Live small-group courses in Minneapolis for people with real projects to finish. Bring the proposal, essay, or presentation you keep postponing. Leave with a finished draft, line-by-line editorial feedback, and a repeatable process.
Small classes capped at 12 students with weekly line-by-line instructor critiques.
Four Tuesday evenings. Rewrite a real RFP response, executive proposal, or major client report with line-by-line instructor critique.
Four Tuesday evenings to revise a real RFP response, executive proposal, or client report with line-by-line critique.
Six Saturday mornings for generating, drafting, workshopping, and revising one publication-ready first-person essay.
A focused Saturday intensive for technical leaders turning complex briefs into memorable 10-minute talks.
Eight bi-weekly workshops for writers with a 25,000-plus-word draft seeking developmental structural editing.
Every instructor is an actively publishing writer, former newsroom editor, or communications leader.
Former deputy editor at Midwest Review. Has guided over 400 adult students through nonfiction book proposals, essays, and institutional reports.
Former deputy editor at Midwest Review and staff essayist. Dana has guided more than 400 adult students through nonfiction proposals, essays, and institutional reports.
Marcus teaches personal narrative and structure. His students have placed essays in The Sun, Orion Magazine, and regional anthologies.
Evelyn helps analysts, engineers, and nonprofit directors communicate complex data and civic arguments without leaning on slide-deck crutches.
Our metrics are finished proposals, published essays, and confident presentations.
"I came in with a 40-page grant proposal that had been rejected twice. Dana's structural editing helped us trim eight pages and win a major foundation grant."
"I came in with a 40-page grant proposal that had been rejected twice. Dana's structural editing helped us trim eight pages and win a $75,000 foundation grant."
"The Saturday essay lab gave me the accountability I could not find alone. My essay on my grandfather's machine shop was published in a regional quarterly three months later."
"As an engineering manager, presenting to our board terrified me. Evelyn's video lab taught me how to pace my points and speak from structure rather than panic."
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