Live & Recorded Classes
Find community and grow your craft in our online workshops. Whether you’re a new writer or a well-published pro, you’ll find motivation, structure, constructive criticism, and a dedicated cohort.
Upcoming Class Calendar:
- ASS IN CHAIR SESSION, January 11, 2-3:30 ET
- EXPANDING A DIGITAL PRESENCE: Extend Your Website’s Reach with SEO, by Jackson Tatge, January 25, 2026, 2-4 ET
- ASS IN CHAIR SESSION, February 8, 2-3:30 ET
- ASS IN CHAIR SESSION, March 8, 2-3:30 ET
- ASS IN CHAIR SESSION, April 12, 2-3:30 ET
- ASS IN CHAIR SESSION, January 11, 2-3:30 ET
- EXPANDING A DIGITAL PRESENCE: Extend Your Website’s Reach with SEO, by Jackson Tatge, January 25, 2026, 2-4 ET
- ASS IN CHAIR SESSION, February 8, 2-3:30 ET
- ASS IN CHAIR SESSION, March 8, 2-3:30 ET
- ASS IN CHAIR SESSION, April 12, 2-3:30 ET
- SUNDAY, January 11, from 2-3:30 pm ET
- SUNDAY, February 8, from 2-3:30 pm ET
- SUNDAY, March 8, from 2-3:30 pm ET
- SUNDAY, April 12, from 2-3:30 pm ET
Cost: $5. Open to: All Writers
Are you struggling to find writing time? Showing up for your writing practice is the hardest part—life knocks you off track.
Cleaver Magazine to the rescue! You don’t have to go it alone. Join us for our monthly Ass in Chair Sessions, a once-a-month, 90-minute commitment to your writing practice. With the communal energy that comes from writing together, you will make progress towards your writing goals, one word, one paragraph, one page at a time—by getting your Ass in Chair time. We’ll offer an optional prompt at the beginning—who knows where it will take you?
Each session costs $5 (because you’re more likely to show up for yourself if you have some skin in the game), and happens on the second Sunday of every month. Make the commitment to yourself. Register here. These sessions are not recorded.
Instructor: Jackson Tatge
Date: Sunday, January 25, 2026, 2-4 PM ET on Zoom
Can’t make it on January 25th? No problem. A recording will be sent to all registrants.
Cost: $60. Open to writers of: All genres
Now that your author website is live, it’s time to help readers—and search engines—find it. This workshop dives deeper into search engine optimization (SEO), equipping you with the tools and strategies to increase your site’s visibility and grow your audience. Tailored specifically for writers, this hands-on class will demystify how search engines work and teach you how to use keywords, content structure, metadata, and analytics to your advantage. You’ll learn how to attract organic traffic, improve your site’s ranking, and build a long-term presence online without paid ads. Whether you’re launching a new book, growing your newsletter list, or simply hoping to connect with more readers, this class will help you turn your website into a powerful discovery tool. Bring your existing site, and leave with a plan to make it work even harder for you. Read about Jackson here.
BROWSE OUR LIBRARY OF RECORDED CLASSES
Marnie Goodfriend: Writing the Body
In this workshop, we’ll use guided exercises and short readings to generate new material from lived experiences, such as eating, politics, aging, gender, health, intimacy, trauma, and crime.
Are we ever really objective when we write ourselves onto the page? This class offers tips for writing about yourself with complexity and power.
Beth Kephart: The Art of the Telling Detail
In this class, we’ll take note as details evolve across pages, and discuss the additive impact. Generative prompts will also be offered.
Beth Kephart: Writing Advanced by Categories: Obsessions into Stories
This workshop will use guided exercises and short readings to generate new material from lived experiences, such as eating, politics, aging, gender, health, intimacy, trauma, and crime.
Beth Kephart: Transcending the Tumult: Write Right Now
In this master class, Beth Kephart will share brief passages from writers who have offered written proof of beauty and meaning during the noisiest times.
Megan Stielstra: Let Others Carry It: Publishing as Practice
This class reframes publication as a vital and informative part of the writing practice, as opposed to rejection/acceptance roulette.
Megan Stielstra: Get Out of Your Head
In this class, we’ll take our writing out of the head and into the body, generating new work and digging into material you’re already exploring.
Megan Stielstra: Urgency and the Personal Essay
In this class, we’ll engage in activities to get experiences out of the body and onto the page, encourage risk and discovery, and examine literary craft in new ways.
Megan Stielstra: Building a Successful Rewriting Practice
We write what is urgent to us; we rewrite to make it urgent for others. This lightning-bolt session examines rewriting as an invitation to invite other people—readers—into your writing practice and, in many ways, your own head and heart.
Students will leave this class with an understanding of character development and the aspects of craft involved in creating characters on a small canvas.
Kathryn Kulpa: Submit Your Flash (and Get It Published)!
This class will help writers at all levels untangle the sometimes daunting process of taking your flash and microfiction from private to public.
Francine Witte: Sharpen, Shift, Surprise: Revising Flash Fiction
You’ve written the draft. Now what? This interactive session explores revision as a creative act, not just a clean-up job.
Kathy Fish: Ready! Set! Write!
Expect to leave this session with three exciting flash drafts and an abundance of tools and tricks to call upon the next time you face the blank page.
Sheree L. Greer: Point of View as Play and Practice
In this class, writers explore point of view as a craft element, an opportunity for play, and a portal of exploration in prose and in creative practice.
Sara Levine: Delusions of Grammar
This class is a high-energy exploration of the rhetoric of grammar. We’ll look at how writers make decisions when they confront a sentence.
Sophie Lucido Johnson: Write Funny
In this class, we will focus on the nuts and bolts of humor writing, and practice ways to incorporate levity into all types of compositions.
Andrea Caswell: Revision Revolution
This class reframes revision as a dynamic collaboration between writer and text, rather than a combat sport.
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll create a professional website tailored to your unique voice and brand as a writer.
Morgan Larocca: Be Your Book’s Best Advocate
In this masterclass, we’ll peel back the curtain and look into how publicity works to advance your book at every stage in your writing process.
Sophie Lucido Johnson: Building a Writing Practice with Substack
In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to create, grow, and monetize a successful email newsletter using Substack.
Anni Liu: Behind the Covers: Publishing Your Book
In this class, we will provide insight into the journey of publication – from both the writer’s and the editor’s perspective.
This two-hour masterclass will equip aspiring writers with the skills, insights, and strategies to craft compelling MFA applications.
Jen Mathy: YOU, INC.: Building Your Writing Brand
In this class, we’ll talk about your small-business “must-haves,” and look at best practices across the literary community.
Chris Callison Burch: What Writers Need to Learn about AI and Large Language Models
This masterclass explores the impact of AI on the writing profession, from creative possibilities to practical concerns.
CLEAVER CLINICS
Would you like personal editorial feedback for your work-in-progress?
Nonfiction Clinic
1-on-1 with Sydney Tammarine
(on leave Dec 1 through June 1, 2025)
Short Story Clinic
Nonfiction Clinic
1-on-1 with Andrea Caswell
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