24PearlStreet Upcoming Workshops and Events
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
Susanna Sonnenberg
Where to Begin: How to Start Your Memoir
February 3 to February 28, 2025
Price: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS It’s so confusing: in the vast experience of a life lie the compelling themes of narrative and story, but how to choose? How to begin? What matters? This class, with a mix of personal prompts, feedback and discussion, will help you use the confusion to identify the essential stories (and cast off some obvious... more
Where to Begin: How to Start Your Memoir
February 3 to February 28, 2025
Price: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS It’s so confusing: in the vast experience of a life lie the compelling themes of narrative and story, but how to choose? How to begin? What matters? This class, with a mix of personal prompts, feedback and discussion, will help you use the confusion to identify the essential stories (and cast off some obvious... more
Kelle Groom
Obsession, Memory, & Image: a Memoir Workshop - LIVE
February 3 to February 7, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern Time) Nathalie Sarraute said, “Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.” Of course this is the goal of memoir as well. What drives memoir? What questions fuel it? How does a memoirist select a narrative from the whole of their life? How do we choose a compelling subject? What form... more
Obsession, Memory, & Image: a Memoir Workshop - LIVE
February 3 to February 7, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern Time) Nathalie Sarraute said, “Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.” Of course this is the goal of memoir as well. What drives memoir? What questions fuel it? How does a memoirist select a narrative from the whole of their life? How do we choose a compelling subject? What form... 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
Professional Practices for Visual Artists: Building & Sustaining a Career — LIVE
February 15, 2025
Price: $225
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 overview of essential professional practices for visual artists. Topics covered include... more
Professional Practices for Visual Artists: Building & Sustaining a Career — LIVE
February 15, 2025
Price: $225
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 overview of essential professional practices for visual artists. Topics covered include... more
Joan Kwon Glass
Basement Hymns: Writing Unexpected Poems of Praise - LIVE
February 17 to February 21, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) How can bold or surprising images and language serve as tools for writing unexpected, unforgettable poems? How might we flip the script on traditional anthems, hymns and odes, and what and who might inspire unexpected, poetic tribute? In this generative workshop, we will read, write and workshop traditional and experimental... more
Basement Hymns: Writing Unexpected Poems of Praise - LIVE
February 17 to February 21, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 7pm-9pm (Eastern) How can bold or surprising images and language serve as tools for writing unexpected, unforgettable poems? How might we flip the script on traditional anthems, hymns and odes, and what and who might inspire unexpected, poetic tribute? In this generative workshop, we will read, write and workshop traditional and experimental... more
Dorianne Laux
Finger Exercises for Poets: the Discrete Line – LIVE
February 24 to February 28, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) The will of the line, the carefulness of it, the pleasure, the choices and options, the decision. The separate-ness of it, the distinctness, the isolation and detachedness of it. The finite line. Unconnected from all other lines, it has a life of its own, can move backwards or forwards in... more
Finger Exercises for Poets: the Discrete Line – LIVE
February 24 to February 28, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) The will of the line, the carefulness of it, the pleasure, the choices and options, the decision. The separate-ness of it, the distinctness, the isolation and detachedness of it. The finite line. Unconnected from all other lines, it has a life of its own, can move backwards or forwards in... 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
The Art of Navel Gazing: a Generative Seminar — LIVE
March 1, 2025
Price: $150
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 false binary between the personal and the intellectual. A... more
The Art of Navel Gazing: a Generative Seminar — LIVE
March 1, 2025
Price: $150
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 false binary between the personal and the intellectual. A... 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
Kristina Marie Darling
The Fine Art of Book Publicity - LIVE
March 17 to March 21, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 11am-1pm (Eastern Time) Kristina Marie Darling, editor-in-cheif of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly, will walk students through the basics of book publicity for poetry collections, fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid genre books, and chapbooks. Students will discuss strategies for researching and building relationships with book reviewers, best practices for supporting and mentoring reviewers,... more
The Fine Art of Book Publicity - LIVE
March 17 to March 21, 2025
Price: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 11am-1pm (Eastern Time) Kristina Marie Darling, editor-in-cheif of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly, will walk students through the basics of book publicity for poetry collections, fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid genre books, and chapbooks. Students will discuss strategies for researching and building relationships with book reviewers, best practices for supporting and mentoring reviewers,... more
