Sea Wolf Books
& Community Writing Center
Writing Classes
These Sunday morning classes are for adults wanting to get into writing or back into writing. They are geared towards people of all experience levels and are meant to be fun and generative. We will read short excerpts and then write using prompts designed to be engaging. You will leave class with several pieces of writing you can continue working on at home, if you'd like!
In this intensive one-day (+) writing feedback workshop, participants will receive both written and verbal feedback on their writing, up to 5,000 words (+/- 20 typed, double spaced pages.)
This is an invaluable opportunity to get feedback on your writing from four other writers.
This workshop is open to writers of all genres and experience levels. Beginners welcome! This workshop is open to novel excerpts, short stories & memoirs.
The workshop is limited to 4 participants. Each participant will need to carefully read and give written feedback for each of the other participants’ writing. You’ll need to plan on reading about 60 pages of others’ writing prior to the June 29 workshop date.
We will meet in person/on zoom one month before our main workshop (June 1, 3-4pm) for introductions and go over feedback guidelines and expectations. In workshop (June 29, 9-3pm) you’ll most likely find that reading work and giving feedback is as helpful to your writing process as when you receive feedback.
Facilitated by PNW novelist Charlie J Stephens, owner of Sea Wolf Books & Community Writing Center and author of the award-winning debut novel “A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest” published by Torrey House Press in 2024. You can learn more about Charlie at www.charliejstephenswriting.com.
If interested, please email info@seawolfbooks.com before May 10, 2025.
About the Instructor
Charlie J. Stephens is a queer, non-binary writer from the Pacific Northwest. Born and raised in Salem, Oregon, Charlie has lived all over the U.S. as a bike messenger, wilderness guide, high school English teacher, and seasonal shark diver (for educational purposes only.) They earned an M.A. from San Francisco State University in 2009. Resident of Port Orford on the southern Oregon coast, they are the owner of Sea Wolf Books & Community Writing Center. Charlie's short fiction has appeared in Electric Literature, Best Small Fictions Anthology, New World Writing, Original Plumbing/Feminist Press, and elsewhere. Their debut novel, "A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest" was published by Torrey House Press in April 2024. It was long-listed for The Center For Fiction's 2024 First Novel Prize, and is a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards/Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and the Indie Foreword Award in LGBTQ+ fiction. Their new collection of short stories will be published by Buckman in early March, 2026. More at charliejstephenswriting.com.