Upcoming Workshops
Sundays, 2:00 – 4:30 PM



Beginning on June 22nd
Six Week Workshop

These workshops are combined classes, meaning fiction and creative nonfiction writers are welcome and will be working together. Class size is limited. Weekly exercises will be assigned, and each attendee should expect to have work ready to "workshop" at two different class meetings. Scheduling happens at the first class meeting. For further information, please contact Lisa at lisag412 [at] yahoo [dot] com.




Student Accolades


Cheryl Alu

  • "Whoever You Want Me to Be" (story) in Barcelona Review
  • "Breathe and the Sounds Will Follow" (story) in Other Voices
  • Stories featured at the Beverly Hills Library Short Fiction Series
  • Finalist for The Iowa Review Award in Fiction 2006
  • Finalist for Robert Olen Butler Prize
  • Story forthcoming in Del Sol Press Anthology


Neale de Sousa

  • "Dromedary" (creative nonfiction) in Barcelona Review
  • Creative nonfiction forthcoming in Swink
  • Poems published in Slipstream, Pearl, and Chiron Review


Marchelle Hammack

  • Columnist for the Long Beach newspaper the Beachcomber
  • Co-author of "Climbing Back Up" (memoir) with Kim Oeng


Madeline Holler


Vidya Madiraju


Melanie Martin

  • "Faith in Water" (poem) forthcoming in River Oak Review
  • "Verbal Charms" (poem) forthcoming in Alzheimer's anthology


John Sperling