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!
Get yerself a copy HERE!
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!
I wrapped up my week teaching for the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing by teaching my class on strategies for building a poetry book manuscript. What a great week, what an inspiring time I’ve had with all the attendees and my fellow faculty. Wow! And plus we ended with readings by Adrian Matejka & Keith Taylor. Wow wow!
Day 2 of this summer’s virtual Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and I just finished teaching my class on The Hermit Crab Essay. What an amazing session, such wonderful comments and questions, and the in-class writing that people shared was…wow…so generous, so moving, so beautiful.
This summer’s virtual Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing is underway this week! Today I’m delighted to be teaching my Introduction to the Lyric Essay class! Wonderful opening ceremony last night, with readings by Leonard A Slade Jr. and Alexander Weinstein. Skål!
Registration has just opened for this summer’s virtual Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing June 6-13! It’s gonna be a blast! I’m teaching there along with a bunch of other awesome writers. Come join us! 😀
There are about two weeks left to apply to the Writing Contest for this summer’s virtual Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing! I’m the judge of the poetry contest! Send in your poems (or fiction and CNF to be judged by Wendy Rawlings) to maybe win a full or partial fellowship!
I had a wonderful time Zoom visiting Jared Green’s ENG 344 class at Stonehill College to talk about my writing and all things Lyric Essay. What a great group of students!
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be teaching at this summer’s virtual Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing June 6-13! LOOK at this list of my fellow instructors: Alexander Weinstein, Adrian Matejka, Tia Clark, Britton Shurley, Amelia Martens, Wendy Rawlings, Joshunda Sanders, Elizabeth Schmuhl, Keith Taylor, Matthew Gavin Frank, Phong Nguyen, and John T Howard. Register now and join us!!!
https://www.mvicw.com/
Hey all writers everywhere! The deadline for this is tomorrow, July 10! Want a little of that Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing experience? This summer the Institute is offering virtual one-on-one manuscript consultations with some of the regular faculty (including me!). Each session includes a generous review of your work, including line edits, written feedback, and a 40-minute Zoom meeting to discuss your manuscript! The cost is $200. Visit this link to register by July 10. I’d love to see what you’ve been writing!
https://mvicw.submittable.com/submit/166759/mvicw-summer-one-on-one-manuscript-sessions