09/09/2026
You know the feeling…you’ve been writing for years, filling pages, following the pen, letting the words come. And somewhere in those pages, there’s something. A story that wants more shape, a line that wants to become a poem.
This fall, we are offering two eight-week workshops built for the moment where you’re ready to take what’s raw and make it into something finished.
➡ One Small, True Thing: Beginning Memoir, with Tanya Shaffer
An introduction to shaping a short piece of memoir (up to 2000 words), with craft discussion, in-class writing, and structured feedback, for both newcomers to the form and experienced writers looking to go deeper. Over the course of eight weeks, Tanya will introduce you to a variety of shapes a memoir piece can take and walk you through the elements that make a story feel whole, including constructing a compelling central character on the page (usually a version of yourself); taking that character through a process of transformation, whether large or small; and selecting the key details that bring the story to life for the reader.
Learn more about One Small, True Thing here :: https://27powers.org/one-true-thing/
➡ From Wild Writing to Finished Poem, with Susan Vespoli
For the writer who suspects poems are hiding in their journal pages. Susan, the author of four poetry collections, built this class around her own process: writing wild then finding and shaping the poems from the raw words. Eight weeks of live Zoom writing sessions, weekly prompts (image poems, sensory poems, haiku, and more), and space to workshop your drafts on Wet Ink.
Learn more about Wild Writing to Finished Poem :: https://27powers.org/from-wild-writing-to-finished-poem/
Both are small groups, both meet weekly, and both are designed to take you from the page you already have to the piece you didn't know you were ready to write.
Hope to see you soon!
