Join our mailing list

Get updates on writing, workshops, events, & other literary to-dos.

The Attic Experience

"I was six years out of college when I enrolled in David Biespiel's poetry workshop. I benefited most from the appeal on David's part to return to reading poetry closely and with an effort to engage ourselves as fully as possible. (This was an appeal that was made implicitly, by the very nature of the course, but to which David gave form and force, perpective and levity.)"

2010 Survey Respondent

Read this book!

"Finally an anti-bullsh*t book on creativity." ~ James Marcus, Deputy Editor, Harper's Magazine

"Important reading." ~ The Oregonian

"Does for the creative process what Strunk and White did for...grammar and style." ~ Marjorie Sandor, former president of AWP

Learn more

Atheneum Class of 2011

ATHENEUM CLASS OF 2011

September 2010 - June 2011

Poetry
Ron Bloodworth
Jodie Marion
Michael Wynn
Elizabeth Flint-Somerville

Fiction
Wayne Gregory
Michael Royce
Rajesh Varmae
Adrienna Ogin

Non Fiction
Jessica Byers
Mary Mandeville
Lisa Loving
Stacy Bolt

Faculty for the Atheneum class of 2011: David Biespiel, Paulann Petersen, Merridawn Duckler, G. Xavier Robillard, Karen Karbo, and Cheryl Strayed.

Classes


A free private consultation about your writing
Atheneum at the Attic Institute \| Application Deadline: May 30
Hawthorne Fellows at the Attic Institute \| Write. Edit. Publish.
Individual Consult Group (ICG) at the Attic Institute
Literary Therapy
Talk to Write: Let NPR's Emily Harris help you find your writing mojo
February 20 - March 19 \| Fiction Workshop \| Greg Robillard
February 20 - March 19 \| Reflective Writing Memoir Technique Workshop \| Jennifer Lauck
February 20 - March 19 \| The Music of Poetry: An Exploration of Prosody \| John Morrison
February 23 - March 22 \| More Radical Redrafting \| Matthew Dickman (FULL - WAIT LIST ONLY)
February 23 - March 22 \| Writing Narratives: Explorations of Voice \| Vanessa Veselka
March 7 - April 4 \| Sexy on the Page: Writing and Editing Stories of Sex and Romance \| Shanna Germain
March 7 - May 16 \| Travel Writing \| Martha Gies
March 16-18 \| 2nd Annual Creative Renewal Weekend at the Historic Balch Hotel \| David Biespiel
April 1 - May 20 \| The Craft of Memoir \| Jennifer Lauck
Free Workshop \| April 9 \| Poets! Read to Revise! \| David Biespiel
Free Workshop \| April 9 \| Seven Steps to Scene \| Jennifer Lauck \| FULL - WAIT LIST ONLY
Free Workshop \| April 10 \| Blind Spots and Bad Ideas \| Vanessa Veselka \| FULL - WAIT LIST ONLY
Free Workshop \| April 10 \| How To Know What You Write \| Peter Zuckerman
Free Workshop \| April 10 \| Subject, Object, Reader, Self \| Merridawn Duckler
Free Workshop \| April 11 \| FLASH! Capture Big Stories in under 1,000 Words \| Liz Prato \| FULL - WAIT LIST ONLY
Free Workshop \| April 11 \| Not a Bad Sonnet \| John Morrison
Free Workshop \| April 11 \| Secrets of Successful Dialogue \| Shanna Germain
Free Workshop \| April 12 \| Go to the Source: Art and Science of Finding and Interviewing Experts \| Elizabeth Rusch
Free Workshop \| April 12 \| Triggering the Flow \| Dave Jarecki
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 16 - June 4 \| Poetry By the Book \| David Biespiel
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 16 - May 14 \| Craft the Spiritual Essay \| Jennifer Lauck
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 16 - May 14 \| How to Write a Kick-A@# Scene \| Jennifer Lauck
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 16 - May 14 \| Reboot Your Spec-Fic Book \| Shanna Germain
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 17 - May 15 \| Chapter 1: Getting Your Book Started \| Peter Zuckerman
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 17 - May 15 \| Fiction and Form \| Merridawn Duckler
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 17 - May 15 \| Write for Oregon ArtsWatch \| Barry Johnson
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 18 - May 16 \| Publish Now: From Book Reviews to Smart Blogs \| Jeff Baker
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 18 - May 16 \| Subscription Package: Poetry's Potent, Open, Magic Forms \| John Morrison
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 18 - May 9 \| Subscription Package: Narrator, Backstory, Shake It Up, Blues \| Liz Prato
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 18 \| Narrator, Tell Me Everything You Know. Please. \| Liz Prato
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 18 \| Poetry: The Aubade \| John Morrison
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 19 - May 17 \| The Language of Your Life \| Vanessa Veselka
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 19 - May 17 \| Writing the Young Adult Novel \| Kerry Cohen
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 19 - May 17 \| Writing Without Restriction \| Vanessa Veselka
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 19 - May 31 \| Write a Book Proposal \| Elizabeth Rusch
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 21 - June 9 \| Time to Write and Workshop Your Poems \| Dave Jarecki and John Morrison
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 21 - May 19 \| Create Writing Time in Your Life \| Dave Jarecki
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 25 \| Poetry: The Letter Poem \| John Morrison
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| April 25 \| What's the Story with Backstory? \| Liz Prato
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| May 2 \| Poetry: The Ode \| John Morrison
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| May 2 \| Shake It Up: Using Nonlinear Forms to Enliven Your Writing \| Liz Prato
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| May 9 \| Poetry: The List Poem \| John Morrison
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| May 9 \| Reading Like a Writer: "Sonny’s Blues" and "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" \| Liz Prato
Spring Fling Festival for Writers \| May 16 \| Poetry: The Elegy \| John Morrison