no pressure to produce anything. Just show up, say a warm hello, and get crackin’ on whatever you wish. Finishing School is my gratis offering to writers who join my generative writing circles each year.