Writing a Novel in Verse Zoom Seminar on Thursday, February 6th, 2025
Thursday, February 6th, 2025
Live Seminar via Zoom from 6:00PM - 8:30PM EST
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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.
Thinking about writing a novel in verse? The novel-in-verse is a unique form that merges elements of poetry and fiction, and is gaining popularity in the kidlit community as a powerful storytelling form. In this workshop, we’ll discuss the craft and thematic elements that make for a strong novel-in-verse, explore some examples of effective novels in verse, and engage in exercises to investigate this form for our own narratives.
We’ll also learn about tools to carry in your novel-in-verse toolbox including sound, repetition, line breaks, the stanza, “the rules of the poem” and more. Learn how to establish and disrupt patterns of form as well as integrate motifs to make your novel really shine. We’ll walk through the process of how I’ve approached form in my adult poetry, as well as my novel-in-verse Good Different, and will have time for exercises playing with form. If you’d like, feel free to bring some poems from your novel-in-verse that you’d like to play with.
- Learn what a novel in verse is.
- Learn what kind of stories are best told in the novel in verse form.
- Get industry insights on the kidlit novel in verse market.
- Learn exercises to play with for generating and editing your novel in verse
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Class is on Thursday, February 6th, 2025.
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Class will meet via Zoom from 6:00PM EST - 7:30PM EST
- Tuition is $75
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