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.
Sept–December 2026 (Tuesdays)
This fall, build the muscle that writers most need: finishing.
The number one way I have seen writers grow, and quickly, is by finishing drafts and moving forward. But that's easy advice to give and hard to implement. If you are drowning in half-finished drafts, you already know this paradox: the surest way to never finish a story is to try to perfect it too soon. If you're applying to MFA programs this fall, looking to get unblocked, or just trying to improve, this class is for you.
Ray Bradbury claims that for ten years he wrote at least one short story a week. This class is a somewhat audacious attempt to follow the Bradbury model. We will write a new story draft (1000 words minimum) every week for 10 weeks. The drafts can be short, but they have to be complete. And they will be imperfect. That's the point -- to improve together with reps, not with perfection. Then we'll focus on one, and finish it.
Most workshops help you make a piece better. This one helps you get strong enough to write any story you want. Writers' best work is rarely the stuff they spend the most time refining. It usually comes from trusting their own voice and getting out of their own way.
Let's get imperfect this fall.
May–August 2026 (Mondays)
How can you write about anger in a way that doesn’t alienate an audience?
Is it even possible to write stories outside of human consciousness?
What if fabulism and autofiction are actually the same thing?
Over the last few years, I’ve had the opportunity to grow refine the Writer’s Lab, and one thing I love about it is how it harnesses the group’s curiosity about the art of fiction to provide a space for unique craft guidance in a communal setting. Together we explore your craft questions, tackling challenges that are already coming up in your work (and each other’s), then the Lab creates the space to apply solutions. Through generative exercises, craft discussions, and two cycles of workshop, the Lab helps you focus on what is unique about your work—both how to make it and how to sustain it. We build community together and explore other student’s craft challenges that might open new ideas for you.
Whether you're looking for a new accountability structure, are trying to finish a novel, are thinking of 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.
January–August 2026 (Thursdays)
Every novel is its own beast.
Writing and workshopping a novel are like driving blind. No one, least of all you, can tell you if your structure holds, because no one has seen enough to know. This can keep you circling back to rework the opening, again and again, or pause to outline it, or put it away to marinate. Years can go by like this.
What if you could finish a full draft of your novel in 8 months—while getting feedback on what’s alive while you’re writing it?
This class gives you weekly deadlines that keep you moving forward instead of circling back, and the chance to workshop 100 pages—enough that readers can see your narrative arc, understand your vision, and give you feedback on what you're creating, not just a fragment of it. You'll finish a draft in 8 months, with a cohort of writers who will be working alongside you, examining and discussing the problems specific to writing novels, and helping you find the way to your novel’s truest form.
If you’re ready to invest in your book this year, and to prioritize it, this class is for you. It’s time to finish your novel.