Online Class Writing Classes
Writer as Witness
Explore what it means to be a witness as a writer — to our own lives, to others’ lives, to the natural world, to our nation’s life.
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Events, Classes, and Seminars
Our events, classes, and seminars bring the community together to hear, learn, and discuss the most compelling issues and ideas of our day. We hope you will join us in our community space and bookstore at 716 SE Grand Avenue, Portland, OR, online, and at partnering venues across Portland and Oregon.
Online Class Writing Classes
Creating Vibrant Characters
Writers will work with a variety of prompts and in-class exercises to amplify the character development of their fictional characters.
Online Class Writing Classes
Poetry and Obsession
This online poetry class will focus on the idea of obsession as a driving force for writing poetry - what you, as a poet, are interested in in terms of subject, style, forms, and even research or archival work. We will explore obsession as a poetic concept, and read example poems/poets and interrogate how obsession can be a catalyst for generating writing.
Online Class Writing Classes
Nature Writing Seminar
Throughout this eight week course, students will look at the many ways in which humans are connected to our natural surroundings, both urban and remote. Weather, soil, plants, wildlife, changing systems, and more will all be explored. By delving into the inherent close relationship humans have with the natural world, each student’s path to writing their own stories using the natural world as scaffolding will emerge.
Online Class Writing Classes
Oulipo: Generative Experiments in Constrained Writing
This course is a guide to the spirit and ethos of Oulipo and their collaborative experimental writing approach, designed to free the mind through constraint.
Each session will offer generative prompts and experimental forms for writers to respond to. No prior knowledge or skills required other than a sense of curiosity and a desire to test, try, and experiment with writing.
