8-WEEK INTENSIVES
8-WEEK: ADVANCED SHORT STORY WOODSHOP with Alexander Lumans
August 4, 2024 - October 16, 2024 | 10:00am - 12:00pm MDT | Virtual
As advanced writers, sometimes we need a break from workshop. In this “woodshop," we’ll reframe the guiding question of workshop: rather than critiquing stories we’ve already finished, we'll heavily focus on generative writing, which will then be submitted for group discussion.
8-WEEK: HORROR WORKSHOP with Erika T. Wurth
August 19, 2024 - October 7, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Virtual
Have you always wanted to write a paranormal romance? A slasher? And just didn't understand how to go about it? In this eight-week critique-based workshop we’ll look the subgenres of horror through small snippets of different writers.
8-WEEK: THE POWER OF PLAY with Nini Berndt
August 19, 2024 - October 7, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | In-Person
A little known secret: Writing can be fun. It can be explosive, enchanting, wild, alive, frightening in it's ability to transform not just the page, but us, our understanding of the world and our place in it.
8-WEEK: GETTING IT DONE—96 HOURS TOWARDS A FINISHED DRAFT with Sarah Schantz
August 19, 2024 - October 7, 2024 | 9:00am - 1:00pm MDT | Virtual
Every writer has the same goal: I’m going to finish my draft … soon. Then we get distracted. Before we know it, “soon” becomes “later” and our draft still isn’t done. This eight-week, 96-hour intensive writing experience is your chance to flip the script.
8-WEEK: INTRO TO WRITING THE SHORT STORY with Emily Flouton
August 19, 2023 - October 7, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Virtual
This class will help writers tackle what might seem like the overwhelming task of writing a short story. Whether you are just beginning to write fiction or looking for guidance on a current draft, this introductory workshop will provide insight and direction to move you forward.
8-WEEK: PRODUCTIVITY CLUB—WEEKDAY EDITION with Amanda Rea
August 20, 2024 - October 10, 2024 | 9:00am - 1:00pm MDT | In-Person
Who says writing has to be a solitary occupation? This facilitated writing program aims to combine two things every writer needs: focused time and a sense of community
8-WEEK: PRODUCTIVITY CLUB—WEEKEND EDITION with Amanda Rea
August 25, 2024 - October 13, 2024 | 9:00am - 1:00pm MDT | In-Person
Who says writing has to be a solitary occupation? This facilitated writing program aims to combine two things every writer needs: focused time and a sense of community.
8-WEEK: ADVANCED NOVEL WORKSHOP with William Haywood Henderson
August 20, 2024 - October 8, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Virtual
A novel is a huge undertaking, and this class is intended to help you break down the process into manageable units, gain perspective, and sharpen the aspects that set your novel apart and make it uniquely yours.
8-WEEK: TWICE-COOKED TALES—USING MODEL STORIES TO MAKE OUR OWN with William Henry Lewis
August 21, 2024 - October 9, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Virtual
Much as painting students hone their technique by re-painting the work of established artists, we’ll read and recast model works of established writers, selected by instructor and students.
8-WEEK: INTRO TO WRITING THE NOVEL with Jeneé Skinner
August 21, 2024 - October 9, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Virtual
Calling all daytime writers who aspire to write a novel or have already started the ambitious task.
8-WEEK: ADVANCED NOVEL WORKSHOP with Tiffany Quay Tyson
August 21, 2024 - October 9, 2024 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT | In-Person
A novel is a huge undertaking, and this class is intended to help you break down the process into manageable units, gain perspective, and sharpen the aspects that set your novel apart and make it uniquely yours.
8-WEEK: START AND FINISH THE BOOK—A CRASH COURSE with Andrea Dupree
August 22, 2024 - October 17, 2024 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm MDT | Hybrid
What's better than hitting a groove with a project, when everything feels automatic? This workshop is designed for writers working on fiction or nonfiction books who could benefit from the weekly, rotating mentorship of writers who have recently made it through to the other side.
8-WEEK: INTERMEDIATE SHORT STORY WORKSHOP with Trent Hudley
August 22, 2024 - October 10, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | In-Person
Building on the foundations of Intro to Writing the Short Story, this class will consist primarily of workshopping short story and novel drafts.
8-WEEK: WORKS IN PROGRESS—PROSE with Sarah Schantz
August 22, 2024 - October 10, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Virtual
This class is a workshop and writer's group for prose writers designed to give you that precious window to work and to simultaneously bring to life your works-in-progress via a process aimed at establishing and maintaining a steady momentum.
8-WEEK: INTERMEDIATE NOVEL WORKSHOP with John Cotter
August 22, 2024 - October 17, 2024 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm MDT | Hybrid
In this course we'll shore up the basics but also dig past them: how do relationships drive a story? Why does setting matter? How does language build a mood, a whole atmosphere?
8-WEEK: ADVANCED LONG-FORM NARRATIVE—NOVEL AND MEMOIR with Benjamin Whitmer
August 24, 2024 - October 9, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Virtual
Whether fiction or memoir, taking on a book-length narrative can be overwhelming. Whichever you’re working on, this class is designed to help guide you through the process and refine your work in progress.
8-WEEK: EIGHT WEEKS, EIGHT STARTS—FICTION AND NONFICTION (ASYNCHRONOUS) with Christopher Merkner
August 26, 2024 - October 14, 2024 | 10:00am - 12:00pm MDT | Virtual Via Wet Ink
This generative course is an ideal fit for intermediate and advanced writers of prose at any point of their projects looking to get themselves rolling at the start of a new year.
8-WEEK: FIVE PAGES FEEDBACK with Paula Younger
August 28, 2024 - October 16, 2024 | 10:00am - 12:00pm MDT | In-Person
This class is designed for writers who want feedback on their projects, but don't have the time for workshop.
4-WEEK INTENSIVES
4-WEEK: WRITING 101—GOTTA START SOMEWHERE with Joy Roulier Sawyer
August 20, 2024 - September 10, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | In-Person
In this experiential, non-critiquing writing workshop, you'll immerse yourself in a wide variety of writing exercises, learn to use your journal as a creative catalyst, assess your writing strengths, set do-able writing goals, reflect on and learn from your own writing process, and discuss future Lighthouse workshop options.
4-WEEK: A SENSE OF PLACE with Lisa Kennedy
August 20, 2024 - September 10, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | In-Person
In this craft course, we'll explore how to make a place—a bedroom, a neighborhood, a tavern, a region, and so on—come alive.
4-WEEK: STORY BUILDER I—TENSION with Rachel Weaver
August 20, 2024 - September 10, 2024 | 10:00am - 12:00pm MDT | Hybrid
This series of four classes is co-taught by Rachel Weaver and Erika Krouse, and covers the four major aspects of crafting your story: tension, plot, characterization, and scene.
4-WEEK: NOVEL BOOTCAMP I—STORY with William Haywood Henderson
August 21, 2024 - September 11, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Hybrid
Writing a novel or memoir can feel overwhelming, but through the Novel Bootcamp series you can get a handle on all aspects of creating a book-length manuscript.
4-WEEK: EXPERIMENT THE NOVEL—A FOUR-WEEK LAB with Hillary Leftwich
August 21, 2024 - September 11, 2024 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT | Virtual
This four-week workshop will start by creating an aesthetic surrounding disciplines that can serve as inspiration for your non-traditional form for your novel.
4-WEEK: BETWIXT, STRETCHED, OF-THE-MOMENT—HYBRID AND UNEXPECTED FORMS with Jessica Roeder
August 26, 2024 - September 12, 2024 | 24hrs | Virtual Via Wet Ink
A new four-week session welcoming new and returning Betwixters, this class will explore more ways of mixing things up—poetry and prose, text and image, one extreme and another, abstract and concrete, old and new, fact and fiction, constraint and freedom.
4-WEEK: SO WHAT! BEAT PERFECTIONISM AND MAKE A HUGE MESS with Sasha Geffen
September 17, 2024 - October 8, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | In-Person
This intensively generative course will encourage writers to get in touch with their most spontaneous, unvarnished, and unselfconscious selves, reprogramming the impulse to strive for perfect, unassailable lines on the first try.
4-WEEK: WRITING 101—GOTTA START SOMEWHERE with Joy Roulier Sawyer
September 17, 2024 - October 8, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | In-Person
In this experiential, non-critiquing writing workshop, you'll immerse yourself in a wide variety of writing exercises, learn to use your journal as a creative catalyst, assess your writing strengths, set do-able writing goals, reflect on and learn from your own writing process, and discuss future Lighthouse workshop options.
4-WEEK: WRITING THE BODY with Alexander Lumans
September 17, 2024 - October 8, 2024 | 10:00am - 12:00pm MDT | Virtual
From a perspective of empathy, honesty, and risk, we’ll read contemporary writers who intentionally depict the body in various styles. We’ll also write about bodies in our own work through prompts that give us new permissions in a safe space.
4-WEEK: STORY BUILDER II—YOUR PLOT with Rachel Weaver
September 17, 2024 - October 8, 2024 | 10:00am - 12:00pm MDT | Virtual
This series of four classes is co-taught by Rachel Weaver and Erika Krouse, and covers the four major aspects of crafting your story: tension, plot, characterization, and scene.
4-WEEK: NOVEL BOOTCAMP II—NARRATIVE STRATEGY with William Haywood Henderson
September 18, 2024 - October 9, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Hybrid
In this class, we’ll find the best way to tell our tales, focusing on how our narrative strategies work organically with our tales.
4-WEEK: FLASH PROSE with Jenny Wortman
September 23, 2024 - October 18, 2024 | 24hrs | Virtual Via Wet Ink
In this class, we’ll look at what puts the flash in flash fiction and nonfiction, examining topics such as urgency, intensity, movement, and more.
4-WEEK: FICTION FOUR-PACK—BASIC CRAFT ESSENTIALS with Jenny Shank
September 23, 2024 - October 14, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Hybrid
This four-week craft class will give you an overview of essential techniques for a solid writing foundation in any genre of fiction.
4-WEEK: USING THE EXTERIOR TO EXPRESS THE INTERIOR with Sarah Schantz
September 23, 2024 - October 14, 2024 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT | Virtual
In this workshop we'll look at how to show interiority of characters using the setting that serves as the stage on which our characters perform.
4-WEEK: SPARK AND RE-SPARK—RE-IGNITE YOUR CRAFT AND CREATIVITY with Joy Roulier Sawyer
September 23, 2024 - October 14, 2024 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT | Virtual
Revive your most powerful and productive writing core and recover your momentum and morale in this four-week intervention designed to reignite your creativity.
4-WEEK: VOLCANO, MASK, SHELL, HAND—A GENERATIVE WORKSHOP with Jessica Roeder
September 30, 2024 - October 27, 2024 | 24hrs | Virtual Via Wet Ink
Follow four simple objects into new places in your writing. Each week, we’ll focus on one object in its many possibilities, using poetry and prose, visual art, museum collections, memory, creative prompts, and the world at hand for inspiration.
