Write With Me

Open-level Creative Writing

So you want to write, but you’re not sure where to begin. These classes are for you.

In these writing groups for women, we engage in some close reading — usually a poem or essay — and use it as a jumping off point for our own personal writing. Write about a place you once traveled to, a cake someone baked for you, an object you brought home from a trip. We then read the work aloud, bear witness to what’s been shared, and offer kind, constructive feedback. These workshops are small, intimate spaces for you to take risks with your writing and for us to read deeply together.

I see these classes as both self-care and collective care, which is especially vital in these isolating times: the deep listening of others' work is just as vital as the attention you pay to your own. I believe that through our time together everyone's writing can become more of what it needs and wants to be, and that each writer can find her voice. I always create an environment of safe risk, and I’d be delighted to play (yes, play!) together.

Writing Workshop

This is a class for students who want to deepen their relationship to writing and to the essay form. Here we delve into issues of craft, voice and structure, and I run this class like an MFA workshop: writers submit work ahead of time and everyone comes to the table ready for a deep discussion about the pieces on hand. What is working? What’s moving me and why? What’s making me laugh or cry or sigh in recognition? And where might this piece grow stronger? At least one round in the Open-level class is required. This class is limited to 6 students.

Upcoming Classes

Writing Retreats

I teach a yearly retreat in October at my home in Los Angeles. For more information, join the waitlist below.

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