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Courses / with Gabriel

The Vital Delusion.

Invite the muse. Embrace your wild. Become a great writer.

A writer with a head of wild flowers at a typewriter as a paper muse drifts in through the window

A poetry and novel-writing course for anyone who suspects they were meant to write something that matters.

Every great writer carries a vital delusion: the stubborn belief that the work is worth it, that the muse will come if you leave the door open. This course teaches you how to leave it open. Once a month we meet live online to write, read and pull apart what makes a line or a chapter come alive. Between sessions you keep every lesson we have ever taught in your library, and a few times a year we gather in person.

Once a month

A live online session with Gabriel: writing, reading, and pulling apart what makes words come alive.

The library

Every past lesson, kept for you to return to whenever the muse is late.

In person

A few gatherings a year in the same room, pens out.

Your teacher

Gabriel

Gabriel is a cofounder of Lost Poets and a Professor of Creative Writing at UC Irvine. He studied literature at Berkeley.