Mondays, 10:30am - 12pm (Pacific Time), Nov 16 - Dec 21 | ZOOM

Have you set your novel aside for years but it keeps tugging you back to it? Keep thinking about a short story that’s been sitting in your drafts folder for a decade? This course is dedicated to reviving old works through deep re-visioning. We’ll strive to identify what it is about the work that keeps calling you back to it and thinking outside of the piece’s original shape to find the form that truly tells it. This may mean radically changing the story’s structure or even taking what resonates–the characters, a setting, an event–and placing it in an entirely different premise. This course isn’t for putting a bit of polish on the sentences before submitting the story. It’s for taking the work apart, rewriting it, and putting it all together in a different shape. This course will focus on participant’s projects through frequent discussion and workshopping up to 20 pages each.

Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm (Pacific Time), Sep 8 - Oct 13 | ZOOM

In this generative workshop we will reimagine our losses and bring light to the shadows. This creative exploration provides moments of great joy and connection. It is so satisfying to interrupt the stubborn "arrangements" in our psyches that are not serving us well. Writing consciously about grief has the potential to stir greater compassion for ourselves and others. You can expect to discover new threads in your work that inspire and energize fresh creative commitments and old dormant intentions.

Ed Sage’s poetry and nonfiction have been published in ZYZZYVA, The Portland Review, The Ponder Review, Plainsongs, BULL Lit, The Passionfruit Review, Hare’s Paw Literary Journal, among others.

Wednesdays, 10 - 11:30am, Sep 23 - Oct 28 | ZOOM

"Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention." ~ Howard Rheingold

Writing in the age of distraction and dire news often requires a Herculean effort to stay focused. What does it mean to reclaim our attention and what kind of revolutions can we mount with a pen, a notebook and renewed focus?  In this workshop we’ll pay attention to what we pay attention to, retool our writing practices and cultivate the concentration needed to do deep work. Each week you’ll be offered one Reading and one Action to complete, as well as a writing prompt. In class you’ll have a chance to report your observations and experience.