STUDIOS

*March 6, 2025 price parameters coming soon*

Below are some basic parameters of a Studio. We will determine, with your input, a specific plan based on your needs, your budget, your number of participants, number of days for the Studio, and your broad goals.

All Studios are also available online, which will not significantly change the cost—we put the same work and consideration into both. We love in-person, on-site Studios, but understand that’s not possible for everyone to host. If we do come to your location, costs quoted do not include transportation and housing for instructors.

While we know the value of our work and need to earn fees that are compatible with our skills, we aim to be reasonably-priced, so are completely willing to with your budget or work to help you justify one.

We apologize for not listing prices, but it’s nearly impossible since all the Studios are wildly different. But we can work as low as $1,000 for a bite-sized talk, or $10-$30K or more for a multi-day, on site Studio, which would include outside speakers and 2-3 instructors.

We can work to help you develop a year-round or semester-long Studio. We can talk to your class or course themes or come up with our own. Are you unaffiliated? Maybe we can add you to a Studio that’s in the works. Or maybe we add your name to the ever-growing list of unaffiliated people. Or maybe you find a small cadre of folks like you and we design a studio around you and your work and/or your research grant money? Do you want to work through a manuscript or just one page? The options are endless.

We are also working on posting some collaborator-led Studios that are very specific in goal or theme. Their prices will be listed and all the funds will go to them. For instance, collaborator-led Studios could include something like these:

  • How to interview

  • How to write an OpEd

  • Patterns, structures, and rhythms in narrative

  • Writing characters, including yourself

  • How to write a book review,

  • and more.


2-3 hours

A one-two hour talk about the possibilities and perils of environmental storytelling. Q&A to follow. Cost does not include transportation and housing for instructor. If specific, new written material is required, $1.50 per word will be added to the appearance fee.

Five days

Five full days of instruction, for 15-20 participants. Includes two instructors, 2-3 guest speakers (on -site and/or online); and one 1 hour one-on-one mentoring session. Cost does not include transportation and housing for instructor(s) and/or guest speaker(s).

Space, Place, Landscape & Territory

This 6 hour/2 day workshop will examine the differences between space, place, & landscape, and consider how and why to incorporate it in our work. Minimum 6 people.

One day

One full day of instruction, with 15-20 participants. Much of the day will be focused on the first page of the text, generating ideas, and understanding literary tenets of storytelling.

Three days

Three full days of instruction, for 15-20 participants. Includes 1-2 instructors, one guest speaker (on -site and/or online); and one half hour one-on-one mentoring session w/instructor. Cost does not include transportation and housing for instructor(s) and/or guest speaker(s).

Individuals

Are you a scholar with personal or research development funding at your fingertips? We can do a Studio with you (or your group). Minimum is 3 sessions at 3 hours a piece ( 9 hours total) or 5 sessions at 3 hours each (15 hours total). We can get good work done in 9 hours but we can get A LOT MORE DONE in 15.

Non-Living Objects

This 6 hour/2 day workshop will consider what non-living objects we should include in our writing and why. This is the road furniture of literature! Minimum 6 people.

Seven days +

Seven to 10 days of instruction, for 15-20 participants. Includes 2-3 instructors, 3-5 guest speakers (on -site and/or online); and 2 one hour, one-on-one mentoring sessions, in-class workshopping Cost does not include transportation and housing for instructor(s) and/or guest speaker(s).

People

This 6 hour/2 day workshop will examine the complexities and possibilities of writing about people, whether they are alive or died 200 years ago, or if they are famous or ordinary, related or estranged. Minimum 6 people.