Steve Almond, our friend and author of not one but two Rumpus columns, is teaching three classes in the Bay Area on the weekend of December 7–8.

In addition to the classes on obsession and humor in San Francisco that we blogged about earlier, Steve will be conducting a “freewheeling workshop” in Oakland on how to write sex scenes.

Click here for details—and maybe, uh, bone up on Steve’s approach to sex writing by reading his essay “Why I Write Smut: A Manifesto.”