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This online workshop will detail the ekphrastic process and provide prompts that will serve you whenever you face the blank page. Elizabeth will guide you to respond to visual and […]

Where can you find journals and magazines to publish your poems, stories, and essays? How do you choose the right ones for work? How do you format your work for […]

Write What You Don’t Know: A Workshop in Immersion Poetics with Lynnell Edwards Though we’re rightly inspired to write about the things we know best, sometimes looking out and around […]

The prose poem as we know it today was “invented” as a type of subversive activity; to escape the rules of strict meter and rhyme that defined most poetry in […]

Winter Into Spring – A Series of Writing Retreats with Leatha Kendrick Bring your blank pages or your current writing project to the Carnegie Center for a series of intensive […]

Turn ordinary life into legend. In this generative workshop, we’ll remake and rewrite folktales as poetry, giving contemporary experiences (grief, work, love, place) a modern mythic frame. Participants will draft […]

In this online workshop, participants will explore poetic devices beyond the lineation toolkit or completely outside of it. While we will focus on writing the prose poem, we will touch […]

As hermit crabs are creatures born without a home, they investigate hollow objects, looking for that perfect fit. For this generative workshop, we’ll explore different homes for our creative nonfiction—using […]

Character and plot are forces that interweave, strand over strand, where a character’s actions drive the plot and the events of the plot change the character. Together they create a […]

Now that you’ve finished your play, what comes next? This one-time, two-hour class will be devoted to demystifying the sometimes-confusing world of new play development. We’ll spend the first hour […]

Poetry is news that stays new, Ezra Pound said. What is it of our own lives that will stay new? How do we give voice to this moment in time? […]

Winter Into Spring – A Series of Writing Retreats with Leatha Kendrick Bring your blank pages or your current writing project to the Carnegie Center for a series of intensive […]

This class will encourage and inspire outdoor enthusiasts to write their stories for fun and profit, from opening lines to marketing their masterpiece. Our topics will include examples of good […]

“To write is to give our attention to something and then ask Why?” – Joy Sullivan Using our surroundings and our senses, we’ll allow our instincts to lead us in […]

A distinctive trait of much memorable writing is its (and its author’s) “sense of place.” But any “place” is much more than just its geographical location—it is also defined by […]

A draft of a poem isn’t a broken thing that needs to be fixed. It’s not a clear, rational argument that needs a little cleaning up, a little editing. It’s […]

Winter Into Spring – A Series of Writing Retreats with Leatha Kendrick Bring your blank pages or your current writing project to the Carnegie Center for a series of intensive […]

Blah, Blah, Blah Writers’ Group will hold a Writers’ Crawl that will not only highlight places in Lexington important to writers and writing, but give writers an opportunity to write […]