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Fiction Cohort: Drafting and Revising Over Six Months (ONLINE)
Loie Rawding
Mondays, 6 months (once a month) //
Jan 27
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Jun 30
Fiction Cohort: Drafting and Revising Over Six Months (IN PERSON)
Clemintine Guirado
Wednesdays, 6 months (once a month) //
Jan 29
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Jun 25
Immigrants Write (Spring 2025)
Nina Adel
Mondays
Feb 3
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Mar 31
Writing Personal Essays that Resonate
Christie Grotheim
Thursdays, 6 weeks
Feb 20
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Mar 27
Main Character Magic
Gabby Rivera
Thursdays, 4 weeks
Mar 6
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Mar 27
Fiction Fundamentals: A Four-Week Crash Course on the Art of Fiction
Katie McDougall
Wednesdays, 4 weeks
Mar 26
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Apr 16
March Draft Chat
Daniel Myers
Monday
Mar 31
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Mar 31
So You Want to Be a Travel Writer
Margaret Littman
Tuesday
Apr 1
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Apr 1
April is the Coolest Month: A Poetry Writing Challenge
Ryan Varadi
Tuesdays, 4 weeks
Apr 1
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Apr 22
Advanced Poetry Workshop
Amie Whittemore
Wednesdays, 4 weeks
Apr 2
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Apr 23
Remembering Wild: Decolonizing Nature Writing
Melissa Jean
Wednesdays, 4 weeks
Apr 2
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Apr 23
The Short Story
Hilary Bell
Thursdays, 4 weeks
Apr 3
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Apr 24
Nonfiction Narratives
Stewart Lewis
Mondays, 4 weeks
Apr 7
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May 5
This Must Be the Place: Setting and Story
Andrew Steiner
Monday
Apr 7
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Apr 7
Blackout Poetry
Alexis Özden
Friday
Apr 11
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Apr 11
Write Beside the Horses: Harnessing Creative Sensitivity and Power
Claire Coenen
Saturday
Apr 12
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Apr 12
Create Your Own Comic with Malaka Gharib! (Grades 1-5)
Malaka Gharib
Saturday
Apr 12
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Apr 12
Spoken Word Poetry as Storytelling
Christopher D. Sims
Monday
Apr 14
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Apr 14
The Art & Craft of the Sentence
Freya Sachs
Saturday
Apr 19
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Apr 19
Master Class: Permission and the Story You Must Tell
Elissa Altman
Wednesday
Apr 23
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Apr 23
Words & Music (ADULTS): A Collaboration with the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra
Yurina Yoshikawa
Saturday
Apr 26
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Apr 26
Words & Music (YOUTHS): A Collaboration with the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra
Yurina Yoshikawa
Saturday
Apr 26
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Apr 26
Put the Needle on the Record: On Writing & Music
Vanessa Martir
Mondays, 4 weeks
Apr 28
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May 19
Writing and Pitching Op-Eds
Mathangi Subramanian
Wednesday
Apr 30
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Apr 30
We're Doomed: Using the Droids in STAR WARS to Craft Good Sidekicks
Ryan Varadi
Sunday
May 4
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May 4
Comedic and Satirical Writing for Everyday Life
Cortney Warner
Monday
May 5
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May 5
Writing About Family: Keeping the Faith vs. Telling the Truth
Whitney Bryant
Tuesdays, 4 weeks
May 6
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May 27
Finding Your Star: How to Write a Picture Book for Children
Heidi Fiedler
Tuesdays, 4 weeks
May 6
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May 27
Speculative Fiction & Resistance
Silk Jazmyne
Tuesdays, 4 weeks
May 6
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May 27
Close to the Bone: An Online Memoir Workshop
Pauletta Hansel
Tuesdays, 4 weeks
May 6
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May 27
Foundations of Creative Nonfiction
AM Ringwalt
Wednesdays, 8 weeks
May 7
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Jun 25
Finding Your Voice: Intro to Creative Writing
JR Robles
Saturday
May 10
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May 10
Developing Your Non-Fiction Book Proposal
Ami McConnell & Shannon Miller
Saturday
May 10
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May 10
Tips and Tricks for Writing From Multiple Points of View
Lauren Thoman
Monday
May 12
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May 12
Writing Through Depression and Anxiety
Meredith R. Lyons
Wednesday
May 14
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May 14
Publishing 101 for Fiction Writers: How to Query Agents, Pitch Your Novel, and Build Your Audience
Claire Gibson
Saturday
May 17
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May 17
Fearless Revisions: Deep Cuts & Big Changes (Nonfiction)
Minda Honey
Saturday
May 17
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May 17
Flash in the Pan: Writing Tiny Stories that Pack a Punch
Cara Lynn Albert
Saturday
May 31
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May 31
Character and Plot: How to Master the Three Act Structure
Mayra Cuevas
Sunday
Jun 1
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Jun 1
Beyond the First Draft: Revising Your Novel With Purpose
Lauren Nossett
Mondays, 4 weeks
Jun 2
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Jun 23
Foundations of Fiction
William Henry Lewis
Mondays, 4 weeks
Jun 2
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Jun 23
Crafting the Personal Essay
Dr. Ernie Reynolds
Tuesdays, 4 weeks
Jun 3
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Jun 24
Truth or Dare: Writing Bold Nonfiction
Cara Lynn Albert
Wednesday
Jun 4
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Jun 4
Using Grief as a Mirror
Alexis Özden
Thursday
Jun 5
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Jun 5
Building Your Journaling Practice
Latonya Moore
Saturdays, 4 weeks
Jun 7
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Jun 28
The Alternative Guide to Publishing: Paths Beyond the Big 5
Lisa Bubert
Monday
Jun 9
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Jun 9
Dread In Bloom: Dissecting Folk Horror Tropes in Ari Aster’s MIDSOMMAR
Jennifer Rumberger
Tuesday
Jun 10
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Jun 10
The Librarian's Guide to Finding Comps
Lisa Bubert
Monday
Jun 16
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Jun 16
The Magic of the Prose Poem
Nathaniel Rosenthalis
Tuesday
Jun 17
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Jun 17
Monster Mash: The Poetry of Monsterhood
CD Eskilson
Thursday
Jun 26
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Jun 26
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