Craft Classes & Community

2024 Craft Classes

Jackson Hole Writers hosts craft classes every month of the year. These sessions are designed for writers of all levels and aim to provide a deep dive into specific aspects of the craft of writing. Participants develop skills and form community in fun and active learning environments. Both adult writers and young writers engaged in our Almost Authors programs love our craft classes

We also host monthly critique groups that provide opportunities for critical feedback in a supportive and generous environment. Join along anytime from the comfort of your home! Email us at info@jhwriters.org if you are interested in participating in a critique group.

Explore and practice with different approaches to incorporating the agency of other-than-human animals in contemporary fiction: bringing the tensions and trials of people within our larger community of life.

In this three-hour craft class, the instructor will provide excerpted examples from recently published novels for initial exploration of the topic and then offer practices using current news and scientific revelations. (volunteer participants reading excepts aloud to the group for stronger physical experience)

After building context through these examples, participants will:

work in groups to choose excerpts to practice with and to co-create an external plot arc,
write (as individuals or co-author teams) thru the voices of appropriate landscape characters and human characters to establish desires and challenges,
explore ways to express less familiar voices through the variety of potential POVs,
share and celebrate experiences of play, struggle, and breakthrough in writing in new voices. write postcards to yourselves focused on an idea for further exploration in their current work or a potential new story.

A month following the workshop, postcards will be mailed out to refresh the energy that rises in group situations and to energize an ongoing writing practice that incorporates our endangered larger world.

2024 Craft Classes

Author and Jackson Hole native, Bridget Crocker, led a one-day writing workshop held on the Snake River. A leading international river guide, Bridget has navigated some of the world’s biggest whitewater and trained legions of river guides the world over to run rivers through recognizing and strengthening their intuition. The line is there, we need only connect with the river through our intuition for it to be revealed. Channeling our creative intuition also uncovers the line in writing. Bridget will lead us in developing and trusting our creative intuition for resulting prose that gives voice to place and celebrates our connection to it.

This workshop is a partnership with Snake River Fund and Jackson Hole Writers.