Grow with van Gogh: A 70-in-70 Challenge for Creatives 10-Week Generative Intensive with Holly Lyn Walrath starts Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
Class Starts Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
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Led by Holly Lyn Walrath, a writer, editor, and publisher. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Analog, and Flash Fiction Online. She is the author of several books of poetry, including Glimmerglass Girl (2018), Numinose Lapidi (2020), and The Smallest of Bones (2021). She holds a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. In 2019, she launched Interstellar Flight Press, an indie SFF publisher dedicated to publishing underrepresented genres and voices.
Secluded in a small village outside of Paris, the famous impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh spent the final 70 days of his life doing what he loved: painting every day. This remarkable period and astonishing burst of creativity inspires this unique workshop.
Grow with Van Gogh is a 70-day challenge for writers, artists, and all creatives looking to generate new work and push their boundaries. This expansive ten-week workshop includes a daily prompt inspired by the life and work of Vincent van Gogh.
Whether you're putting words on a page, paint on a canvas, or lens to the world, this challenge invites you to show up daily and create.
Vincent van Gogh is one of the most prolific and famous artists of all time. He is also perhaps the most misunderstood. A tribute to Vincent’s relentless creative spirit, this workshop takes a close look at the artist while allowing participants to respond to and reflect on van Gogh’s life through their own creative voyage.
Week 1: Seventy Days in Auvers: Challenging Yourself as a Creative
Week 2: “Whosoever Loves Much Can Accomplish Much”: Approaching the Creative Process with Love
Week 3: Letters to Theo: Creating from Memory using Letters, Journaling, and Confessions
Week 4: Everyday Brushstrokes: Drawing Inspiration from the Mundane
Week 5: “What Am I?”: Self-portraits and Creating First for the Self
Week 6: Under the Arles Sun: Embracing Bold Detail
Week 7: The Yellow House: Making Space for Creativity and Community
Week 8: Silencing Doubt: Creating through Chaos
Week 9: “I Dream My Painting and I Paint My Dream”: Working from the Subconscious
Week 10: Failure Is a Perception: Reframing Your Creative Life and Legacy
- Learn creative discipline by showing up for your work daily
- Create works inspired by and in conversation with Vincent van Gogh
- Find beauty in the ordinary and get inspired by the mundane
- Challenge yourself to build creative resiliency
- Explore your unique voice as a creative
- Grow your creative practice by creating 70 new works-in-progress
ONLINE COURSE STRUCTURE:
This class is asynchronous, meaning you complete the weekly assignments on your own schedule. There are no set meeting times in order to allow for greater participation; your cohort will consist of writers from across different time zones, which allows for a wonderful diversity of voices.
Along with your weekly deadlines, there is plenty of interaction with Holly and your peers within Wet Ink, our dedicated online classroom. Craft materials, lectures, reading assignments, and writing prompts are all available through the online classroom. Students also post work and provide and receive feedback within the online classroom environment.
You can finish the work as you see fit week-to-week, which is perfect for any schedule. There are discussion questions each week inspired by the assigned readings and topics in the lecture notes. Students are encouraged to take these wherever is most compelling and/or useful for them. Holly engages with these discussions throughout the week, and you will receive feedback from all assigned writing activities.
HOW DOES WET INK WORK?
Wet Ink was built and designed specifically for online writing classes. Wet Ink is private, easy to use, and very interactive. You can learn more about the Wet Ink platform by Watching a Class Demo.
ONLINE COURSE STRUCTURE:
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Instructor: Holly Lyn Walrath
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Class Starts Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
- Course is fully ONLINE; students can work according to their own schedule within weekly deadlines. Once you have enrolled, the instructor will send you a link to our online classroom, which is provided via Wet Ink.