Begins 4/19

In this workshop, Monica Prince, choreopoem scholar and creator, will lead participants through a series of exercises to write their own choreopoems. In addition to learning the choreopoem's historical context and contemporary uses, participants will discover principles of Black theatre, performance theory, and poetic forms to inform their work.

5/18

In this FREE webinar/info session, come meet us, find out more about who we are, the classes we offer, our ethos, teaching with us, and our amazing community.

Get your questions answered and come meet other like-minded folx hear from some of our current students and see what sets us apart from other writing centers.

Begins 6/2

This class bridges concepts of a Sangha (spiritual community) and a writing circle. The collective holds what we need not hold alone, while we birth what we need not birth alone. We will practice writing, releasing, and catching poems in conversation with the spirit beneath the words, the spirit of things, and the divine energy all around us. 

6/28

In this free webinar, we will discuss how to dive into the depths of the darkest parts of our humanity to emerge with/forge/make complex characters that feel authentic, alive, and vibrating with energy. How do you draw from or borrow or fictionalization personal experience in service of alchemy without retraumatizing or reopening our most deeply held wounds?

Begins May 11

Affectionately called “Embers” - this new expansion of Embodied Narratives Program is geared toward generation. This thirteen week workshop meets weekly on Wednesday nights, beginning with a week of introductions and co-working, followed by two people bringing in seven pages of new material each week for four rounds. The goal is to write as much as you can over the course of our time together.

Begins May 21

Embodied Narratives fuses the core ethos of Where We Come From: Ethnoautobiography - decolonized, anti-racist approaches to writing in community and applies it to an anti-MFA/anti-traditional workshop and critique model of how feedback is given while working on book-length works in progress.

Begins 6/1

You have stories to tell—now it’s time to bring them to life on stage. Whether you're a writer exploring playwriting for the first time or an actor ready to create your own work, this workshop will guide you through the process of crafting dynamic, layered plays.

7/12 at 12pm PST

A workshop for the lost, the doldrum-mired, the mojo-deficient.

Using innovative exercises and delicate extraction, Katharine will find wordcraft (prose, poetry, whatnot) hiding, muffled, or cloaked in your mind. Jump-start your writing practice!

Begins 7/24

In this intentional weekly space, we will consider what it means to document in the practice of composing poetry, and study the various ways that contemporary writers and literary artists draw upon source materials to create forms exigent to their subject matter.

9/7

Fall is the essence of liminality: ripening, change, preservation, protection, comfort, balance, letting go. With less daylight, we are invited into more mystery. Leaves change color; so, too, we shapeshift to adapt to our physiological needs. Less planting, more harvest. Less distress, more rest. Less toil, more joy-l. :)

As Brontë Velez invokes, “How can I be useless to capitalism?” Could Fall be an invitation to labor less?

Begins Sept 2025

This course will help you develop strategies to shout down your inner perfectionist and work, creatively, without fear - fear of failure, fear of success, fear of doing something or anything wrong. If you don’t want to do something unless you do it flawlessly, this class is for you. Asynchronous with no video component, writers of all levels and stripes are welcome. We’ll read, write, and do exercises for the mind, body, spirit, and creative heart.

Beginning Fall 2025

We have to co-create a better, fuller story of who we are. When we speak or write the stories of how our ancestors were harmed or harmed others, we clear the way for justice in the present. When we tell the truth about the past, we move towards the possibility for healing and repair.

12/7

The Holiday season can be stressful even at the best of times. For many of us, the holiday season also brings a swell of grief, isolation, anxiety, and depression. But ESPECIALLY for those of us who live with chronic illness.

After Turkey Day and before the big nexus of Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, come write, vent, get loved on, and feel seen and heard in the Holiday Edition of To Exist is To Flare.

Dates Coming Soon

Using our deepest experiences to tell compelling stories of hope and wholeness for young people. In this workshop, we will explore how we can write fictional stories for young people that come from the most authentic  places in our lives. Through discussion, writing exercises, and collaboration, we will learn about how Middle Grade and YA fiction can make an impact in the world, and why your story is one worth telling.

Dates Coming Soon

We love to write except when we hate it, right? Sometimes writing can feel uniquely depleting. Well, guess what? Habit science says it is! It’s not just you.

Find out how to set yourself up for success, avoid burnout, and get it done. We’ll myth bust, establish tools and terminology for reliable self-assessments, and get diagrams and trackers that reveal the machinery of our existing writing habits as we rework them. Chuck that “all or nothing” thinking for a process you can count on.

Dates Coming Soon

In this course, you'll be introduced to the understanding of Coolness from this perspective, as you create short scenes, characters, as well as engage in games designed to make the creation process enjoyable, light, and effective. The class meets in four 2-hour sessions virtually. By the end, the goal is for participants to have a new or renewed sense of "rhyme and reason" for their own creative works and journeys.