Our Live Writing Workshops

on Zoom and in-person

Work with us directly in a small, supportive group of writers.

When you write in the Imaginative Storm, you’ll write in a way you’ve never written before. You’ll surprise yourself, even amaze yourself. And you’ll draw confidence and direction from the appreciative feedback of the other writers in the workshop.

By the end of even a single-session workshop, you’ll become acquainted with your voice, and you’ll be well on the way to transforming your inner critic into your inner cheerleader. Plus, you’ll have sparky new material for your work-in-progress, or perhaps you’ll realize you’ve started something new!

Zoom Workshops

Illustration by Joey Guidone of a man raking lines across the top of a large book

Write What You Don’t Know 10-session Zoom course

Explore the Imaginative Storm method with James Navé

Tuesdays, June 4 – August 13, 2024

3–5:30 pm PT / 6–8:30 pm ET, limited to 14 participants

  • Retrain your inner critic into your inner cheerleader

  • Banish writer’s block for good

  • Find your authentic writing voice

  • Fill your writing with emotional power

  • Learn to write fearlessly. Surprise yourself!

“It’s like meeting a part of yourself you didn’t know existed. What a gift!”

— Wendy Shaw, artist

In-Person Workshops

5-Day Memoir Intensive

with Allegra Huston in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

Allegra Huston at her desk writing, in Taos, New Mexico

October 21 – 27, 2024

Limited to 8 participants

Spend five days in beautiful Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, a UN World Heritage Site, and discover the possibilities for what your memoir might be. Return home energized and inspired by five intensive days of exploration, insight, and revelation.

You’ll spend the mornings with the group discussing the elements of memoir and writing to Imaginative Storm prompts. In the afternoons, Allegra will meet with each person individually, twice, for an hour (often more) each time, to give you whatever help you need: brainstorming, editorial notes, publishing advice, or just plain cheerleading.

“Write What You Don’t Know”

4-day Writing Transformation

with Allegra Huston and James Navé in Taos, NM

Coming in April 2025

Limited to 10 participants

Spend four enjoyably intense days with Allegra and Navé in the legendary artistic haven of Taos, NM. We’ll be based at historic Hacienda del Sol bed-and-breakfast, for a workshop that will transform your writing, and your approach to writing, forever. You’ll learn how to surprise yourself on the page, how to tell your story with authenticity and originality, and how to shape your work into something that intrigues a reader. You’ll leave with a powerful set of tools to take into the rest of your writing life.

Plus, you’ll eat delicious breakfasts at the Hacienda, visit artist’s studios, and enjoy a farewell dinner around Allegra’s kitchen table.