2026 Summer Workshop Program
WEEK 1: June 21 - 26: Queer Week
On-site Housing Available
Wave Your Queer Flag | Miriam Klein Stahl
The Monstrous Body | Ilana Savdie
Stop Behaving, Start Creating | Autumn Wallace
Queering Lineage: a poetics of dis/inheritance | George Abraham
The Queer Story You've Never Seen Before | Alexander Chee
Utopian Writing | Andrea Lawlor
Political Love Poems | Franny Choi and Cameron Awkward-Rich
WEEK 2: June 28 - July 3
On-site Housing Available
Block Printing for Illustrators | Cecilia Ruiz
What Shouldn't Be | Chiffon Thomas
The Natural Palette - an exploration of botanical and earth-based color | Lena Wolff
Story & Structure | Celeste Lecesne
Sublime Aspiration | Dante Micheaux
The Trouble with Historical Fiction: an intensive revision workshop | Asako Serizawa
Inquiry and Image: A Workshop on Ekphrastic Poetry | Oliver de la Paz
WEEK 3: July 5 - 10
On-site Housing Available
Jump Start Etching | James Stroud
The Environmental Portrait | Ron Amato
Five Ways Forward: Place, Weather, Pathways, Relationships, and Space | Pete Hocking
Writing Personal Statements & Applying for Grants and Residencies | Abeer Hoque
Writing Emotional Stakes: Fiction Workshop | Lydi Conklin
Let the World Find You | Hieu Minh Nguyen
The Imagination and Its Rooms: A Week of Poetic Discovery | Rowan Ricardo Phillips
The Haibun: Writing Place, Time, and Wandering | Samyak Shertok
WEEK 4: July 12 - 17
On-site Housing Available
Waterless Lithography Workshop | Vicky Tomayko
Painting the Figure | Forrest Williams
Book Forms: The Shape of Thought | Janine Wong
The Poetics of Relationality | Santee Frazier
"Who Do You Think You Are?" | Saeed Jones
Strangeness, Curiosities, and Defamiliarization | Matthew Olzmann
Start in the Middle: Writing Memoir Now | Seema Reza
WEEK 5: July 19 - 24
On-site Housing Available
The Exchange | Jennifer Mack-Watkins
The Intimate Portrait | Jess T. Dugan
Expansive Painting | Megan Hinton
Cousins: skating the line between poetry and songwriting | Cornelius Eady
The Personal 'I' or Why Our Lives Matter | Vievee Francis
Love in the Time of War: A Fiction Workshop | Indira Ganesan
The Art of the Short Story | Cleyvis Natera
WEEK 6: July 26 - 31
On-site Housing Available
Cross-Pollination Print | Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas
Ritual Embrace: A Painting & Drawing Laboratory | Ruby T
The Art of Visual Storytelling | Lipe Borges and Julia Cumes
Leading with Voice: How to Craft Persona in Prose | Garrard Conley
Singing Your Own Song: Knowing and Honing Your Unique Voice | Keetje Kuipers
Making a Manuscript: Craft, Sequence, and Revision for Poets | Porsha Olayiwola
Witchcraft for Writers | Michelle Tea
WEEK 7: August 2 - 7
On-site Housing Available
Watercolor Monoprinting | Fred Liang
Motives, Modes, and Motifs: How and Why We Make Photographs | David Hilliard
Narrative Drawing | Carlos Francisco Jackson
Whose Story? Crafting POV from the First Sentence | Kelli Jo Ford
Non-negotiable Me: Writing the Story Only You Can Tell | Deborah Jackson Taffa
Narrative Form and Literary Craft of Indigenous Poetics | Michaela RedCherries
Patience As Practice | Nicole Sealey
WEEK 8: August 9 - 14
On-site Housing NOT Available - Off-site Housing Options
Pattern in Motion | Liz Collins
A Matter of Material: Recipes for Grounds, Paints, and Pastels | Dani Levine
The Intuitive Eye: The Art of Selecting and Sequencing Photographs | Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris-Webb
Speaking with Paradise: Poetry Engaging with Visual Art | Didi Jackson
Cut, Scratch, and Blend: Revision as Remix | John Murillo
Writing as Ceremonial Practice: At the right time. In the right place. For the right reason. | Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
Prose Writing for All Levels | Sarah Schulman
WEEK 9: August 16 - 21
On-site Housing Available
Print, Page, Plate: Intaglio Processes and Book Forms | Megan Foster
Kitchen Sink Casting | Megan Biddle
Playing with Paint | Joseph Diggs
The Trouble with Relationships. . . | Kimberly Blaeser
Memoir as Bewilderment | Nick Flynn
Fragmentation Plus Wholeness: Writing the Sequence Poem | Major Jackson
How to Write a Poem | Eileen Myles
