OUR PHILOSOPHY
Good feedback doesn’t tell writers what to write. It helps them discover what they’re trying to write.
Questions before conclusions.
Our instructors don’t open with the fix. They open with what the piece seems to be trying to do and let the writer arrive at the answer rather than trying to hand it to them.
Curiosity over certainty.
No one in the room has one correct read of your work. “I liked it” and “I didn’t” are the least useful things anyone can say. We pay closer attention to what the piece is doing than to whether we’d have done it ourselves.
Readers first.
Everyone who wants to write started as someone who loved to read. Our workshops treat that connection as the point. You’re not just submitting your work for critique, you’re joining a room of people who read closely and care what happens to it.
Conversation over performance.
A workshop isn’t a stage for the sharpest critique in the room. It’s a conversation between people who’ve actually read the work closely and want it to succeed.
Revision over perfection.
The goal of a workshop is never everyone’s approval. It’s a stronger piece of work—concrete steps you can act on the next morning, not just praise or a pile of unresolved notes.