
(W)rites of passage
(W)rites of Passage is a Seasonally-Inspired Creative Writing Workshop Series that meets four times a year in East Boulder at the instructor’s home. (W)rites of Passage also offers other workshops including online intensives and genre or theme-specific classes as well as one-on-one guidance. Workshop leader and (w)riting midwife, Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, has an MFA in Writing & Poetics, and is the author of the novel, Fig (Simon & Schuster 2015). In addition to fiction, she writes the occasional lyrical essay or poem.

Collective. aporia
collective.aporia operates as a nonprofit organization, and is living organism that grows through the experience of discovering and questioning edges: edges of self, creative praxis, and how we navigate as artists in the world. It is an internationally inclusive community, created to celebrate, nurture, sustain, and (de)construct all ideas, theories, and/or manifestations of art, society, creation, inspiration, education, and social justice work in order to imagine and implement necessary and positive action towards a radically peaceful planet.

Julia Brennan
Julia Brennan is a writer and performer from central New York. She holds an MFA in fiction from Brown University, where she won the 2018 Frances Mason Harris ’26 manuscript award. Her work has been published in Hotel Amerika, Big Big Wednesday, Gulf Coast, and Denver Quarterly among other publications. Her debut novel, Hunting Season, won the 2019 Tarpaulin Sky Book Award. Julia lives and teaches in Albuquerque, NM.
Dustin Holland
Author/Artist/Founder of D.Y.A.M/Performer
Dustin lives and works in northern Colorado. He is currently writing and drawing a comic book called the Marvelous Munchausen about the trials and tribulations of Baron Munchausen. Find him on https://www.gorchverse.com/
Original Designs & Creations:
- Comics
- Collages
- Animation
- Clothing


Mary Harpin
Intuitive development coach and writer.
Mary Harpin is a creative writer and an intuitive development coach. She offers writing classes, intuitive readings and 1:1 intuitive development coaching to clients. Mary is the author of Shadowrise (poetry) and a contributor to Book & Baby: The Complete Guide to Managing Chaos & Becoming a Wildly Successful Writer Parent, by Milda DeVoe.