SMALL STORIES :: for (various sized) People

A WRITING CLASS Online| 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

 

October 13-November 17, 2026

Tuesday 6-8 pm (MDT)

Read about this class, behind the scenes!

Each six-week session: $300.00

Katharine’s Substack Subscriber Discount Price: $260

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Questions and to see if this is for you: katharinekaufman@gmail.com

This group emphasizes, reading published work, discussion, writing as a practice and sharing our early drafts.

You’ll write ::

• stories that fit in the palm of your hand
• poems and prose poems
• alphabet stories
• little essays
• shy narratives that hide
• poems with repeated words, sounds
• notes
• stories that fold to fit in a crack of a stone wall
• hybrid forms and forms that don’ t want to be defined
• the space between

You’re invited to ::

• develop your own daily writing ritual
• discover and read authors you relate to more deeply.
• follow where your pen takes you.
• write what you could not speak.

The rhythm of each meeting ::

•  pause and sit for a few minutes
• short writing time
• read a small story, essay or poem (leaning toward women and BIPOC authors)
•  longer time to write
• share your draft from last week’s prompt
• a small discussion
• listening to others poems/prose

Each week you’ll be given a new writing prompt based on the reading chosen for the group.

This is a generative writing class. No critiques.

An aside:

I started this class at the beginning of the pandemic. At that time I understood I could not write essays as I had been writing them. I could write short things, simple things; and then be done, and go dig something, walk, clean the sink. I thought this might be familiar— and I thought of you. The class has evolved to become much more personally curated. My choice of readings and prompts are based on the events of the week, day and the writing of those attending the class.