The Heart of Your Memoir: A Masterclass in How To Strengthen Your Story with Susanna Sonnenberg This class is full! However, if we get enough registrations on the waitlist, Susanna will open up a second class that will be run on Wednesdays beginning April 15th.  Sign up for the waitlist here. This 4-week masterclass with bestselling author Susanna Sonnenberg (Her Last Death, She Matters: A Life in Friendships) is for writers who wish to start a memoir, writers who already have a manuscript, ... continue reading...

Dear friends, In this scramble of hand-washing and hand-wringing, when our everyday lives have been turned upside down, it is hard to find solace amidst the chaos. This is the time to reach out to one another, to find comfort in the small things, the first tentative crocuses, the chickadees bobbing at the bird feeder, the family gathered at the dinner table, the friends reaching out to one another by phone, text, email, and Zoom. While it is human touch we must avoid at this time, that warmth ... continue reading...

We still plan to hold our Words With Wings Summer Camp  and Rattlesnake Writing Workshop this summer. They are still scheduled for the weeks of July 13-17 and 20-24. Due to the uncertainty of the Covid19 situation and the possibility of cancellation, when registering for summer camp you will not need to pay for registration. This will allow you to sign up your students worry free about if/when you will get a refund. Once we know the summer camp is 100% certain, we will send those registered a ... continue reading...

Have you spent many a long, dark winter hour thinking about the prose, poems, and songs you’d like to write? Do you need a spark of inspiration to jumpstart your creative pulse? Come join the professional writers of the Missoula Writing Collaborative for a day of writing workshops around downtown Missoula. You could find yourself learning how to write a poem from a historic scrap of paper, taking a songwriting class with one of Missoula's best musicians, learning introductory Salish, or ... continue reading...

Photo: Leland Buck Mark Gibbons' Poetry: From Permission to Publication "A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters." -Richard Hugo When Jim Welch showed up to teach poetry to his high school English class in Alberton, Montana, in 1970, Mark Gibbons pictured poetry primarily as Robert Frost lines you memorized for English class.  Gibbons recalls, “Jim came into our class and said, ‘You can write poetry from your own experience,’ and he had ... continue reading...