Pen to Paper is a free online gathering for writers of any level. Each one-hour session includes a short craft lesson and a writing prompt, 30-40 minutes of writing time, and an opportunity for sharing your work. The environment is casual, supportive, and generative—and helps support you in developing a consistent writing practice.

Pen to Paper is a free online gathering for writers of any level. Each one-hour session includes a short craft lesson and a writing prompt, 30-40 minutes of writing time, and an opportunity for sharing your work. The environment is casual, supportive, and generative—and helps support you in developing a consistent writing practice.

Pen to Paper is a free online gathering for writers of any level. Each one-hour session includes a short craft lesson and a writing prompt, 30-40 minutes of writing time, and an opportunity for sharing your work. The environment is casual, supportive, and generative—and helps support you in developing a consistent writing practice.

Pen to Paper is a free online gathering for writers of any level. Each one-hour session includes a short craft lesson and a writing prompt, 30-40 minutes of writing time, and an opportunity for sharing your work. The environment is casual, supportive, and generative—and helps support you in developing a consistent writing practice.

Pen to Paper is a free online gathering for writers of any level. Each one-hour session includes a short craft lesson and a writing prompt, 30-40 minutes of writing time, and an opportunity for sharing your work. The environment is casual, supportive, and generative—and helps support you in developing a consistent writing practice.

Learn to mine your memories for stories that want to be told

Pen to Paper is a free online gathering for writers of any level. Each one-hour session includes a short craft lesson and a writing prompt, 30-40 minutes of writing time, and an opportunity for sharing your work. The environment is casual, supportive, and generative—and helps support you in developing a consistent writing practice.

An evening of reflection on the poems of Mary Oliver, with Kathie Collins

Pen to Paper is a free online gathering for writers of any level. Each one-hour session includes a short craft lesson and a writing prompt, 30-40 minutes of writing time, and an opportunity for sharing your work. The environment is casual, supportive, and generative—and helps support you in developing a consistent writing practice.

Learn basic principles of reading more closely, deeply, and imaginatively, whether you’re reading poetry, fiction, nonfiction, or hybrid forms.

Learn to move beyond your memories into a larger sense of the past

Explore how different story opening styles can change a piece

Learn the alchemies that transmute poems into gold

Opening reception for an exhibition of photography from Litmosphere, Spring 2026

Learn to write poems that transform the autobiographical into the magical

What kind of story are you telling, or where in the bookstore would you find it?

Learn the tools to build your next poem ... or generation of poems

Refine your eye for the narrative "I" in personal essays

Break the journey from concept to first draft into concrete steps

A poetic mythic journey through Goddesses of will, mind, body, heart and spirit, featuring Annie Finch

Introduces key tools of poetic pattern through the perspective of the mythic feminine

Learn how poets create haunting world-building in a brief lyric space

Learn five key tools for building tension and emotional stakes in personal narratives

Jumpstart four new pieces of speculative fiction

Craft a handmade accordion-style book — and learn how to fill it