Join us in this laid-back monthly workshop where creation and critique come together to get you ready for a productive month ahead. Drop in once or as many times as you like. 

This is a genre-nonspecific hybrid generative and feedback workshop. We will be creating new work as well as critiquing existing drafts. We will begin with guided writing time using prompts. Prompts will be flexible enough for any genre. The rest of in-workshop time is reserved to give and receive feedback on works-in-progress. Time is divided equally among present participants. 

This workshop does use the traditional cohort feedback workshop model. You can drop in for one session or a longer span of time – whatever is most beneficial to your project. 

WriteFlow: A Hybrid Generative and Feedback Lab

A good copyedit is more than just a spell-check—it’s sensitive to author voice and intent and makes the text more accessible for the reader.


In this class, you’ll learn the basics of good copyediting and implement those basics over a number of sample texts. We’ll start with becoming familiar with The Chicago Manual Style and Merriam Webster, then move on to the different things copy editors should always be looking for when approaching a text.

 Editing for Style: A Hands-On Lesson in Copyediting

For 5-weeks, SCREENPLAYS BY BADASS WOMEN offers a supportive, uproariously fun, and explorative kaleidoscope of screenwriting study AND practice!  

We will deep-dive several of the most groundbreaking screenplays by women, engage in conversation about what exactly these cinematic worlds offer that’s brilliantly off-kilter and essential, as well as WRITE diligently into our own screenplays. Weekly sessions will toggle between these three elements—study, community exploration, writing—connecting the dots between our lived experiences on Planet Patriarchy, the historically marginalized “female gaze,” astute screenwriting craft, direct feedback from Lauren, and a fresh rubric to bring your screenplay into its full, gobsmacking potential. 

Screenplays By Badass Women (Including You!): Study The Greats, Become The Greatest

Learn from award-winning poet, author, and educator Kelly Grace Thomas how to mine and create metaphors full of surprise, punch, and power! 

Kelly, winner of the Neil Postman Award for Metaphor from Rattle, will teach new craft approaches and generative exercises to transform your writing. We will read and discuss work from contemporary poets such as Patricia Smith, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Danez Smith, Franny Choi, Stevie Edwards, Warsan Shire, and more. 

The Magic and Mining Of Metaphor: A Poetry Workshop

A successful newsletter creator spills her secrets for developing a newsletter that can be a foundation for your career or business. 

A newsletter is a no-brainer in the Substack and ConvertKit era, which has seen newsletters like Morning Brew and The Hustle turn into multi-million dollar businesses. In this masterclass with Courtney Kocak, founder of the newsletter Podcast Bestie (a best friend to aspiring and indie podcasters), will teach creative professionals to harness the power of direct content marketing to propel your audience, network, and business to new heights with a growing email list. Over the course of this class, students will learn the art of launching and evolving a newsletter that serves as a strong foundation for your professional endeavors. 

Start a Newsletter to Supercharge Your Platform, Network & Business 

Curious about what the deal is with chapbooks? In this 4 week workshop with Adrie Rose, you will explore the history of poetry chapbooks, their possibilities, and how to pull yours together and submit it. 

Chapbooks were for a long time the sad forgotten younger sibling of "real" "big" books of poems. But chapbooks have a rich history of subversion and accessibility, and they are currently experiencing a resurgence, with even established poets choosing to create chapbooks in addition to new full-length collections. 

We'll talk about the history of the chapbook, why you might want to create one (or why you might not), the possibilities the chapbook container offers, some juicy examples, and then get into the nitty gritty of how to pull your collection together and where to send it when it's ready to put on its big (little) pants and go out into the world.


Small but Mighty: Creating and Submitting a Poetry Chapbook

In Defense of Not Writing

 Flying Home

 Deer Hunting

 Giving Interviews

 Planning Dinner

 Listening to Country Music

 Returning to Ballet

Just My Type

 Improve Your Writing Process Based On Your Sign’s Ruling Element

 Writing Podcasts to Listen to Based on Your Enneagram Type

 Creating a Writing Practice Based on Your Human Design Type

 Writing Poetry Based on Your Enneagram Type

 Defining Success Based on your Sun Sign

 Take an Artist Date Based on your Sun Sign

Words on the Street

 Turn It Up

 Did You Check the Lost and Found?

 Any Questions?

 I Don’t Know

 Practice Makes Imperfect

 Help!

WriterTok Roundup

WriterTok Roundup — August

WriterTok Roundup — July

WriterTok Roundup — June

WriterTok Roundup — May

WriterTok Roundup — April

WriterTok Roundup — March

Writing Spaces

 The Celebration Of The Common

 Mothers and Daughters

 Displacement

 These Jeans Are Made For Walking

 The Ocean at the End of This Column

 This Town Is Big Enough For The Both Of Us

Eat & Read

The Sad Girl vs. The Mad Girl  Poets: The Sad Girl’s Savior Complex and the Legacy of the “Suicide Girl Poet”

Foil and Unfolding: Writing Poetry With A Sword

Big Enough to Hold All of the World’s Tears: On Losing a Literature Teacher

Writing: A Checkpoint

20 Pulse-Pounding, Thought-Provoking Social Thrillers From the Past Five Years

17 Books We Can’t Wait to Read: December 2023

Fiction Spotlight: Interview with Nicholas Claro

2023 Small Press Literary Gift Guide

17 Books We Can’t Wait to Read: November 2023

The Current

Kristine Langley Mahler: On Incorporating Divination Into Writing, the Appeal of Small Books, Toggling Between Parenting & Writing, and Her Essay Collection ‘A Calendar Is a Snakeskin

Gabrielle Korn: On First Pages, Queer Stories Becoming Less Niche, Literary Agents, and Her Debut Novel ‘Yours for the Taking’

Lauren Nossett: On the Throes of Plot Twists, the Genre Debate, Dolly Parton as Inspiration, and Her New Novel ‘The Professor’

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20 Pulse-Pounding, Thought-Provoking Social Thrillers From the Past Five Years

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Interviews

Kristine Langley Mahler

Gabrielle Korn

Lauren Nossett

Latest Essays

Eat & Read

The Sad Girl vs. The Mad Girl Poets: The Sad Girl’s Savior Complex and the Legacy of the “Suicide Girl Poet”

Foil and Unfolding: Writing Poetry With A Sword

Big Enough to Hold All of the World’s Tears: On Losing a Literature Teacher

Writing: A Checkpoint

Columns

In Defense of Not Writing

Just My Type

Words on the Street

WriterTok Roundup

Writing Spaces

In Defense of Not Writing

Just My Type

Words on the Street

WriterTok Roundup

Writing Spaces

Features

20 Pulse-Pounding, Thought-Provoking Social Thrillers From the Past Five Years

17 Books We Can’t Wait to Read: December 2023

Fiction Spotlight: Interview with Nicholas Claro

2023 Small Press Literary Gift Guide

17 Books We Can’t Wait to Read: November 2023