Writing Classes to Take in 2026 Based on Your Zodiac Sign
NOTE: Online classes are listed in Central Time. In-person classes take place at the Loft at Open Book in Minneapolis (1011 Washington Ave S.)
Start Writing Right Now with Tina Tocco
Jan 20 - Feb 24 | Tuesdays | Online | 6 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Fiction
Experimentation with Hybrid Memoir with Marianne Manzler
Feb 2 - Apr 6 | Mondays | Online | 10 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Creative Nonfiction
Reading and Writing Diverse Children's and Young Adult Fiction with Rachel Werner
Feb 5 - Feb 26 | Thursdays | Online | 4 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Children’s and YA Literature
Natures of Narrative Structure: Seeking Your Novel's Shape with Miranda Schmidt
Saturday, Feb 7 | Online | 1 - 4 p.m. | Fiction
Writing Our Queer and Trans Bodies: a Two-Day Intensive with Jesaka Long
Saturday, Feb 21 and Feb 28 | Online | Double Session | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Multigenre
Juicing the List Poem: Everything You Need to Get Writing with Roxanne Sadovsky
Mar 25 - Apr 15 | Wednesdays | Online | 4 Weeks | 1 - 3 p.m. | Poetry
Podcasting for Writers with Deborah Copperud
Saturday, Apr 18 | In-Person | 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. | Digital Storytelling
Unlocking Creative Flow with Anna Farro Henderson
Saturday, Apr 18 | In-Person | 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Creative Process
The Beginner's Guide to Starting Your Novel with Tamara Hogan
Jan 21 - Feb 25 | Wednesdays | Online | 6 Weeks | 1 - 3:30 p.m. | Fiction
What's Good: Essays of Wonder, Attention, and Delight with Claire Wahmanholm
Jan 29 - Feb 19 | Thursdays | In-Person | 4 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Creative Nonfiction
Writing Fantasy with JR Dawson
Feb 3 - Feb 24 | Tuesdays | In-Person | 4 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Fiction
Earth Joy Writing with Cassie Premo Steele
Feb 3 - Mar 10 | Tuesdays | Online | 6 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Multigenre
How to Earn a Living as a Writer with Rachel Werner
Saturday, Feb 7 | Online | 1 - 5 p.m. | Publishing and Career
Idea to Screenplay with Lillie Gardner
Feb 11 - Mar 18 | Wednesdays | Online | 6 Weeks | 1 - 3 p.m. | Play and Screenwriting
Writing Nature in Literary Nonfiction with Tara Menon
Saturday, Mar 21 | In-Person | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Multigenre
“Say What?” Writing Dialogue that Speaks to the Reader with Jennifer S. Brown
Jan 20 - Feb 10 | Tuesdays | Online | 4 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Fiction
The Art of the Everyday with Cynthia Chen
Jan 21 - Mar 11 | Wednesdays | Online | 8 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Poetry
Online Writing as Creative Practice with Nuria Sheehan
Saturday, Jan 24 | Online | 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Creative Process
Creating & Writing Your First TV Pilot (Comedy, Drama, Reality) with Bo Kaprall
Feb 11 - Apr 1 | Wednesdays | In-Person | 8 Weeks | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Play and Screenwriting
How to Write Your Podcast with John Moe
Saturday, Feb 21 | In-Person | 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Digital Storytelling
Fiction in Your Fact: Experimenting and Playing with Nonfiction with Andy Dehnart
Mar 3 - Apr 7 | Tuesdays | Online | 6 Weeks | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Creative Nonfiction
You've Finished Your Book—Now What? with Savannah Brooks
Saturday, Mar 28 | Online | 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. | Publishing and Career
Finding Your Voice with Christopher Tradowsky
Jan 20 - Mar 10 | Tuesdays | In-Person | 8 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Fiction
The Mother Writer with Kaia Preus
Jan 21 - Mar 11 | Wednesdays | In-Person | 8 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Multigenre
Breaking Form as Mode of Repair: A Generative Poetry Workshop with Ulrich Baer
Saturday, Jan 31 | Online | 1 - 5 p.m. | Poetry
Writing from the Heart with Roxanne Sadovsky
Feb 5 - Mar 5 | Thursdays | Online | 4 Weeks | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Multigenre
Memory and Memoir: A Vignette Approach to Life Writing with Jane Juffer
Saturday, Feb 7 | In-Person | 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. | Creative Nonfiction
To Market, To Market: How Professionals Look at Your Manuscript
with Jennie Goloby & Catherine Lundoff
Saturday, Feb 28 | In-Person | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Publishing and Career
Get Unstuck with Ramona Ausubel
Tuesday, Apr 28 | In-Person | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Creative Process
Gender Is Our Playground: Toward Inclusive, Informed, and Joyful Storytelling with Eliot West
Jan 20 - Feb 24 | Tuesdays | Online | 6 Weeks | 7 - 9 p.m. | Fiction
Poetry Comics with Suzanne Wise
Saturday, Jan 24 | Online | 1 - 4 p.m. | Poetry
Sustaining a Creative Career with Grants: An Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing with Liz Houlton
Saturday, Feb 7 | In-Person | 1 - 4 p.m. | Publishing and Career
Illustrate Your Story: Children’s Book Art for Adults with Emiko Rainbow
Saturday, Feb 21 | In-Person | 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Children’s and YA Literature
Discovering Your Memoir’s Lead Character with John Moe
Saturday, Mar 7 | In-Person | 1 - 4 p.m. | Creative Nonfiction
Fiction Basics: Characters & Characterization with Brian Malloy
Saturday, Mar 21 | Online | 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Fiction
How to End Things with Leila Nadir
Apr 1 - May 6 | Wednesdays | Online | 6 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Multigenre
Writing Through Challenging Times: Journaling for Self-Care with Brenda Hudson
Jan 21 - Feb 11 | Wednesdays | Online | 4 Weeks | 1 - 3 p.m. | Creative Process
Trust Your Writing with Kate St. Vincent Vogl
Jan 28 - Apr 15 | Wednesdays | In-Person | 12 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Multigenre
Fiction Basics: Five Parts of Story with Brian Malloy
Saturday, Feb 14 | Online | 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Fiction
Developing a Daily Creative Writing Practice with Heidi Newbauer
Saturday, Feb 14 | Online | 1 - 4 p.m. | Creative Process
The Matriarchs: Poets of the Feminist Canon & Writing in Their Wake with Dylah Ray
Saturday, Mar 14 | Online | 1 - 4 p.m. | Poetry
Class of Delights: Writing the Daily Ode with Inspiration from Ross Gay with Anna Molenaar
Mar 10 - Apr 14 | Tuesdays | Online | 6 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Creative Nonfiction
Stand by Your Plan: Practices for Sticking with Manuscripts with Kelly Foster Lundquist
Saturday, Apr 11 | Online | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Multigenre
Fiction Writing Jumpstart for the New Year with Lacey Dunham
Saturday, Jan 24 | Online | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Fiction
The Power of Your Personal Story with Jessie Sholl
Jan 26 - Apr 20 | Mondays | Online | 12 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Creative Nonfiction
From Page to Publication with Kelly Van Sant
Feb 5 - Mar 26 | Thursdays | Online | 8 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Publishing and Career
First Steps into Writing with Patricia Hoolihan
Mar 3 - Apr 7 | Tuesdays | In-Person | 6 Weeks | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Basics
Museum as Muse: Transforming Art into Poetry with Ekphrasis with Lindsey Schaffer
Saturday, Mar 14 | Online | 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Poetry
Goal, Motivation, Conflict, and Stakes for Fiction Writers with Eliot West
Mar 24 - Apr 14 | Tuesdays | Online | 4 Weeks | 7 - 9 p.m. | Fiction
Finding Your Writing Process with Michael Robinson
Saturday, Apr 18 | In-Person | 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Creative Process
Novel Writing with Rafael Frumkin
Jan 21 - Apr 8 | Wednesdays | Online | 12 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Fiction
Controlling Your Narrative In the Media: Publishing Personal Essays with Shanetta McDonald
Saturday, Jan 24 | Online | 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Publishing and Career
How to Use Unreliable Memory to Build Trust with the Reader with Billy Lezra
Feb 5 - Feb 26 | Thursdays | Online | 4 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Creative Nonfiction
Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion with Allison Wyss
Feb 5 - Mar 12 | Thursdays | Online | 6 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Fiction
Take the Leap: Submit Your Writing to Magazines and Journals with Tina Tocco
Saturday, Feb 28 | Online | 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Publishing and Career
Stop Making Sense with Kathryn Kysar
Saturday, Apr 11 | In-Person | 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. | Poetry
Writing the Illness Memoir with Marianne Manzler
Jun 15 - Aug 3 | Mondays | Online | 8 Weeks | 7 - 9 p.m. | Creative Nonfiction
Introduction to Fiction with Holly Day
Jan 22 - Mar 12 | Thursdays | In-Person | 8 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Fiction
Feedback Workshop: Work in Progress with Aurelia Wills
Jan 28 - Apr 15 | Wednesdays | Online | 12 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Fiction
Shoots and Sprouts: Beginnings in Poems with Christopher Vaughan
Saturday, Jan 31 | In-Person | 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Poetry
Striking Satires for Social Change with Collaborative Writing with Suzanne Ondrus
Saturday, Feb 21 | Online | 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Multigenre
You Don’t Have to Tell the Truth: Omission, and Speculation in Poetry with Asa Drake
Saturday, Mar 14 | Online | 1 - 4 p.m. | Poetry
Writing Book Reviews with Savannah Brooks
Saturday, Mar 21 | Online | 1 - 4 p.m. | Creative Nonfiction
Mini but Mighty: Writing Macro with Kathryn Ganfield
Saturday, Apr 4 | Online | 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. | Multigenre
Let Your Characters Take the Wheel with Josh Cook
Jan 20 - Mar 10 | Tuesdays | In-Person | 8 Weeks | 12 - 2 p.m. | Fiction
Write Your Life: An Essential Guide to Writing Memoir with Kate St. Vincent Vogl
Saturday, Jan 24 | In-Person | 1 - 5 p.m. | Creative Nonfiction
Poetics of Place: Writing at the Intersection of Nature & Queerness with KD Hack
Saturday, Jan 24 | Online | 1 - 5 p.m. | Poetry
Play, Process, and Practice: Snowy Edition with Jesaka Long
Jan 26 - Feb 16 | Mondays | Online | 4 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Creative Process
Cold & Crystal Clear: Writing About Winter with Kathryn Ganfield
Saturday, Feb 28 | Online | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Multigenre
Land a Byline with a Book Review with Deborah Copperud
Saturday, Mar 21 | In-Person | 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. | Publishing and Career
Worldbuilding: The Keys to Writing Immersive Setting with Jackie Cangro
Saturday, Apr 4 | Online | 1 - 5 p.m. | Fiction
Polish Your Portfolio with Heid E. Erdrich
Jan 21 - Feb 11 | Wednesdays | Online | 4 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Poetry
How to Build a Universe from Scratch with Ruth Joffre
Saturday, Jan 24 | Online | 1 - 4 p.m. | Fiction
Hope and Imagination in Environmental Writing with Wendy Johnson
Saturday, Feb 7 | Online | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Multigenre
Flash Memoir: Life Stories in Under 500 Words with Brenda Hudson
Saturday, Mar 7 | Online | 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Creative Nonfiction
Powerful First Pages: Pro Tips, Pitfalls, and Practical Advice with Tamara Hogan
Saturday, Mar 28 | In-Person | 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Publishing and Career
Crafting Powerful Scenes—The Building Blocks of Story with Nigar Alam
Saturday, Apr 11 | In-Person | 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Fiction
Fiction Basics: Creative Language with Brian Malloy
Saturday, Apr 11 | Online | 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Fiction
Healing Through Writing with Shama Shams
Jun 16 - Jul 7 | Tuesdays | Online | 4 Weeks | 4 - 6 p.m. | Creative Nonfiction
Writing in Verse for Middle Grade and Young Adult with Shilpa Kamat
Jan 27 - Apr 14 | Tuesdays | Online | 12 Weeks | 6 - 8 p.m. | Children’s and YA Literature
Unlocking the Mystery of Metaphors with Jennifer S. Brown
Saturday, Jan 31 | Online | 1 - 5 p.m. | Multigenre
The Poetics of Delusion: Memory, Forgetting, & the Fragment in Poetry with Adedayo Agarau
Saturday, Feb 7 | Online | 1 - 4 p.m. | Poetry
Evil and Empathy: How to Create Complexity in Villains and Other Characters with Allison Wyss
Mar 3 - Apr 14 | Tuesdays | Online | 6 Weeks | 1 - 3 p.m. | Fiction
Nostalgia, Memory, and Confession—Writing Your Memoir with Holly Day
Mar 4 - Mar 25 | Wednesdays | Online | 4 Weeks | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Creative Nonfiction
Writing Queer Resistance Through Flash Fiction with Adrianna Jereb
Saturday, Mar 28 | Online | 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Fiction
How to Pitch Anything with Laura Goode
Thursday, Apr 9 & Saturday, Apr 11 | In-Person | 2 Sessions | 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Publishing and Career
All classes listed above are for adults. If you’re looking for youth, go here. You can browse all of our classes by date/genre/location here.