My Classes
I teach classes on creative nonfiction, personal essay, submitting and publishing. I teach online via webinar, self-paced courses on Substack, and IRL too.
The Forever Workshops…
…are hosted by the fine folks at Chill Subs on Substack. Teaching on Substack has been a remarkable experience for me. I taught —Finding Your Essay’s Heartbeat in 2024 and Quiet Writing: Crafting Stories from Everyday Moments in 2025. Andmost recently, The Cure for Flat Prose: How to Find Details Readers Remember.
All 3 classes are described and linked below.
Chill Subs has a great line up of faculty and new course content each week covering awide rang eof topics across genres. You can access it when you have the time to get to it—that’s the beauty of a self-paced program.
Quiet Writing: Crafting Stories from Everyday Moments
Discover the art of quiet writing, where the power of storytelling emerges from the small, often-overlooked moments of daily life. Through close readings, you’ll explore what defines quiet writing, focusing on how it captures universal truths with subtlety and nuance. You’ll also engage in your own quiet writing practice, cultivating a voice that invites readers to reflect and connect
The Cure for Flat Prose: How to Find Details Readers Remember
Learn how to search for details that bring your stories (nonfiction of fiction) to life. Spot the senory trick that drops readers straight into your scene and the one unique detail that does the owrk of a whole paragraph. And get three exercies to train your eye for the details tha make a reader feel a scene and not skim past it.
Finding Your Essay Heartbeat
Take a deep dive into personal essay and leave with an essay well underway. Personal essay requires us to re-imagine what happened in the past with our incomplete memories and figure out what it means. Self-paced. Available anytime.
