Upcoming Events
PEN TO POWER: A Co-Writing Fundraiser
Join us to raise money for mutual aid groups while writing in community.
December 2, 2025 | remote on zoom | 5-7:30pm ET / 8-9:30pm ET
SCRAPS: A Composting Workshop
Use your notes app to grow your writing practice. Two hours packed with prompts, tools, and inspiration.
January 4, 2026 | remote on zoom | 10am-12pm PT / 12-2pm ET
1-on-1 Feedback Session
Get direct, actionable feedback on a piece of your writing in a private, 50-minute meeting with Ann or Jade. Limited time only!
February 7 - 20, 2026 | remote on zoom | Schedule exact date + time at booking
UNFURL: 12 Weeks to Your First Full Draft
Back by popular demand, our workshop for ambitious beginners! Establish your writing practice and complete an essay or short story.
Jan 17 - Apr 4, 2026 | remote on zoom | Saturdays 9-11am PT / 12-2pm ET
5-to-9: Structure and Tools for Writers with Day Jobs
Make room in your busy life for your creative practice.
Sept 19 - Oct 24, 2026 | remote on zoom | Saturdays 9-11am PT / 12-2pm ET
Past Events
UNSTUCK: 6 WEEKS TO REVIVE A PROJECT / Remote on Zoom / Apr-May 2025
You want to finish this book, this essay collection, this proposal, this screenplay… but you can’t seem to force yourself to open the document. The Midwives are here to help, as long as you’re ready to get intense. How? With six weeks of constructive confrontations designed to help you reconnect to your internal creative drive and understand how you work most effectively. Featuring Guest Writer Jami Attenberg!
UNFURL: 12 WEEKS TO YOUR FIRST DRAFT / Remote on Zoom / Jan-Apr 2025
A workshop designed for anyone who has a story to tell, but isn't sure the world wants to listen. Over the course of three months, we'll show you how to find the core of your idea and make it so resonant and relevant that you'll stop wondering whether anyone cares what you have to say. Because you'll know that your story matters. You’ll leave with a complete draft of a short story or personal essay. Everything you need to not just call yourself a writer, but to be a writer. This is the year. Featuring Guest Writers Ed Yong and Jacqueline Woodson!
BIG IDEA WEEKEND / In person in Los Angeles, CA / Oct 2023
An intimate, two-day retreat focused on the concept at the heart of your project. We have a clear-cut, proven strategy for evolving your writing ideas so that they are more urgent, more actionable, more exciting. Day 1 was all about generating and developing writing projects, with a portfolio of actionable techniques (and clear examples!). Day 2 concentrated on the Why and the How — essential for any good project.
UNSTUCK RETREAT / In person in Taos, NM / May 2023
A reset. A springboard. A week on a gorgeous, century-old adobe ranch surrounded by fruit trees under the Taos Mountains. We gathered 34 writers to share our vetted strategies and surprising techniques for strengthening their writing ideas. They got the behind-the-scenes dirt on our own processes and pitfalls. And they clocked some serious word-counts on their individual projects.
