Currently Offered
Note: For the writer, the journey from wishful to virtuoso is one whose alchemical transformations occur entirely within a process of work. In our classes we work very hard. Are you ready to work and have you cleared enough time to do every assignment to the best of your ability? That is the question to ask yourself as you consider taking one or another of these courses. Oh, yes, we do have fun. But we groan too, and we work.
June Intensive 2026
Craft work: sound
Theme: Art or the Arts, broadly speaking. (This is for one of the pieces.)
Form: Choose among A/B, titled theme, or abecedarian. (This is for one of the pieces)
Required Books
The Writer’s Portable Mentor, 2nd edition.
Mary Oliver, Blue Pastures.
Susan Muaddi Darraj, Behind You Is the Sea.
Held on ZOOM. We now welcome writers who can’t get to Seattle without driving (or flying) for six hours.
Cost: $410
Six Monday evenings, 7–9. I open the room at 6:30, so come in and chat.
In this seminar we will compose, as usual, two new pieces (can be short fiction or nonfiction) and revise a work-in-progress to completion. We will work on sentences, as we do. We now do all sentence work from week to week. We will also work on five micro (VERY short) pieces in relation to our Here and Now work. Very low bar on these.
Class 1: Monday June 1
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Class 2: Monday June 15
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Class 3: Monday June 29
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Monday July 13
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Monday July 20
Monday July 27
Portfolios due postmarked Monday, September 14, 2026.