24PearlStreet Upcoming Workshops and Events
Nathan McClain
To Click or Not to Click: on How to Close a Poem - LIVE
December 9 to December 13, 2024
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 3-5pm (Eastern Time) What does it mean for a poem to have “earned” its ending? And how do we craft poems that are both memorable and reward re-reading? In this workshop, we will address these questions, as well as discuss poetic structure, counterpoise, and identify strategies for crafting surprising, yet seemingly inevitable,... more
To Click or Not to Click: on How to Close a Poem - LIVE
December 9 to December 13, 2024
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 3-5pm (Eastern Time) What does it mean for a poem to have “earned” its ending? And how do we craft poems that are both memorable and reward re-reading? In this workshop, we will address these questions, as well as discuss poetic structure, counterpoise, and identify strategies for crafting surprising, yet seemingly inevitable,... more
Emily Nemens
Revising Yourself & Others - LIVE
December 9 to December 13, 2024
Price: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6:30pm-8:30pm (Eastern Time) We’ll look at strategies for revising prose beyond the workshop, managing different kinds of self-editing with an eye toward readying pieces for submission and eventual publication. Please bring a story or essay that’s been revised but still feels “unfinished” to practice new approaches. The seminar will also cover submission... more
Revising Yourself & Others - LIVE
December 9 to December 13, 2024
Price: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6:30pm-8:30pm (Eastern Time) We’ll look at strategies for revising prose beyond the workshop, managing different kinds of self-editing with an eye toward readying pieces for submission and eventual publication. Please bring a story or essay that’s been revised but still feels “unfinished” to practice new approaches. The seminar will also cover submission... more
Ann Hood
Kick Start Your Novel: How to Begin the Story You Want to Tell - LIVE
January 27 to January 31, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) In this 5 day Zoom workshop, we will discuss strategies for getting your novel started and how best to begin the story you want to tell. Together we will read and examine the beginnings of novels and figure out why they work and how you can use similar strategies to... more
Kick Start Your Novel: How to Begin the Story You Want to Tell - LIVE
January 27 to January 31, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) In this 5 day Zoom workshop, we will discuss strategies for getting your novel started and how best to begin the story you want to tell. Together we will read and examine the beginnings of novels and figure out why they work and how you can use similar strategies to... more
Didi Jackson
How to Write a Great Love Poem - LIVE
February 10 to February 14, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 5pm-7pm (Eastern) If love is one of the most important subjects a poet could write about, then why is it so hard to master? Unfortunately, there are many ways a love poem might fail. The language might be saccharine or overly sentimental, the poet might be self-obsessed, or the subject might just... more
How to Write a Great Love Poem - LIVE
February 10 to February 14, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 5pm-7pm (Eastern) If love is one of the most important subjects a poet could write about, then why is it so hard to master? Unfortunately, there are many ways a love poem might fail. The language might be saccharine or overly sentimental, the poet might be self-obsessed, or the subject might just... more
Jess T. Dugan
Sprint Workshop with Jess T. Dugan - LIVE
February 15, 2025
Price: $225
Professional Practices for Visual Artists: Building & Sustaining a Career — LIVE via ZOOM: 12-3pm (Eastern) on February 15th — Being an artist requires not only producing compelling work, but also possessing the professional skills necessary to build and sustain a career in today’s rapidly changing art world. This 3 hour workshop will provide an... more
Sprint Workshop with Jess T. Dugan - LIVE
February 15, 2025
Price: $225
Professional Practices for Visual Artists: Building & Sustaining a Career — LIVE via ZOOM: 12-3pm (Eastern) on February 15th — Being an artist requires not only producing compelling work, but also possessing the professional skills necessary to build and sustain a career in today’s rapidly changing art world. This 3 hour workshop will provide an... more
Carl Phillips
Pattern & Surprise: a Generative Workshop - LIVE
February 24 to February 28, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 12pm-2pm (Eastern Time) For this workshop, we will look at poems that I’ll provide and use them as models for how poems are made from creating pattern and from unexpectedly interrupting that pattern. Each model will be the basis of a daily prompt, which will be the starting point for a new... more
Pattern & Surprise: a Generative Workshop - LIVE
February 24 to February 28, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 12pm-2pm (Eastern Time) For this workshop, we will look at poems that I’ll provide and use them as models for how poems are made from creating pattern and from unexpectedly interrupting that pattern. Each model will be the basis of a daily prompt, which will be the starting point for a new... more
Melissa Febos
Sprint Workshop with Melissa Febos - LIVE
March 1, 2025
Price: $150
The Art of Navel Gazing: a Generative Seminar — LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) — Do you suspect the most urgent story you have to tell is your own, but fear that writing a memoir is too vulnerable an undertaking? Do you fear being thought unserious or self-indulgent? Too often we take for granted the... more
Sprint Workshop with Melissa Febos - LIVE
March 1, 2025
Price: $150
The Art of Navel Gazing: a Generative Seminar — LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) — Do you suspect the most urgent story you have to tell is your own, but fear that writing a memoir is too vulnerable an undertaking? Do you fear being thought unserious or self-indulgent? Too often we take for granted the... more
Ruben Quesada
Writing Through the Silence: Reclaiming Your Voice After a Creative Block
March 3 to March 7, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) Creative lulls can be frustrating, but they are also opportunities for reinvention. This course is designed for writers emerging from periods of silence—whether caused by creative burnout, personal challenges, or a busy life. Through reflective exercises, students will explore writing prompts to reconnect them with their creative core. Writers will... more
Writing Through the Silence: Reclaiming Your Voice After a Creative Block
March 3 to March 7, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) Creative lulls can be frustrating, but they are also opportunities for reinvention. This course is designed for writers emerging from periods of silence—whether caused by creative burnout, personal challenges, or a busy life. Through reflective exercises, students will explore writing prompts to reconnect them with their creative core. Writers will... more
