Radical Revision
A Poetry Workshop with Emily Harstone

May 9th or May 12th, 2026
Poetry • Online • 10am–2pm ET

You’re invited to a one-day poetry workshop with Emily Harstone.

Radical revision is about using your own work to create something new and beautiful. It’s about getting to the heart of each individual poem – and the heart of your writing practice, so you can connect with yourself as a poet and create new poetry, through a process of exploring fresh perspectives and mining your past work for inspiration.

Revision is something most poets are actively engaged in; this workshop goes beyond that. If you’ve ever written poems that don’t work or are too personal to share with others, this is a workshop for you.

During the workshop, Emily will share tools for creating new poems from old drafts, writing about difficult topics, and getting to the heart of what matters most in in your writing and your writing practice.

All you need to bring to this workshop is creative energy and a few drafts of poems you can’t imagine publishing in their current form, for whatever reason.

There will be plenty of time for discussion, exercises, and writing. By the end of this workshop, you’ll have four new drafts of poems, and a new perspective to carry into your writing practice, long after the workshop is complete.

For those who are interested in participating, you are encouraged to enroll right away.


Enroll Now for $129 $97 (Early Bird Tuition)

Enroll in the May 9th Session
Enroll in the May 12th Session

Course Schedule

The course is entirely online, and hosted via Zoom. You'll also get full access to a course discussion board, so you can share and discuss your work with the class, even after the official course dates. For added flexibility, we're hosting two sessions of this workshop.

Saturday, May 9, 2026

or

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Session 1: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
Break: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET
Session 2: 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM ET
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About Emily Harstone

Emily Harstone is the pen-name of the author of many popular books for writers, including The Authors Publish Guide to Manuscript Submissions, The 2025 Guide to Manuscript Publishers, The Authors Publish Guide to Children’s and Young Adult Publishing, and Submit, Publish, Repeat: How to Publish Your Creative Writing in Literary Journals.

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

As a poet, Emily Harstone has widely published her writing in literary journals such as The Fiddlehead, NEON, Rust+Moth, and The Literary Review of Canada, among many other journals.

She has also published chapbooks with Maverick Duck Press, Hyacinth Girl Press, and Jeanne Duval Editions.

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.