New Writing Classes
Each class is designed to help writers deepen their craft in a thoughtful, supportive environment.
We have four new writing classes coming up. Each class is designed to help writers deepen their craft in a thoughtful, supportive environment.
Details are below. Space in each class is limited.
We offer a sliding scale for all courses, as well as a reduced rate for those who cannot attend live but would like access to the recordings. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at info@consequenceforum.org.
Slowing Down and Speeding Up: Playing with Time and Detail
Michele Lent Hirsch
Saturday, March 28 | Online
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. ET
Cost: $25
How does manipulating time affect the emotional impact of a piece of prose?
In this generative session, we’ll explore the effects and uses of expanding and compressing time on the page. Through discussion and guided exercises, participants will experiment with pacing, detail, and narrative movement to create more dynamic and intentional prose.
Following O’Brien: Stories Save Lives
Wayne Karlin
Saturdays, March 28 – April 18 | Online
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. ET
Cost: $100
“Stories save lives,” the author Tim O’Brien wrote.
This online seminar explores how fiction can convey the emotional truth of war, inspired by O’Brien’s ideas in The Things They Carried. Through close readings and writing exercises, participants will craft and workshop their own short stories, learning storytelling techniques and how fiction can illuminate personal experience and emotion.
Seeing Through Your Poem: The Art of Revision
Benin Lemus
Saturdays, April 4, 11, and 13 | Online
12:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET
Cost: $80
Revision is where poems often discover their fullest expression. In this three-session course, participants will develop practical strategies for revising poetry with clarity and confidence.
Together, we’ll look closely at drafts, identify opportunities for refinement, and explore approaches that strengthen both structure and voice.
Seeking Peace Through Poetry: Reading Palestinian and Israeli Poets
Hila Ratzabi
Wednesdays, April 8 – 29 | Online
7:00 – 8:15 p.m. ET
Cost: $125
In a time of heartbreak and exhaustion, poetry offers a way to pause, witness, and imagine otherwise. This course gathers Palestinian and Israeli poets in translation whose work confronts the human cost of war, the ache of loss, and the longing for home—including Hiba Abu Nada and Amiram Cooper, who died in the latest violence.
In a safe, supportive space, we’ll read, reflect, and write together, grappling with questions of grief, news, memory, and peace. Through guided exercises, you’ll craft new poems and leave with fresh drafts—and a deeper, more expansive sense of shared humanity.