Fireweed Writing School
Learn to persist in your writing. Learn to write anywhere.
A new, low-cost online writing class for those ready.
Classes begin Summer 2026
Learn to persist in your writing. Learn to write anywhere.
A new, low-cost online writing class for those ready.
Classes begin Summer 2026
You want to be a writer. You are brimming with stories inside of you waiting to be told. Where do you begin?
I think a good answer to that question is right here. Fireweed Writing School.
Help you write better.
Help you write more.
I am starting this online school because it is exactly what I needed myself when I started writing over fifteen years ago.
A community of like-minded (and weird) creatives and a focal point for the sacred art of writing.
I'm not going to bury the lede here. A lot of courses are on websites with expensive subscription models and ridiculous price tags.
This is different.
I'm not tied to any corporation or company. I'm fully independent with nothing to upsell you with. What I'm announcing here is a writing school that charges
per class
per month
* In Canadian dollars, so it's probably even cheaper for you.
Fireweed blooms in Wood Buffalo National Park, July 2023 (by Nina Veselka)
The fireweed doesn't wait for soil to cool. Before anything else dares push through scorched earth after a forest fire, before ash settles into something like earth again, the fireweed arrives. Magenta stalks brilliant and rising from devastation. Rhizomes waited decades underground, patient, and will suddenly explode into growth. Sometimes within weeks of the burn.
In London after the Blitz, fireweed bloomed from grey rubble where bombs had fallen. Locals called it "bombweed". These impossible flowers, pink-purple and delicate, claiming territory from ash.
This is renewal through persistence. Our ability to grow not despite devastation but because of it. To always continue. To be first.
This is the spirit I'm building a writing community around.
I truly believe writing is medicine, and that there is something sacred when community is cultivated in good faith. I hope you'll sign up below and join me this summer and make this happen.
Learn to avoid abstraction, kill clichés, and create something genuinely your own. No idea but in things. Focus on specifics like concrete images, nouns-you-can-touch, and particular verbs that create real connection.
Be able to write without editing. Write without stopping. There is no writer's block—just dogshit drafts that compost into something rich. Build the habit that survives inspiration.
From idea to first draft to revision to query to submission to publication. We'll take you through the entire process. Finish work. Send it into the world. Finish that damn book.
My name is Brennan (he/they). As your writing teacher, you can call me Mr. Brown! I started writing seriously over fifteen years ago. I've been writing poetry and in my journals for a decade and a half. Over one million words and hundreds of works.
I've independently published nine of my own books, five of which are available on Gumroad. Not only did I do the writing, but I did the cover design, layout, formatting, and copyright. These books span over 1,500 pages total.
I recently graduated from Mount Royal University with a 3.8 GPA majoring in English Honours with a minor in creative writing. During my time in school, I published a scholarly article on Indigenous resilience and my honours thesis which examined the importance of the English Degree and writing in today's age.
I also founded Write Club, a creative writing collective of young adults that grew from a couple students to 100+ members. I was the president of this club where we hosted open mics, fundraising events, and I ran dozens of workshops with hundreds of students for three years. We published two anthologies under my tenure: "On the Fringe: A Collection of Filth" and "On the Fringe: A Collection of Community", which are available to buy.
I'm a Queer Red River Métis, I know how important it is to centre marginalized voices and be mindful of how political writing is. Our voice and our ability to have a platform is directly imbued into my teaching.
What am I up to now? Well, I'm making a living by being a writer full-time on Medium. I write articles on writing craft, literary criticism, digital culture, and Indigenous studies. I've published 200+ articles with my top pieces reaching 30,000 views. I write enough to have this be my job, and I'll be honest, it's my dream job. And that's what I want to be able to give to you.
Six principles that will transform your writing practice:
Monthly workshops where you bring work to engaged readers who actually pay attention.
Student outcome: Build confidence sharing your work and develop a supportive readership.
Analog writing, commonplace books, curiosity assignments that get you out into the world.
Student outcome: Develop authentic voice through lived experience and observation.
Poetry if you write prose, flash fiction if you write poetry. Growth happens at discomfort's edge.
Student outcome: Discover your true strengths and expand your creative range.
Own your domain, your site, your email list. Platforms will fail you—digital land won't.
Student outcome: Build sustainable career foundations independent of algorithms.
I do every assignment I assign. If I won't do the work, I won't ask you to.
Student outcome: Trust in a process proven by your guide's own practice.
Permission to write badly, to experiment, to fail spectacularly, to stop pressing backspace.
Student outcome: Break free from perfectionism and rediscover the joy of creation.
This is a school. Here's how it works.
$5 per class
2-hour classes every two weeks
Live, interactive workshops
Small group size
$10 per month
Support the school ongoing
Exclusive content & resources
Community access
50,000+ words written
5 finished pieces
3 submissions sent
Donot come to my class expecting to make it big or make a lot of money. You must want to elevate the craft of your writing. You must want to learn how to write every day even when you don't feel like it.
I will not teach you to be a famous, wealthy author—I can't promise that, and anyone who does is lying. But I will teach you how to be a writer. By the end of your experience with me and this project, you will have a body of work. Actual pages. Actual publications. Actual evidence that you showed up and did the thing.
The fireweed doesn't wait for perfect conditions. It grows from ash. It blooms in devastation. It insists on life even when everything around it has burned. That's what I want for you.
Join the waitlist to be notified when enrollment opens
You'll hear from me soon. Keep writing.