Alle’s Summer & Fall Class Offerings:
Online through Tacoma Community College (finding your writer’s voice) and Willamette Writers Conference (three different).
ALLE’S TEACHING CREDENTIALS and KUDOS
56th Annual Willamette Writers Conference
July 31 — August 2, 2026
Portland, Oregon and online
Meet agents, learn from publishing professionals, and take real next steps toward getting published.
Alle teaches:
1-on-1 Sessions
Date/Time: Thursday, July 30 | 12:00 PM — 2:00 PM ~ Online
Registered for a pitch or critique? Alle is one of a number of industry pros offering 1-on-1 feedback on each or both. Rather than telling a writer what to fix and how to fix it, Alle’s feedback aims writers toward finding where they sense they are missing the mark, and then to determine for themselves what it means to hit a bull’s eye.
Panel: First Page Critique
Date/Time: Friday, July 31 | 12:30 PM — 2:30 PM
Building to a Book Deal
Date/Time: Saturday, August 1 | 10:30 AM — 11:30 AM
Comments from a student of this class, taught last summer:
“I’m a tough customer and your class was literally one of the most useful classes I’ve ever had. Thank you.
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ONLINE through Gig Harbor/Tacoma Community Colleges
A Fiction Writer’s Voice
Each writer’s voice evokes the iris patterns in their eyes: unique in dimension, power, perspective, and expression. Very few writers enter their first class, their seventh class, their umpteenth class understanding what their voice is, let alone how to find it, use it.
Voice can be learned — and improved.
In two, two-hour online sessions, one week apart, students will use discussion, exercises, example, and fun to:
identify in their own work the “six elements of great fiction” (laid out by Tom Jenks in his book, The Poetics of Fiction — not required for this class — and taught with his permission): point of view, diction, plot, imagery characterization, theme;
cultivate each element in order to balance them throughout their draft, hewing away unnecessary detail and fussy-sounding grammar to unveil a true voice; and
explore and employ curated editing tips in order to further delineate what each writer wants to say, and how to say it.
Wednesdays: September 23 & 30th, 2026
Time: 6–8PM, PT