Classes/Workshops/Conferences
Ongoing Opportunity (Fall 2025--Winter/Spring 2026):
Mentorship in Creative Writing, 
UCLA Extension, Online
Work with me on-on-one through UCLA Extension
Mentorships provide individualized support to advanced writers who seek specific and focused guidance in their work. Students select a mentorship focus from a pre-determined list of options provided by the instructor as part of their application process. Instructors review applications to determine student readiness for intensive personalized instruction and to ensure the student’s writing goals are achievable within the mentorship period. Students and instructors develop a Mentorship Agreement to guide their interactions over six contact hours during the ten-week mentorship period. By the end of the mentorship, students have received advice, input, and support to help them reach their short-term goals.
September 22, 2025--December 14, 2025. UCLA Extension, Online
Novel Writing Two
Armed with your overall concept and first chapter, you continue to develop your knowledge of craft by writing scenes using characters and situations from the projected novel and workshopping your in-progress work. Mini-lectures on the art of the novel, intuitive creative process and conventional vs. non-conventional approaches to novel structure also are covered. The goal is to complete 50 pages of your novel.
November 10, 2025-January 25, 2026, SNHU MFA Online
MFA 702--Thesis Writing III--Capstone
The thrust of student work in MFA-702 is intended to be on revision: substantial revisions of their novel based on peer and instructor feedback received in prior courses. Thus, there are no required workshops in this course. Instead, while revising their work, students engage in non-graded discussions, graded journals, and will submit various artifacts from the portfolio they have been adding to throughout the program: Outline, Pitch, Cover copy, Query letter, Synopsis, Resume/CV, Proof of short-story submission, and website.
January 7, 2026- March 1, 2026. UCLA Extension, Online
Novel Writing Three
For those with a minimum of 50 pages of a novel-in-progress, this workshop guides you to generate at least 50 new pages, as well as learn essential self-editing techniques with the instructor and peers reviewing each participant's project in detail. Refinements of character, structure, emotional content and the development of the writer's voice are also explored. The goal is to produce a substantial portion of your novel.
April 1, 2026-June 9, 2026.. UCLA Extension, Online
Novel Writing Three
For those with a minimum of 50 pages of a novel-in-progress, this workshop guides you to generate at least 50 new pages, as well as learn essential self-editing techniques with the instructor and peers reviewing each participant's project in detail. Refinements of character, structure, emotional content and the development of the writer's voice are also explored. The goal is to produce a substantial portion of your novel.