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Friday
, June 12
9:00am
MDT
Hike and Write: Urban Style
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Michael Henry
Beginnings, Middles and Ends: The 9 Parts of Your Story
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Carleen Brice
Getting Unstuck
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Ramona Ausubel
Getting Unstuck (Livestream)
Virtual
Ramona Ausubel
How to Work with Narrative Time
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Andrea Bobotis
The Art of Constraints: Setting Limits to Set Ourselves Free
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Alexander Lumans
Memoir: What's Research Got to Do With It?
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Angie Chuang
Where's the Conflict?
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Anna Qu
Intense Emotions, Subtle Words
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Joy Roulier Sawyer
1:30pm
MDT
Dance. Write. Repeat.
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Jennifer Wortman
LIMITED
POV Jumpstart
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Amanda Rea
Your Dark Materials
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
William Haywood Henderson
LIMITED
Orbweaving a Book of Essays
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Christina Rivera
Speculative Nonfiction
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Harrison Candelaria Fletcher
True Crimes: The Challenges of Writing Homicide Stories (V)
Virtual
Javier Sinay
Writing Through Chronic Illness and/or Disability: A Reclamation
TBA
Rachel Weaver
LIMITED
How to Tell Time: Narrative in Poetry
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Suzi Q Smith
4:00pm
MDT
Writing From Weakness
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Jennifer Wortman
Dynamic Dialogue
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Amanda Rea
In the Trenches with Historical Fiction
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Terri Lewis
Telling Stories in a Time of Fire: How to Write within the Climate Crisis
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Alexander Lumans
The Character Interview: Your Protagonist is Lying to You
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Lior Torenberg
Time and Time and Time Again
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Kyle Beachy
Contemporary American Women Poets 2026
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Lynn Wagner
How To Be An Author For Hire (V)
Virtual
Rachel Werner
How to Self-Publish on a Budget
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Ari Schneider
Saturday
, June 13
9:00am
MDT
The Creative Act: Finding Flow in Flaw (V)
Virtual
Ladane Nasseri
Desire and Power
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Dino Enrique Piacentini
Haunted Landscapes: Writing Place as Presence
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Hillary Leftwich
Say Less, Mean More: Writing with Subtext
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Rachel Weaver
Revision is the Doorway to a Poem's (R)evolution
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Layli Long Soldier
Revision is the Doorway to a Poem's (R)evolution (Livestream)
Virtual
Layli Long Soldier
1:30pm
MDT
Is My Character An Asshole?
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Pardeep Toor
Literary Ephemera
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Harrison Candelaria Fletcher
Sentence Surgery: Another Live Editing Seminar
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
David Wroblewski
Structure through Motif
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Dino Enrique Piacentini
The Laundry Line (V)
Virtual
Natalie Hodges
Sell Essays That Boost Your Book's Potential
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Amanda McCracken
4:00pm
MDT
I Shot the Sheriff: Writing True/Untrue Confessions
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Erika Krouse
Literary Swagger: Writing Prose that Makes Readers Take Notice
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Jenny Shank
Out of Character
TBA
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
Unspooling Local Lore: Bringing Your Setting to Life
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Chris Vanjonack
Lyric Essay: Gathering Fragments
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Suzi Q Smith
Rhapsody (V)
Virtual
Elizabeth Robinson
Sunday
, June 14
9:00am
MDT
Becoming a Channel
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Melissa Broder
Becoming a Channel (Livestream)
Virtual
Melissa Broder
Creative Research: Turning Curiosity into Story (V)
Virtual
Ladane Nasseri
Listen to the Work
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Re/vision: Nurture Your Inner Poetry Editor
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Radha Marcum
1:30pm
MDT
Structure and Alchemy: Writing Climactic Transformations (V)
Virtual
Natalie Hodges
Beyond the Laugh: How and Why to Use Humor
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Kathleen Boland
Going Out in Style
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
Plot: A Conjuror's Guide
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Megha Majumdar
Hike and Write: Urban Style
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Michael Henry
Turn your essay into a TEDx Talk (V)
Virtual
Amanda McCracken
Are Words Alive?
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Heather Christle
Monday
, June 15
9:00am
MDT
No Genre/All Genre Generative Lab with Eileen Myles
TBA
Eileen Myles
Writing for Young Adults
Virtual
Kelsey Day
1:30pm
MDT
Bait the Hook: Your First Few Pages
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Erika Krouse
Bait the Hook: Your First Few Pages (Livestream)
Virtual
Erika Krouse
Every Sentence an Ocean: Concision and Compression in Flash-Fiction
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Chris Vanjonack
From Morally Gray to Black: Creating Flawed and Unscrupulous Protagonists
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Jon Bassoff
Novel Whispering
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Mat Johnson
Novel Whispering (Livestream)
Virtual
Mat Johnson
From Patient to Protagonist: Claiming Agency in Your Own Story
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Rachel Weaver
Squash For Golfers: Line Movement in Prose and Poetry
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Paul Muldoon
Author Branding for Introverts and Impostors (V)
Virtual
Henry Lien
4:00pm
MDT
Creatures of Impulse: What Fictions Writers Can Learn From TV
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Dean Bakopoulos
How to Stop Worldbuilding and Start Worldconjuring
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Alexander Lumans
How to Write Sex Scenes without Shame
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Steve Almond
To Flash Back or Not to Flash Back
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Jenny Shank
Collage as Poetic Practice
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Andrea Rexilius
Letting the I Ching Help You Write Your Story (V)
Virtual
Henry Lien
Tuesday
, June 16
9:00am
MDT
Literary Lightning: Finding the Poetry in Your Prose (V)
Virtual
Ellen Blum Barish
1:30pm
MDT
Finding the Heart and Body of Your Memoir (V)
Virtual
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
I Hate You, Too: Writing Antagonistic Relationships
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Erika Krouse
Information Underload: What Each Precious Paragraph Communicates to a Reader
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Bix Gabriel
Reader in the Room
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Angelique Stevens
Survey of Interiority
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Brandon Taylor
Survey of Interiority (Livestream)
Virtual
Brandon Taylor
The Cutting Room Floor: Late-Stage Revision
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Evanthia Bromiley
They Can’t Be All Bad, Right?
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Where the Deer and the Antelope (and the Poets) Play: On the Page
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Juan J. Morales
4:00pm
MDT
Hook, Line, and Sinker: Exploring Form Via Ruben Ostlund’s Triangle of Sadness
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Claire Jia
A Wrinkle in Time: How to Manage Chronology and Structure
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Steve Almond
Write Stronger Scenes: A Checklist
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Rachel Weaver
Black Doubt, Revision, and Faith
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Andre Dubus III
Black Doubt, Revision, and Faith (Livestream)
Virtual
Andre Dubus III
Symbolism and Metaphor: They Aren’t Just for Fiction
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Angelique Stevens
Forms and Functions: Poetic and Otherwise
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Michael Henry
ChatGPT Is My Secretary (V)
Virtual
Erika Krouse
Wednesday
, June 17
1:30pm
MDT
That's Cinema: Applying Screenwriting Techniques to Novel Writing
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Claire Jia
Critiquing the End
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Mary Robinette Kowal
How to Make Plot Your Friend
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Steve Almond
Memoir for the Anxious, Uncertain, or Scared Writer
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Beth Nguyen
Memoir Structure: Scene by Scene
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Jenny Shank
On/Off the Record: Hybrid Writing with Documents (V)
Virtual
Kanika Agrawal
Real People, Real Problems
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Erika Krouse
Making Conversation: Inviting New Voices into The Poem
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Emily Perez
The Supple Sonnet
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Melissa Range
Designing Your Author Website with Style and Know-How (V)
Virtual
HR Hegnauer
4:00pm
MDT
Ticking Clocks: Managing Time in Fiction
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Danielle Evans
Writing Thrillers
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Carter Wilson
Perhapsing: What To Do When We Don’t Know
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
Just 2 Poems (V)
Virtual
Lynn Wagner
Scaffolds and Skeletons: Crafting Strong Foundations in Poetry and Fiction
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Seth Brady Tucker
Perseverance Training: Surviving the Long Haul of Writing
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Rachel Weaver
Build Your Portfolio: On Longevity and Writing
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
William Haywood Henderson • Dino Enrique Piacentini • Amanda Rea • Suzi Q Smith • Erika Krouse • Natalie Hodges • Jenny Shank
Build Your Portfolio: On Longevity and Writing (Livestream)
Virtual
Natalie Hodges • William Haywood Henderson • Erika Krouse • Dino Enrique Piacentini • Amanda Rea • Jenny Shank • Suzi Q Smith
Thursday
, June 18
1:30pm
MDT
Crash Course in Character
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Jenny Shank
Fantastic Thresholds: Short Fiction Techniques of Kelly Link and Susanna Clarke (V)
Virtual
Kanika Agrawal
Make a Scene!: How to Bring Your Memoir to Life (V)
Virtual
Minda Honey
Making the Personal Matter
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Emily Rapp Black
Making the Personal Matter (Livestream)
Virtual
Emily Rapp Black
From Idea to Outline
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Mary Robinette Kowal
Seance of the Bees: Writing and Ritual Practices
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Andrea Rexilius
Secrets: Strategies for Story
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
The Picture Within: Art as Inspiration and Critique
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Megan O'Grady
The Rich Layers of Personal Style
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
William Haywood Henderson
4:00pm
MDT
Satisfy Me!
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Christopher Castellani
Suffering Builds Character
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Tiffany Quay Tyson
Writing the Best American Essay: Contemporary Techniques and Ideas
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Jenny Shank
Exploring Prose Poetry: The Art of Condensed Writing (V)
Virtual
Jose Hernandez Diaz
Just Keep Going: Being a Writer for Life
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Buzzy Jackson
Undoing Poetry and Prose
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Eileen Myles
Writing in an AI Powered World
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Cynthia Swanson
Friday
, June 19
1:30pm
MDT
Absolute Fiction
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Rebecca Makkai
Absolute Fiction (Livestream)
Virtual
Rebecca Makkai
Strange Beasts: Wild Structures and Architectures
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Evanthia Bromiley
The Propulsive Narrative: Creating and Maintaining Momentum
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Tiffany Quay Tyson
Behind the Frame: To See, To Feel, to Know
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Rachel Louise Snyder
How To Be an Asshole
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Nick Arvin
Lens
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
William Haywood Henderson
Unlock Ideas with Maps
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Malinda Miller
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