I’ve loved each of the 14 years I’ve been teaching for the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. This just finished September session was one of the very best! Thank you to my fellow faculty and to all the poets and writers who came and made it such an inspiring time!
Day 6 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing! The final day! I taught The Intersections of Writing & Publishing, paneled about The Writing Life, then enjoyed the final night of participant readings. Such a heart-filling week. Thank you to everyone for making it so special!
Day 5 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing! More manuscript meetings with awesome writers, a Seafood Shanty lunch by the Edgartown docks, some sightseeing, ending with the first day of participant readings. So many moving poems and stories and essays. My heart left the reading full. Overflowing in fact.
Day 4 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing September Edition! I met with awesome writers all day for manuscript consultations, then ate seafood at Menemsha Beach with fellow faculty and we clapped when the sun set. *sarcasm* It’s a sort of life, I guess.
Day 3 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing! I taught two craft/generative classes: one on broken things & anaphora and one on the hermit crab essay. Then in the evening we enjoyed wonderful readings by fellow faculty Hannah Bae and Vogue Robinson! Then Indian food at Indigo!
Day 2 of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing… No teaching for me today, but I read my poetry alongside the wonderful fiction writer Joy Deva Baglio! Thanks so much to all the awesome supportive people in the audience tonight! Golly that was a warm and welcoming time tonight!
With a glass of elderflower wine and a skol, Director Alexander Weinstein opens the third week of the 2026 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing! My 14th year teaching here. My second week of this year’s three sessions. Yip-a-dang! Here’s to a great week of writing on the Vineyard!
Announcing my FALL 2026 private creative writing workshops in poetry and creative nonfiction!
On Wednesdays I’ll be teaching my poetry workshop, “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry” beginning September 30.
On Thursdays I’ll be teaching my creative nonfiction workshop, “Introduction to the Lyric Essay” beginning October 1.
Both workshops run for 6 classes, from 6-8 PM Eastern Time, via Zoom. Classes can be recorded for you to watch later if you are absent.
Earlybird Discounted Registration just opened and closes Sunday August 23.
Regular Registration will close Monday September 21.
Register early as these classes usually fill up!
See my website https://christophercitro.com/private-classes/ for more info and to register.
Day 6 of Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference! Writing and relaxing on the shore of Akwasasne Lake at Paul Smith’s College, waving hi to the wonderful Operations Manager Greta Hovland & our wonderful Director Virginia Zech as they rise from the water, then enjoying the wonderful Brian Hall reading us his fiction!
Day 5 of Kettle Pond Writers Conference! Writing and relaxing in an awesome treehouse overlooking Akwasasne Lake at Paul Smith’s College, followed by the party at Blum House under a pale June moon…
