This four-week practice is for writers who feel pulled toward personal material but keep talking themselves out of it. Maybe the work feels too close. Maybe you worry it’s self-indulgent or unimportant. Maybe you don’t know where to start.
Each week, we’ll read short pieces by poets, memoirists, and fiction writers who work close to their own lives. We’ll look at how they turn lived experience into writing that feels alive on the page. Then we’ll write.
We’ll meet over Zoom on the first four Thursdays in April from 5:30–7:00PM Pacific for 90 minutes to read, write, and share. Classes will be recorded if you're unable to attend live.
In this workshop, we’ll analyze a range of texts through close reading and discussion, then use what we notice to guide our own writing. Each session includes in-class prompts as well as prompts to take home and work on throughout the week.
Sessions will be held live and recorded so you can revisit the material or catch up if you miss a week. The workshop is open to all genres and all experience levels. If you’re showing up with curiosity and a willingness to write, you belong here.
We began in 2024 as a community built on joy, sustainability, and self-trust. Whether you're just starting out or returning to the page after years away, you're welcome here. Through free co-writing sessions, deep conversations on process, and shared insights on the writing life, we create space for writers to show up, connect, and cultivate a fruitful writing life. 🍋
Jessica Lohafer lives in Washington. Her work has appeared in Ghost Parachute, The Sweet Tree Review, Drunk in the Midnight Choir, Nailed Magazine, and Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women. Her collection of poetry, What’s Left to Be Done, was published by Radical Lunchbox Press in 2009. In 2020, she released the edited anthology, Allow the Light: The Lost Poems of Jack McCarthy. She has served as the Program Director for Poetry in Public Education, bringing writing workshops to schools throughout the Pacific Northwest, and previously hosted the Write Riot Poetry Slam. Jessica received her MFA in poetry from Western Washington University in 2014.
Caitlin Morris is a writer, editor, and educator with an MFA in Creative Writing from Western Washington University. She currently teaches writing and literature at Bellevue College and Highline College. Caitlin’s fiction has been featured in The Copperfield Review's historical fiction anthology, Halfway Down the Stairs, Jersey Devil Press, and Ghost Parachute. She is the cohost of the Hercule Poirot book club podcast, Poirot Pals.
Megan Nichols Megan Nichols is the author of Animal Unfit (Belle Point Press, 2023). Her poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Plume, The Baltimore Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, and other journals, and have been featured on Poetry Daily. She was a finalist for Write Bloody’s 2021 Jack McCarthy Book Prize and the 2024 Peseroff Poetry Prize, received Honorable Mention for the 2026 Gwenn A. Nusbaum Scholarship from the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, and was named a Spring 2022 Brooklyn Poets Fellow.