Upcoming Classes

  • Lighthouse LitFest: Research As Writerly Practice (online)

    An online class taught through Lighthouse Writers’ Annual LitFest:

    Friday June 7, 2024 9:00am - 11:00am MDT

    Are you working on a nonfiction project? The myth of artistic genius often suggests that inspiration is mainlined from the heavens and that one's imagination is the only creative source. And yet, it's often an inquiry into the world outside of ourselves that offers the most potent inspiration. How can research serve as a generative practice and a portal to the written word? This seminar will support nonfiction writers in incorporating rich factual inquiry into current or future nonfiction projects, rendering research into luminous prose, and creating a research roadmap moving forward.

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  • Lighthouse LitFest: Deep Revision - A Two Day Intensive On Using the Revision Process to Fall in Love with Your Work Again

    An online, 2-Day Intensive taught through Lighthouse Writers’ Annual LitFest

    Monday June 10, 2024 & Tuesday, June 1th, 4:00pm - 7:00pm MDT

    It's easy to get stuck on a draft and not know where to go next—or even to despair that there's nowhere else to go. Revision, though, can be less of a dutiful task and more of an alchemical process of discovery that helps us bring our writing back to life and ourselves along with it. Through a combination of readings, exercises, and discussions, this course will offer insight and strategies toward revision that help writers better understand their own work and what they are trying to do—and that can help them fall back in love with their projects.

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  • Structure from Chaos: A Two-Day Virtual Class on Making Shape and Finding Our Way Through Longform Nonfiction Projects

    This class sold out. Stay tuned for future reboot, likely in the fall.

    Two Classes: Sunday, April 7th & Sunday, April 14th

    10:00-12:30 PST / 11:00 - 1:30 MST / 12:00 - 2:30 CST / 1:00-3:30 EST

    The beginning stages of a writing project can feel like an ecstatic mess: all possibility and promise. Ordering the mess is often the hardest work there is. In this class, which will meet twice, we’ll look at various strategies and methods for developing a structure for longform nonfiction projects .

    Cost: $110

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