Private Classes

Christopher Citro’s

Fall 2026 Private Writing Workshops

Join me for my Fall 2026 private writing workshops in poetry and creative nonfiction! 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 September 30. 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, any of which can be recorded to watch later if you are absent.
  • 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.

Earlybird Discounted Registration Fee: $275 (Open now and closes Sunday Aug 23)

Regular Registration Fee: $300 (Opens Monday August 24 and Closes Monday September 21)

Class begins: Wednesday September 30

Click here to register by credit card for the Earlybird Discounted Fee

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Introduction to the Lyric Essay. Thursdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET. 6 weeks, starting October 1. “The lyric essay partakes of the poem in its density and shapeliness, its distillation of ideas and musicality of language. It partakes of the essay in its weight, in its overt desire to engage with facts” (Tall & D’Agata). Explore this exciting contemporary essay form in a warm, encouraging atmosphere! In this class we’ll read lyric essays and write and workshop our own new essays with the help of prompts that I’ve created. No prior experience of the lyric essay is necessary. Writers from all genres and at all levels are welcome.

Participants will receive:

  • 6 two-hour live Zoom classes, any of which can be recorded to watch later if you are absent.
  • 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.

Earlybird Discounted Registration Fee: $275 (Open now and closes Sunday Aug 23)

Regular Registration Fee: $300 (Opens Monday August 24 and Closes Monday September 21)

Class begins: Thursday October 1

Click here to register by credit card for the Earlybird Discounted Fee

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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, 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.