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The Finish Line

May 1 - June 18, 2025, Thursdays, 12:00-2:00 p.m. (eight sessions)

$425

This eight-week class is focused on helping each writer push one story, essay, or poem through the drafting and revision stages and over the finish line. We’ll meet weekly to share accountability updates, read some work-in-progress with the group, set or revise goals for your weekly writing practice, and share successes and challenges with fellow writers. You’ll also learn strategies for keeping focused and staying on track. Occasional outside readings for discussion. This is not a workshop or feedback-based class. Worked shared with be about listening to each other’s voices and having a consistent deadline to meet on a weekly basis. All genres welcome.

Access Program
We want our writing classes and seminars to be accessible to everyone, regardless of income and background. We understand that our tuition structure can present obstacles for some people. Our Access Program offers writing class and seminar tuitions at a reduced rate. Most writing classes have at least one access spot available.

Please apply here for access rate tuition. Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org if you have questions.

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Margaret Malone

Margaret Malone

Margaret Malone is the host of PAM CUT’s Movie Book Club, the literary radio show Bust the Canon on xray.fm, and author of the story collection People Like You, a Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction & Winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize, and selected by Powell’s as one of the Northwest’s “25 Books to Read Before You Die."
Margaret lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two children, where she mentors established and emerging writers of all genres on their individual projects in person and online. Reach out sometime to say hello at margaretmalone.com. The recipient of grants, fellowships, and residencies from MacDowell, the Ucross Foundation, Ford Family Foundation, Sitka Center, Literary Arts and others, she’s been working hard lately at being more flinty and unreasonable in daily life. She’s also in the death throes of completing a novel.
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