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 and inspire lifelong learners.

My upcoming classes and workshops include:

• Forms of Care: Creative Writing Workshops for Caregivers | Oct 4, Oct 11 & Oct 18; 1 to 2:30 p.m. PT | IN-PERSON at Burien Library, 400 SW 152nd Street, Suite 100, Burien, WA ~ Registration OPEN!
  Join me for 3 free community writing workshops designed for caregivers of partners with life-threatening, terminal, or long-term illness. Each session offers opportunities for inspiration, creative reflection, informal craft conversations, and the chance to share new writing in a supportive small-group setting. 15 writers max per session.

  Oct 4: The Shape of Change: Victoria Chang’s OBIT will guide us in writing the shape of change, the grief that arises in response, and what is born on the other side.

  Oct 11: Exploring the Underworld: Poems about the myth of Persephone will help us explore the life-death-rebirth cycle we face as caregivers transiting between illness, the healthcare system, and the land of the well.

  Oct 18: Terminal Surreal: A study of death is a study of life: what we value and what we do with the time we have. Martha Silano’s Terminal Surreal: Poems, published after her death, offers ideas for engaging tenderly, stoically, and even playfully with our own terminal condition.

  This project was funded, in part, by a grant from 4Culture.

• Close Reading (and Writing): “Dead Doe” | Sat, December 14 from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Pacific | Online
  Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s “Dead Doe” is a Necropastoral poem of transformation, grief, and reckoning. The doe, which first appears dead, laying in a field of asters, incomprehensibly staggers to life in our imaginations. The poem’s fractured line work reflects the writer’s mind in motion as she hesitates and lurches to digest the sight before her. As readers, we too need time to process the doe who “lent / her deadness to the morning, that the morning might have weight, that / our waiting might matter: be upheld by significance.” We’ll begin this session with a close reading and discussion of “Dead Doe” followed by generative prompts inspired by Kelly’s choices on the page. Registration opens soon.

• Generative Writing Circles | Online
  Writing circles are intimate creative cohorts designed to spark new writing and convivial critical discussion around a theme. Stay tuned for new offerings in 2026!

• Finishing School: Individual Writing in Community | Online
  Sometimes, to get writing done, we need camaraderie—and a calendar appointment. Finishing School is a space to work on individual projects in community. Think of it as a supportive virtual cafe or an accountability date. We show up, say a warm hello and share what we’re working, and get crackin’ on whatever we wish. Finishing School is my gratis offering to the community of writers who join my writing circles each year.