Creative Writing Classes

I offer 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. Most classes are online (join from anywhere!) and always convened live.

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 ~ Seats open!
  Join me for 3 free community writing workshops designed for caregivers of loved ones 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 and intimate setting. This project was funded, in part, by a grant from 4Culture.

  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.

• Close Reading (& Writing): “Dead Doe” | Sat, December 14 from 1:30 to 3 p.m. PT | Online (live)
  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, staggers to life in our imaginations. The fractured line work reflects the writer’s mind in motion as she hesitates, lurches, and slowly digests the sight: 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 with a close reading and discussion of “Dead Doe” followed by generative prompts. $40 (plus sales tax for WA residents). Registration opens soon.

• Gardens & Ghosts: Cultivating New Writing in the Pastoral and Necropastoral | Co-led by Jessica Gigot and me! Saturdays, Jan 3, Jan 10, & Jan 17, 2026 ~ 10 to 11:30 a.m. PT | Online (live)
  Where the Pastoral sings the fertile virtues and romance of rural life, including its grief, the Necropastoral revels in the sensuous, spoiled, and spectral ruins wrought by industrial greed and civilizational anxiety: Each mode serves as a foil for the other. How do we decipher entanglements between human and more-than-human creatures, both alive and dead, who share the ecotone of such strange meetings? In this generative writing series, we’ll explore how these mirrored approaches to nature and place-based writing are conjoined by the verdant imagination. Our texts include work by Joe Wilkins, Linda Hogan, Mary Oliver, Tommy Pico, Marie Howe, Lydia Millet, Joyelle McSweeney, Kim Hyesoon, Maya Jewell Zeller, and Jane Wong. $115 for the series (plus sales tax for WA residents). Registration opens Nov 15.

• 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.
  

• A note on sales tax for Washington residents: Beginning October 1, 2025, a new Washington state law (ESSB 5814) requires sales tax to be collected on classes and workshops taught by cultural organizations and freelance educators. Sales tax for online classes will be applied based on the student’s billing location in Washington state. (If you live outside of Washington, no sales tax is applied.) This new legislation does not affect one-on-one coaching or editorial consulting. This is an unexpected impact to our creative ecosystem, and I appreciate your patience as I navigate the change it entails.