Four Tuesday evenings. Rewrite a real RFP response, executive proposal, or major client report with line-by-line instructor critique.
Schedule: Tuesdays, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM, 4 weeks
Starts: October 7, 2026
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North Loop Workshop
Practical writing, proposal, and narrative classes for working adults.
Live small-group courses for people with a real project to finish. Bring the proposal, essay, or presentation you keep postponing, and work on it in every session with line-by-line editorial feedback.
Upcoming Cohorts How to enroll
Open cohorts
Dates, times and seats for every course now open.
- Clear Business & Proposal Writing Ask about openings
- Clear Business & Proposal Writing Ask about openings
- Manuscript Revision & Structure Lab Ask about openings
- The Personal Essay Intensive Ask about openings
- Presenting Dense Ideas Without a Script Ask about openings
Courses and tuition
Every course lists its dates, its format and what it costs before you enroll.
Four Tuesday evenings to revise a real RFP response, executive proposal, or client report with line-by-line critique.
Schedule: Tuesdays, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM, 4 weeks
Starts: October 7, 2026
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Eight Thursday workshops for writers with a long draft that needs developmental structural editing.
Schedule: Thursdays, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM, 8 weeks
Starts: October 15, 2026
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Six Saturday mornings for generating, drafting, workshopping, and revising one publication-ready first-person essay.
Schedule: Saturdays, 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM, 6 weeks
Starts: October 17, 2026
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A focused Saturday intensive for technical leaders turning complex briefs into memorable 10-minute talks.
Schedule: Saturday, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, 1 day
Starts: November 7, 2026
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Who teaches here
Each course is led by the instructor named on it.
Dana Mercer
What this instructor teaches, and what they have worked on.
Teaches: Clear Business Writing, Manuscript Revision Lab
Dana Mercer
Dana leads the proposal and manuscript courses and edits every draft that comes through them.
Teaches: Clear Business Writing, Manuscript Revision Lab
Marcus Vance
Marcus teaches personal narrative and structure, and works with students on scene, shape and revision.
Teaches: The Personal Essay Intensive
Evelyn Ross
Evelyn works with analysts, engineers and nonprofit directors on presenting complex material out loud.
Teaches: Presenting Dense Ideas Without a Script
Work finished in our classroom
Students bring a project they need to finish and work on it in every session.
What a student said about the work they finished here.
Student name What changed for them
I came in with a grant proposal that had been turned down twice. Line-by-line editing cut it down and made the ask obvious.
Student name What changed for them
The Saturday lab gave me the deadline I could not give myself. I finished the essay about my grandfather's machine shop and sent it out.
Student name What changed for them
As an engineering manager, presenting to our board terrified me. I learned to pace the points and speak from a structure instead of a script.
Student name What changed for them
Start with the project you keep putting off
Not sure which course fits your project or your schedule? Send a note and say what you are working on.