Current Offerings
Craft of Personal Essays: Nonfiction Workshop
-Tuesdays Jan 14th-Feb 18th from 6:30-8pm (PST) at the Attic Institute in Portland, OR.
Built to introduce (or reintroduce) the power of the essay to convey personal experience, we’ll spend our time exploring what makes a great personal essay through prompts, discussion, and excerpted readings. Writers should expect to generate new material that can be expanded upon throughout the course and beyond.
-learn more at www.atticinstitute.com.
-Saturdays Jan 18th-Feb 22nd from 10am-12pm (PST) at the Literary Arts in Portland, OR
See it to Believe It: Visual Poetry Workshop
Visual poetry makes imagery literal. At the intersection of written expression and visual art, this hybrid genre explores/subverts/complicates how readers and writers arrive at meaning—it asks us to enter poetry from new angles, to look at language as it exists beyond the stanza. The creative process of visual poetry is also wonderfully playful and can complement any writer’s practice. Over the course of this six-week workshop, writers can expect to generate four new poetry experiments, one complete visual poetry project, and leave the workshop with a working knowledge of this exciting genre.
-learn more at www.literary-arts.org.
-Tuesdays March 4th-April 8th from 6:30-8pm (PST) at the Attic Institute in Portland, OR.
Start Your Memoir: Nonfiction Workshop
Sometimes, starting is the hardest part. Writing about your life can feel impossible, but that is when we rely on our writing communities. This workshop is built for writers interested in developing the beginning of a longer nonfiction project like a memoir or essay collection. Writers will generate material in a thoughtful deadline-driven process, share an opening draft with a supportive audience, and give/receive feedback. Writing prompts and exercises will be provided throughout the course to sharpen your project’s start.
-learn more at www.atticinstitute.com.
Past Offerings
Visual Poetry and Art: Pop-Up Workshop
-Drop-in workshop in the Portland Art Museum as part of the Portland Book Festival in Portland, OR
Time to Write: Prose Workshop
-6-week course at the Attic Institute of Arts & Letters in Portland, OR
Read Like a Writer, Write Like a Writer: Prose Workshop
-5-week course at the Attic Institute of Arts & Letters in Portland, OR
Grief Work: Honoring Sorrow as a Generating Motor
-4 week course at Literary Arts in Portland, OR
Finders, Keepers: Reclaiming Agency Through Erasure & Collage
-4-week course at Literary Arts in Portland, OR
The Why & How of Writing Your Life: An Online Creative Nonfiction Workshop
-5 week online course through the Attic Institute of Arts & Letters in Portland, OR
Discover New Freedom in Writing with Erasure & Collage
-One day intensive at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland, OR
Starting When Stuck: How to Write Through Writer’s Block
-5 week course at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland, OR.
The Joy of Creative Nonfiction
-5 week course at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland, OR
Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Attention to Detail or "Of Thumbs"
-4 week course at the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland, OR.