writing workshops
January 21 - February 18, 2026 | Wednesdays, 5:30 - 7 pm PST
Creative writing workshop
Dive deep into your writing practice with a five-week online workshop designed for beginning and advanced writers. In this course, we will focus on nonfiction, poetry, fiction, freewriting, and mixed-media, while infusing our work with elements of craft.
We will meet once a week on Zoom to give and receive supportive writing feedback as a community. Each week, we will focus on a different genre and practice craft elements.
In an effort to keep this course affordable, a packet of readings, writing prompts, and practice exercises will be sent out to all workshop participants.
Cost: $95 - $200 (Sliding Scale)
February 18 - March 18, 2026 | wednesdays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm PS
Poetry workshop
For poets of all levels seeking inspiration, spark, and community. Join us for a five-week online workshop, where we will follow our poetic muse through writing prompts, craft, form, and technique.
We will meet once a week on Zoom to give and receive supportive writing feedback as a community. Each week, we will focus on a different genre and practice craft elements.
In an effort to keep this course affordable, a packet of readings, writing prompts, and practice exercises will be sent out to all workshop participants.
Cost: $95 - $200 (Sliding Scale)
March 25 - April 22, 2026 | Wednesdays, 5:30 - 7 pm PST
Nature writing workshop
Join us for a five-week online writing workshop dedicated to the more than human world, where we will weave nature into works of nonfiction, poetry, fiction, freewriting, and mixed-media.
We will meet once a week on Zoom to give and receive supportive writing feedback as a community. Each week, we will focus on a different genre and practice craft elements.
In an effort to keep this course affordable, a packet of readings, writing prompts, and practice exercises will be sent out to all workshop participants.
Cost: $95 - $200 (Sliding Scale)
Workshop Instructor Bio:
Evonne Ellis is a poet, nature writer, and small business owner in Northern California. She earned Creative Writing MFAs in Nature Writing and Poetry at Western Colorado University in Gunnison, Colorado, where she instructed Intro to Environment and Sustainability. She has also instructed Intro to Creative Writing courses at Chadron State College. In an effort to make writing accessible and affordable for all, she's offering low-cost, sliding scale workshops at The Field Writing Institute.
She is currently writing The Lookout Chronicles, a memoir about mega-fire, a newbie fire lookout, and the unexpected lessons she learns from life on a mountain. Evonne’s writing and photography have been published in Santa Fe Literary Review, Duck Head Journal, Lookout Network, Frogpond Journal, and Voices Elevated: Ten Years of the Elk River Writers Workshop Anthology. When she isn’t writing or working, you may find Evonne on The Heart Path. She loves to wander, freewrite, and meet new people—like you!
