HAPPILY EVER AFTER

A CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP

Dear party animals of 2k26,

Do you start a new poem in your notes app several times a day? Do you have like a million ideas for stories bouncing around in your brains? Oh cool, me too.

BUT!

Do you actually finish any of those things? Do you follow through? Do you ever really end anything?

We spend a lot of time in workshops talking about new material, about writers block, about generating more and more text, but not enough time figuring out how to actually finish a thing once we’ve started.

This writing workshop has exactly two goals: (1) talking about endings and how we know a poem or story is over; and (2) ACTUALLY FINALLY FINISHING A PIECE OF WRITING BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR!

All participants should therefore have at least ONE poem, story, essay, or other in-progress text they’d like to finish by the end of the workshop. We’ll be reading the work(s) and giving each other supportive and actionable feedback, as well as holding ourselves accountable to actually follow through! Let’s wrap up the year finally finishing something we started 👍 👍

All participants will also receive written feedback on their work.

WHEN: four WEDNESDAYS in DECEMBER, 7-8:30pm ET (12/2, 12/9, 12/16, and 12/23)

WHERE: Online on zoom

COST: $199

Should plans change, cancellations will receive a 50% refund if requested by November 25th, 2026. We cannot offer any reimbursement after that date. Payment plans are also available upon request.

HOW TO APPLY: Click the application box below! Fill out a few simple details, and you will hear back within a few days. Email any further questions to:

jonathan@dreamboybook.club

See you soon 😇

PREVIOUS COURSE OFFERINGS:

DEAR DIARY…: using old journals, fragments, half-baked substack posts, instagram captions, and random shit in notes apps to form new autobiographical poems and stories. (November 2026)

PERVERTS!: debauchery, obscenity, depravity, deviance, smut, sleaziness, eroticism, immorality, degeneracy, sexiness, fantasy, and pornography. (November 2026)

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW: ritual, séance, and other esoteric spooky stuff. (October 2026)

5150: a focus on mental illness, madness, insanity, hysteria, fury, delirium, lunacy, and all the overdetermined psychiatric diagnoses in the DSM-5. (September 2026)

PURE SLEAZE: the more vulgar, filthy, chic corners of contemporary lit. (August 2026)

SUMMER SCHOOL: an introductory workshop open to writers of all genres. (June 2026)

HOT TABLOID TRASH: autofiction, memoir, diary, tabloid, spectacle, scandal, etc. (May 2026)

ST. LANA: creative writing through the lens of Lana Del Rey. (April 2026)

POETRY FOR PILLOW PRINCESSES: an introductory workshop open to writers of all genres. (December 2025)

HIT ME BABY ONE MORE TIME: novels, full-length poetry collections, and other long-form writing projects. (July 2025)

GET IN LOSER, WE’RE GOING TO A LINDSAY LOHAN-ORIENTED SUMMER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP: creative writing through the lens of Lindsay Lohan. (June 2025)

THE POETICS OF PARIS HILTON: creative writing through the lens of Paris Hilton. (April 2025)

SUNDAY SCHOOL: an introductory workshop open to writers of all genres. (multiple sessions)