As we continue what’s been a calamitous year, I’m offering an antidote: two FALL 2025 WRITING CLASSES. Whether you’re a published author, a produced playwright or a prodigious writer of love letters and to-do lists, enrolling in one of my writing classes will enhance your world as a writer. What I really do as a writing teacher is gently guide, nurture and encourage the writer within you and steer you towards the juiciest parts of your heart and soul, therefore extracting the most out of you and onto the page. Together we aim to discover and release your unique voice, while staying true to your story and yourself. After several decades of working with dozens upon dozens of beginning and professional writers, my aim is to join you on your path to clearer writing with emotion, creativity, authenticity and intelligence, marrying the art and the craft.

“Michael Kearns creates a safe, nonjudgmental space that allows me to color outside the lines and find my true voice. As a writer and solo performer, he encourages me to be daring and plumb the depths of my emotional reservoir to create work that’s intimate and exciting.” – Dave

MICHAEL KEARNS’ FALL 2025 CLASSES

WRITING: ART & CRAFT

In this intimate class, Kearns will work with students who have yet to study writing with him. The small group will delve into the various elements of creative writing. The aim is to lure your own one-of-a-kind voice to the surface with gentle feedback, guidance and encouragement from both Kearns and fellow students in a safe and supportive environment. Kearns believes “writer’s block” doesn’t exist and that writing is like a muscle that needs to be flexed. And flex you will. Members will share on a weekly basis through in-class writing exercises and by bringing their own pieces to read out loud. By the end of six weeks, expect your writing to be clearer, deeper and ready to launch out into the world.

Limited enrollment

Starts Saturday, October 4th

Six Sessions

11am-2pm Live on Zoom

Fee: $250

“Working with Michael Kearns changed my life. I came to him, stuck on a project, and in nine months he helped me write an all new, off-Broadway solo play.” – Lan

WRITE & SHINE

This is a class of advanced writers who have been working and writing together for several years. The diverse group of supportive, caring and highly disciplined writers engage in intense, spirited and profound writerly discussions as they each pursue their chosen discipline. Kearns utilizes in-class writing exercises along with the reading and critiquing of each members’ ongoing project to help achieve their goals.

Complimentary audit

Sundays, ongoing

11am-2pm Live on Zoom

Waiting list. Limited to six students

Apply with 250 word writing sample

“Write and Shine got me past every writer’s worst enemy, the fear of reworking every word on a page to reflect the true intention of what we have to say; I wrote a book in this class that people told me for years needed to be written.Every session sharpens us in the practice of putting words together to tell a story, make a point or expose a larger truth.” – Darya

ONE-ON-ONE

Coach Kearns works intensely with you in a private setting. No matter what you’re writing (memoir or solo performance, a novel or a play, a blog or short story), he believes there’s always a way to go deeper in emotionalizing your material while addressing the craft. Interview appointment required.

ABOUT KEARNS

Michael Kearns is a prolific writer and an impassioned teacher. In his nearly half a century career, he has written sixteen solo performance pieces (from The Truth Is Bad Enough in 1982 to last years It Must Be Him), six produced full-length plays (including Myron, Bloodbound, Bang Bang), seven theatre books (including the Lambda Literary Award nominated T-Cells & Sympathy and Acting = Life), a dozen anthologies (Sharing the Delirium and Sundays at Seven among them), and hundreds of articles, columns, and essays (over two-hundred appearing in Edge Magazine) in addition to the LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, and the Advocate). Kearns is presently writing a memoir about his mother.

TO APPLY for a class, individual coaching or if you have any questions, email: michaelkearns1234@gmail.com

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