8-WEEK INTENSIVES
8-WEEK: INTERMEDIATE POETRY WORKSHOP with Lynn Wagner
August 19, 2024 - October 7, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Virtual
In addition to close reading of poems, we'll respond to in-class prompts, practice reading aloud, and look at literary periodicals with an eye toward submitting our work.
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: INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WORKSHOP with André Hoilette
August 20, 2024 - October 8, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Virtual
In this introductory workshop, we'll explore ways in which sound, image, and idea conspire to create the poem.
8-WEEK: ADVANCED POETRY WORKSHOP with Radha Marcum
August 21, 2024 - October 9, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Virtual
This course gives experienced poets a community of inquiry in which to workshop poems and consider issues in contemporary poetry.
8-WEEK: EXPLORATION IN POETIC FORMS with Suzi Q. Smith
August 22, 2024 - October 10, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Virtual
In this generative course, we’ll explore poetic forms and traditions, both ancient and contemporary.
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.
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: WHAT IS TONE IN POETRY? with Elizabeth Robinson
August 20, 2024 - September 10, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Virtual
This class will look at examples of varying tonal expressions within poems and encourage students to trt out tonal registers that make use of many different poetic strategies, such as rhythm and image.
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: 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: 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: CULTURAL ICONS AS MUSE with Marisa Tirado
September 18, 2024 - October 9, 2024 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm MDT | Virtual
In this workshop we’ll draw from important figures in popular cultures (from Langston Hughes to Cher) as a poetic starting point in our craft process.
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.
