In this generative intensive, we’ll use prompts to create story-worthy characters and explore how elements such as repetition, reversals, and suspense and tension-building can help us determine the contours of the worlds we create! Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/an-o...

Through worldbuilding exercises, excerpts, and generative writing, this generative intensive will delve into crafting fantastical, magical, and strange settings that stem from the world around us and the world of our minds! Scholarship available! Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/stra...

In this intensive, we'll move back-and-forth between conversation and generative exercises. The goal is for you to leave the seminar with new writing you’re excited about and strategies to help you keep writing! Materials included! Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/noti...

This intensive will offer strategies to help writers generate artist statements and project summaries and make applications feel more manageable and less stressful! We’ll also touch on how to select writing samples, preparation, and more! Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/dont...

In this intensive, through generative prompts and exercises, we’ll challenge ourselves to write familiar places with fresh perspectives and words. This workshop encourages creative exploration and is suitable for writers at any stage! Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/writ...

Working through familial and historical archives, this generative craft intensive engages how we can grapple with the difficulty of research through memoir, poetry, and hybrid texts! Through readings exercises, we will discuss, write, and share. Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/the-...

In this generative intensive, we’ll use prompts to create story-worthy characters and explore how elements such as repetition, reversals, and suspense and tension-building can help us determine the contours of the worlds we create. Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/an-o...

In this intensive, we'll move back-and-forth between conversation and generative exercises. The goal is for you to leave the seminar with new writing you’re excited about and strategies to help you keep writing! Materials included! Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/noti...

In this intensive, through generative prompts and exercises, we’ll challenge ourselves to write familiar places with fresh perspectives and words. This workshop encourages creative exploration and is suitable for writers at any stage! Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/writ...

Applications for the McCormack Writing Center (formerly known as Tin House Workshop)'s Summer Residencies close TODAY! Each Residency includes a stipend, Lyft credit, private housing, public reading, and more! Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/residencies/

In this seminar and generative workshop, students will learn foundational elements of structure and style in a personal essay, and practice writing tools that can shape our ideas into coherent narratives! Scholarship available! Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/deve...

Ready to finish your project-in-progress? ⁠ Apply by March 23rd for the McCormack Writing Center (formerly known as Tin House Workshop)'s First Book Residency, which includes a stipend, private accommodation, and more! ⁠ Apply today: mccormackwritingcenter.org/residencies/

Calling all Portland friends! We'd love for you to join us on Thursday, March 19th (tomorrow!) for a night of community readings, including an open mic, with our inaugural Break Residents, Cassidy McFadzean and Jason Baum! Please note this will be a sober event. We hope to see you there!

Applications for the McCormack Writing Center (formerly known as Tin House Workshop)'s 2026 Summer Residencies close next Monday, March 23rd! Each Residency comes with a stipend, a Lyft credit, a public reading, and more! Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/residencies/

Don't miss out on your chance to grow your craft and expand your writing community at the 2026 Spring YA Workshop! This workshop takes place at our offices in Portland and features craft talks, readings, our karaoke night, and much more! Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/ya-workshop/

Applications for the 2026 Spring YA Workshop close tomorrow! ⁠ ⁠ This workshop led by the McCormack Writing Center (formerly known as Tin House Workshop) lets you experience curated, intimate workshops and so much more! ⁠ Scholarships available! Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/ya-workshop/

Attending Tin House Workshop, now @mccormackwc.bsky.social, was hugely important to my development as a writer. Love to see this interview by @alexismwright.bsky.social with director @djcampdaddy.bsky.social about the center’s next chapter.

In this seminar and generative workshop, students will learn foundational elements of structure and style in a personal essay, and practice writing tools that can shape our ideas into coherent narratives! Scholarship available! Sign-up here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/deve...

so proud of everything that lance, a.l., autumn, and yimei have made. branding is decorative; the relationships and the space and the work are forever. love you big, @mccormackwc.bsky.social 🧡 electricliterature.com/the-mccormac...

Spend the summer with the MWC in Portland at one of our Summer Residencies! ⁠ ⁠ The General Residency is open to any writer working on a full-length manuscript! Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/residencies/

There's still time to apply to our 2026 Spring YA Workshop! If accepted, you'll have the chance to work with one of our award-winning faculty + a cohort of like-minded creatives, plus so much more! Fee waivers available! Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/ya-workshop/

Write in beautiful PDX this summer! Applications are now open for our 2026 Summer Residencies, including Without Borders, open to writers born outside of the United States. Each of our residencies includes a stipend + much more! Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/residencies/

The Spring YA Workshop is the place to be, just take it from Emily Sun Li! ⁠ Applications for the 2026 Spring YA Workshop are open until March 16th. As with all of our programming, scholarships are available! Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/ya-workshop/

We love our AMAZING community!!! Thank you to everyone who came to our Alumni Get Together at AWP in Baltimore, stopped by our table and said hello, shared your support, and shared your successes with us! We are so grateful to have met with so many of you in person and please, keep in touch!

Applications are now open for the MWC (fka Tin House Workshop)'s The Break Residency for Writers in Recovery! As with all of our Residencies, this opportunity comes with a Lyft credit, stipend, private housing, and much more! Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/residencies/

Calling all writers + parents! Apply by March 23rd for the McCormack Writing Center (formerly known as Tin House Workshop)'s Parents Summer Residency! This Residency is open to writers with children aged 18 or younger living at home. Apply: mccormackwritingcenter.org/residencies/

What can water teach us about craft? In this generative intensive, we will explore approaches that different bodies of water offer for considering image, subtext, and syntax in our writing across genre. Sigh-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/wate...

It's time to finish that project-in-progress! The First Book Residency is open to writers who have not yet published a full-length manuscript. Each residency includes a stipend, private housing, Lyft credit, and much more! Apply today: mccormackwritingcenter.org/residencies/

The MWC is coming to AWP!!! Come see us at Table #T1152 and say hi + grab a postcard! We will be in Baltimore from March 4th to 7th and are excited for the opportunity to visit with some of our community and make new friends. Safe travels and we hope to see you soon!

Spend the summer with the MWC in Portland at one of our 2026 Summer Residencies! ⁠ ⁠ Each residency includes a stipend, private accommodation, plenty of unstructured days to tend to your project in progress, and much more! ⁠ Learn more and apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/residencies/

Applications for our Spring YA Workshop are open until March 16th! ⁠ Join us over over a long weekend in Portland, Oregon to experience curated, intimate workshops, craft lectures, and so much more! ⁠ ⁠ Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.submittable.com/submit/17761...

SPRING into better craft at the 2026 Spring YA Workshop! ⁠ This year, our stellar faculty are: Aiden Thomas, Courtney Gould, Lilliam Rivera, Nina LaCour, and Traci Chee! ⁠ ⁠ Applications close March 16th! Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.submittable.com/submit/17761...

Applications are now open for our 2026 Spring YA Workshop! ⁠ ⁠ Join us in beautiful Portland, Oregon over a long weekend featuring curated, intimate workshops, craft lectures, generative exercises, readings, and much more! Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/ya-workshop/

We're so excited to announce our last (but certainly not least) 2026 Spring Resident A.D. Lauren-Abunassar! ⁠ ⁠ Congratulations, A.D.! We're so happy to be able to support your work. Learn more here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/mccormack-wr...

Today, we're so thrilled to be able to celebrate our 2026 Winter Online Workshop Scholars!!! Please give these writers their flowers and help us to celebrate them! We're so grateful to have been able to support their work! Learn more about them here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/mccormack-wr...

Anybody from 2015 want to meet up…?

The McCormack Writing Center (formerly known as Tin House Workshop) is thrilled to invite our Alumni of all programs to an AWP off-site event! This Alumni Get Together will have no set agenda or readings, and will take place on Friday, March 6, 2026 from 6pm ET to 8pm ET! We hope to see you there!

We're so excited to announce our final two fantastic Spring Residents, Ho-Ming So Denduangrudee and José García Escobar! Please give these wonderful writers their flowers! Learn more about all our residents here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/mccormack-wr...

We're so excited to announce two of our amazing 2026 Spring Residents — Cassidy McFadzean and Jason Baum! We're honored to be able to support these writers and hope you will, too. Learn more about our residents here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/mccormack-wr...

Applications for the Oregon Summer Workshop due TODAY! Today is the last day to apply to the 2026 Oregon Summer Workshop. Here you will find amazing new writing community, improved craft, and much more! ⁠ Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summe...

Applications for the @mccormackwc.bsky.social’s Oregon Summer Workshop are due February 9th. I’m one of the nonfiction faculty. I’m the author of Excavation: A Memoir; Hollywood Notebook, and Bruja: A Dreamoir, (Northwestern University Press, 2025). mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summe...

With alt text. Applications for the Oregon Summer Workshop at McCormack Writing Center (formerly Tin House Summer Workshop) are due soon on Feb 9. I had such a great experience when I went a few years back. The way the workshop is run, you can tell the people behind it are thoughtful & intentional.

Applications for the Oregon Summer Workshop (formerly known as the Tin House Summer Workshop) are due February 9th (this Monday)! ⁠ ⁠ The BIPOC Scholarship is open to anyone identifying as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color.⁠ ⁠ Apply: mccormackwritingcenter.submittable.com/submit/13081...

We are once again honored to partner with our friends @carolshieldsprize.bsky.social in offering an Oregon Summer Workshop Scholarship for Indigenous Women and Non-Binary writers. Applications close this Monday (February 9th)! Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summe...

APPLICATIONS FOR THE OREGON SUMMER WORKSHOP OPEN NOW! ⁠ ⁠ Scholarship for Palestine (2 awards): This award is open to any author identifying as Palestinian. ⁠ ⁠ Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.submittable.com/submit/13081...

Your words belong here! Apply today for the 2026 Oregon Summer Workshop (formerly the Tin House Summer Workshop) and spend time immersed in craft, community building, and, as always, karaoke! Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summe...

Just look at that AMAZING faculty line-up! Applications for the historic 2026 Oregon Summer Workshop (formerly known as the Tin House Summer Workshop) are due February 9th! Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/oregon-summe...

Open the door to better craft and amazing community at the 2026 Oregon Summer Workshop! ⁠ ⁠ Fee waivers are available! Applications open until February 9th! ⁠ ⁠ Apply here: tinhouseworkshop.submittable.com/submit/13081...

THIS WEEKEND! Join us in this generative poetry and fiction-focused workshop where we will utilize prompts to start new projects that write towards your own personal liberation and the social liberation of the world at large! Sign-up: mccormackwritingcenter.org/product/mwc-...

APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN! We’re delighted to announce our 2026 Oregon Summer Workshop Nonfiction faculty are Joseph Earl Thomas, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Sarah Aziza, and Wendy C. Ortiz! ⁠ ⁠ Applications close February 2nd! Apply here: tinhouseworkshop.submittable.com/submit/13081...