EVENT LINK: https://loft.org/classes/2026-year-long-memoir-writing-project-kelly-sundberg-winter-online-cohort

FEE: $7,500 ($7,440 Friend rate)

2026 Year-Long Memoir Writing Project with Kelly Sundberg—Winter Online Cohort

2026 Year-Long Memoir Writing Project with Kelly Sundberg
Dates: Jan. 28–Dec. 9, 2026
Time: 6–9 p.m. CT
Level: Advanced • Genre: Creative Nonfiction
Location: Online (Zoom)
Sessions: 1-year program
Price: $7,500 ($7,440 Friend rate)

Join author Kelly Sundberg for a year-long memoir writing cohort designed for writers at any stage—starting fresh, revising a draft, or seeking guidance to finish a manuscript. Through weekly Zoom sessions, craft lessons, workshopping, and one-on-one mentor meetings, you’ll build skills in voice, scene, structure, and revision while shaping a compelling memoir. Includes guest authors, agents, and publishing insights.

Full details and schedule available at loft.org

EVENT LINK: https://loft.org/classes/2026-year-long-novel-writing-project-peter-geye-winter-online-cohort

FEE: Regular $7,500.00 / Friend $7,440.00

2026 Year-Long Novel Writing Project with Peter Geye—Winter Online Cohort

2026 Year-Long Novel Writing Project with Peter Geye
Dates: Jan. 29–Dec. 10, 2026
Time: 6–9 p.m. CT
Level: Advanced • Genre: Fiction
Location: Online (Zoom)
Sessions: 1-year program
Price: $7,500 ($7,440 Friend rate)

Work with novelist Peter Geye in a year-long fiction cohort designed to take your novel from first draft to polished manuscript. Through weekly Zoom sessions, craft lessons, workshopping, and one-on-one mentorship, you’ll explore structure, pacing, voice, revision, and the path to publication. Includes virtual guest speakers and a final public reading.

See the Loft’s Novel Writing Project page for full schedule and details.

EVENT LINK: https://galsguide.org/2025/09/02/2025-2026-writing-workshop/

FEE: $150—12 week workshop (A limited number of scholarships are available.)

Feminine Healing & Creativity Writing Workshop

Gal's Guide well-love writing workshop returns. For it's fifth year, this program will 100% online with live sessions as well as self paced videos. Perfect for a new year, a new you!

This year’s workshop will again focus on healing & creativity through an unapologetically feminine lens. Using the Mother Castle method, students will use writing and meditation to heal emotional wounds for creativity to flourish. This tool, developed by Dr. Leah “Riwo” Leach utilizes women’s history, mythology, Buddhist meditation, and compassion. Previous students found immense value in a process that allowed them to heal the hard stuff so they could write.

In this 12-week workshop, students from around the world, will also learn writing critique tools, receive feedback from their fellow writers, and have an opportunity for publication in the Gal’s Guide Anthology. Previous years this workshop was supported by National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Noblesville Creates, Indiana Arts Commission, and The Pacers Foundation.

Gal's Guide is flexible because we know lives get busy. You can take the classes live on Wednesdays, watch recordings, or a bit of both. Registered writers will have access to all pre-recorded videos and digital materials for 1 year. The live classes will not be recorded so that conversations about healing can stay private.

LIVE ONLINE OPTION: Classes will be Wednesday evenings 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Central, January 7 – March 25. Leah will lead the classes live online with group discussion, writing feedback, and questions answered. This version is highly recommended to foster your own unique writing community.

SELF LED VIDEO OPTION: Take the class at your own pace. Watch and pause videos as you need. From January – March you’ll still have access to writer feedback from Leah and your classmates.

*NEW* ONE-ON-ONE TIME: Schedule time with Leah for help with your writing and/or creativity.

WRITING COMMUNITY: Registered writers get access to a private Discord channel within the Gal’s Guide server to build community, ask questions, share stories, ask for feedback, and more.