In this new ongoing writing lab, writers are invited to map their personal journey on the page. Our goals will include the development of consistent writing practice, building tools that support this daily work, taking on new challenges and prompts, and allowing ourselves to trust our own instincts with our work.

In an experience designed for fans of films like Blade Runner, Ex Machina, and Solaris, this discussion-based class will inspect how sci-fi authors depict the mind and mental identity and the way in which these depictions reflect our conceptions of humanity. We’ll work together to answer questions about human and post-human identities and the technologies that can alter perceptions of both as seen in fiction by Philip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, Mary Shelley, and others.

This collective’s mission is to encourage the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants offer honest, positive, and constructive feedback. Geared to all active duty military, veterans, and their immediate family members, the group is open to writers of all levels working in all genres.

Explore the relationship between personal and environmental/political concerns with award-winning poet Michelle Whitaker. Through applying fresh techniques and generating epistolary poems, or letter poems, participants are invited to share new work that considers an eclecticism of points-of-view and dialogue between human and non-human beings in unexpected and innovative ways. Come away with drafts of poems that challenge and expand your ideas on what an environmental, political, and personal poem can be.

Join award-winning author Barbara Renaud Gonzalez for a  workshop that explores your story as part of the Tricentennial intersection of people in Texas. This online workshop will approach the writing of memoir using diverse genres and approaches, framed by the multicultural, bicultural, languages and history of Texas. Links to excerpts and sources will be provided. 

In this new ongoing writing lab, writers are invited to map their personal journey on the page. Our goals will include the development of consistent writing practice, building tools that support this daily work, taking on new challenges and prompts, and allowing ourselves to trust our own instincts with our work.

In an experience designed for fans of films like Blade Runner, Ex Machina, and Solaris, this discussion-based class will inspect how sci-fi authors depict the mind and mental identity and the way in which these depictions reflect our conceptions of humanity. We’ll work together to answer questions about human and post-human identities and the technologies that can alter perceptions of both as seen in fiction by Philip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, Mary Shelley, and others.

This collective’s mission is to encourage the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants offer honest, positive, and constructive feedback. Geared to all active duty military, veterans, and their immediate family members, the group is open to writers of all levels working in all genres.

Writing is like making a fluffy tortilla, if you aren’t completely present with the process of kneading the masa, the tortilla won’t rise. Join author Anel Flores, and Erika Casasola, Mexican curandera, to enter on a path to more authentic and fulfilling writing practice. More than flipping scene by scene through the writer’s life, their memories, their research, and countless rough drafts, the writing process can also involve exploring memories of childhood, youth, adulthood, or ancestral blood memory. In this workshop, we’ll open up the creative process using the traditional curanderismo (healing) practice of conversation, the “platica.” You’ll come away with a tool bag of ideas for future writing and some suggestions for sharing and submitting your work for publication.  

In this class taught by a master craftsman of both memoir and fiction, you’ll learn how to use the crucial narrative elements of fiction in your nonfiction work. The class will examine the different strategies and structures used to write these "memoirs," and look closely at how scene, dialogue, memory, arc, and voice can converge in writing nonfiction for book-length or magazine work.

From urban to suburban to rural landscapes, the location a person writes about can tell a lot about the writer. This poetry workshop centers on the poetry of place. Through a series of writing exercises and dialogue, participants will craft and share work that reexamines the places they’re from or where they currently reside, the writer’s relationships to said places, and how those places have influenced and continue to influence their voice and narratives.