We are pleased to announce another Image Intensive, an opportunity to dive deeper into your craft, guided by faculty from our community who understand the unique impulses and challenges facing artists at the intersection of art and faith.

From our facilitator, Sophfronia Scott:

Some of the most powerful forces in our lives—faith, doubt, longing, grief, moral tension—are invisible. As writers, we often feel called to explore these realities, yet struggle to bring them onto the page without becoming abstract, didactic, or overly resolved.

How do we write meaning without preaching?
How do we stay true to our characters while engaging the deeper questions shaping their lives?
How do we allow a story to hold uncertainty rather than collapse into easy answers?

In this intensive, we will explore how fiction can embody the unseen. Through craft lectures, generative exercises, and workshop discussion, we will focus on rendering interior and spiritual experience through scene, character, and language—so that meaning arises naturally from the story itself.

Together, we will consider how to:

• Translate interior experience into action, image, and interaction
• Avoid didacticism while still writing toward what matters most
• Build stories that reflect genuine transformation without announcing it
• Write endings that resonate with openness rather than forced resolution

Participants will workshop their own fiction and receive thoughtful feedback in a supportive, rigorous cohort of writers.

Who Is This Class For?
This intensive is designed for:

• Fiction writers at any stage who are engaging questions of meaning, belief, doubt, or moral complexity
• Writers who want to deepen the emotional and interior life of their work
• Those seeking a workshop environment that values both craft and inquiry
• Anyone interested in exploring how fiction can hold the tension between what is seen and unseen

Structure
The course includes:

• 8 live sessions (60–90 minutes each) over 4 weeks
• A mix of craft-focused classes and workshop discussions
• One personalized written critique (up to 3,000 words submitted)

What Participants Can Expect
This course is both practical and exploratory. We will engage deeply with craft while also making space for the larger questions that animate our work. Participants are encouraged to come with curiosity, openness, and a willingness to experiment on the page.

This workshop is for fiction writers of all levels. If you are yearning for a compassionate writing community, seeking to learn more about yourself, hoping for a thorough review of your work, or wishing for a supportive place to grow in your craft, this workshop is for you.