Class

2026 Year-Long Fiction Writing Project with Junauda Petrus—June Online Cohort

Your novel is a journey of self discovery, creative research, story channeling and communing with the souls of the realm you are bringing into tangible, literary existence. It is written while living and being present to your life and the ways that the novel is singing through your existence. Writing a novel is very emotionally and creatively athletic, and takes the time it takes. Novel writing because of their length and depth invites us to commune and live with mysterious realms within and beyond us. In this class, you will be supported in creating a life that allows the novel you want to write to flow and hum within you and then on to the page. This online cohort will meet via Zoom for all cohort meetings for the entire year.

Through weekly cohort meetings, workshop, individual study, visits with guest writers and publishing professionals, and a full manuscript consultation, the Fiction Writing Project helps writers take their work to the next level. At the end of the program, Fiction Writing Project students participate in a final reading showcase to celebrate their hard work and hear from their completed manuscripts.

Please see the Fiction Writing Project page on the Loft website for program specifics and schedule.

One-on-one meetings with Junauda will also be held over the course of the year. These include one introductory meeting before the program begins, and one manuscript consultation session with Junauda after the program concludes (and you submit your final manuscript) on June 30, 2027.

Your program orientation meeting is scheduled to take place Wednesday, June 3, 2026, at 6pm online via Zoom.

Your final public reading will be Thursday, April 25, 2027, at 7pm online via Zoom.