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Announcing my private writing workshops for late fall 2024!

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In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry. Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET. 6 weeks, starting December 4. 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!

Creative Nonfiction Workshop. Thursdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m. ET. 6 weeks, starting December 5. In this class I’ll provide craft talks, original writing prompts, and we’ll take recent literary essays apart to see how the writers achieved their astonishing effects. Then we’ll workshop creative nonfiction essays (micros, flash or full-length up to 4,000 words – all are welcome!). I teach this class often, and the readings are always different. If you’ve taken it before you can always take it again and the class content will be new. Writers at all levels are welcome!

Registration is now open, and it closes on Sunday December 1.

Details & registration available at: https://christophercitro.com/private-classes/

Register soon as spaces fill quickly! 

Announcing my private Zoom-based Winter Writing Workshops!

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Join me for my private Zoom-based winter workshops!

On Wednesdays 6-8 pm ET, I’m offering another session of my popular poetry workshop “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry.” The title is always the same but the readings, prompts, craft talks are always different, so you can take it again and again! We’ll read very recent poetry, I’ll provide original prompts to help inspire your new poems, we look at craft elements, we’ll workshop your poems. Writers at all levels are welcome! Class begins Jan 31.

On Thursdays 6-8 pm ET, I’m offering my also popular “Introduction to the Lyric Essay.” This workshop will usher you into the wild and fun world of the lyric essay, a popular form of the contemporary experimental creative nonfiction essay. 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. Class begins Feb 1.

Registration is now open, and it closes on Sunday January 28.

View class details and register at my website:

https://christophercitro.com/private-classes/

Join me for a Zoom-based class: History of the Prose Poem: from the 1800s to the Present!

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I’m delighted to announce that I’m teaching History of the Prose Poem: from the 1800s to the Present for The Downtown Writers Center. This inexpensive, 8-week Zoom-based class is open to anyone anywhere (you do not have to be a member of the YMCA to take this class).

We’ll read prose poetry, from its establishment in 1842, through Modernism, the surreal 70s, up to today. This online class features audio and video for a fun session each week, including handouts for further reading and exploration. Intended for both writers and readers who love poetry and wish to gain a deeper experience of this form. No prior knowledge required.

https://www.ymcacny.org/creative-writing-workshops

Announcing my late fall online poetry workshop!

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Friends! Announcing my late fall poetry workshop: “In the Landscape of Contemporary Poetry.” Warm up your end-of-year writing with my popular 6-week combination generative, craft, and workshop class via Zoom, with entirely new readings, prompts, and craft talks every time I teach it. Registration is now open. And it closes November 13. Class begins Wednesday November 15. Join us!

😀 Details & registration available http://christophercitro.com/private-classes/. Register soon as spaces fill quickly! 😀

I’m teaching 2 online creative writing classes this summer!

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I’m teaching two 6-week creative writing workshops (poetry & creative nonfiction) this summer via The Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse. Anyone anywhere can sign up to take them cuz online! Yay! Registration is inexpensive and open to the public — you don’t need to be a Y member! To learn more about The Downtown Writer’s Center, download the summer class schedule with all its awesome class offerings, and register for these workshops, visit the Center’s website HERE. Feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!
P.S. classes cap at 10 students, so if you are interested, register early!