Real Writing for Real People

An Open Writing Class for all Levels

Meets on the first and second Wednesday after Daré, via Zoom (with some variation) from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm PDT. See dates here. To apply please send samples of your writing to Jude Weber.

So you want to write a novel? Or memoir? A non-fiction novel, or creative non-fiction? You just want to write what you want to write? Master writer and teacher, Deena Metzger, is offering a new writing class, for the first time in many years, for writers devoting themselves to a project. Receive prompts, write in class, have the opportunity to share work in progress, and receive expert critique based on values of literature and deep creative processes. This class is a unique opportunity for the imagination.

Any of the genres, with the exception of screen and television writing, can be explored here.  The essential interest is in literature and not in commercial writing per se.

Deena Metzger is a novelist, non-fiction writer, poet, and playwright. Deena’s most recent books include–The Other Hand, La Negra y Blanca (Oakland PEN Award for Literature) A Rain of NightBirds, La Vieja: A Journal of Fire, Enter the Ghost River: Theory and Practice of Healing, and Ruin and Beauty, New and Selected Poems. She is the creator of 19 Ways to a Viable Future for All Beings, Literature of Restoration, ReVisioning Medicine and introduced Daré, Council and Community Healing from the Shona and Ndebele traditions of Southern Africa, to the US and Canada. You can read her current essays on Substack and WordPress.

Deena teaches several weekend workshops per year and offers a weeklong Writing Intensive every year in May or June.

Click here for fees.