Writing Classes & Events for Busy Authors
Britta offers both live classes and self-paced workshops (at the bottom of this page). To stay up to date on her latest classes, join her free newsletter where she announced her latest workshops first.
Emotional Release Writing Class live on Zoom
Join Britta for an hour of emotional release writing. We’ll start the first 5-10 minutes in guided breath work and light stretches before diving into guided exercises for releasing emotions and connecting with yourself in a peaceful and purposeful way. This class is perfect for adults finding it difficult to carve time out for themselves and looking to release stuck emotions in a peaceful and non-harmful way.
Class dates for 2025: November 13 at 12noon CST, December 5 at 12noon CST.
FOUR SEASONS OF DEEP EXPLORATORY WRITING
All of these seasonal workshop-style classes are limited to 12 participants and are held live over Zoom.
冬季 Refining the Voice Through Exploring Your Past—Winter: January-March 2026
Refining the Voice in the stillness and hush of mid-winter and ushering in the first hints of spring as an entry point into the past and letting it inform the writing of memoir, fiction and everything in between. Drawing on Britta’s experiences growing up in Japan, we will immerse ourselves in the energy of light, snow, and slow-moving explorations cradled around 冬季 (fuyu=winter in Japanese). Invoke the power within during this season of hibernation and slow growth. Come join us around this hearth of exploration for 90 minutes each month + one-to-ones with Britta. Learn more here.
春 Spring Awakening: Dive Deep into the Hearts of Your Characters—Spring: April, May, June 2026
Drawing on the energies of spring and the traditions and lightness of Sakura and blossoming of ideas. Let the seeds planted at the start of this course, flourish and spring into new discoveries that nourish the spirits of your characters. Walk away with discoveries that lead to abundance in your story life, new ideas and an awakening in your creative expression. Learn how to nurture the seeds of your character’s inner lives during our monthly 90 minute explorations, individual one-on-ones with Britta and our weekly exercises. Each participant will receive a free pdf workbook from Britta’s forthcoming characterization book. Early Bird registrants will be entered into a raffle for a free, signed hardcopy! Learn more and sign up here.
夏休み Summer Solstice Weeklong Intensives
Think summer camp, but better! No bugs, no fuss, no airline delays. Just good vibes, magical explorations, and the harnessing of your unique story magic in a small group, inclusive environment intricately conceived for you, the writer. Lean into a summer of promising writing discoveries!
July 7-11 Conjuring and Harnessing Your Work’s Deep Magic
Tap into the heat and beautiful structure that already exists in your work in this weeklong intensive of daily 90 minute explorations, discussions and readings. Each participant can also opt for 1-2 60 minute one-on-ones with Britta during this week for further exploration and feedback. Learn more about your options and the flow of the week here.
July 14-18 Deep Waters-Diving into the True Story Within Your Story’s Relationships
We’ll explore how your story’s relationships (whether true or fictional) show up on the page, how to go deeper using real-time explorations, and how to allow readers to believe and sit with your story’s relationships. This weeklong intensive includes daily 90 minute explorations, discussions and readings. Each participant can also opt for 1-2 60 minute one-on-ones with Britta during this week for further exploration and feedback. Learn more about your options and the flow of the week here.
July 21-25 Cultivating & Harvesting Your Story’s Ripest Fruits
This Fiction Intensive will focus on ways of looking at the elements in your story that are already working well and how to further develop, investigate and water the fertile buds that haven’t yet sprouted in your story tree. Participants will submit up to 5,000 words of their work for us to explore in workshop style alongside readings, explorations, meditative flows, and looking at how to perceive one’s work from the perspective of a reader to find those ripest fruits that don’t need any more fiddling, while tending to the branches that still need some cultivation. This weeklong intensive includes daily 90 minute explorations, discussions and readings. Each participant can also opt for 1-2 60 minute one-on-ones with Britta during this week for further exploration and feedback. Learn more about your options and the flow of the week here.
秋 Fall Goddess Writing Harvest—Fall: Sept-Dec (to 2nd week)
Tune into the goddess of the harvest as you till the soil of your story to create a cornucopia befitting the story structures you wish for the worlds your works explore. Let your creative spirit run free and take meaningful action in your works in progress. Let this time of spirit and flesh inspire your dreams to become reality on the page. Go into the new year infused with the Japanese concept of renewal and rebirth of your work feeling energized and refreshed for the blessings of a new, unknown year of promise. Conjure the spirits of your stories in our monthly 90 minute explorations, individual one-on-ones with Britta and our weekly exercises. Each participant will receive a free pdf workbook from Britta’s forthcoming characterization book. Early Bird registrants will be entered into a raffle for a free, signed hardcopy! Learn more and sign up here.
How will a class or workshop benefit you?
To continue to refill your artistic well, just like a dancer, singer, or actor who take weekly classes to keep their skills sharp, authors must practice their art regularly. It’s important to access your right brain and allow yourself to play with your art in ways that are low-risk and low stakes. Britta has designed her workshops and classes with busy writers in mind. If you’re looking for more of a writing as process and clearing the mental cobwebs, her open-level Emotional Release Class will be perfect for you. It’s an open-level class for all writers and artists and is one of Britta’s most popular offerings, next to her Deep Characterization Workshop.
Britta’s twenty-three years of experience teaching creative writing, being a working author herself, and full-time editor means that she brings a lot of lively discussion, practical examples and heart to her classes. Coax your characters out of the shadows with one of her hands on workshops!
SELF PACED WORKSHOPS
(Learn at your own pace online in video, audio or text formats with downloadables)
Take your time working through the material, check out the three courses below, designed for a busy writer like you! (You have up to a year to work through all the content from date of registration.)
(Learn at your own pace online in video, audio or text formats with downloadables)
Quality Self Publishing Workshop
Learn, in this 90 minute workshop, how to balance all the necessities of producing, correctly editing, and marketing a book with quality results from award-winning indie (self-published) author, Britta Jensen. Receive Britta’s template for creating your own deadlines, how to identify your goals & successes, and collaborate with others pre and post launch. This workshop will give you an overview of the self-publishing process from both a craft and industry perspective.
In this workshop we’ll answer these common questions as well as many more* from attendees.
- How can you nourish yourself as an artist?
- How can you have greater creative control over how your books get into the hands of readers?
- What would it be like to have complete control over the process of your book’s publication, cover, marketing, pricing and distribution?
- How can you ensure that your career as an author includes being able to release work that may not be suited for the traditional marketplace?
- How are authors compensated differently in indie (self publishing) versus traditional publishing?
- How do indie published books get into libraries, bookstores, and the hands of readers around the world?
- What distribution options do I have without a big publisher backing my work?
- How do I decide what publishing options work best for my artistic and career goals?
- How do I start the audiobook process as an indie author?
The Mincer Character Immersion
“The Mincer” is an immersive interior/exterior character discovery experience that will get you deep inside your character’s head and emotional reality, while staying rooted in their setting. This multi-layered exercise has been developed over the past twenty years of Britta’s experience working on character development in both Off-Broadway theatre and the publishing world in the UK and US. During the workshop we’ll focus on going deep and immersing yourself in your character’s inner and outer life, as well as unveiling exciting esoteric layers in between. Explore character development from a more subconscious level in this workshop and connect with your character’s deeper history, emotional reality and voice.
POV Workshop
Point-of-view (POV) is one of the main reasons readers and agents stop reading: you want it to be consistent and engaging. Strengthen your understanding of how to use POV to your advantage and tighten your story’s narrative. Learn from established writers as well as award-winning author, Britta Jensen. This class is a self-guided course you can complete online at your own pace. You’ll have access to the class for an entire year after registration. You also have the option to get feedback on up to 1000 words of your manuscript through the lens of point-of-view (POV).
Testimonials from Authors
“It’s been a pleasure working with Britta. She brings a rare blend of analytical and creative perspectives to my work!”-Kara Stockinger, author of Balter’s Den
“I am inspired and supported by Britta’s kindness and enthusiasm.”-A.D. Perry, author
“Britta was awesome and I highly recommend her to anyone looking for an editor. She did a great job on not just the edit itself, but book-ending the work with extra effort. Before I hired her, she was already putting in extra steps to understand what I needed and where my manuscript was at. After the edit, she gave me a very detailed summary, letter, and follow-up meeting to go over it. I would not hesitate to work with her again.”-Kyle Cooper, author of Annals of Arlion
“Britta left amazing and insightful comments throughout my manuscript. The video and cover letter walked me through the major issues and helped me develop an action plan to start making big improvements in my work. Being able to leverage her experience in our follow-up conversation was invaluable, thank you!”-Jonathan Munz, author of Imperial Colours
“Britta is an absolute pleasure to work with. I had taken my project as far as I could on my own, and I knew I needed a developmental edit to help shape and structure the story I want to tell. I knew I had found a match with Britta after interviewing a LOT of editors. Her communication is professional, her responses timely, and she has a great personality. The feedback she’s given me through an editorial letter, in-line comments, and online discussions has been invaluable in improving my manuscript and getting it ready for my next steps toward publication. She has the perfect mix between honesty and encouragement and is an excellent communicator. I look forward to continuing to work with Britta in the future, and I can’t recommend her enough. If you’re still reading this review, go ahead and send her a message already! -Donovan Bergin, author of In Her Image
“Having been through Britta’s highly detailed and astute comments on my manuscript I have no doubt that I have the guidance I need to vastly improve my work in progress. Her cover letter and video has allowed me to conceptualize the book into topics, making my revisions manageable. I look forward to working with her as I finish up the editing.”-Geoffrey Wells, author of Never Less
About the instructor:
Britta Jensen has spent 21 years in literacy education and the publishing world. She is the award-winning novelist of the Eloia Born series, Ghosts of Yokosuka and numerous short stories, including a story in the recently published Mixed Bag of Tricks. She has also received numerous awards, including the General Sharp Award, for her teaching of creative writing and literature. Many of her stories explore themes of persevering through disability, parental separation and the intersection of various cultures in new worlds. She holds a BA in Acting Performance from Fordham University and an MA in Teaching of English Literature from Columbia University. Friends often refer to her as a polyglot—which is a product of living twenty-two years overseas in Japan, South Korea, and Germany before settling in Austin, Texas with her awesome tailor/capoerista husband. She enjoys mentoring writers and editing books with The Writing Consultancy and Yellowbird Editors. (Photo credit: Peter Domican)
Past Courses
Deep Character Immersion Seminar
Do you feel like your character isn’t fully speaking to you? Go deeper into inhabiting your character’s world and emotional reality in this immersive, hands-on workshop where we use Britta’s signature Character Immersion exercises and character flows to dive deep into the mindset, psychology, motivations and relationships of your characters to produce stunning results.
Get more information and sign up on: https://craft-talks.com/event/seminar-deep/