Teaching

NEW ON-LINE DROP-IN POETRY CLASS
July 1 - Nov 18 to fit your schedule. Package deals lower the per-week price.
For more information, click here.

Poems of Daily Life — poetry critique
Eight Tuesdays, 10-12, June 30 - August 18, tuition $175
We'll look at model poems and write our own, all having to do with finding the beautiful and the strange in familiar neighborhoods and ordinary hours. Please bring a poem you've written and 7 copies to the first class.

This class will be offered again from October 8 - November 24.

Writing to Heal — a class for cancer patients, their family members and caregivers
Eight Thursdays, 2:30-4:30, July 2 - August 20, Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital
contact Debby Kirk to sign up at 530-274-6872. Tuition $20
Come write about everything — the good, the bad, and the rest of it. No previous writing experience necessary. Molly will teach her technique for boosting your immune function, and we'll do in-class exercises on every subject under the sun. Bring pen and paper. Kleenex and chocolate provided.

This class will be offered again from October 1 - November 19.

A Day of Writing: One-Day Gathering for Poets & Writers
Saturday, July 18 — by donation
Molly's house in Nevada City, CA
Come together with other writers for a day of writing exercises and discussions about writing, marketing your writing, and living a writer's life. We'll exchange ideas and offer each other support in between quiet periods of writing and reading aloud. All writers welcome. Pay what you can.

A Voice of Your Own: An Internet Workshop for Women
Write Intimately, Truthfully, and Fearlessly in the Tradition of Mary Oliver and Anne Lamott
August 17 - September 25, tuition $250
October 5 - November 13, tuition $250
In this six-week workshop you'll learn to listen for your own voice and nurture it, even if you've never written before. We'll look at why Mary Oliver and Anne Lamott, two very different writers, have connected with women so deeply. Using model poems, prose excerpts, playful writing exercises, and discussion, participants will discover what they want to say and how to say it in a way that is uniquely personal. We'll practice managing internal and external criticism (every writer's — and every woman's — bane), and discover who we're really writing for. Click here for more information and to register.

Molly taught a group of children's book authors in January in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. The workshop is mentioned on a participant's blog, with interesting exercises surrounding one of Molly's teaching rules. See Write to Health.

Molly teaches several on-going classes throughout the year, and occasional one-day or half-day classes. She runs a Poetry Boot Camp — her 6-day internet poetry workshop — once a month.

Molly also works privately with poets on individual poems and book manuscripts. Click here for more information