Private Classes | Christopher Citro

Christopher Citro’s

Spring 2025 Private Writing Workshops

Join me for my spring 2025 poetry and creative nonfiction writing workshops! Email me if you have any questions: christopher@christophercitro.com.

In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry. Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET. 6 weeks, starting April 16. We’ll read recently published poetry from literary journals and books, generate new poems with the help of prompts that I create, and spend the bulk of each class in a fun, inspiring poetry workshop. In this course participants will write and receive workshop comments on five original poems. Writers at all levels are welcome. I teach In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry often, and every time the readings are all new, so you can take it again and again!

Participants will receive:

6 two-hour live Zoom classes (skipping May 14 and 21)
weekly pdf packets of sample poems from recent literary journals and books, focusing on craft elements and themes
original writing prompts written by me inspired by each week’s sample poems
workshop comments from the class and me on your five original poems

This is a live online writing workshop. Registered participants will receive a Zoom link prior to the beginning of classes. Registration will close when full (12 students). The class requires a minimum of 6 registered participants. Register early, as spots fill quickly.

Registration fee: $250

Registration Deadline: Sunday April 13

Class begins: Wednesday April 16

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Introduction to the Lyric Essay. Thursdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET. 6 weeks, starting April 17. This workshop will usher you into the wild and liberating world of the lyric essay, a popular form of the contemporary experimental creative nonfiction essay. This class is made for both writers who are new to lyric essays and writers wishing to deepen their relationship with lyric essays. If you are a nonfiction writer wanting to engage with this popular form, this is the class for you! If you are a poet wanting to branch out into a new genre, this is the class for you! If you have never written creative nonfiction before, this is the class for you! Writers at all levels are welcome.

Participants will receive:

6 two-hour live Zoom classes (skipping May 15 and 22)
weekly pdf packets of sample essays
original writing prompts written by me inspired by each week’s sample essays
workshop comments from the class and me on your original essays

Registration Deadline: Sunday April 13

Class begins: Thursday April 17

Click here to register by credit card

Christopher Citro is the author of If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award, and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His honors include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for poetry, a 2019 fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation, Columbia Journal’s poetry award, and a creative nonfiction award from The Florida Review. His poetry appears in 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Best New Poets, Conduit, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Narrative, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, West Branch, and elsewhere. His creative nonfiction appears in Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Bellingham Review, Boulevard, Colorado Review, Passages North, Quarterly West, Southeast Review, among other places.

Christopher has taught at the University of Kansas, Indiana University, SUNY Oswego, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Kettle Pond Writer’s Conference, The Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse, Ionian Center for the Arts & Culture on the Greek Island of Kefalonia, and elsewhere. He is an Editorial Assistant for the Seneca Review and lives in Syracuse, New York.