Whether you are an aspiring essayist interested in infusing your work with fresh new possibilities, or a poet who wants to try essay, this course will have room for you to experiment and play.

This class will guide you through crafting a memoir from life’s twists and turns. A collaged approach to memoir composes a narrative through fragments and found items, building a story from many smaller pieces.

In this eight-week course, manageable daily writing assignments will help you break down the task of writing a memoir.

This course will help you expand your writer’s tool kit by experimenting with a variety of structures—everything from straightforward, traditional presentations to offshoots of the lyric essay, such as braids, collages, and “hermit crab” essays.

In this four-week, instructor-guided course, you will explore the elastic quality of the essay form as you delve into the ways metaphor, speculation, and imaginative play can enliven your writing and help you explore your values, fascinations, and imaginings.

A self-guided version of the four-week course exploring metaphor, speculation, and imaginative play.

Five months of generative writing where we will check in about writing goals and I will provide prompts and model readings. We will work together to determine the balance of writing time and sharing/feedback time.

This guided four-week online course is for intermediate to experienced writers of nonfiction who are interested in workshopping an ongoing or new essay project in an online group setting.

This online course is for intermediate to experienced writers of nonfiction—including lyric essay, personal essay, memoir—who are interested in workshopping an ongoing or new essay project in an online group setting.

On the first Saturday of the month for the next three months join us for one, two, or all three of our three-hour online generative writing retreats aimed at helping writers get at the heart of a writing project—or discover the seed of a new one!

My style of tarot is less about prophesying and more about helping you think through a current situation and the internal & external forces you may be negotiating.

In this four-week online workshop, you will generate short passages of creative nonfiction inspired by your life as we work on accessing creative flow and reconnecting with the wonder and joy of a life lived as creative witness.

Let's write together! In this two-day Zoom retreat, we will generate material for essays, poems, or flash fiction. Using models from a variety of genres, as well as visual art, we will spend two afternoons writing.

In this course, we’ll read contemporary poems together with the goals of feeling more comfortable entering into discussion about poems; broadening our exposure to contemporary poetry; and adding the richness to our lives in the ways available through poetry.

Based on series of virtual talks about witness, personal meaning, and the creative life, this course includes pre-recorded talks by three authors, selected works by each guest, writing prompts, suggested readings, and a community space to post and discuss writing.

Self-Guided. Capture the absurd or surreal quality of everyday life and tell a meaningful story in as few words as possible.

Choose from two different coaching packages to join Joanna’s current cohort of coaching clients.

This self-paced course includes four weeks' worth of lessons, including prompts, lecture materials in written and video form, and readings.

A Halloween-inflected workshop on prose poems in which we’ll discuss models for poems that move “between worlds” and write our own!.

Read and write lyric essays using techniques such as juxtaposition; collage; white space; attention to sound; and loose, associative thinking.

A 5-week introduction to the techniques, tools, and use of research in creative writing, open to all genres.Description goes here