The Writers' Room for Poets: One Month of Poetry and Community (April, 2024)

The Writers' Room for Poets
A Month of Poetry and Community So You Can Build a Writing Habit that Lasts

Get Five Weeks of Motivation and Inspiration So You Can Make Real Progress On Your Poetry– With Support From Experts and a Vibrant Community of Writers

During this generative course, Emily Harstone and Ella Peary will give you prompts and encouragement to write a poem every day in April. They will also host lively conversations with prestigious poets and editors.

You'll also connect with other poets, and explore real-world paths to publication.

This course includes a full month of community writing events, guest lectures, inspiration, writing prompts, and so much more.

Here’s some of what we’ll be giving you during the course:

A full month of poetry prompts and inspiration – so you can build a daily writing practice with support from instructors and peers.
Daily craft tips so you can grow your skill as a poet throughout the entire month.
Four guest speakers, including editors of prestigious literary journals and renowned poets actively publishing right now.
Four generative poetry workshops each week, so you can write and share your poetry in a live group setting. (All hosted online via Zoom.)
The opportunity to network with peers and share poems for feedback on the course platform.

Please note, all of the writing prompts, craft tips, guest visitors, and generative workshops are new for this session.

The course includes a multitude of live events, so you can meet other poets, spend time writing and sharing your poetry, and building connections and friendships you can carry with you long after the course is complete

This is a unique chance to become part of a community of established and aspiring writers and make real progress on your writing, with guidance from acclaimed author Emily Harstone, and Ella Peary, a long-time editor at Authors Publish.

This course is for those who want to spend the month writing poetry surrounded by the energy of a strong community, while still getting many opportunities to share your work in a small group. This will allow you to benefit from the energy and activity of a large group, while also building meaningful connections with individual poets.

The workshop officially starts on Monday, March 25th and concludes on Thursday, May 2nd. The workshop includes visits from established poets and editors, live generative poetry workshops, text-based discussion, craft tips, writing prompts, and so much more.

Please Note: The tuition for this course is significantly lower than most of our courses. Most of our workshops cost $575 for four weeks. This course is just $247 for five weeks of expert instruction. That's one more week than our normal courses and $328 less than the tuition for most of our courses.

If you're interested in participating, you are encouraged to sign up right away.

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A Month of Inspiration, Motivation, and Poetry

Join us for a full month of community, expert guidance, and so much more.

Get daily writing prompts, motivation, and inspiration from a large and vibrant community of poets.
Get guidance on the publishing process of Emily Harstone, Ella Peary, and our four visiting poets and editors.
Participate in generative poetry workshops hosted by Ella Peary and Emily Harstone.
Join conversations with established poets and editors of prestigious literary journals.
Get full access to 29 live events at a wide variety of times, so you can participate in events that fit your schedule.

Generative Poetry Workshops

Learn from Ella Peary & Emily Harstone, Write Poetry, and Share it With the Community

At the core of this course are the generative poetry workshops, hosted live via Zoom. During these workshops, you’ll get optional writing prompts, dedicated time to write, and the chance to share your work with a small group of poets.

These workshops will be open to the full community of poets in the course – and will make extensive use of “breakout rooms” so that you can meet in a small group, to share your work, provide feedback, and make connections with other writers.

There will be four generative workshops every week in October. See the calendar below for the full schedule. Note: We’ve scheduled these at a wide variety of times, so that you can find a time that works for your schedule.

Workshop Schedule

Five Weeks of Community, Literary Events, and Focused Writing

This five week course starts on Monday, March 25th and ends on Thursday, May 2nd.

The course is designed to be flexible. We've included a wide variety of meeting times, so you can attend at least one live meeting per week. (In addition to the text-based discussions via the course platform.)

To give you more flexibility, the lectures, guest speakers, Q&A sessions and editor discussions will be recorded and archived. This means you will be able to watch them on your own time, as well as ask follow-up questions via the discussion platform.

This course is co-taught by a wonderful duo: Emily Harstone and Ella Peary.

Emily and Ella will be there every day to answer your questions. They'll also be sharing daily writing prompts, craft tips, hosting generative writing workshops, and more.

Emily Harstone is the pen-name of the author of many popular books for writers, including The Authors Publish Guide to Manuscript Submissions, The 2023 Guide to Manuscript Publishers, The Authors Publish Guide to Children’s and Young Adult Publishing, and Submit, Publish, Repeat.

Through these books, she has helped many writers connect with quality publishers for their books.

As a professional submissions adviser, she has helped many writers successfully place their work in literary journals.

Emily graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, then worked as a creative writing professor at Berkeley College in New York, as well as Seattle Pacific University.

She went on to become a co-founder of Authors Publish Magazine, where she regularly engages with the editors of literary journals.

Ella Peary is the pen name of an internationally published author and editor. After earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, she lived abroad in a monastery for five years where she served as an editor for Darshan Press and Inword Publishers.

She's edited writing published in The Huffington Post, and a number of full-length manuscripts she's edited have received major international awards, including The Best Graphic Novel of the Year (Comics Finlandia), The Montaigne Medal, and The National India Excellence Awards.

She's a columnist at Ruminate, and her writing is frequently translated for publication in Ananda, one of Europe's best-selling yoga magazines.

She is the long-time literary journal reviewer and editor at Authors Publish Magazine.

A Full Month of Motivation, Inspiration, Writing Prompts, and Generative Poetry Workshops

Join us for a month of community events, guest speakers, and more.

During this course, you'll get many opportunities to learn from established poets and editors, connect with fellow writers, and much more.

Keep reading to learn more about the people you'll connect with during this course...

Kai Coggin, Poet Laureate of Hot Springs

Join established poet and editor Kai Coggin for a discussion of poetry and publishing.

Kai Coggin (she/her) is the Inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Hot Springs, and author of five collections, most recently Mother of Other Kingdoms (Harbor Editions, 2024). She is also host of the longest running consecutive weekly open mic series in the country—Wednesday Night Poetry.

Coggin was twice named “Best Poet in Arkansas” by the Arkansas Times. Her fierce and tender poetry has been nominated six times for The Pushcart Prize, and awarded Best of the Net in 2022. Ten of Kai’s poems are going to the moon with the Lunar Codex project, and on earth they have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, Prairie Schooner, Bellevue Literary Review, Tupelo Press, and many other publications.

Coggin is Editor-at-Large at SWIMM, Associate Editor at The Rise Up Review, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. She lives with her wife in a peaceful valley, where they tend to wild ones and each other.

Kai will be visiting the class to discuss the craft of poetry, publishing, and her work as an editor.

Kai Coggin is visiting the class on April 26th at 2pm ET. The event will be recorded for those who can't make it. You will be welcome to send in questions ahead of time.

Shannan Mann, Poet and Editor of Only Poems

Join editor and poet Shannan Mann for a discussion of poetry and publishing.

Shannan Mann is the founding editor of Only Poems, which publishes renowned and award winning poets, as well as emerging poets.

Shannan has been awarded or placed for the Palette Love & Eros Prize, Rattle Poetry Prize, Auburn Witness Prize, Foster Poetry Prize, Peatsmoke Summer Contest and Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize among others. Her poems appear in Poetry Daily, Black Warrior Review, Poet Lore, Gulf Coast, The Literary Review of Canada, EPOCH, december, & elsewhere.

Shannan will be visiting the class to discuss starting a literary journal, and editing and publishing poetry.

Shannan will be visiting on April 12th at Noon Eastern Time. The event will be recorded for those who can't make it. You are encouraged to send your questions in ahead of time.

Dara Lyn-Shrager, Editor of Radar Poetry

Dara Lyn-Shrager is the co-founder and editor of Radar Poetry. Her full-length manuscript Whiskey, X-Ray, Yankee was published by Barrow Street Press, after being named a finalist for the Barrow Street Poetry Prize.
Whiskey, X-Ray, Yankee was also a finalist for the Akron Poetry Prize, the Perugia Prize
and the Brittingham and Pollak Prizes from the University of Wisconsin Press.

College. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals, including The Los Angeles Review, Crab Creek Review, Barn Owl Review, The Greensboro Review, Nashville Review, Passages North, Salamander, Southern Humanities Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, Tinderbox Poetry Journal and Yemassee. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and in 2024, her work will appear in the anthology Braving the Body (forthcoming, Harbor Editions).

Dara will be visiting class to discuss poetry, the process of getting published, and her work editing Radar Poetry.

Dara will be visiting the class on April 5th at 12pm ET. The event will be recorded for those who can't make it. You will be welcome to submit your questions ahead of time.

Angelique Zobitz, Award Winning Poet

Join an award winning poet for a discussion of poetry and publishing.

Angelique Zobitz (she/her/hers) is the author of the just released debut full length poetry collection Seraphim (CavanKerry Press) and the chapbooks Burn Down Your House (Milk & Cake Press) and Love Letters to The Revolution (American Poetry Journal).

She is a 2022 Jake Adam York Finalist, 2022 Philip Levine Prize semifinalist, 2022 St. Lawrence finalist, 2022 Tupelo Prize finalist, 2021 Georgia Poetry Prize finalist and multi-nominated for the Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and the Pushcart Prize.

She is Poetry Editor at The Night Heron Barks and Ran Off with the Star Bassoon and a Contributing Editor at Cave Wall.

Angelique will be visiting the class to discuss the craft of poetry and to answer your questions about writing and publishing.

Angelique will be visiting the class April 15th at 8pm ET. The event will be recorded for those who can't make it. You will be welcome to submit your questions ahead of time.

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First Welcome Meeting

Second Welcome Meeting

Q&A with Ella Peary & Emily Harstone

Generative Workshop With Ella

Generative Workshop with Emily

Dara-Lyn Shrager Class Visit

Generative Workshop with Ella

Generative Workshop with Emily

Generative Workshop with Ella

Generative Workshop with Emily

Literary Journal Event

Shannan Mann Visiting Class

Generative Workshop with Ella

Generative Workshop with Emily

Generative Workshop with Ella

Angelique Zobitz Class Visit

Generative Workshop with Emily

Generative Workshop with Ella

Generative Workshop with Emily

Generative Workshop with Ella

Generative Workshop with Emily

Kai Coggin Class Visit

Generative Workshop with Ella

Generative Workshop with Emily

Generative Workshop with Ella

Generative Workshop with Emily

Poetry Sharing Party

Poetry Sharing Party

$247.00

2 x $123.50