People Writing ::
in the spirit of our times
live. online. 6 week course
Tuesday 6-8 pm (MT) USA.
Session One: September 1-October 6, 2026
Session Two: October 13-November 17, 2026
Though a share with all remembering, a measure of all
memory, is breath and to breathe you have to create a truce—
a truce with the patience of a stethoscope.
~ Claudia Rankin
Excerpt from Citizen
Each week we’ll read a small prose, poem, hybrid, or narrative piece curated by Katharine particularly for this constellation of class participants. The emphasis is woman and BIPOC authors. We’ll discuss the piece, receive prompts and write. You’ll share your draft from the previous week. Our discussion focus will be on form— lines that stand out, patterns, images, sound, feeling tone and the physicality of words. We’ll also discuss topics such as our personal writing process, lineage, and context and conditions of our selected authors.
This is a generative writing class, with no critique.
Read about this class, behind the scenes!
Session One: September 1-October 6, 2026
Session Two: October 13-November 17, 2026
Tuesday 6-8 pm (MT)
Each six-week session: $300.00
Katharine’s Substack Subscriber Discount Price: $260
NOTE: Discount to substack subscribers! Subscribe to Katharine’s substack: essays from the edge of town and receive a subscriber discount price of $260. Yearly or Founding subscription.
Inquiries and Registration Info email or text KK directly. Write People Writing as the subject.
303.702.1106
Katharine facilitates her classes with passion and generosity, finding the delicate balance between offering expertise while encouraging self-discovery, experimentation, and new awareness of forms, techniques, wonderfully endless possibilities.
Typically, I write about the same topics for cathartic release, but prompted writing supplemented by incredibly interesting readings helps me grow outside of self-imposed restrictions. Being able to grow in such a safe space, which is the atmosphere both Katharine and my newly found friends always create, allows for a lot more transference and trust in the skill sets I develop as both a writer and a reader. As a teacher of academic writing, also, I find that participating in places where writing can breathe and bend and expand is crucial to my ability to help my students break genre barriers, allowing for more permeable and pliable forms of communication across disciplines and subjectivities.
Katharine chooses poems that provoke and galvanize to discuss and inspire; she’s a thoughtful, brilliant curator. The class also provides a community of like- minded language lovers, who in a zoom salon atmosphere, can together discuss what feels most alive in the poems we analyze. The feedback, suggestions, support and encouragement that Katharine gives to each submitted poem feels as if one’s most private self was being lovingly witnessed.