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Spring 2026 Lineup
Craft Book Club
READ WITH US
Includes 4 books. We’ll meet January 12, February 9, March 9, and April 20.
Retreats
WRITE WITH US
Join us for an entire day of writing and learning together. We’ll meet January 24, February 28, March 28, and April 25.
Intensive
WORKSHOP WITH US
12-week intensive. We accept 12 people per track (poetry/prose). Starts January 22 and concludes April 23.
Nonfiction Class
WRITE WITH US
Led by Hea-Ream Lee, this 90-minute generative writing class focuses on place as a lens through which we view the world. This class meets February 22 from 3-4:30 pm.
Bookmaking
FINISH WITH US
Meets Wednesday nights on Zoom.
Generative Class
WRITE WITH US
Led by Claire Bateman, this 90-minute generative writing class features playful, process-oriented exercises. This class meets March 10 from 6-7:30 pm.
Generative Class
WRITE WITH US
Led by Mamie Morgan, this 2-day generative class for writers of all levels is an opportunity to play, invent, and create new material.
This class meets March 14 from 9am-12pm & March 15 from 1-3pm.
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Craft Book Club
Looking for guidance on improving your writing or navigating the publishing industry? Join Writeshare as we read 4 of our favorite books about the craft and industry. We’ll meet once to discuss each book (4x total). The price of your books is included in the cost.
Includes 4 books:
Save the Cat Writes a Novel, Jessica Brody
Writing Creativity and Soul, Sue Monk Kidd
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain, George Saunders
The Friend, Sigrid Nunez
We’ll meet 6:30-8pm at the Studio on four Mondays. Dates are January 12, February 9, March 9, and April 20.
Retreats
At Writeshare, we’re always looking for new ways to provide community, accountability and support. Instruction is an important part of that. But sometimes what you need is simply time and space to write.
Writeshare Retreats offer one day, once a month, all-inclusive reservations at the studio where you can find the space and support to focus completely on your project. We’ll begin with coffee, snacks and a generative writing session with one of our regular instructors. You’ll have your own workspace at the studio. We have maps for a one mile walk in the neighborhood when you need to move, and one of the offices will be available for working discussions with other writers. Additional options include a box lunch, and 30 minute feedback sessions with instructors. End the day with peer-led conversation about an aspect of craft, followed by a social hour where you’ll have the opportunity to share the best line you wrote over the course of day.
It’s a functional way to step away from distraction, and devote yourself to your creative life with guidance, spark, and support.
Schedule:
Check in and coffee: 8:45am
Warm up session: 9:00am
Writing Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Craft discussion: 4:00pm-5:00pm
Social Hour (and sharing)
Add-Ons:
Lunch (vegan and gluten-free options available): $15
Feedback meeting (30 minutes): $75
advance submission of up to 15 pages
300 words written feedback
We’ll meet January 24, February 28, March 28, and April 25.
Generative Class
In this 90-minute generative writing class that features playful, process-oriented exercises, you'll have plenty of time to write and share your fragments/beginnings/experiments/explorations in a supportive environment.
The prompts will be flexible, so all genres are welcome (fiction, poetry, nonfiction, hybrid/indeterminate).
This class is led by Claire Bateman and will meet on March 10 from 6-7:30 pm.
Claire Bateman received her M.F.A. in 1993 from Vermont College. She has taught at Chattanooga State University, Clemson University, and the Greenville Fine Arts Center. She is the author of eight poetry books. Her latest microfiction collection, The Pillow Museum, was published in 2025.
Nonfiction Class
The Dirt Beneath Our Feet: Writing Place
What if we thought about place in creative nonfiction as more than just the backdrop for our stories? What if place became, as essayist Sonya Huber wrote, a lens through which we view the world? In this generative, 90-minute class, we will consider techniques for evoking the places–the forests, parking lots, cities, and ecosystems–that we know best. We will close-read a diverse array of writers, and will work through exercises to hone our skills in writing about place in creative nonfiction.
This class is led by Hea-Ream Lee and will meet on February 22 from 3-4:30 pm.
Hea-Ream Lee is a writer interested in science and the natural world and the ways they transect human experiences. She has a background in biology and received an MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of Arizona.
Hea-Ream’s writing has appeared in Ecotone, Shenandoah, Terrain.org, Popula, and others, and her work has been anthologized in The Lyric Essay as Resistance (2023). She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference and the Wormfarm Institute. She is working on a book about seed banks and longing.
Generative Class
Beginning, Elsewhere
You’ve got a story to tell. Likely, you possess thousands. You’ve got a character who’s been living inside your noggin for months, a place that’s lighted or haunted you for years, a single piercing exchange of dialogue. In this course, we will take root and hopefully produce a lot: a suite of poems, that first chapter of a novel, a short story, a new loop of pages that clarifies the middle of a memoir. But first, we’ll play. Explore. Invent. Un-stump ourselves before digging our heels in.
I like that dichotomy—stomping around in the mud of innovation, but also buckling down to drive a long road of focused writing. Anyway, I’m ambitious. I think we can do both in a single weekend, and I can’t wait for us to spend that time together.
This course is for all levels of writers who create in any genre.
This class is led by Mamie Morgan and will meet on March 14 (9-12) and March 15 (1-3).
Mamie Morgan received an MFA from UNC Wilmington and a BA in English and Religious Studies from Wofford. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, Washington Square Review, The Oxford American, Fish Barrel Review, Nimrod, Muzzle, Four Way Review, Yemassee, Carolina Quarterly, Smartish Pace, The Yalobusha Review, Cimarron, Inkwell, and The Greensboro Review. She lives in the woods with her husband and their two dogs, Henrietta Modine and Wednesday Stewart.
Mamie has published two books of poetry, EVERYONE I’VE DANCED WITH IS DEAD and MY HUSBAND IS LEARNING TO DRAW.