24PearlStreet Workshop Catalog
Carmen Maria Machado
Sprint Workshop with Carmen Maria Machado - LIVE
June 6, 2023
Tuition: $225
Stories That Stand Still – LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern) on June 6th. In this talk, we’ll explore the craft of writing fiction that doesn’t move—fiction contained in a single, discreet space as large as a house, and as small as a bed—and the implication it has for our understanding of gender, characterization, plot, and... more
Sprint Workshop with Carmen Maria Machado - LIVE
June 6, 2023
Tuition: $225
Stories That Stand Still – LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern) on June 6th. In this talk, we’ll explore the craft of writing fiction that doesn’t move—fiction contained in a single, discreet space as large as a house, and as small as a bed—and the implication it has for our understanding of gender, characterization, plot, and... more
Melissa Febos
Sprint Workshop with Melissa Febos - LIVE
June 10, 2023
Tuition: $150
Nonfiction Forms Lab: A Generative Seminar – LIVE via ZOOM: 11am-1pm (Eastern) on June 10th. Conventional essay forms offer us familiar containers in which to pour our content. They make predictable narrative sense out of the most acute life experiences. It is a formula that works. The problem with formula and the familiar is that... more
Sprint Workshop with Melissa Febos - LIVE
June 10, 2023
Tuition: $150
Nonfiction Forms Lab: A Generative Seminar – LIVE via ZOOM: 11am-1pm (Eastern) on June 10th. Conventional essay forms offer us familiar containers in which to pour our content. They make predictable narrative sense out of the most acute life experiences. It is a formula that works. The problem with formula and the familiar is that... more
Joanne Dugan
Writing Pictures: Combining Text & Image - LIVE
June 12 to June 16, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 3pm-5pm (Eastern) It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text yields surprising results that can greatly deepen the impact of poetry, narrative and other written forms. The text/image form, as described by artist Duane Michals exists “not to tell you what you... more
Writing Pictures: Combining Text & Image - LIVE
June 12 to June 16, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 3pm-5pm (Eastern) It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Yet the addition of photographs to text yields surprising results that can greatly deepen the impact of poetry, narrative and other written forms. The text/image form, as described by artist Duane Michals exists “not to tell you what you... more
Oliver de la Paz
Humming—Finding & Sustaining Momentum in Poetic Sequences
June 12 to June 16, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS From invention to revision, this generative workshop will attend to the possibilities of creating new work that is in tune with a singular focus, obsession, or motif. We will explore exercises that allow the writer to hold on to a subject matter, allowing the writer to seek new possibilities, and perhaps... more
Humming—Finding & Sustaining Momentum in Poetic Sequences
June 12 to June 16, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS From invention to revision, this generative workshop will attend to the possibilities of creating new work that is in tune with a singular focus, obsession, or motif. We will explore exercises that allow the writer to hold on to a subject matter, allowing the writer to seek new possibilities, and perhaps... more
Martha Collins
Making Stanzas Work for You! - LIVE
June 19 to June 23, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) Through the reading of published poems, we’ll explore various lengths and kinds of stanzas (from one-line stanzas on) as well as various lengths and kinds of lines. We’ll focus on free-verse poems, but briefly explore the formal origins of various stanza forms and discuss some contemporary forms as well. Responses... more
Making Stanzas Work for You! - LIVE
June 19 to June 23, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) Through the reading of published poems, we’ll explore various lengths and kinds of stanzas (from one-line stanzas on) as well as various lengths and kinds of lines. We’ll focus on free-verse poems, but briefly explore the formal origins of various stanza forms and discuss some contemporary forms as well. Responses... more
Kristina Marie Darling
Professional Empowerment Across Genres & Disciplines: How to Successfully Pitch, Promote, & Fund Your Creative Projects
June 19 to August 11, 2023
Tuition: $750
ASYNCHRONOUS This workshop will walk students through the basics of writing convincing and persuasive pitches; crafting applications to fellowships, residencies, and grants; promoting their creative work; and discovering an appreciative audience more generally. We will address such topics as the fine art of pitches, artist statements, personal statements, project proposals, choosing the work sample, tailoring... more
Professional Empowerment Across Genres & Disciplines: How to Successfully Pitch, Promote, & Fund Your Creative Projects
June 19 to August 11, 2023
Tuition: $750
ASYNCHRONOUS This workshop will walk students through the basics of writing convincing and persuasive pitches; crafting applications to fellowships, residencies, and grants; promoting their creative work; and discovering an appreciative audience more generally. We will address such topics as the fine art of pitches, artist statements, personal statements, project proposals, choosing the work sample, tailoring... more
Brendan Constantine
A Tendency to Exist: A Generative Workshop on Time - LIVE
June 19 to June 23, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern) It has been said that atoms do not exist in time but rather show a “tendency” to exist. Much the same can be said of poetry. Brendan Constantine presents a special, generative workshop on the poet’s relationship(s) with Time. Participants will examine multiple perspectives and approaches to writing, resulting in... more
A Tendency to Exist: A Generative Workshop on Time - LIVE
June 19 to June 23, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern) It has been said that atoms do not exist in time but rather show a “tendency” to exist. Much the same can be said of poetry. Brendan Constantine presents a special, generative workshop on the poet’s relationship(s) with Time. Participants will examine multiple perspectives and approaches to writing, resulting in... more
Rebecca Morgan Frank
Poetry Book (or Chapbook) Bootcamp
June 26 to June 30, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Are you building or revising a poetry book or chapbook? Whether you are at the early stages of ordering a manuscript or you are preparing a manuscript to submit to publishers this fall, this week-long course will provide a toolbox of writing exercises, resources, and activities to help you focus and... more
Poetry Book (or Chapbook) Bootcamp
June 26 to June 30, 2023
Tuition: $550
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Are you building or revising a poetry book or chapbook? Whether you are at the early stages of ordering a manuscript or you are preparing a manuscript to submit to publishers this fall, this week-long course will provide a toolbox of writing exercises, resources, and activities to help you focus and... more
Joseph O. Legaspi
I Must Confess - LIVE
June 26 to June 30, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern) Why does confessional poetry get a bad rap? Arguably, aren’t all poems confessional, revealing of truths? This workshop aims to encourage and ease the risks it takes to write about risky subjects. The focus will be on poems-in-progress, as well as elaborating on intent, craft, and process. There will also... more
I Must Confess - LIVE
June 26 to June 30, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern) Why does confessional poetry get a bad rap? Arguably, aren’t all poems confessional, revealing of truths? This workshop aims to encourage and ease the risks it takes to write about risky subjects. The focus will be on poems-in-progress, as well as elaborating on intent, craft, and process. There will also... more
Paul Lisicky
Sprint Workshop with Paul Lisicky – LIVE
June 27, 2023
Tuition: $225
On Urgency: A Memoir and Creative Nonfiction Workshop – LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern) on June 27th. Together, we’ll discuss four very short passages from Hilton Als, Carmen Maria Machado, Hanif Abdurraqib, and Victoria Chang. Following each discussion we’ll complete a quick writing prompt suggested by each passage. After writing, there will be time to... more
Sprint Workshop with Paul Lisicky – LIVE
June 27, 2023
Tuition: $225
On Urgency: A Memoir and Creative Nonfiction Workshop – LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-4pm (Eastern) on June 27th. Together, we’ll discuss four very short passages from Hilton Als, Carmen Maria Machado, Hanif Abdurraqib, and Victoria Chang. Following each discussion we’ll complete a quick writing prompt suggested by each passage. After writing, there will be time to... more
Sandra Beasley
Come to the Creative Nonfiction Playground
July 10 to August 4, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Do you have a topic or relationship that you’ve been wanting to write about in creative nonfiction, but can never find the right way to start? In this four-week asynchronous workshop, we’ll explore using unusual forms to spark and shape your personal essays. Weekday posts will focus on a quartet of... more
Come to the Creative Nonfiction Playground
July 10 to August 4, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Do you have a topic or relationship that you’ve been wanting to write about in creative nonfiction, but can never find the right way to start? In this four-week asynchronous workshop, we’ll explore using unusual forms to spark and shape your personal essays. Weekday posts will focus on a quartet of... more
Chloe Garcia Roberts
Writing the Liminal: Lyric Essays, Prose Poems, & Hybrid Texts
July 10 to August 4, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Are you a writer who finds literary genre definitions outdated, boring, and counterintuitive? Are you drawn to reading authors whose work exists somewhere at the nexus of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction? And do you simultaneously feel thrilled, jealous, and/or scandalized when you read how these authors flout categorization in their own... more
Writing the Liminal: Lyric Essays, Prose Poems, & Hybrid Texts
July 10 to August 4, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS Are you a writer who finds literary genre definitions outdated, boring, and counterintuitive? Are you drawn to reading authors whose work exists somewhere at the nexus of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction? And do you simultaneously feel thrilled, jealous, and/or scandalized when you read how these authors flout categorization in their own... more
Maggie Smith
Five Days, Five Poems - LIVE
July 17 to July 21, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) In this generative poetry workshop we’ll create and share new work, experimenting with a wide variety of subject matter and approaches. I’ll provide flexible writing prompts and model poems to get us started each day. As we discuss the work, we’ll pay special attention to line, syntax, and stanza, and... more
Five Days, Five Poems - LIVE
July 17 to July 21, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 12pm-2pm (Eastern) In this generative poetry workshop we’ll create and share new work, experimenting with a wide variety of subject matter and approaches. I’ll provide flexible writing prompts and model poems to get us started each day. As we discuss the work, we’ll pay special attention to line, syntax, and stanza, and... more
Deborah Taffa
Using Elements of Poetry to Improve Your Prose
July 17 to August 11, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS In this workshop, we will discuss how prose narratives can benefit from poetic techniques, how expanding the use of poetic principles—from metaphor to repetition, space, juxtaposition, accrual, lists, and rhyme—can deepen the experience of writing and reading creative nonfiction. What is the lyric essay? How can we use a “volta” to surprise ourselves and... more
Using Elements of Poetry to Improve Your Prose
July 17 to August 11, 2023
Tuition: $650
ASYNCHRONOUS In this workshop, we will discuss how prose narratives can benefit from poetic techniques, how expanding the use of poetic principles—from metaphor to repetition, space, juxtaposition, accrual, lists, and rhyme—can deepen the experience of writing and reading creative nonfiction. What is the lyric essay? How can we use a “volta” to surprise ourselves and... more
January Gill O'Neil
Tiny Miracles & Everyday Wonders: a Poetry Workshop - LIVE
July 17 to July 21, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) Making room for beauty and randomness may seem like an indulgence in our writing. But attending to our astonishments—the tiny miracles and everyday wonders—is the most important work a poet can do. In this weeklong workshop, we’ll explore opportunities to reach for joy in our work by employing language not... more
Tiny Miracles & Everyday Wonders: a Poetry Workshop - LIVE
July 17 to July 21, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) Making room for beauty and randomness may seem like an indulgence in our writing. But attending to our astonishments—the tiny miracles and everyday wonders—is the most important work a poet can do. In this weeklong workshop, we’ll explore opportunities to reach for joy in our work by employing language not... more
Martha Rhodes
The Memorable Poem - LIVE
July 24 to July 28, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-3pm (Eastern) Not every poem has to be from the deepest terrains of our souls. But every poem has to be, wants to be, memorable. We will engage in “slow reads” of your poems, observing where we are at any given moment in the poem — how and why we are responding,... more
The Memorable Poem - LIVE
July 24 to July 28, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 1pm-3pm (Eastern) Not every poem has to be from the deepest terrains of our souls. But every poem has to be, wants to be, memorable. We will engage in “slow reads” of your poems, observing where we are at any given moment in the poem — how and why we are responding,... more
Allison Joseph
Keeping Busy: Writing Through Dry Spells, Blocks, & Boredom - LIVE
July 24 to July 28, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) In this workshop, I will share tricks and exercises that keep me writing when everything else in my world seems to want me to not write. We will do generative exercises on micro and short poems, fixed poetic forms on the smaller side (rondeau, cinquain, triolet), and will also talk... more
Keeping Busy: Writing Through Dry Spells, Blocks, & Boredom - LIVE
July 24 to July 28, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm (Eastern) In this workshop, I will share tricks and exercises that keep me writing when everything else in my world seems to want me to not write. We will do generative exercises on micro and short poems, fixed poetic forms on the smaller side (rondeau, cinquain, triolet), and will also talk... more
Reif Larsen
Voice Matters: a Fiction Workshop - LIVE
July 24 to July 28, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 10am-12pm (Eastern) We all know that feeling of encountering a strong narrative voice on the page. We are infected by its singularity, by its seduction, by its ruts and inconsistencies. But what, exactly, are the mechanics of a voice’s authority? As writers, how do we sweep up our readers inside the inexplicable,... more
Voice Matters: a Fiction Workshop - LIVE
July 24 to July 28, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via Zoom: 10am-12pm (Eastern) We all know that feeling of encountering a strong narrative voice on the page. We are infected by its singularity, by its seduction, by its ruts and inconsistencies. But what, exactly, are the mechanics of a voice’s authority? As writers, how do we sweep up our readers inside the inexplicable,... more
Melissa Studdard
Your Own Fire: Writing the Poems Only You Can Write - LIVE
July 31 to August 4, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 8:30pm-10:30pm (Eastern) “You cannot, you cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.” ― Audre Lorde The poems and poets we love most are often unfettered, unique, and unabashedly themselves. But writing... more
Your Own Fire: Writing the Poems Only You Can Write - LIVE
July 31 to August 4, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 8:30pm-10:30pm (Eastern) “You cannot, you cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.” ― Audre Lorde The poems and poets we love most are often unfettered, unique, and unabashedly themselves. But writing... more
Ananda Lima
Ekphrastic Writing - LIVE
August 7 to August 11, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern) This class will be a week of immersion in ekphrastic writing (writing about or inspired by other art). We will read great examples of ekphrastic work by other writers together and experiment and create our own ekphrastic pieces. We will explore ekphrasis as an exercise of careful description of the... more
Ekphrastic Writing - LIVE
August 7 to August 11, 2023
Tuition: $575
LIVE via ZOOM: 6pm-8pm (Eastern) This class will be a week of immersion in ekphrastic writing (writing about or inspired by other art). We will read great examples of ekphrastic work by other writers together and experiment and create our own ekphrastic pieces. We will explore ekphrasis as an exercise of careful description of the... more
Dorianne Laux
Finger Exercises for Poets: the Discrete Line - LIVE
August 7 to August 11, 2023
Tuition: $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
August 7 to August 11, 2023
Tuition: $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
Nick Flynn
Sprint Workshop with Nick Flynn - LIVE
August 19, 2023
Tuition: $225
Memoir as Bewilderment – LIVE via ZOOM: 9am-12pm (Eastern) on August 19th. In The Unnamable, Beckett offers this: “Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself in the end.” In our week together, I would like to examine this idea by thinking about the concept of “bewilderment” and how it gets acted out in... more
Sprint Workshop with Nick Flynn - LIVE
August 19, 2023
Tuition: $225
Memoir as Bewilderment – LIVE via ZOOM: 9am-12pm (Eastern) on August 19th. In The Unnamable, Beckett offers this: “Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself in the end.” In our week together, I would like to examine this idea by thinking about the concept of “bewilderment” and how it gets acted out in... more
