Workshops and Seminars

Generate writing, hone craft and skills, practice literary analysis

Generative writing or skills-based writing workshops

  • Individual sessions of approximately 1 - 3 hours

  • Multiple 1 - 2 hour meetings over the course of several weeks.

Literature classes. Analysis without the final paper.

  • More advanced discussions than the local bookclub; less work than a college-level class.

Upcoming workshops will be posted on this page and in the events section.

Past workshops:

TALISMANIA:

a word/play in four acts

Event poster for Talismania, a literary performance with words and play in four acts, scheduled on October 18 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Tacoma, featuring Jenni Prange Boran and Heather Monyer. The poster includes illustrations of a coffee cup with floating planets, flowers, a frog perched on a cylindrical object, and an illustrated pig, with logos of City of Tacoma and Tacoma Creates.

Presented by Creative Colloquy’s
The Writer’s Workshop Series

A workshop for writers, performers, pretenders, and other practitioners of make-believe play.

with Jenni Prange Boran

It’s writing. It’s theater. It’s art that inspires more art.

October 18, 2025
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Tacoma, WA

See details

Creative Colloquy’s Writer’s Workshop Series

The Spoken and the Unspoken: Making Your Dialogue Sing

University of Puget Sound

Writing, Publishing, & Research

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Deep South Reading Series

Small Press Publishing

Bowling Green State University, Winter Wheat Festival of Writing (multiple years)

TransGenre: Beyond Fiction and Nonfiction (A Look at Film & Writing

Agape-philia: Collaboration and Creative Process, with Amanda Marbais and Robin Morrissey

Northwestern University Summer Writers’ Conference (multiple years)

Genre-Bending Fiction

Insta-React: Nonfiction (Manuscript/idea evaluations as a nonfiction editor)

 The Newberry Library Seminars

The Postmodern Fairy Tale: Rewriting Childhood Stories (8-week course)

Story Studio Chicago

The Rules of Submission

The Art of Dialogue

Columbia College Chicago, First Year Leadership Academy

Literary Publications and Community, with Amanda Marbais

Harold Washington College, Creative Writing Program

Experimental Writing

Relevant creative writing teaching experience:

University of Washington Tacoma

Introduction to Creative Writing

Loyola University Chicago

Fiction Writing Workshop

Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop

Bowling Green State University

Imaginative Writing

Relevant literature teaching experience:

Columbia College Chicago

Mythology and Literature

Introduction to Creative Nonfiction

Introduction to Literature

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

American Literature (1865 - 2000)

The Short Story & the Novel

Poetry & Drama