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 musical prompts, based upon Painted Daydreams: Collection of Ekphrastic Poems, Dancing on the Page, and Swan Songs. A fun, engaging workshop that celebrates all forms […]

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 publication? What goes on behind the scenes on an editorial team? How do you keep track of your submissions? What can you expect from the […]

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 to the worlds we don't know brings opportunities for expansive new poetry. Sustained attention and engagement in defined environments, whether they be studios, workspaces, institutions […]

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 the 19th century. Today the prose poem, while not broken into lines of verse, uses other techniques unique to poetry such as image, metaphor, and […]

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 and generative writing retreats. Leatha Kendrick will provide writing exercises and prompts designed to help you find the heart of the writing you want to […]

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 myth-based poems and leave with prompts, a list of writing moves, and a reading list for further exploration. This class is suitable for all levels. […]

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 on haibun, monostich, concrete, and various types of erasure work as well. The workshop will conclude with timed prompts for participants to try out the […]

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 non-literary structures like recipes, letters & lists, official forms & “how-to's.” We’ll look at examples by established and emerging writers, and discuss the ways that […]

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 braid which is the story. In this class, we will explore the relationship between plot and character and tactics that you can use to craft […]