🆆 Writing Classes 👩🏻💻
Self-Guided Micro Prose Workshops
Transform your writing in just 90 minutes! Each workshop (except Submitting) guides you through creating three pieces of micro prose, with lifetime access to workshop videos, resources, and downloadable PDFs. Return anytime—you'll never write the same prompt twice.
Available workshops on Writer-ish.com:
Foundation Series: Writing Micro Prose, Revising Micro Prose, Submitting Micro Prose
Theme Series: Beginnings, Writing the Familiar, Origins, The Kitchen Table, Found Objects, On the Move, The Body, The Family Tree
Participants receive an invitation to live Q&As (Zoom) twice a year.
Newsletter Workshops for Subscribers
Starting May 2025, Writer-ish launches its first newsletter workshop series, designed to fit your schedule and delivered right to your inbox.
For Paid Subscribers: Access complete self-paced workshops with new lessons released regularly. Each workshop includes carefully selected readings and writing assignments designed to help you develop a small body of work in micro and hybrid forms.
For Free Subscribers: Sample the first lesson of each workshop series.
2/1/25 Using Micro Memoirs to Tell Your Story
UCLA Extension | Saturday, 10:00-11:30 am PST | Zoom | Free
Registration opens January 18. Sign up here.
3/18/25 Full Draft in Six Weeks!?!? Power Your Writing with Chapbooks
Writers Bridge | Tuesday, 1:00-2:00 pm EST | Zoom
A conversation with Darien, Allison K. Williams, and Sharla Yates about why and how chapbooks can help you as a writer. Will post registration information when available, or sign up for my mailing list here to be notified.
3/26/25- 3/29/25 AWP Conference and Book Fair
AWP | Los Angeles, CA | In Person | $205 early bird
3/27 1:45 pm: Creative Confinement: Using Constraints to Amplify Your Work
Speaker(s): Kathleen Rooney, Moderator; Darien Hsu Gee, Naomi Cohn, Sharon De La Cruz, Tom McAllister
3/29 3:20 pm: Crafting Flash Narratives: Empowering Student Voices Through Micro Storytelling
Speaker(s): Britta Stromeyer, Moderator; Darien Hsu Gee, Grant Faulkner (100 Word Story), Kim Culbertson, Ran Walker
4/12/25 - 5/17/25 Zero to Chapbook: Fast Draft Your Micro Essay Collection in Six Weeks
Craft Talks | Saturdays, 2:00-4:00 pm EST (6 weeks) | Zoom
Registration opens at the end of January. Sign up here.
