Seattle-based Writer, Author, Poet, Writing Teacher
EVENTS 2024

Writing Courses 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.

Winter Seminar 2025
This class is closed.

Held on ZOOM. We now welcome writers who can’t get to Seattle without driving (or flying) for six hours.

Six Monday afternoons. Cost  $410. Held from 1-3 pm Pacific Time. Zoom opens at 12:30 for conferring and chatting.   I send the link shortly before class and am available on Zoom at 12:30.

 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.

The portfolios (three pieces plus the List of Works) are due postmarked on Monday May 19, 2025.

Form: You may choose a form. It must be named. Possibilities: abecedarian, diptych or triptych, enumeration, titled theme, A/B. Or another.
Theme: Place.
Craft Focus: metaphor.
Required books:
The Writer’s Portable Mentor, second edition.
Two Books:
1. Ira Sukrungruang, Southside Buddhist
2. jhumpa Lahiri, Roman Stories
3. One or two model pieces brought by Priscilla
We will meet:
Class 1: Monday January 6 2025, 1–3 p.m.
Class 2: Monday January 13, 2025,  1–3 p.m.
Skip Jan 20 (MLKing Day, Inauguration Day)
Class 3: Monday January 27, 2025, 1–3 p.m.
Skip February 3
Class 4: Monday February 10, 2025, 1–3 p.m.
Skip February 17
Class 5: Monday February 24, 2025, 1–3 p.m.
Skip March 3, 2025
Class 6: Monday March 10, 2025, 1–3 p.m.