Creative Writing Class in Portland, Maine

$35 class fee ($26.25 for factory 3 members)
25 students max per class

In this 2-hour writing class, you will explore narrative-building techniques that will make your writing pop no matter what genre you’re working in. Through a series of prompts and interactive activities, you will have the chance to produce new material and give/receive feedback from others in a safe and respectful environment. Whether you’re new to writing or do it professionally in your career, you’ll discover ways to hone your craft and connect more deeply with your material.

About the Instructors:
Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder is the author of MOTHER, CREATURE, KIN (Broadleaf Books, 2025). From 2017-2022, she worked as a staff writer and editor for Emergence Magazine, an online and print publication exploring the intersection of culture, ecology, and spirituality. Her work has also been featured in The Common, The Slowdown, Crannóg Magazine, Inhabiting the Anthropocene, EcoTheo Review, From the Ground Up, the edited poetry collection Writing the Land, and in Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape. She lives with her family in Portland, Maine. (photo credit Ian MacLellan)

Kathryn Amato is a writer and teacher based in Southern Maine. They have an MFA in Writing Fiction for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where their thesis on character agency in queer young adult novels received the 2022 Critical Thesis Award, and a Master of Arts in Teaching English Language Arts from The University of Pittsburgh. Kathryn was the 2019 Writer in Residence at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA and presented a panel "Breaking Up with Shame: Writing Romance for Young Adults" at AWP in 2023. They live with their wife, dog, two cats, and far too many plants. 
Website: https://www.kathrynamato.com/ 
Instagram: @kathrynmamato

Emily Powers received her BA in English from Bowdoin College and her MFA in fiction from the University of Wyoming. She has worked as a grape picker on a Swiss vineyard, a tour boat guide in Southwest Florida, a cataloger for an outdoor sculpture collection, a master canner, a fruit & vegetable farmer, an undergraduate writing professor, and is currently the Director of Strategy and Storytelling at a Black Breast Cancer non-profit. In her short stories, she looks to explore inheritance, the uncanny, and liminal space.  She’s particularly fond of sleeping outside, mint tea, and oversized house plants.