2026 Online Programs
The Heart of It’s online programming supports both branches of our mission to pay teaching artists and writers and offer high-quality, low and no-cost educational and creative space for writers, readers, and organizers.
A 2026 Season Pass gives you access to all 13 workshops in our Spring catalog.
Once you purchase a season pass, you will receive calendar invites, reminders, resources, and recordings for every workshop.
Each workshop has a cap of 35 attendees, however, Season Pass holders will get a guaranteed spot in the event a workshop sells out.
Season passes are limited. Click here for the full schedule of workshops.
Workshop Description: In this workshop we will consider biomythography as a genre, looking at different definitions and examples, asking the questions Who is it for? What is its purpose? Who has the right to use it? How does it affect us? We’ll work closely with excerpts from Saidiya Hartman's essay 'Venus in Two Acts', Ocean Vuong's novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Sabrin Hasbun’s memoir Crossing and Lola Olufemi's Experiments in Imagining Otherwise, exploring the idea that biomythography can be utilised as a method of resistance writing by those with marginalised identities, as a way of exercising agency and challenging ‘master’ narratives. We will consider the significance of the method as a queer process; one that resists the colonial binary categorisation of fiction or fact. Participants will then be introduced to four key processes for writing biomythography – retrieving; rerouting; reflexivity and recovery – and encouraged to experiment with these processes while rewriting (auto)biographical scenes.
About the Teaching Artist: Zosia Crosse is a queer, working-class writer, from Bristol, UK, the proud progeny of Polish refugees and Lancashire labourers. She writes fiction, biomythography and poetry. Her PhD explored how writing fiction can process trauma. She has two decades’ teaching experience and recently delivered workshops on how creative writing can decolonize academia at the University of Naples, Italy. Her current research investigates methods of writing for marginalized people. Her poetry has been published by Late Britain Press and her academic work has featured in Writing in Practice journal.
Date: Wednesday, April 15th at 11am PT / 2pm ET
All workshops are two hours long and will be recorded. Recordings will be sent within 7 days of workshop.
Location: Zoom
• Genre: Any/All
• In-Class Writing Lift: Moderate
• Homework: Required
• Workshopping Drafts: Minimal
A note on cost:
The actual cost of the workshop is $45.
There are a select number of discounted spots available for those who cannot pay the full cost, and community caretaker spots are also available for those who would like to support those paying the discounted rate. To learn more about why we use a sliding scale, click here.
If you’re interested in a Season Pass, click here.
ALL TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. PLEASE CHECK YOUR AVAILABILITY CLOSELY BEFORE REGISTERING!
Workshop Description: This hybrid skill share-craft-workshop will begin with Dr. Emily Goldsmith’s anecdotal experience about their explorations of Louisiana Creole identity, and how that led them into academic and archival research. Sometimes scholarship feels mystical, and it was built to feel that way on purpose to historically gate-keep knowledge, but knowledge is for everyone.
You might be interested in this workshop if you’re curious about graduate school. Perhaps, you just enjoy a good rabbit hole. Maybe you want to be an independent researcher from your home, or you may be in process of excavating your family story. Regardless of where you fall, there is something for any curious mind in this workshop!
This session will walk through using databases/search engines, booking free appointments with your local archives, and how you can hybridize your work. In this workshop, you will brainstorm, try your hand at exploring a digital archive, and generate a creative response to an original prompt.
About the Teaching Artist: Dr. Emily M Goldsmith is a queer Louisiana Creole poet originally from South Louisiana. Emily received their PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Southern Mississippi and MFA in Poetry from the University of Kentucky. Emily is an Instructor of English at Louisiana State University. They read poetry for Split Lip Magazine. Their creative work can be found in or forthcoming from Pithead Chapel, Midway Journal, Moist Poetry Journal, The Penn Review, and elsewhere.
This is for the workshop recording only. Upon purchase, you will get the recording emailed to you within 24-48 hours.
Location: Zoom
• Genre: Any/All
• In-Class Writing Lift: Light
• Homework: None
• Workshopping Drafts: Minimal
A note on cost:
The actual cost of the workshop is $45.
There are a select number of discounted spots available for those who cannot pay the full cost, and community caretaker spots are also available for those who would like to support those paying the discounted rate. To learn more about why we use a sliding scale, click here.
If you’re interested in a Season Pass, click here.
ALL TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. PLEASE CHECK YOUR AVAILABILITY CLOSELY BEFORE REGISTERING!
2026 Workshop Recordings
Workshop Description: This workshop will teach poets and creative nonfiction writers how to begin a novel project. We’ll talk practical strategies as well as discuss writing into uncertainty, following the energy, and using our own lives as a jumping-off point for fiction. Writers will leave with an understanding of how to craft a compelling scene and how place, ideas they’re interested in exploring, and character can give rise to plot that propels a book-length project.
About the Teaching Artist: Eryn Sunnolia (she/they) is a second-year MFA student at Rutgers-Camden University, where they also teach writing to undergraduates. Their writing has been published in Electric Literature, River Teeth’s Beautiful Things, HuffPost, Well+Good, Vast Chasm Magazine, TINGE, and others. Their flash essay “Substitute” was recently nominated for Best American Essays 2025, and they are currently working on a novel.
This is for the workshop recording only. Upon purchase, you will get the recording emailed to you within 24-48 hours.
Location: Zoom
• Genre: Any/All
• In-Class Writing Lift: Light
• Homework: None
• Workshopping Drafts: Optional
A note on cost:
The actual cost of the workshop is $45.
There are a select number of discounted spots available for those who cannot pay the full cost, and community caretaker spots are also available for those who would like to support those paying the discounted rate. To learn more about why we use a sliding scale, click here.
If you’re interested in a Season Pass, click here.
ALL TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. PLEASE CHECK YOUR AVAILABILITY CLOSELY BEFORE REGISTERING!
Workshop Description: Labor shapes our relationship to language. From corporate emails to instructions for post-mortem care, we all become familiar with the authority of voices and hierarchies within the workplace. How might we harness those same voices in our creative work? In this course, we will close-read poets like Paul Hlava Ceballos, Monica Sok, Belle Waring, and others to analyze how they use lexicons centered on labor to imbue their poems with an authoritative voice and, in turn, challenge authority and hierarchies. We will examine craft choices made by each poet and apply similar strategies to our own creative work. This discussion will include practical research tips, writing prompts, and ethical considerations regarding the representation of our communities. All levels of experience welcome!
About the Teaching Artist: Alissa M. Barr is a writer and registered nurse. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in West Branch, The Missouri Review, Muzzle Magazine, and elsewhere. She has received scholarships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She is the 2025 runner-up for The Missouri Review's Perkoff Prize. Alissa holds an MFA from Vanderbilt University, where she received the Kathryn Sedberry Poetry Prize.
This is for the workshop recording only. Upon purchase, you will get the recording emailed to you within 24-48 hours.
All workshops are two hours long and will be recorded. Recordings will be sent within 7 days of workshop.
Location: Zoom
• Genre: Any/All
• In-Class Writing Lift: Light
• Homework: Not Required
• Workshopping Drafts: Optional
A note on cost:
The actual cost of the workshop is $45.
There are a select number of discounted spots available for those who cannot pay the full cost, and community caretaker spots are also available for those who would like to support those paying the discounted rate. To learn more about why we use a sliding scale, click here.
If you’re interested in a Season Pass, click here.
ALL TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. PLEASE CHECK YOUR AVAILABILITY CLOSELY BEFORE REGISTERING!
Workshop description: In this dialogue, we’ll discuss questions revolving around neurodivergent writers learning to work in an industry whose foundation is built on archaic, oppressive structures. We’ll chat about executive dysfunction, pathological demand avoidance, rejection sensitivity, as well as various other symptoms and how they affect our ability to thrive in today’s ecosystem as working writers. We'll ponder: how does neurodivergence play into the way a working writer shapes their day-to-day, pays taxes, meets deadlines, applies for grants, queries agents, or self-publishes their work? Through prompts and reflection, we’ll discuss the possibility of creating our own accommodations and advocating for change in the system to better accommodate for all of us.
About the Teaching Artist: Michaela Angemeer (she/they) is a queer neurodivergent Canadian poet who’s passionate about sharing her healing journey and inspiring readers to spend more time with their feelings. They’ve published six collections of poetry, their most recent being Please Look into the Mirror, a book about the mother wound, accountability, relationships and ancestral cycle breaking.
This is for the workshop recording only. Upon purchase, you will get the recording emailed to you within 24-48 hours.
All workshops are two hours long and will be recorded. Recordings will be sent within 7 days of workshop.
Location: Zoom
• Genre: Any/All
• In-Class Writing Lift: Moderate
• Homework: Not Required
• Workshopping Drafts: Minimal
A note on cost:
The actual cost of the workshop is $45.
There are a select number of discounted spots available for those who cannot pay the full cost, and community caretaker spots are also available for those who would like to support those paying the discounted rate. To learn more about why we use a sliding scale, click here.
If you’re interested in a Season Pass, click here.
ALL TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. PLEASE CHECK YOUR AVAILABILITY CLOSELY BEFORE REGISTERING!
Workshop description: From contests to literary agents, the Big 5 to indies, contract negotiations to publicity, the poetry publication landscape can feel like a minefield for an aspiring author to navigate. In this session, participants will gain insight into the process of publishing a poetry manuscript from submission to post-publication and will have the opportunity to ask any questions they might have around publication. All writers and levels of experience are welcome, although this session is specifically geared towards writers who are in the process of writing or submitting a poetry manuscript.
About the Teaching Artist: Ally Ang is the author of Let the Moon Wobble (Alice James Books 2025). A National Endowment for the Arts fellow and MacDowell fellow, Ally’s work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, The Seattle Met, and elsewhere. They co-host Other People’s Poems, a poetry open mic and reading series in Seattle. Find them at allysonang.com or @TheOceanIsGay.
This is for the workshop recording only. Upon purchase, you will get the recording emailed to you within 24-48 hours.
All workshops are two hours long and will be recorded. Recordings will be sent within 7 days of workshop.
Location: Zoom
• Genre: Any/All
• In-Class Writing Lift: None
• Homework: Not Required
• Workshopping Drafts: None
A note on cost:
The actual cost of the workshop is $45.
There are a select number of discounted spots available for those who cannot pay the full cost, and community caretaker spots are also available for those who would like to support those paying the discounted rate. To learn more about why we use a sliding scale, click here.
If you’re interested in a Season Pass, click here.
ALL TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. PLEASE CHECK YOUR AVAILABILITY CLOSELY BEFORE REGISTERING!
Workshop Description: In an age of excess opinions, how can writers craft “hot takes” that are more insightful than inflammatory? Led by poet, essayist, and advocacy journalist Donney Rose, this workshop explores the poetics and precision behind effective social commentary in the digital era. Participants will learn to fuse lyricism, lived experience, and research to create concise, thought-provoking posts that resonate beyond the algorithm. Participants will engage in guided writing prompts and case studies that demonstrate how a sharp social media take can become a pitch, a poem, or a published piece. By the end, participants will leave with strategies for turning online insights into sustainable creative and professional opportunities.
About the Teaching Artist: Donney Rose is a Baton Rouge native, New Orleans-based performance poet, teaching artist, and advocacy journalist. With over two decades on stages and in classrooms, Donney guides others in their creative journeys and brings nuanced perspectives through spoken word and other creative outlets. He’s a past Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow, a 2022 Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist Award recipient in Literary Arts, and a member of the 2025–2026 Artist At Work (AAW) cohort.
This is for the workshop recording only. Upon purchase, you will get the recording emailed to you within 24-48 hours.
All workshops are two hours long and will be recorded. Recordings will be sent within 7 days of workshop.
Location: Zoom
• Genre: Any/All
• In-Class Writing Lift: Light
• Homework: Not Required
• Workshopping Drafts: Optional
A note on cost:
The actual cost of the workshop is $45.
There are a select number of discounted spots available for those who cannot pay the full cost, and community caretaker spots are also available for those who would like to support those paying the discounted rate. To learn more about why we use a sliding scale, click here.
If you’re interested in a Season Pass, click here.
Workshop Description: In this session, participants will have the opportunity to learn the tenants and history of disability justice and how it has shown up in creative non-fiction (CNF). Specifically, we'll discuss the work of Audre Lorde, Alice Wong, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha juxtaposed against pop culture references of disability to stress the importance of these writers and others. In the last portion of the session, students will have time to plan, outline, and/or start writing their own CNF piece that is inspired by any of the texts we discuss. Whether that be inspired by content, form, and/or any aspect, as long as it incorporates the disability justice tenants.
About the Teaching Artist: Leor Feldman (they/he) is a Jewish disabled writer, advocate and facilitator who explores themes of culture, placemaking and the connection between our natural world and the chronically ill, genderqueer/queer body. You can find their work in Humble Pie Lit Journal, South Broadway Press, Hey Alma and The Colorado Sun. Leor currently resides in Conifer, Colorado, yet is often found at community events in Denver.
This is for the workshop recording only. Upon purchase, you will get the recording emailed to you within 24-48 hours.
All workshops are two hours long and will be recorded. Recordings will be sent within 7 days of workshop.
Location: Zoom
• Genre: Creative Non-Fiction
• In-Class Writing Lift: Moderate
• Homework: Not Required
• Workshopping Drafts: Minimal
A note on cost:
The actual cost of the workshop is $45.
There are a select number of discounted spots available for those who cannot pay the full cost, and community caretaker spots are also available for those who would like to support those paying the discounted rate. To learn more about why we use a sliding scale, click here.
If you’re interested in a Season Pass, click here.
ALL TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. PLEASE CHECK YOUR AVAILABILITY CLOSELY BEFORE REGISTERING!
Workshop Description: Our Queer Lineages is a workshop about exploring writing as a form of inheritance, an heirloom for the current and next generations. This workshop includes a generative writing session where we will first discuss what heirlooms and inheritance means to us as well as the importance of documenting our experiences. Together we'll take time to explore how remembrance and imagination can show up in our work to create our own archives. In it, we will take a look at examples of other writer’s works that illustrate these concepts. Then we'll take some time to write our own and share back together.
About the Teaching Artist: Originally raised in the spoken word community of Worcester, MA, Aisha is a 2023 THOI alum and Chicago based cultural worker. As both a queer first generation person, they view writing as a powerful living archive, anticapitalist practice and tool to counter erasure. Aisha is a 2024 Tin House WS alum and the 1st place winner of the 2019 Poetry Iowa Writers poetry contest for social workers. You can connect with them @flower_femme_official on Instagram.
This is for the workshop recording only. Upon purchase, you will get the recording emailed to you within 24-48 hours.
All workshops are two hours long and will be recorded. Recordings will be sent within 7 days of workshop.
Location: Zoom
• Genre: Any/All
• In-Class Writing Lift: Moderate
• Homework: Not Required
• Workshopping Drafts: Minimal
A note on cost:
The actual cost of the workshop is $45.
There are a select number of discounted spots available for those who cannot pay the full cost, and community caretaker spots are also available for those who would like to support those paying the discounted rate. To learn more about why we use a sliding scale, click here.
If you’re interested in a Season Pass, click here.
ALL TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. PLEASE CHECK YOUR AVAILABILITY CLOSELY BEFORE REGISTERING!
Workshop Description: A 60-minute workshop that focuses on the inner work that is necessary for being a responsible artist. We will answer questions such as “How do I decide which parts of my personal life to put in my art?” and “how much is too much truth to tell?” Instructor Ashlee Haze provides attendees with the tools they need to choose courage in their work and to create art that is considerate of both the artist and the audience. This is a Lecture based workshop that will end with a dialogue component.
About the Teaching Artist: Ashlee Haze is a poet and spoken word artist from Atlanta by way of Chicago. She is one of the most accomplished poets in performance poetry and has toured the country performing at over 300 venues and universities. She is the host of the Moderne Renaissance, an educational podcast for creatives and modern thinkers. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Georgia State University and spends her time innovating ways to tell the stories not often told.
This is for the workshop recording only. Upon purchase, you will get the recording emailed to you within 24-48 hours.
All workshops are two hours long and will be recorded. Recordings will be sent within 7 days of workshop.
Location: Zoom
• Genre: Any/All
• In-Class Writing Lift: Light
• Homework: Not Required
• Workshopping Drafts: Optional
A note on cost:
The actual cost of the workshop is $45.
There are a select number of discounted spots available for those who cannot pay the full cost, and community caretaker spots are also available for those who would like to support those paying the discounted rate.To learn more about why we use a sliding scale, click here.
If you’re interested in a Season Pass, click here.
ALL TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. PLEASE CHECK YOUR AVAILABILITY CLOSELY BEFORE REGISTERING!
Workshop Description: This craft talk invites participants to explore how myth, form, and voice can illuminate queer identity in poetry. We’ll closely examine two to three celebrated published poems that engage mythic frameworks to express personal truths. By analyzing the journals that selected these works and discussing what makes them resonate with readers, editors, and fellow poets, participants will gain insight into how imaginative approaches to identity can deepen poetic impact. When we expand creative resonance, we employ precision with power, authenticity, and excitement: this craft talk is for LGBTQ+ writers who are ready to stand out in their submissions.
About the Teaching Artist: Lin Flores is the author of Reflections While Living in Utah (2020), a poetic narrative exploring queerness. Based in Boston, they serve as Admissions Manager at More Than Words, a youth-run bookstore and as the Culture & Events Producer at JustBook-ish, Boston’s radically influenced bookstore. Lin earned their MFA in Poetry from the University of New Orleans. A poetry reader for The Offing, their work appears in the Academy of American Poets among others.
This is for the workshop recording only. Upon purchase, you will get the recording emailed to you within 24-48 hours.
All workshops are two hours long and will be recorded. Recordings will be sent within 7 days of workshop.
Location: Zoom
• Genre: Any/All
• In-Class Writing Lift: Light
• Homework: Not Required
• Workshopping Drafts: Optional
A note on cost:
The actual cost of the workshop is $45.
There are a select number of discounted spots available for those who cannot pay the full cost, and community caretaker spots are also available for those who would like to support those paying the discounted rate. To learn more about why we use a sliding scale, click here.
If you’re interested in a Season Pass, click here.
ALL TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. PLEASE CHECK YOUR AVAILABILITY CLOSELY BEFORE REGISTERING!
Workshop Description: Sub Sesh is all about Strategy, Empowerment, Support, and the How-To of refining your submission process. In this 2-hour session, we’ll slow things down and talk honestly about what it means to share your work—including the sting (or as I call them, the WOMPs) of rejection.
Whether you’re submitting for the first time or ready to refresh your approach, you’ll get practical tools like a Cover Letter Checklist and Submission Tracker Template to help you stay organized and confident. We’ll focus on building a sustainable rhythm, finding your version of readiness, and taking one small step forward. If time allows, we’ll close with a brief Pomodoro-style work session—no pressure, just support and a little momentum to move your poems into the world.
About the Teaching Artist: Talicha J. is a Black queer poet and teaching artist, multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, and Co-Founder of Camp Write Start. She serves as Assistant Managing Editor at Fahmidan Journal and reads for Frontier Poetry and Alternating Current Press. You can read her work at talichajpoetry.com/publications.
This is for the workshop recording only. Upon purchase, you will get the recording emailed to you within 24-48 hours.
All workshops are two hours long and will be recorded. Recordings will be sent within 7 days of workshop.
Location: Zoom
• Genre: Any/All
• In-Class Writing Lift: Moderate
• Homework: Not Required
• Workshopping Drafts: Minimal
A note on cost:
The actual cost of the workshop is $45.
There are a select number of discounted spots available for those who cannot pay the full cost, and community caretaker spots are also available for those who would like to support those paying the discounted rate. To learn more about why we use a sliding scale, click here.
If you’re interested in a Season Pass, click here.
ALL TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. PLEASE CHECK YOUR AVAILABILITY CLOSELY BEFORE REGISTERING!
Workshop Description: It may feel like doomscrolling to seek out contemporary ecological writing, but how can we turn our despair towards necessary work? Primal emotions of devotion and fury, the languages of scientific inquiry and other ancestral ways of knowing, and our unique attunements to local landscapes can all make their way into writing that deals meaningfully with our place in the world. Led from the far edge of the Pacific ocean, this session will set readings from Aotearoa and other islands to discuss the ways writers can build a body of work that navigates our internal lives in collision with external events. Ahead of time, we will read work by Tayi Tibble, Craig Santos Perez, and more. When we gather, we will have a craft conversation and then a generative session to apply the energy of the ideas we’ve exchanged.
About the Teaching Artist: Rebecca Hawkes is a queer painter-poet from Aotearoa New Zealand. Her first book is Meat Lovers (AUP: a Lambda finalist/Laurel prizewinner). She edits Sweet Mammalian, co-edited the climate-poetics anthology No Other Place to Stand, and holds an HZWP MFA and IIML MA. Her poems have won awards from Palette Poetry, Salt Hill, the Hopwoods, and the Academy of American Poets, and are forthcoming in the Threepenny, Georgia, & Missouri Reviews. Her next collection is coming with YesYesBooks and AUP in 2026.
This is for the workshop recording only. Upon purchase, you will get the recording emailed to you within 24-48 hours.
All workshops are two hours long and will be recorded. Recordings will be sent within 7 days of workshop.
Location: Zoom
• Genre: Any/All
• In-Class Writing Lift: Moderate
• Homework: Required
• Workshopping Drafts: Minimal
A note on cost:
The actual cost of the workshop is $45.
There are a select number of discounted spots available for those who cannot pay the full cost, and community caretaker spots are also available for those who would like to support those paying the discounted rate. To learn more about why we use a sliding scale, click here.
If you’re interested in a Season Pass, click here.
ALL TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. PLEASE CHECK YOUR AVAILABILITY CLOSELY BEFORE REGISTERING!