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Tuesday, June 16
 

4:00pm MDT

ChatGPT Is My Secretary (V)
Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Virtual
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ChatGPT is awful. It’s a plagiarist, it lies and fabricates, it will run us out of our jobs…but it’s also free, exploitable, non-human labor! AI can be the answer to our harried dreams: a sometimes-reliable entity to perform research, consolidation, organization, and administrative tasks that would otherwise take us hours or months to do. What are the many ways a writer can use recent technologies to save ourselves valuable time and labor? How much can we trust it, and what are the ways we really shouldn’t? No technical knowledge needed; your instructor doesn’t have any, either.
Speakers
avatar for Erika Krouse

Erika Krouse

Faculty
Erika Krouse has taught at Lighthouse since 2008; she is a Book Project mentor and a winner of the Lighthouse Beacon Award. Erika's most recent collection of short stories, Save Me, Stranger, is out with Flatiron Books in January 2025. It has garnered starred reviews from Kirkus and... Read More →
Tuesday June 16, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Virtual
  Writing Process, Multi-Genre
 
Wednesday, June 17
 

4:00pm MDT

Build Your Portfolio: On Longevity and Writing
Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
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Some writers have been at this for decades — through life, through rejection, through the moments when the work almost didn't survive. Come hear from a panel of poets, novelists, short story writers, and memoirists about how they built a practice that lasted. What does persistence actually look like? How do you keep going when life gets loud or the business gets discouraging? Grab a drink, bring your questions, and pull up a chair.
Speakers
avatar for William Haywood Henderson

William Haywood Henderson

Faculty
William Haywood Henderson earned a BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA in creative writing from Brown University, and attended Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing. He is the author of three novels: Native, The Rest of... Read More →
avatar for Dino Enrique Piacentini

Dino Enrique Piacentini

Faculty
Dino Enrique Piacentini grew up in Los Angeles, lived in San Francisco for twenty years, and has also, at various times, set down stakes in Houston, Oaxaca, Champaign, and Prague. His debut novel, Invasion of the Daffodils, about a Mexican-American family living on an island off the... Read More →
avatar for Amanda Rea

Amanda Rea

Faculty
Amanda Rea's stories and essays have appeared in Harper's, Best American Mystery Stories, One Story, American Short Fiction, Freeman’s, The Missouri Review, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Indiana Review, Iowa Review, New South, Lit Hub, and... Read More →
avatar for Suzi Q Smith

Suzi Q Smith

Faculty
Suzi Q. Smith is an award-winning artist, organizer, and educator who lives in Denver, Colorado. She has created, curated, coached, and taught in Denver for over 20 years, managing the largest poetry festivals that Denver has seen to date. A TEDx speaker multiple times, Suzi has performed... Read More →
avatar for Erika Krouse

Erika Krouse

Faculty
Erika Krouse has taught at Lighthouse since 2008; she is a Book Project mentor and a winner of the Lighthouse Beacon Award. Erika's most recent collection of short stories, Save Me, Stranger, is out with Flatiron Books in January 2025. It has garnered starred reviews from Kirkus and... Read More →
avatar for Natalie Hodges

Natalie Hodges

Faculty
Born and raised in Denver, Natalie Hodges has performed as a classical violinist throughout Colorado and in New York, Boston, Paris, and the Italian Piedmont, as well as at the Aspen Music Festival and the Stowe Tango Music Festival. Her first book, Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through... Read More →
avatar for Jenny Shank

Jenny Shank

Faculty
Jenny Shank's short story collection, Mixed Company, won the George Garrett Fiction Prize and the Colorado Book Award and her novel, The Ringer, won the High Plains Book Award in fiction.

Jenny's stories, essays, satire, and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, McSweeney's, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Poets & Writers, Bust Magazine, The Guardian, Santa Monica... Read More →
Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
  Writing Process, Multi-Genre

4:00pm MDT

Build Your Portfolio: On Longevity and Writing (Livestream)
Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Virtual
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Some writers have been at this for decades — through life, through rejection, through the moments when the work almost didn't survive. Come hear from a panel of poets, novelists, short story writers, and memoirists about how they built a practice that lasted. What does persistence actually look like? How do you keep going when life gets loud or the business gets discouraging? Grab a drink, bring your questions, and pull up a chair.

This is the livestream version of this event.
Speakers
avatar for Natalie Hodges

Natalie Hodges

Faculty
Born and raised in Denver, Natalie Hodges has performed as a classical violinist throughout Colorado and in New York, Boston, Paris, and the Italian Piedmont, as well as at the Aspen Music Festival and the Stowe Tango Music Festival. Her first book, Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through... Read More →
avatar for William Haywood Henderson

William Haywood Henderson

Faculty
William Haywood Henderson earned a BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA in creative writing from Brown University, and attended Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing. He is the author of three novels: Native, The Rest of... Read More →
avatar for Erika Krouse

Erika Krouse

Faculty
Erika Krouse has taught at Lighthouse since 2008; she is a Book Project mentor and a winner of the Lighthouse Beacon Award. Erika's most recent collection of short stories, Save Me, Stranger, is out with Flatiron Books in January 2025. It has garnered starred reviews from Kirkus and... Read More →
avatar for Dino Enrique Piacentini

Dino Enrique Piacentini

Faculty
Dino Enrique Piacentini grew up in Los Angeles, lived in San Francisco for twenty years, and has also, at various times, set down stakes in Houston, Oaxaca, Champaign, and Prague. His debut novel, Invasion of the Daffodils, about a Mexican-American family living on an island off the... Read More →
avatar for Amanda Rea

Amanda Rea

Faculty
Amanda Rea's stories and essays have appeared in Harper's, Best American Mystery Stories, One Story, American Short Fiction, Freeman’s, The Missouri Review, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Indiana Review, Iowa Review, New South, Lit Hub, and... Read More →
avatar for Jenny Shank

Jenny Shank

Faculty
Jenny Shank's short story collection, Mixed Company, won the George Garrett Fiction Prize and the Colorado Book Award and her novel, The Ringer, won the High Plains Book Award in fiction.

Jenny's stories, essays, satire, and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, McSweeney's, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Poets & Writers, Bust Magazine, The Guardian, Santa Monica... Read More →
avatar for Suzi Q Smith

Suzi Q Smith

Faculty
Suzi Q. Smith is an award-winning artist, organizer, and educator who lives in Denver, Colorado. She has created, curated, coached, and taught in Denver for over 20 years, managing the largest poetry festivals that Denver has seen to date. A TEDx speaker multiple times, Suzi has performed... Read More →
Wednesday June 17, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Virtual
  Writing Process, Multi-Genre
 
Thursday, June 18
 

1:30pm MDT

From Idea to Outline
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
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Often we have a nugget that we want to play with, but can't find the larger story. This generative workshop walks writers through a toolbox to go from idea to outline. This will work for people who are pantsers as well as plotters, because they can apply the tools at any point in the process. The takeaway from this class isn't "this is how it's done" but rather "here are tools for when you are struggling."
Speakers
avatar for Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal

Faculty
Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award winning alternate history novel The Calculating Stars, the first book in the Lady Astronaut series which continues in 2025 with The Martian Contingency. She is also the author of The Glamourist Histories series... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
  Writing Process, Multi-Genre

1:30pm MDT

Seance of the Bees: Writing and Ritual Practices
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
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What parts of your body do you write with? Your brain, your heart, your lungs, your womb? This interactive, movement-based seminar will guide participants through a series of somatic and ritual practices, stemming from the wisdom of bees and the artist/writers Ana Mendieta, Cecilia Vicuña, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzaldúa, among others.
Speakers
avatar for Andrea Rexilius

Andrea Rexilius

Faculty
Andrea Rexilius is the author of: Sister Urn (Sidebrow, 2019), New Organism: Essais (Letter Machine, 2014), Half of What They Carried Flew Away (Letter Machine, 2012), and To Be Human Is To Be A Conversation (Rescue Press, 2011), as well as the chapbooks Séance (Coconut Books, 2014... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
  Writing Process, Multi-Genre

1:30pm MDT

Secrets: Strategies for Story
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
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In this workshop, we’ll explore secrets as a major component for all storytelling. Secrets both separate us from one another and bind us together. Writers will learn how to make powerful allusions in their writing to build plot and develop character. In addition to learning the art of confession, we’ll also explore subtext as strategy and when and how to prioritize the reader’s experience.
Speakers
avatar for Sarah Elizabeth Schantz

Sarah Elizabeth Schantz

Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is a writer living on the East Side of Old Town Longmont in a Victorian bungalow one alley away from the train tracks. Her first novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before going on to win a 2016... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
  Writing Process, Multi-Genre

1:30pm MDT

The Picture Within: Art as Inspiration and Critique
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
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Throughout literary history, writers and poets have often turned to artists for inspiration and contemplation. Visual art can be a powerful catalyst for both sensory and formal exploration, deepening our awareness of color, composition, tension, and scale. It can also elicit words within us, to paraphrase Virginia Woolf on Cézanne, from places we had not known language to exist. Through close-looking exercises, short ekphrastic readings (contemporary and classic), and writing prompts drawn from our own encounters with art, we’ll hone our skills as noticers and interpreters of life.
Speakers
avatar for Megan O'Grady

Megan O'Grady

Faculty
Megan O’Grady is a critic and an essayist. She was a writer at large for T: The New York Times Style Magazine, where she created the Culture Therapist column. Her reviews and essays about art and life also appear in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
  Writing Process, Multi-Genre

1:30pm MDT

The Rich Layers of Personal Style
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
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“Good artists copy; great artists steal.” This quote is famously attributed to the artist Pablo Picasso, but it applies equally to writers. We all bring to the page our influences over the years—the books we’ve admired (or even hated), the imagery and music and themes we’ve been drawn to again and again, and the styles we’ve envied. In this class, we’ll look at your influences, how they’ve helped shape your style and ideas, and work to consciously incorporate your influences in your writing. No one will accuse you of stealing—we’ll just admire the rich layers of your style.
Speakers
avatar for William Haywood Henderson

William Haywood Henderson

Faculty
William Haywood Henderson earned a BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA in creative writing from Brown University, and attended Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing. He is the author of three novels: Native, The Rest of... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
  Writing Process, Multi-Genre

4:00pm MDT

Just Keep Going: Being a Writer for Life
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
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What sets "real writers" apart from dilettantes? The practice of writing. As creative people, too often we blame ourselves for a lack of motivation and consistent creative work, when the truth is that we live in a society designed to distract us from original creation, encouraging us to put off creative work in favor of something more "productive" (e.g., money-making). This seminar proposes the radical idea that part of your job as an artist is self-motivation: you need to keep yourself inspired and creating, despite everything. Together we'll explore ideas, strategies, and daily practices to ensure you Just Keep Going.
Speakers
avatar for Buzzy Jackson

Buzzy Jackson

Faculty
Buzzy Jackson is an award-winning author who lives in Boulder, Colorado. She has a Ph.D. in History from UC Berkeley and is a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle. Her books include To Die Beautiful: A Novel (Dutton) which won the Colorado Book Award, as well as A Bad... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
  Writing Process, Multi-Genre

4:00pm MDT

Writing in an AI Powered World
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
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For many writers, artificial intelligence is changing not only the creative landscape, but also how we talk about our writing, connect with readers and other writers, and build community. One of the biggest challenges brought on by AI is anxiety. Writers worry about being falsely accused of using AI to produce work, their published works being used to train AI tools, and ensuring their words remain relevant in a world that’s rapidly become accustomed to AI-generated content. In this seminar, we’ll talk about these challenges and discuss approaches for building (or rebuilding) our creative confidence in the AI age.
Speakers
avatar for Cynthia Swanson

Cynthia Swanson

Faculty
Cynthia Swanson writes psychological thrillers, often using historical settings. Cynthia’s debut novel, The Bookseller, was a New York Times bestseller, an Indie Next selection, the winner of the 2016 WILLA Literary Award for Historical Fiction, translated into 18 languages, and... Read More →
Thursday June 18, 2026 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
  Writing Process, Multi-Genre
 
Friday, June 19
 

1:30pm MDT

How To Be an Asshole
Friday June 19, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
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Stories need villains and brutes, scoundrels and jerks, creeps and lowlifes. Collectively, let’s call them assholes. They create conflict, suspense, and intrigue. They’re often the most interesting characters in a story. But writers are, generally, nice people. How do we put ourselves into the mind of the asshole? How do we give them their humanity without denying their depravity? Let’s explore how to be an asshole (on the page) by exploring their mindset and ways to write it without becoming one ourselves. This will be a discussion-based class with examples by the masters and directed exercises.
Speakers
avatar for Nick Arvin

Nick Arvin

Faculty
Nick Arvin is the author of In the Electric Eden, Articles of War, and The Reconstructionist. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal and has been honored with awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Library Association... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
  Writing Process, Multi-Genre

1:30pm MDT

Lens
Friday June 19, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
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What the heck is lens? It’s merely a vital element of craft utilized on every line of every page of your writing. It helps you find meaning in detail, action, vision, and it allows space for subtext. Why is the sofa in your scene gold? If you don’t know, then it’s time to learn how lens works. In this class we’ll read great examples of lens (actually, any page of good writing can show us), and we’ll work through exercises to sharpen your own.
Speakers
avatar for William Haywood Henderson

William Haywood Henderson

Faculty
William Haywood Henderson earned a BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA in creative writing from Brown University, and attended Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing. He is the author of three novels: Native, The Rest of... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
  Writing Process, Multi-Genre

1:30pm MDT

Unlock Ideas with Maps
Friday June 19, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
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Drawing inspiration from maps—real and imagined—in this generative workshop we’ll explore how to unlock memories, create worlds, and discover details we may not have thought of otherwise. We’ll consider recent and ancient cartographic maps but also search for what’s revealed in the often unmapped, such as radio waves permeating the air, light cast by street lights or wind chimes in a neighborhood. We’ll discuss how authors create narratives for prose and poems on the concept of maps and write from prompts based on maps we create (no artistry needed) and those we study.
Speakers
avatar for Malinda Miller

Malinda Miller

Faculty
Miller is a writer, teacher and editor who feels most at home at the top of Weston Pass in Colorado or in the Nevada desert where her family had a ranch just off Highway 50, aka the Loneliest Highway in America. She's an instructor for the Lighthouse Young Writers Program and facilitates... Read More →
Friday June 19, 2026 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
  Writing Process, Multi-Genre
 

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