Upcoming Workshops
These writing workshops are designed to help you sustain your writing practice, develop fruitful habits, and grow with your projects. While feedback and thoughtful engagement with each others' work are central to the model, the aim of these classes is to create a space of consistency, accountability, and community that helps you prioritize your writing in the midst of busyness and distraction.
September–December 2025 (Mondays)
What is the collective noun for writers?
A misery? A procrastination? An angst?
What if it could be different?
This fall I'm offering a 4-month Writers' Lab for a small group of writers who want to write and learn and grow in their craft. Through generative exercises, craft discussions, and two cycles of workshop, we'll focus on the work—both how to make it and how to sustain it.
Whether you're looking for structure to help writing happen consistently, or you’re deep in a novel and think you may never finish it, or applying to MFA programs, or simply want to connect with others who are engaged in this difficult and ennobling creative practice, the class will be a space where writers can grow in their work through guidance by me and community with each other.
You don't have to write alone. In fact, no book is written alone. Perhaps the best collective noun for writers is simply: an inspiration.
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In Progress & Completed Workshops
Spring Fiction Incubator with Ted Thompson
January–April 2024 (Mondays or Tuesdays)
This online workshop, taught by me, is designed to be an intimate and supportive space for writers who are looking for the deadlines, structure, and community to help them prioritize writing among the busyness of daily life. Produce up to 100 new pages of fiction, while engaging in discussion and community with an intimate group of fellow writers.
Fall Workshop with Ted Thompson
September 2022–December 2022 (Tuesdays)
This workshop meets online weekly from September to December 2022. Limited to ten writers, this class will provide two opportunities to submit new writing, including one session dedicated solely to discussing your project up to 50 pages of work from it. It will also give ample chances to connect with other writers and share the joys and difficulties of your writing practice. You'll leave with creative momentum and a strong sense of where to go with your projects moving forward.
April–May 2022 (Tuesdays)
This workshop meets online weekly in April and May 2022. Jumpstart and invigorate your writing with thoughtful and careful reading of your peers' work and snappy deadlines for your own projects. You'll leave with a burst of creative momentum and a strong sense of where to go with your projects moving forward. Limited to eight writers, this class will provide the opportunity to submit new writing (up to 20 pages) two times in a relatively short period.
4-Month Long Haul Workshop with Ted Thompson
October 2021–January 2022 (Thursdays)
This workshop meets online weekly from September to December 2021. Limited to ten writers, this class will provide two opportunities to submit new writing, including one session dedicated solely to discussing your project and published work that inspired or relates to it. It will also give ample chances to discuss each others' work and share the joys and difficulties of your writing practice. Ideally, you'll leave with creative momentum and a strong sense of where to go with your projects moving forward.
7-Month Long Haul Workshop with Ted Thompson
September 2021–March 2022 (Tuesdays)
This workshop meets online weekly from September 2021 through March 2022. Limited to ten writers, this class will provide ample opportunities to submit new writing, respond to fellow writers, discuss published work that inspires you, and share the joys and difficulties of your writing practice. Ideally, you'll leave with a robust collection of new material, and a transformed relationship to your work moving forward.