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Crafting Your Poetry Chapbook: A 6-Week Workshop to Shape and Share Your Voice, Starts Monday, November 4th, 2024
$560.00

Crafting Your Poetry Chapbook: A 6-Week Workshop to Shape and Share Your Voice, Starts Monday, November 4th, 2024

Begins Monday, November 4th, 2024

Now Enrolling!

Open to All writers!

Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us.

Instructor Meg Eden Kuyatt is the author of the 2021 Towson Prize for Literature winning poetry collection Drowning in the Floating World and children’s novels including a 2023 ALA Schneider Family Book Award Honor Good Different, and the forthcoming The Girl in the Wall (Scholastic, 2025). Her work is published or forthcoming in magazines, including Writer’s Digest, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, Poetry Northwest, Crab Orchard Review, RHINO, and CV2.

The chapbook is becoming a popular form with both poets and publishers, and is a great way for poets to get their work out before a first book.

Unlock the potential of your poetry by crafting a compelling chapbook in our engaging 6-week workshop. Perfect for poets eager to share their voice, this course dives deep into the art and strategy of chapbook creation. In our asynchronous online environment, you'll have the flexibility to explore and refine your work at your own pace, supported by a vibrant community of fellow poets.  

Throughout this workshop, we'll demystify the chapbook format, analyze successful examples, and guide you through the process of curating and ordering your poems to form a cohesive and impactful collection. You'll also receive expert advice on selecting the ideal publisher to bring your chapbook to life.


TAKE THIS CLASS IF:
  • You are interested in putting together a chapbook or full-length poetry manuscript but don’t know where to start.
  • You have a chapbook manuscript that you’d like to finish, revise, or re-evaluate after submission rounds.
  • You would like to submit your chapbook but don’t know where to start.
  • You have received encouraging feedback on your manuscript when submitting but are wondering how to increase your chances of an acceptance letter

COURSE OUTLINE: 

Week 1: Introductions and What is a Chapbook?

Week 2 & 3: Writing our Obsessions

Week 4 & 5: Preparing a Manuscript

Week 6: Publishing and Beyond

COURSE TAKEAWAYS:

  • Chapbook Mastery: Gain a comprehensive understanding of the chapbook format, including its unique structure, purpose, and appeal to both poets and publishers.

  • Curation Skills: Learn how to thoughtfully select and order your poems to create a cohesive and impactful chapbook that resonates with readers and showcases your poetic voice.

  • Publishing Insights: Acquire the knowledge and tools needed to identify and approach the right chapbook publishers for your work, enhancing your chances of publication success.

  • Manuscript Refinement: Receive personalized feedback on your chapbook manuscript, helping you to refine, revise, and perfect your collection for submission and beyond.

ONLINE COURSE STRUCTURE:

This class is entirely asynchronous which means you complete the weekly assignments on your own schedule. There are no set meeting times in order to allow for greater participation; your cohort will consist of writers from across different time zones, which allows for a wonderful diversity of voices.

Along with your weekly deadlines there is plenty of interaction with Meg and your peers within Wet Ink, our dedicated online classroom. Craft materials, lectures, reading assignments, and writing prompts are all available through the online classroom. Students also post work and provide and receive feedback within the online classroom environment.

You can get the work done as you see fit week-to-week, so it is perfect for any schedule. There are discussion questions each week inspired by the assigned readings and topics in the lecture notes. Students are encouraged to take these wherever is most compelling and/or useful for them. Meg engages with these discussions throughout the week and you will receive feedback from all assigned writing activities.

HOW DOES WET INK WORK?

Wet Ink was built and designed specifically for online writing classes. Wet Ink is private, easy to use, and very interactive. You can learn more about the Wet Ink platform by Watching a Class Demo.

PAYMENT OPTIONS:

Tuition is $395. You can pay for the course in full  or use Affirm to pay over time with equal Monthly Payments. Both options are available at checkout.

  • Instructor: Meg Eden

  • Class starts Monday, November 4th, 2024

  • Course is fully ONLINE; students can work according to their own schedule within weekly deadlines. Once you have enrolled the instructor will send you a link to our online classroom, provided via Wet Ink.

  • Tuition is $395.

If you have questions, please use the Chat Button or contact us via email HERE.