Pathway: Expand & Discuss

Expand & Discuss Offerings

For readers and writers who love digging in, this pathway offers rich conversations and craft-focused discussions centered around books and big ideas. Grow, question, and engage with others who love to think critically about stories and storytelling.

Mentor Series April 2026
Mentor Series with Julian Talamantez Brolaski and Taiyon Coleman | Apr 24

Join us for for the final installment of the 2025-2026 Mentor Series readings featuring Mentors Julian Talamantez Brolaski and Taiyon Coleman, as well as Fellows Rae Rowe and Tina Gross.

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chaun webster event June 2026
Graywolf x Loft Book Launch: chaun webster's "Without Terminus: untraining an archive" | Jun 12

Join the Loft Literary Center and Graywolf Press for the launch of poet and nonfiction writer chaun webster's new memoir, "Without Terminus: untraining an archive."

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chaun webster craft seminar june 13
Craft Seminar—Against Arrival: Extending the Archive in Narrative Nonfiction | Jun 13

This generative craft workshop will utilize the methods that were instrumental in the composition of Without Terminus: untraining an archive, a book that traces the absences surrounding Webster’s maternal grandfather, his work as a Pullman porter, and the denial of his pension.

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Expand & Discuss Classes
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In-Person
Single Session
Craft Seminar: Writing Nature in Literary Fiction
Date
Time
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Price
$37.00
Tara Menon
Tara Menon
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In-Person
Single Session
Scene: the Drama Builder! (for Ages 15-18)
Date
Time
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Robert Voedisch
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Online
Single Session
Divinatory Poetics: Using Tarot and Images to Generate Poems Intuitively–A Class for Writers of Color and Indigenous Writers
Date
Time
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Price
$37.00
$33.30 (Friend)
신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin
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In-Person
Single Session
Flash Nonfiction Generator
Date
Time
Saturday, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Lizzie Lawson
Lizzie Lawson
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Online
8 Week
Writing the Illness Memoir: A Diversifying Writers Class
Date
Jun 15, 2026 - Aug 3, 2026
Time
Monday, 7 p.m. - Monday, 9 p.m.
Price
$296.00
$266.40 (Friend)
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Marianne Manzler
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Online
4 Week
Healing Through Writing
Date
Jun 16, 2026 - Jul 7, 2026
Time
Tuesday, 4 p.m. - Tuesday, 6 p.m.
Price
$148.00
$133.20 (Friend)
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Shama Shams
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Online
4 Week
Map Your Book
Date
Jun 17, 2026 - Jul 15, 2026
Time
Wednesday, 1 p.m. - Wednesday, 3 p.m.
Price
$148.00
$133.20 (Friend)
Rachel Werner
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In-Person
4 Week
Writing in Nature: Ecopoetics, Environmental Writing and Explorations
Date
Jun 17, 2026 - Jul 15, 2026
Time
Wednesday, 6 p.m. - Wednesday, 8 p.m.
Price
$148.00
$133.20 (Friend)
James Ellis
James Ellis
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Online
6 Week
Abolitionist Fiction
Date
Jun 17, 2026 - Jul 29, 2026
Time
Wednesday, 6 p.m. - Wednesday, 8 p.m.
Price
$222.00
$199.80 (Friend)
Taiwana Shambley
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In-Person
Single Session
The Craft of Fiction: Tell, Don't Show
Date
Time
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Allison Wyss
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Online
Double Session
Hybrid Prose: Prose Poetry & Flash Creative Nonfiction
Date
Jun 20, 2026 - Jun 27, 2026
Time
Saturday, 1 p.m. - Saturday, 3 p.m.
Price
$74.00
$66.60 (Friend)
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Courtney Harler
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Online
Single Session
poeTRYhealing
Date
Time
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Cassie Premo Steele
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In-Person
Single Session
The Craft of Fiction: Subtext and Subversion
Date
Time
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Allison Wyss
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In-Person
4 Week
The Poetry of Preoccupation
Date
Jul 8, 2026 - Jul 29, 2026
Time
Wednesday, 6 p.m. - Wednesday, 8 p.m.
Price
$148.00
$133.20 (Friend)
Christopher Vaughan
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Online
Single Session
Tell Me a Story
Date
Time
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
LeJuane Bowens
LeJuane Bowens
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Online
Single Session
Not a Love Poem, But Something Close
Date
Time
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Asa Drake
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In-Person
Single Session
The Craft of Fiction: Sense(s) and Sensibility
Date
Time
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Allison Wyss
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Online
Single Session
Submitting and Publishing Your Writing to Literary Magazines
Date
Time
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
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Adrianna Jereb
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In-Person
Single Session
Narrative Healing Through Minnesota Resistance
Date
Time
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Price
$74.00
$66.60 (Friend)
JR Dawson
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Online
Double Session
Publishing for Newbies
Date
Jul 22, 2026 - Jul 29, 2026
Time
Wednesday, 1 p.m. - Wednesday, 3 p.m.
Price
$74.00
$66.60 (Friend)
Rachel Werner
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In-Person
Double Session
Resisting the Border: A Creative Nonfiction Class for Writers of Color and Indigenous Writers
Date
Jul 22, 2026 - Jul 29, 2026
Time
Wednesday, 6 p.m. - Wednesday, 8 p.m.
Price
$74.00
$66.60 (Friend)
Victoria Blanco
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Online
Single Session
Writing Poetry Under Traumatic Fascism
Date
Time
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Cassie Premo Steele
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In-Person
Single Session
The Poetics of Hope: Writing and Reading Poetry
Date
Time
Saturday, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Marlin M. Jenkins
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Online
Single Session
Take the Leap: Submit Your Writing to Magazines and Journals
Date
Time
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Tina Tocco