In this generative workshop we’ll explore how to write characters inspired by the self in ways that leave room for them to grow into their own truths! Writing exercises included!
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/writ...
This intensive will offer strategies to help writers generate artist statements and project summaries and make applications feel more manageable and less stressful! We’ll also touch on how to select writing samples, preparation, and more!
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/dont...
Through worldbuilding exercises, excerpts, and generative writing, this generative intensive will delve into crafting fantastical, magical, and strange settings that stem from the world around us and the world of our minds!
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/stra...
Working through familial and historical archives, this generative craft intensive engages how we can grapple with the difficulty of research through memoir, poetry, and hybrid texts! Together, we will discuss, write, and share.
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/the-...
In this generative craft intensive we’ll explore how characters’ bodies and gestures evoke emotions in readers. We’ll also play with writing exercises that place us inside our characters’ bodies, and much more! All are welcome!
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/evok...
Calling all Portland friends!!!
Please join us on Thursday, April 23rd for a night of readings in partnership with the Carolyn Moore Writers House! A reception will conclude our evening together.
We hope to see you there!
As a longtime reader and fan of Tin House books, I can hardly believe that I'll be going to the @mccormackwc.bsky.social's workshop in Oregon this summer! I’m so excited and terrified! I can’t wait!
#mwcsummer
Media description: An ad for an online class. A headshot of a person with shoulder length hair smiling into the camera. Text reads: McCormack Writing Center, Craft Intensives, Noticing the Noticing in Memoir with Jeannie Vanasco, Sunday, April 19, 10 AM – 1 PM PT/ 1 PM – 4 PM ET
In this intensive, we'll move back-and-forth between conversation and generative exercises. The goal is for you to leave the seminar with new writing you’re excited about and strategies to help you keep writing!
Materials included!
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/noti...
Media description: An ad for an online class. A headshot of a person with dark shoulder length hair smiling into the camera. Text reads: McCormack Writing Center, Craft Intensives, Writing Semi-Autobiographical Characters with Natalia Sylvester, Sunday, May 24, 12 PM – 3 PM PT/ 3 PM – 6 PM ET
In this generative workshop we’ll explore how to write characters inspired by the self in ways that leave room for them to grow into their own truths. Writing prompts and exercises included!
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/writ...
Explore our craft intensives for writers!
Each intensive offers focused time, thoughtful guidance, and a supportive learning environment to help writers grow, experiment, and deepen their practice. Scholarships are always available!
Learn more: mccormackwritingcenter.org/classes/
In this intensive, through generative prompts and exercises, we’ll challenge ourselves to write familiar places with fresh perspectives and words. This workshop encourages creative exploration and is suitable for writers at any stage!
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/writ...
Media description: An ad for an online class. A photo of a person with long blonde hair sitting on a bed. Text reads: McCormack Writing Center, Craft Intensives, What Burns Must Be Beautiful: Following Shame to the Page with Kimberly King Parsons, Saturday, May 30, 10am - 1pm PST, 1pm - 4pm ET
This virtual intensive explores the productive relationship between shame and literary craft, examining how writers can harness feelings of discomfort and vulnerability to create more authentic, resonant work. Writing exercises included!
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/what...
In this generative intensive, we’ll use prompts to create story-worthy characters and explore how elements such as repetition, reversals, and suspense and tension-building can help us determine the contours of the worlds we create!
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/an-o...
Media description: An ad for an online class. A head shot of a person with long dark hair looking into the camera Text reads: McCormack Writing Center, Craft Intensives, Strange Places with Nova Ren Suma, Sunday, May 17, 11 AM – 2 PM PT/ 2 PM – 5 PM ET
Through worldbuilding exercises, excerpts, and generative writing, this generative intensive will delve into crafting fantastical, magical, and strange settings that stem from the world around us and the world of our minds! Scholarship available!
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/stra...
Media description: An ad for an online class. A headshot of a person with shoulder length hair smiling into the camera. Text reads: McCormack Writing Center, Craft Intensives, Noticing the Noticing in Memoir with Jeannie Vanasco, Sunday, April 19, 10 AM – 1 PM PT/ 1 PM – 4 PM ET
In this intensive, we'll move back-and-forth between conversation and generative exercises. The goal is for you to leave the seminar with new writing you’re excited about and strategies to help you keep writing!
Materials included!
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/noti...
Media description: An ad for an online class. A headshot of a person with long, dark hair leaning their head on one hand. Text reads: Don’t Let an Artist Statement Stop You!: Demystifying the Conference and Residency Application with Reena Shah, Saturday, April 18, 9 AM – 12 PM PT/ 12 PM – 3 PM ET
This intensive will offer strategies to help writers generate artist statements and project summaries and make applications feel more manageable and less stressful! We’ll also touch on how to select writing samples, preparation, and more!
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/dont...
In this intensive, through generative prompts and exercises, we’ll challenge ourselves to write familiar places with fresh perspectives and words. This workshop encourages creative exploration and is suitable for writers at any stage!
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/writ...
Media description: An ad for an online class. A photo of a person in a dress with one hand holding their opposite wrist. Text reads: McCormack Writing Center Craft Intensives, The Ghost Archive with Jane Wong, Sunday, May 3rd, 10 AM – 1 PM PT/ 1 PM – 4 PM ET
Working through familial and historical archives, this generative craft intensive engages how we can grapple with the difficulty of research through memoir, poetry, and hybrid texts! Through readings exercises, we will discuss, write, and share.
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/the-...
Media description: An ad for an online class. A headshot of a person with short hair leaning their head on one hand, sitting in a chair. Text reads: McCormack Writing Center, Craft Intensives, An Occasion For the Telling with Jonathan Escoffery, Sunday, April 26, 10 AM – 1 PM PT/ 1 PM – 4 PM ET
In this generative intensive, we’ll use prompts to create story-worthy characters and explore how elements such as repetition, reversals, and suspense and tension-building can help us determine the contours of the worlds we create.
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/an-o...
Media description: An ad for an online class. A headshot of a person with shoulder length hair smiling into the camera. Text reads: McCormack Writing Center, Craft Intensives, Noticing the Noticing in Memoir with Jeannie Vanasco, Sunday, April 19, 10 AM – 1 PM PT/ 1 PM – 4 PM ET
In this intensive, we'll move back-and-forth between conversation and generative exercises. The goal is for you to leave the seminar with new writing you’re excited about and strategies to help you keep writing!
Materials included!
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/noti...
Media description: An ad for an online class. A headshot of a person with curly hair looking into the camera. Text reads: McCormack Writing Center, Craft Intensives, Writing the “No Place” with Janika Oza, Sunday, April 12, 9 AM – 12 PM PT/ 12 PM – 3 PM ET
In this intensive, through generative prompts and exercises, we’ll challenge ourselves to write familiar places with fresh perspectives and words. This workshop encourages creative exploration and is suitable for writers at any stage!
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/writ...
Applications for the McCormack Writing Center (formerly known as Tin House Workshop)'s Summer Residencies close TODAY!
Each Residency includes a stipend, Lyft credit, private housing, public reading, and more!
Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/residencies/
Media description: An ad for an online class. A headshot of a person smiling into the camera. Text reads: McCormack Writing Center Craft Intensives, Developing Structure and Style in a Personal Essay with Matt Ortile, Saturday, April 4, 9 AM – 12 PM PT/ 12 PM – 3 PM ET, Register today at mccormackwritingcenter.org
In this seminar and generative workshop, students will learn foundational elements of structure and style in a personal essay, and practice writing tools that can shape our ideas into coherent narratives!
Scholarship available!
Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/deve...
Media description: An ad for an writing residency. Text reads: McCormack Writing Center, Summer Residency, First Book, Apply by March 23rd
Ready to finish your project-in-progress?
Apply by March 23rd for the McCormack Writing Center (formerly known as Tin House Workshop)'s First Book Residency, which includes a stipend, private accommodation, and more!
Apply today: mccormackwritingcenter.org/residencies/
Calling all Portland friends!
We'd love for you to join us on Thursday, March 19th (tomorrow!) for a night of community readings, including an open mic, with our inaugural Break Residents, Cassidy McFadzean and Jason Baum!
Please note this will be a sober event. We hope to see you there!
Applications for the McCormack Writing Center (formerly known as Tin House Workshop)'s 2026 Summer Residencies close next Monday, March 23rd!
Each Residency comes with a stipend, a Lyft credit, a public reading, and more!
Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/residencies/
Don't miss out on your chance to grow your craft and expand your writing community at the 2026 Spring YA Workshop!
This workshop takes place at our offices in Portland and features craft talks, readings, our karaoke night, and much more!
Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/ya-workshop/
Applications for the 2026 Spring YA Workshop close tomorrow!
This workshop led by the McCormack Writing Center (formerly known as Tin House Workshop) lets you experience curated, intimate workshops and so much more!
Scholarships available!
Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/ya-workshop/
Attending Tin House Workshop, now @mccormackwc.bsky.social, was hugely important to my development as a writer. Love to see this interview by @alexismwright.bsky.social with director @djcampdaddy.bsky.social about the center’s next chapter.
Media description: An ad for an online class. A headshot of a person smiling into the camera. Text reads: McCormack Writing Center Craft Intensives, Developing Structure and Style in a Personal Essay with Matt Ortile, Saturday, April 4, 9 AM – 12 PM PT/ 12 PM – 3 PM ET, Register today at mccormackwritingcenter.org
In this seminar and generative workshop, students will learn foundational elements of structure and style in a personal essay, and practice writing tools that can shape our ideas into coherent narratives!
Scholarship available!
Sign-up here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/deve...