Folks! Registration is now open for my late fall 2022 private online writing classes! Come join us for a poetry workshop and a creative nonfiction essay workshop! Registrations ends November 4. Classes begin the second week of November. Re-energize your writing this autumn in a fun, inspiring, supportive environment! For details and the links to register, visit: http://christophercitro.com/private-classes/
I’m teaching an online 8-session (Thurs 6-8:00 pm ET) contemporary world poetry seminar starting October 6 for the Downtown Writers Center. Join me Thursday evenings for a fun, inspiring tour of what poets all around the world are doing these days. All readings will be in English. No prior knowledge is required! Registration is inexpensive and open to the public. You can register with a credit card by calling (315) 474-6851 x380.
To learn more about The Downtown Writer’s Center and download the autumn class schedule, with all of their awesome class offerings, visit the Center’s website: https://ymcacny.org/creative-writing-workshops.
Howdy! I’m teaching 2 private fall Zoom workshops starting in September: my basic poetry workshop “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry” (always new readings each time I teach it) & “The Lyric Essay,” my popular workshop on this exciting Creative Nonfiction genre. Supercharge your writing this fall! Join us! 😀 Register soon as spaces fill quickly! 😀
I’m offering private Zoom classes this Spring! One’s a short-form creative nonfiction workshop and the other is a discussion seminar where we’ll read and chat about contemporary world poetry (in English). Classes begin the last week of April 2022. Register early as classes will cap at 12 participants each. Feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested! 😀
I’m teaching an online 8-session (Weds 6-8:00 pm ET) creative nonfiction class on the lyric essay starting January 26 for the Downtown Writers Center. Registration is inexpensive and open to the public. You can register with a credit card by calling (315) 474-6851 x380.
To learn more about The Downtown Writer’s Center and download the winter class schedule, with all of their awesome class offerings, visit the Center’s website: https://ymcacny.org/creative-writing-workshops.
I’m teaching a Zoom class on how to submit your creative writing to literary journals (basically the basics), hosted by the Oak Bluffs Public Library on Martha’s Vineyard this Thursday 4:30 – 6pm. This is free and open to the public! You can get the zoom link and further info on the library’s events calendar: https://oakbluffslibrary.org/event/how-to-submit-to-literary-journals-webinar/
I’m delighted to be teaching a one-off generative Zoom workshop on Voice in poetry, as part of the Literary Bit of Reflection Festival run by the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council in Oxford, Mississippi!
I’m teaching the same class twice, at noon on October 29 and at 3:30 on October 30. It costs only $5 to attend. Come on by! To register visit https://oxfordarts.com/literarybitof
I’m teaching a generative poetry workshop tomorrow Wed July 27 from 4:30-6 pm EDT. Register for the free zoom event via the email address in the poster! Thanks to the Oak Bluffs Public Library on Martha’s Vineyard for hosting! Come on down and let’s write some poems!
I’m thrilled to have received my contributor copy of The Open Page, the new anthology of creative writing exercises and poems, fictions, and essays from the faculty of The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. I have a poetry exercise (and some poems) and a lyric essay exercise (and a whole lyric essay) in it. Plus there’s TONS of awesome stuff by so many of my fellow MVICW faulty! Get yourself a copy and write write write!
The awesome list of contributors include: Tony Ardizzone, Ruth Awad, Bradley Bazzle, Christopher Citro 😀, Tia Clark, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Matthew Gavin Frank, John T Howard, Michael Kardos, Keith Leonard, Amelia Martens, Michael Martone, Amy Meng, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Phong Nguyen, Randi Beck Ocena, Catherine Pierce, Wendy Rawlings, Robert James Russell, Elizabeth Schmuhl, Britton Shurley, Keith Taylor, Samantha Tetangco, Samrat Upadhyay, Alexander Weinstein, and Kea Wilson!