Freedom to Write: Creative Writing Workshop
8 Wednesdays, 4:00 – 6:00 pm PACIFIC TIME.
Starting July 6. Live, interactive, small group. On Zoom.
- Dissolve creative block and discover a wellspring of inspiration
- Develop your authentic voice and unique gifts as a writer
- Learn tools of the craft to make your words shine
- Expand your creative palette
- Bring your creative dreams and projects to life
Open to writers in all genres and at all levels of experience. This creative writing workshop is powerfully effective for all kinds of writing. From poetry to screenplays, memoir to fiction, from writing as healing to writing for publication.
This is a highly-interactive, live (on Zoom), small group workshop, limited to 9 participants. We write together each week and share our writing in a safe, supportive, and stimulating environment. You’ll learn new skills and hone tools of the writer’s art and craft to make your writing sizzle. You’ll be encouraged to stretch yourself to try new forms, voices, and styles. Most of all, you’ll find yourself writing with ease, and most likely, astonishing yourself with the results.
This is my most popular (and fun!) class. Many students take it again and again as an aid to keep them inspired and writing, creating their best work, reaching their writing goals, and sharing with others. I bring new material to each series to help you grow.
Whether you have a project that’s stalled, are just exploring writing for the first time or returning to it after a long hiatus, Freedom to Write will have your words flowing beautifully onto the page.



Structure of the Workshop
Class size is limited to 9 participants, so you get lots of individual attention. We write together in class each week, using inspiring suggestions, trying on surprising exercises, and looking at a wide range of extraordinary examples from published writers. You have the chance to share your work and receive supportive feedback to help you develop your unique voice and grow as a writer.
We focus each week on a different aspect of the writer’s art and craft to help you develop your skills and broaden your creative palette. I also provide tools and writing prompts to keep you going at home, help you cultivate a regular writing practice, and support you in reaching your writing goals. And I often bring in amazing guest writers.
You also get one complimentary 30-minute private session with me to focus on your writing.
You are free to write in any medium—poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction. You can work on an ongoing project or simply see what arises each week.
Remarkable growth happens and projects get completed when people engage in this process.
And you’ll have fun!
I feel inspired to keep writing and sharing with others.
I would highly recommend working with and being mentored by Maxima. You will be in gifted and skilled, caring hands.“
Maxima Kahn has been leading workshops on writing and creativity since 2004, formerly at the University of California Davis Extension, and now at Brilliant Playground. A recipient of scholarships and fellowships to the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley and the Vermont Studio Center, she has been published in numerous literary journals, has twice been nominated for Best of the Net and was a finalist for the Atlanta Review Poetry Prize. Her book of poems, Fierce Aria, was published by Finishing Line Press and was a finalist for an Eric Hoffer Book Award.
Details
8 WEDNESDAYS • 4:00 – 6:00 pm Pacific Time
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July 6 – August 31 (no session on August 3)
Live online via Zoom. This is highly interactive. You need to be able to participate with both video and audio.
$397
$198 for BIPOC
How To Register
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There is no pro-rating for classes that you miss and no refunds once you register.
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unfurling naturally like the opening of a flower… allowing the work to write itself, because it’s been there all along, waiting for the pen to outline its form.”
Thank you so much for that Max. I was so impressed with the talents I perceived in the group. You had many really good writers in there and although my direction might have been a bit different, I enjoyed “meeting” so many gifted writers who obviously moved ahead with your direction and guidance. Thanks for your help. You’re a wonderful teacher and were tuned into the direction of your “kids.”
I’m looking forward to “seeing” you again and gaining the advice and direction of your teaching. Thank you so much for what you gave us.