Writing Workshops
Join the Weekly Writing Circle
The Writing Circle is the easiest way to try Imaginative Storm, at a minimal cost. It meets every Saturday on Zoom for one hour. A facilitator offers a prompt, you write, and a few brave volunteers read aloud. That is the whole shape of it, and it is surprisingly powerful.
You do not need a project or any experience to join. Plenty of regulars came for a single Saturday and simply never left. It asks almost nothing of you and tends to give back more than you expect. If you are not sure where to begin, begin here.
Online Creative Writing Workshops for Every Stage of Your Journey
There is no single right way to be a writer, so there is no single workshop that fits everyone. Imaginative Storm's creative writing workshops span the whole range, from a free hour on a Saturday morning to a ten-week training that reshapes how you work. What they share is a belief that the page opens up once you stop straining for the perfect sentence and start writing the true one.
Every workshop runs on the same engine: short timed prompts, real craft instruction, and a small group that reads your work with attention. You write during the session, not after it. You hear your words out loud, and you find out what you actually made. Wherever you are in your writing life, there is a workshop here built for that stage, and a next step waiting when you are ready for it.
We run online writing workshops for writers anywhere in the world, alongside in-person experiences for those who want to gather in a room. You choose the level of commitment. The method stays the same, and so does the result: writing you did not know was in you.
Beginners sit alongside published authors here, and both leave with something. The point is never to sort writers by skill. It is to give each of them the conditions to do their best work, then get out of the way.
The 10-Week Writer Training Program
When you are ready to make writing a genuine practice, the 10-Week Writer Training gives it structure. Over ten weeks you work through the foundations of storytelling, voice, narrative, character, and setting, guided directly by Allegra Huston and James Navé. Each week builds on the one before it, so the skills accumulate instead of scattering.
By the end you will have written forty new pieces and assembled a creative toolbox you will keep using long after the course is over. You also write inside a steady cohort, the same faces week after week, which is its own quiet engine of accountability. This is the workshop for writers who want momentum that lasts, not just a good weekend.
Online Writing Course
Our Imaginative Storm online writing course helps you start, continue, and finish any type of writing, like memoirs, fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction. Learn writing skills with our self-paced audio and video courses, which use the Imaginative Storm method and direct instruction. You apply it to the work you actually want to do. It's the difference between a class you sit through and a course that changes how you write.
What sets our video and audio writing courses apart is an unusual combination of both pure freewriting and craft theory. Most courses do one or the other. So you either have raw pages and no idea what to do with them, or dry craft theory with nothing of your own to apply it to. The Imaginative Storm self-paced audio or video writing course gives you both at once. Generative freedom and real technique, in the same course. And you can go through the course at your own pace whenever you have time.
Virtual Writing Intensives
Sometimes a weekly hour is not enough, and a multi-day retreat is more than your schedule allows. A Virtual Intensive sits between the two. It is a concentrated online session, longer and deeper than a Circle, with room to push past the surface and make real progress in a single sitting.
You get the same prompts, craft instruction, and community, delivered in a focused block of time you can join from anywhere. Writers often arrive stuck on a piece and leave with a way through it. It is the fastest way to feel your writing shift without leaving home
Regional Writing Workshops Near You
A screen can do a lot, but some writers want to be in the same room. Imaginative Storm periodically brings in-person creative writing workshops to cities across the United States, so you can write shoulder to shoulder with other writers for an afternoon or a day.
The format is the one you know, prompts, craft, and reading aloud, with the added charge of a live room and faces around the table. Check the schedule to find a writing workshop near you, and if we have not reached your city yet, you can ask us to bring one. There is something about writing in the same physical space that even the best video call cannot replace.
Which Writing Workshop Is Right for You
Not sure which one to choose? Start with what you need right now. Want to test the waters with no risk? The Writing Circle. Ready to build a real practice? The 10-Week Training. Short on time but hungry to go deep? A Virtual Intensive. Craving a room full of writers? In-person retreats. Use the guide below to find the fit that matches where you are today.
What Writers Are Saying About Our Workshops
The best case for these workshops is the writers who keep coming back for them.
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“You have a jewel here; the world needs Write What You Don't Know! It took me into seeing things so much deeper and from different angles. This experience has been beyond anything I could have imagined.”
— Krista T., North Carolina
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“This course has been transformative for me. It opened a gate to a kind of expression that I can't shut again - and I wouldn't want to. There's something about the Imaginative Storm process that evokes extraordinary depths from each of us.”
— S. K., New York City
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“I appreciated how the Write What You Don't Know course focused me. That first leap was like I had to jump over a canal, and then I was on the other side, and writing! This course has been really helpful, and it's been valuable to be part of a community.”
— Raechel B., San Miguel de Allende
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“When I started, I didn't have the path I have now. My writings in this course have revealed what I want to do with my writing. I haven't written like this before!”
—Kelsey W., Oklahoma
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“This has really been valuable. For me the best thing was learning how to develop plot—something I've always struggled with. The variation and quality of writing in the group were amazing.”
— Kaye R., Torrance, CA
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“The course was full of rich, dense, and thought-provoking content. It was less like a class and more like an experiment in humanity. My limitations never limited me."
— Arlene S., Los Angeles
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“Because of this course, I'm on a roll now. I've got momentum. More than anything, the Write What You Don't Know course has kept me sane in a crazy time and helped me make some sense of a lot of nonsense.”
— Katerina T., Los Angeles
