24PearlStreet's first online Submit-a-thon!

Are you a writer looking to submit your work to journals but need a little extra support in doing so? Look no further than 24PearlStreet's first online Submit-a-thon! M.P. Carver, Director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, will facilitate this free and fun 3-hour event on November 9th.

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New Workshops Start October 9th!

We are thrilled to announce our upcoming writing workshops, which are designed to inspire and elevate your writing skills to new heights. Register before October 2nd and get a discount; use code FALL23EARLY to get 15% off your registration.

Find Your Workshop

Please keep reading to find some terrific advice for beginning writers and to learn about our scholarship opportunities for Indigenous American writers.

Featured Workshops

Here are details about three upcoming workshops that we're excited about:

Collaboration, Social Justice, and Professional Empowerment: A Workshop for Writers & Artists

Kristina Marie Darling

8-Week Asynchronous Workshop

Multi-genre

Darling explores collaborating with individuals whose work differs in style, genre, and medium. You'll look at collaborations between writers and artists, self-ekphrasis, and text-based collaborations. You'll also consider ethical implications and different models of cooperation.

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Poetry & the Apocalypse

Paul Guest

1-Week Asynchronous Workshop

Poetry

In this workshop, we will explore writing poems about current issues such as global warming, walls, guns, oceans filled with plastic, and how to balance the personal and political aspects. We will read and respond to poems by various poets, including Ada Limón, Terrance Hayes, Victoria Chang, and Mark Doty.

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The Poem's Intention

Rebecca Seiferle

4-Week Asynchronous Workshop

Poetry

In this workshop, we believe that the extraneous materials in a poem, recognizable by the language's liveliness or difficulty, mark the poem's authentic appearance. We will learn to recognize and revise them to make our work more lively. Bring your 'problem' poems; we will have writing exercises to generate new work.

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FAWC Scholar Awards Available for Indigenous Writers

We are happy to partner with the Institute of American Indian Arts to provide ten FAWC Scholar Awards for Indigenous American writers. At the Fine Arts Work Center, we deeply value diversity and strive to make our workshops as welcoming and inclusive as possible. The deadline for this application is Monday, October 2nd. Click here for eligibility and submission details.

Nuts & Bolts from our 24PearlStreet Faculty

We asked poet, translator, and editor Rebecca Seiferle, author of Wild Tongue, for a writing prompt for our community.

To dive into deeper currents in your work: do a page of free writing or find a poem draft that you’ve left unfinished. Focus on the most difficult or wildest or most puzzling image or phrase. Use that image or phrase as the beginning for a new piece, a way of opening the previous draft to its overlooked possibilities.