“I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It’s a new vision of something. It means you don’t have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!”  — Naomi Shihab Nye Join Rachel Gabriel for a three-hour workshop on the often misunderstood tool of revision. Together, we will give new vision to your…

Contrary to popular belief, a short story isn’t simply a short version of a novel or a long piece of flash fiction. The short story is its own art form with its own nuance and emphasis. Edgar Allen Poe spoke of the form as providing “a single and unique effect” and believed that every word…

Discover how to transform lived experience into powerful, resonant nonfiction. This immersive five-day intensive invites you to explore the heart and craft of memoir. Through a blend of instruction, generative writing, and guided revision, you’ll learn to shape compelling true stories. We’ll examine core elements of craft and use them in unique ways to build…

Dialogue is so important to the scenes we write, whether in a screenplay or a short story. It can communicate the tone of the story, move the plot forward, express important information, reveal insights into our characters, and make the world come to life. In this session, we’ll learn about the different roles dialogue can…

The ekphrastic practices traditionally feature a writer, usually a poet, using the artistic experience of viewing a piece of visual art as a starting point for their writing, often beginning with description. Teaching artist Linda Michel-Cassidy is interested in working with a more expansive notion, i.e., those conversations moving back and forth between a wider…

Friday-only registration for Writing On The Door. Friday’s sessions include: Panel Discussion: Our Writing Life with Eric Diekhans, Roland Jackson, Tiffany Rodriquez-Lee, and Angie Trudell Vasquez Morning breakout sessions with Erice Diekhans (beginner), Roland Jackson (prose), Angie Trudell Vasquez (poetry) and Chris Fishbach (career) Panel Discussion: Our Books’ Journeys with Steven Espada Dawson, Marianne Fons,…

Saturday-only registration for Writing On The Door. Saturday’s sessions include: Keynote with Kathleen Rooney Morning breakout sessions with Tamara Dean (beginner), Tina Jenkins Bell (prose), Kyle Tran Myhre (poetry), and Marianne Fons (career) Panel Discussion: Katie Dublinski, Chris Fishbach, and Kathleen Rooney Afternoon breakout sessions with Tiffany Rodriquez-Lee (beginner), Martin Seay (prose), Catherine Jagoe (poetry),…

Join the editors of The Long and Short of It literary journal for a short discussion bollowed by a generative workshop and unique publishing opportunity. What is Vocation of Location? It can be many things, but those answers tend to be personal and wide-ranging. Yet a sense of place can hold immense meaning within writing…

Memoirist Mary Karr asks, “What would you write if you weren’t afraid?” Implicit in the question is that we’re all afraid of writing something. But what? And why? Join nonfiction writer B.J. Hollars for a conversation on writing within–and through–the complexities of our lives. How can we write toward our deeper truths, and how can…

In fiction, we usually think it’s all about making stuff up, while in non-fiction it’s all about the facts and just the facts. But when we think about writing non-fiction, is that really the case or are the worlds of fiction and non-fiction really all that far apart? What are effective ways we can utilize the…