Private Classes

Christopher Citro’s

Spring 2024 Private Writing Workshops

Join me for my spring 2024 poetry and creative nonfiction writing workshops! Email me if you have any questions: christopher@christophercitro.com.

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In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry. Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET. 6 weeks, starting April 3. Let your poetry blossom this spring! Join me for private poetry workshop! 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
  • 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 March 31

Class begins: Wednesday April 3

Click here to register by credit card

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Short-Form Creative Nonfiction. Thursdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET. 6 weeks, starting April 4. “And the lily will resurrect you, too, your lips and nose lit with gold dust,” writes Ross Gay in his 2019 book of short essays, The Book of Delights. Join me for this workshop on short-form creative nonfiction, in which we’ll read and discuss recent micro and flash nonfiction essays, using prompts I’ve written inspired by the readings to help motivate us to create our own literary blossoms! In this course, participants will write 2 micro essays and 2 flash essays. Writers at any level are welcome, including poets and fiction writers!

Participants will receive:

  • 6 two-hour live Zoom classes
  • 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

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 Deadline: Sunday March 31

Class begins: Thursday April 4

Click here to register by credit card

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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, 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 and elsewhere. He is an Editorial Assistant for the Seneca Review and lives in Syracuse, New York.