Current Offerings
Writing from Joy: One Day Intensive
-Saturday, August 16 from 9am-12pm at the Attic Institute
In this three-hour intensive, we will intentionally spend time with joy and investigate how to write from it and write about it. Concentrating on two craft techniques that can reenergize a narrative (and the self), writers will end the morning with new work and thoughtful momentum for whatever creative project awaits.
-learn more and register at www.atticinstitute.com
See it to Believe It: Visual Poetry Workshop
-Sundays, Oct 5-Nov 8 from 10:30am-12:30pm for six weeks at Literary Arts
Visual poetry makes imagery literal. At the intersection of written expression and visual art, this hybrid genre complicates how readers and writers arrive at meaning—it asks us to enter poetry and the image from new angles, to look at language as it exists beyond the stanza. Visual poetry is as expansive as it is playful which can complement any writer’s practice…
-learn more and register at www.literary-arts.org
Past Offerings
Craft of Personal Essays: Nonfiction Workshop
-6-week course at the Attic Institute of Arts & Letters in Portland, OR
See it to Believe It: Visual Poetry Workshop
-6 week course at Literary Arts in Portland, OR
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.