Suzi Q. Smith is an award-winning creative writing teacher with experience designing and facilitating courses from adolescents to post-graduates, with government agencies, in corrections facilities and residential treatment centers, and many more.

She teaches creative writing workshops on a single, drop-in basis, as well as ongoing series. These workshops facilitate the understanding and articulation of thoughts, ideas, identity, experience and emotion through the use of creative writing. Her lesson plans can be tailored to meet your specific needs for a single event or theme, creating a welcoming space for participants to explore.

Currently she is Affiliate Faculty with Regis University’s Mile High MFA and Lighthouse Writers Workshop. If you want to dive in to your writing craft, be sure to check out their pages!

Independent Workshops

Suzi Q. Smith also offers independent workshops that focus on deepening one’s personal reflections with creativity, writing, and experiences. Course sizes are limited to maintain quality of connection, and all meet live regularly as we move through the content.

Current offerings are as follows:

There Will Probably Be Crying: A Writing Experience. 16-Week Workshop Series

In this workshop series, participants will explore their own stories, identities, experiences, ideas, and self-language through reading, writing, and in-depth discussion. We will meet as a group for live sessions virtually for two hour sessions, twice monthly. We will engage in a wide range of texts and other media to evaluate approaches to create mental imagery, suggest mood, set tone as a means to convey our truths. This is an intensive generative workshop in which we will explore texts and engage in live virtual session discussions. We will write weekly and all participants will be invited to share (as desired, never mandatory) during live virtual sessions, as well as via document sharing. 

We will write poetry, affirmations, stories, mantras – this part will be up to you. We will listen to some lovely playlists while we write. We might even talk about astrology. This workshop series will get deep and emotional experiences should be expected. Crying may also occur, which is a strong feature of most of my writing process and in many workshops. I no longer resist this, but I want you to be prepared. I will do my best to support you through the process as we move through it together.

Courses begin in January 2026, I’ll send a schedule survey to learn more about our collective availability,  but our meetups will take place either weeknights or Sundays.  We will meet for approximately 90 minutes weekly on zoom (and no pressure or shaming if you have to skip a meetup, I’ll send you all the materials each week). Course fee: $600 (payable in monthly installments at $150/ea.) Limited to 15 participants.
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