Write 24 is thrilled to have author Rebecca Woolf teaching Memoir: Shape as Structure. This workshop will explore how our characteristics & story elements shift depending on place.
Rebecca Woolf has worked as a personal essayist since her teens, contributing to numerous publications, websites and anthologies, most notably her own award-winning personal blog Girl’s Gone Child, which attracted millions of unique visitors worldwide. Woolf’s essays have appeared on Refinery29, LitHub, Entertainment Weekly, Romper, and more. She currently authors the column Sex & the Single Mom and The Braid newsletter on Substack, co-teaches The Living Gaze grief writer’s workshop and The Bench Sessions, a private community for women contemplating divorce.
She is the author of Rockabye: From Wild to Child (Seal Press, 2008) and the bestselling memoir, ALL OF THIS: a Memoir of Death and Desire (Harper One, 2022).
She lives in Los Angeles with her four children, Bulldog and a pussy named Riot.
Write 24 is honored to welcome author Kathleen Alcalá. Her workshop, A Novel in Stories, will explore the process & structure of complete short stories that interconnect for a deeper, cumulative whole work of fiction.
Kathleen is the author of The Deepest Roots, a work of speculative nonfiction on sustainability & island living.
Her work has received the Governor’s Writers Award, the Western States Book Award, & the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, among others. A graduate of the MFA Program at the University of New Orleans & the Clarion West Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop, Kathleen is editing an anthology on La Llorona, the Crying Woman of Mexican mythology, with Norma Elias Cantú.
Her novels Spirits of the Ordinary and The Flower in the Skull have recently been republished by Raven Chronicles Press. Kathleen Alcalá’s Why Stars Burn, a novel-in-stories, was published in November 2025.
We are absolutely thrilled to have Stephanie Ann Johnson as a Write 24 Teaching Artist.
Pacific Northwest Americana songwriter and performer Stephanie Anne Johnson’s (they/them) voice is like a prayer. It’s the kind of sound that makes you feel renewed, refreshed, & in love with the higher spirits of the planet. It’s a sound you can bask in, that can wash over you and regenerate the best of you all at once. And their concert in The Yoga Studio is going to wow us! And they have wowed judges on the immensely popular NBC TV series, The Voice, showcasing their gifts.
New studio album 'Sing, baby!' was released on October 17th, 2025.
Stephanie Anne Johnson has opened for acts that include political figure Bernie Sanders, & artists such as The Indigo Girls, Macy Gray, Mavis Staples, Taj Mahal, Robert Cray, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Steve Earle, Cedric Burnside, & Mason Jennings among many others.
https://stephanieannejohnsonmusic.com
Write 24 welcomes Teaching Artist Danny Sherrard, San Juan Archipelago-based author, poet, performer, and educator. His poetry workshop, Disassembling Dystopia, is where writers will dare to imagine paradise into being. His work links the lightning pulse of the spoken word stage with the contemplative depth of the page scrawled in verse.
Born and raised in Seattle, he got his chops in the city’s vibrant poetry scene, mentored by artists from Youth Speaks Seattle, the Isang Mahal Arts Kollective, & a circle of elders who taught him that language can be medicine, fire, & bridge all at once.
In his early twenties, Sherrard became the youngest person to win both the National Individual Poetry Slam (Austin, TX) & the World Poetry Cup (Paris, France), accolades that carried his voice across borders & into a global kinship of storytellers. For more than twenty years, he has transformed written poetry into dynamic stage performance, offering audiences a vibrant & immersive journey through myth & memory.
Sherrard serves as Founder & Executive Director of the Island Verse Literary Collective, a nonprofit dedicated to honoring a& amplifying the voices of the region’s numinous archipelago. His debut full-length collection, Cast Your Eyes Like Riverstones into the Exquisite Dark, was released by Write Bloody Publishing in 2025.
The recipient of the 2026 Green Box Artist-in-Residency program, he is currently transforming his rendering of the Epic of Gilgamesh into an evening-length operatic performance in collaboration with New York City-based musicians Rachel Duval & Doug Balliet.
Rooted in oral tradition yet expansive in scope, his work moves fluidly between scholarship and incantation, intimacy & vastness, his verse woven fresh as the wavemist of the Salish Sea. Whether on stage or in workshop, Sherrard invites participants into poetry as a shared act of discovery: a way of listening across distances, of making myth from the materials of our own lives, & of leaning ever nearer to the song of the Muse.
Kiele Raymond is a Senior Agent at Thompson Literary Agency representing literary fiction and narrative non-fiction. Her clients include critically-acclaimed and award-winning writers such as Peace Adzo Medie, Nichole Perkins, Katie Barnes, Ari Braverman, E.E Hussey, Janice Obuchowski, and John Glynn. Books on her list have been named New York Times 100 Notable Books, Time's 100 Must-Read Books, NPR's Best Books of the Year; selected for Reese's Book Club and GMA Buzz Picks; as well as longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Women's Prize for Fiction, and the Diverse Book Awards. She lives in Brooklyn.
Writing Page One: How to own your voice from the very first line This will be a craft-focused workshop on the power of the first page—and what it can teach you about the story you really want to write. We’ll study successful openings from contemporary titles and discuss what makes them so compelling, with special attention to voice, authority, and depth. By examining how strong first pages establish trust and intention, writers will learn how owning their voice from the start can guide and sharpen the rest of the novel.