What We're About at
the FORGE

Our Vision, Mission, & Plan

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Our Vision is to create more joy and harmony in the world.

Our Mission is to guide writers through a rigorous 10-month online creative writing program.

Here's the Plan:

Phase 1:

GENERATE the Work

Fun and generative writing workshops that develop our sense of word, sentence, & scene

Six bi-weekly workshops + feedback & direction from your mentor (Ellen, Irene, or Michael)

Phase 2:

Working Toward FORM

Take the hot lump of metal we've generated (goal: 50 pages) and find the form that brings your writerly intention into its sharpest focus

Seven bi-weekly fiction & nonfiction workshops + feedback & direction from your mentor

Phase 3:

REVISION & WORKSHOPPING

Shaping & honing & going even deeper into the work through four small group workshops, in which we will understand how to hear, use, & give feedback that helps writers attain their true intention for their work.

At the end of the course, each writer will experience a personal & in-depth conference in which we three will give our full intention to discussing the work, your experience, & future possibilities.

In the interest of inspiring ownership & authority in one's own work, as well as supporting a practice of ongoing literary citizenship, a public reading/sharing of each writer's work, in person or online, is a component of completion of the course. 

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THE FORGE 2022

Bi-Weekly Meetings: January thru June

Writing & Mentoring: July/August (no group meetings)

Bi-Weekly Meetings: September & October, Group Workshopping & Revision​

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Our Values, or, A Word About Why

Why come to The Forge?

Why commit to a writing program of such rigor? You already write. You have things you want to say. But many smart, dedicated writers such as yourself are missing what we consider critical pieces of the puzzle: a writing community, the kind that can listen & respond in helpful ways. How does The Forge fit in?

• We help shape the work, and coach you to control the fire & force of language through attention to craft

• We encourage you to step into your identity & purpose as a writer, and really own it

• We  embrace & support a mutual and inviting literary community that sustains and celebrates your individual writing practice

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If not now--when?