Writing Classes in San Francisco, CA

Have you always wanted to start a blog, or do you have one that needs some direction? This workshop will provide you with a toolkit to create, maintain, promote, and drive traffic to your blog. You will get tips for which blogging platforms and content management systems to use, what kind of layout and content works best for online audiences, how...

Building on the Basics: How to Take Your Blog to the Next Level Do you want to take your blog to the next level? This advanced blogging class will provide you with tips and techniques to enhance, promote, and monetise your blog. You’ll receive expert advice on how to drive more traffic to your blog, build lasting partnerships, and generate revenue....

We want to connect with the world. We want to share the life that is inside us. We want to write poetry and prose that speaks the truth and moves the reader. But where do we start? There’s a voice within all of us wanting to find its place in the world. The concepts and techniques in the Jack Grapes METHOD WRITING Program will lead you step by step,...

Creative Exploration and Expansion: In this series of classes we will do various exercises about creative expansion and artistic self-discovery. We will experiment with techniques such as drawing, painting, writing, and creating mandalas in an intuitive way. As an instructor, my goal is to create a safe space for everyone to explore, use...

Crafting Content Ideas: How to Create Stories Your Audience Will Love In modern business, everyone is a publisher. Whether you're a freelancer, a growing startup or an established enterprise – quality content gives you an opportunity establish your credentials and build a meaningful relationship with your audience. You could be publishing your own...

Build your blogging prowess with this practical workshop. Blogging is very popular with businesses, entrepreneurs, creatives and individuals alike because it allows you to express yourself, educate customers, sell a message and share your knowledge. The beauty today is that you can use words, photographs, videos and even podcasts to be found and...

After a year or more at home, more time at the computer, with less touch and physical contact with others, let’s get back into our bodies. This new online workshop is specially designed for both writers and dancers.  Artists will be guided through exercises to tune in to each of the senses, to practice articulating physical and emotional sensations...

Corporate strategy execution depends upon developing and implementing the best solution in the workplace. Success factors however, rely upon basing the solution on the right requirements, drawn from a sound and robust Business Case. A well crafted business case document outlines the rationale for undertaking a business project. It should be a formal,...

In this four week intensive we’ll be studying queer poetry and poetics while working on our own poems. Queer here meaning both LGBTQIA , as well as unfixed (both meanings), as well as strange and poetics here meaning the study and theory of writing. To that end we’ll be looking at poems and essays from historical and contemporary queer writers...

Face-to-face conversations give you an increasingly rare opportunity: the chance to use all your communication skills to influence someone. Whether in person or online, you have the chance to build a relationship rather than just push information. Challenge & Solution Many of us lead or participate in meetings with one question in mind...

Writing a memoir can seem daunting. What do I keep in? How much of my life should it encapsulate? Perhaps you are already working on a memoir but are stuck on how to proceed.  A memoir is not the same as an autobiography and that should alleviate some of your feelings of being overwhelmed.  In this 4-week course, you will learn exactly what...

Do you struggle to write web pages, emails, blogs and other digital copy that capture and hold attention? Are you having trouble convincing online visitors and leads to say “Yes!” at the final step? Well here’s some invigorating news. You don’t need to be a pro copywriter to convert the curious into customers. The key to writing web copy that...

In times of injustice and unrest, it is the work of the poet to incite change. To make revolutionary art is to take responsibility for reality. Every craft has a tether of social orientation. We do well to tie the development of our craft to the liberation of all people. In so doing, we relax into the potential of art to be an absolutely humanizing...

How to Start A Reading Series IMPRESARIO WORKSHOP 101 is a two-day, six-hour workshop designed to help producers establish the basic model for a literary reading/performance series, including steps for establishing the series, planning out the basic programming for the series, maintaining the series and even growing the series into a larger phenomenon. ...

Have you fantasized about seeing a story of yours published in Zyzzyva? Award-winning writer, Dominica Phetteplace will give you the resources, structure, and inspiration to hustle your work effectively into a literary magazine, and she’ll take the pain out of the submission process. In this 1-day publishing workshop in San Francisco, she will even...