Write Your Year: New Year’s Planning Workshop
Online
Instructor: Alexandra Kostoulas
Schedule: Fridays | 12:00pm-1:30pm PST
Jan 16 – Feb 6, 2026
Tuition: $300
Write Your Year: New Year’s Planning Workshop
Did you make a New Year’s resolution to write more in 2026? Maybe you have a novel you want to start (or finally finish!) Maybe a book of poems. Or a memoir. Or a screenplay.
Join us in zoom for four Fridays starting in January, and we’ll help you set clear goals for your writing in the new year and track your progress. You’ll leave our care with a printed out 90-Day Writing Roadmap, realistic, achievable goals for 2026, and the structure to make your writing year a smashing success. We’ll also create a plan of action and a peer accountability plan so that we check in with you in 3 months, and again in 6 months to see how things are going.
Whether you’re starting fresh or picking up where you left off, this structured and supportive workshop will help you jumpstart your writing year and glide into the new year with clarity, intention and momentum.
What You’ll Accomplish:
✨ Clarify your 2026 writing vision
✨ Build sustainable weekly writing habits
✨ Scope and plan a major writing project
✨ Create a month-by-month roadmap for the first 6 months of the year
✨ Complete a 90-day writing plan
✨ Live writing sprints + commitment exercises
Alexandra Kostoulas
Alexandra Kostoulas founded the SF Creative Writing Institute in 2015. She teaches people to find their voice and unblock themselves creatively every day. She has worked with thousands of students from all walks of life in her career as an educator and has coached many aspiring writers to publication and performance of their work. Her students have gone on to run literary organizations, become professors at prestigious universities, publish their work in peer-reviewed journals, land book deals and break barriers in their writing and lives. She writes poetry, nonfiction and fiction.