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10th Annual Taos Writers Conference with Keynote Speaker, Alexandra Fuller

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Join us at the 10th Annual Taos Writers Conference in beautiful Taos, New Mexico, July 24-26, 2026, with keynote speaker and featured faculty member, Alexandra Fuller (Let’s Not Go to the Dogs Tonight, Fi, and many others). Other instructors include Connie Josefs, Valerie Martinez, Juan Morales, Allegra Huston, Sean Murphy, & Kristina Marie Darling. Offering over twenty workshops in poetry, fiction, memoir, playwriting, screenwriting, and more. FMI: view flyer, [email protected], www.somostaos.org, or 575-758-0081.

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Sign Up Now :: August Poetry Postcard Festival

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The deadline to register for the 2026 August Poetry Postcard Festival is July 4!

Celebrating 20 years, the August Poetry Postcard Festival invites writers to sign up to be placed in a group. As each group reaches 32 registrants, each participant receives a list of names and addresses of the others in their group. The goal is to write a poem a day on a postcard to the next person on the list after your own name and mail it to them. In return, you will receive a poem from each participant in your group. Writers are encouraged to start in advance of August 1 to allow time for the postcards to arrive, but it’s common to have some days go by with no card arriving and others with several cards waiting in the mailbox.

In 2025, 493 participants spanned 9 countries around the globe: Canada, France, The United States, Italy, Ireland, Great Britain, Australia, Japan and Austria and 46 U.S. states and Canadian provinces, including the District of Columbia.

If you cannot participate this year, there is always next year to look forward to! Registration for this event opens September 1 of each year; early bird registration closes June 4; final registration is July 4.

See your book project take flight with Birds & Muses

Birds and Muses writing mentorship program with Kate Moses supporting writers developing book-length projects
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Acclaimed novelist, editor, teacher and “literary godmother” Kate Moses has been taking writers under her wing for over 3 decades – you too can realize your vision for your work with a mentor as invested in your story & your growth as you are. Recent mentees have been published by Flatiron, Northwestern U Press, SheWrites, and Sybilline; won the Pushcart Prize, Narrative Prize, and Independent Book Publishers Association Medal; finalists for Greywolf Nonfiction Prize and Next Generation Indie Book Award; in residence at Breadloaf, Craigardan, Hedgebrook, and Hewnoaks.

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27th Annual Taos Storytelling Festival

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Join us in beautiful Taos, New Mexico, for SOMOS’ 27th Annual Storytelling Festival on Saturday, October 11th, 2025. Participate in a two-hour workshop with featured teller, Eldrena Douma, an afternoon storyswap, and the main event at 6pm. Tellers include Eldrena Douma, Sage Vogel, Celinda Reynolds Kaelin, and musician Chuy Martinez. FMI: view flyer or visit our website.

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The 2025 Tuscany Writing Retreats with Bret Lott

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LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE FOR THE FICTION WEEK, OCTOBER 5-11, 2025.
NONFICTION WEEK IS SOLD OUT

Whether you’re just beginning or already well on your way, these seven days will be a life-changing time of inspiration and creativity. Internationally bestselling author Bret Lott has been writing and teaching writing for four decades and will be leading you through a time of finding your path as a writer in both mindful and practical ways. This all-inclusive retreat includes luxury accommodations at Villa Poggiano just outside Montepulciano, as well as curated excursions into the Tuscan countryside for historical and literary and culinary pursuits. Together with trusted providers, The Tuscany Writing Retreats has created a truly bespoke Italian experience. Everything is included so you won’t need to worry about a thing. Registration ends August 31. View flyer and visit the website to learn more.

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Wildacres Writers 2025: Commercial Fiction Workshop Registration Open

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Registration Open Now
Writers take all sorts of classes on craft: character building, plotting, thematic elements, etc. BUT what you need to know beyond that is THE INDUSTRY. If you want to see your book on the bookstore shelves, you have to be a student of the business of publishing.

Whether you’re just getting started or you have a completed draft, knowing how to pitch and present your novel is imperative! Your query and first 10 pages are your foot in the publishing door.

Thinking you don’t need that yet because you’re still writing the novel? You know the adage, “Dress for the job you want?” You should be writing for the place on the bookshelf you want.

Start figuring that out for sure now and it will make everything you do in the future easier. So, yeah, this workshop IS for you—whatever stage your novel is in!

View flyer and learn more here.

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New Workshops from Consequence

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We have a host of new workshops coming up. All are offered on a sliding scale.

  • Writing through Conflict: A free nonfiction workshop for emerging writers
  • The Grammar of History, the Syntax of War (Poetry)
  • Writing Sci-Fi War Stories
  • Bringing the Receipts: Using Personal Documents as Prompts to Write about the Past (Fiction and Nonfiction)

Click here for the full class descriptions or to register. Thank you.

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Stop Dreaming About Publishing Your Book; Let’s Get it Done!

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You’ve been dreaming about publishing your novel long enough! It’s time to make the next move toward getting it done. Come to Wildacres Writers Commercial Fiction Workshop in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of NC this fall for a workshop geared toward preparing your novel and submission packet for its best chance at landing a deal. Whether you’re planning to seek an agent or editor, publish with large or small press, or indie publish your own novel, this workshop will help you put your best book forward. Visit the website for all the details! Space is limited on this one! Act fast!

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9th Annual Taos Writers Conference

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JOIN us for SOMOS’ 9th Annual Taos Writers Conference, in beautiful Taos, New Mexico, July 25th—27th, 2025, featuring keynote speaker, memoirist, & poet, Nick Flynn (Another Bullshit Night in Suck City). Over twenty workshops in every genre. Conference includes receptions, keynote reading, lunch roundtable discussions on publishing, faculty readings, and book sales. FYI: view our flyer, visit our website, or call 575-758-0081.

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Birds & Muses September 2025 Residency Now Enrolling

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Application Deadline: July 15, 2025
Realize your vision with acclaimed novelist, memoirist, editor Kate Moses, as invested in your story & your growth as you are. Taking writers under her wing for 3 decades. Individual mentorships and small group retreats. Now enrolling for September writers’ residency at Hewnoaks in Maine. Substack: The Museletter with Kate Moses. View flyer or visit website to learn more.

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Birds & Muses Literary Mentorship for Women & Nonbinary Writers

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Application Deadline: May 15/June 1
Realize your vision with acclaimed novelist, memoirist, editor Kate Moses, as invested in your story & your growth as you are. Taking writers under her wing for 3 decades. Recent mentees have won Pushcart Prize, Narrative Prize, Independent Book Publishers Association Medal, finalists for Greywolf Nonfiction Prize, Next Generation Indie Book Award. Substack: The Museletter with Kate Moses. View flyer or visit website to learn more.

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2025 Tremont Writers Conference in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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Application Deadline: May 15, 2025
Applications are open for the third annual Tremont Writers Conference, taking place this October inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Join renowned authors Crystal Wilkinson, David Joy, Karen Spears Zacharias, and Maurice Manning for an intensive five-day retreat for writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Financial aid is available. Learn more and apply at our website.

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Event :: 2025 Poetry Marathon

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You don’t need running shoes for The Poetry Marathon, an annual, online event focused on generating new work within a set timeline. The challenge is to write 12 poems in 12 hours (a half marathon) or 24 poems in 24 hours (a full marathon) at the rate of one poem per hour.

This free, international event draws hundreds of poets from around the world, and like any endurance challenge, it takes true commitment and perseverance. Do you have what it takes?

This year’s marathon will start at 9AM ET on May 17 and end at either 9PM ET (half) or at 9AM ET on May 18 (full). Half Marathon participants can also choose to start at 9PM ET on May 17 and take the overnight shift until 9AM ET. The organizers post optional prompts on the hour, and participants can post their poems immediately, or, if having all-day online access isn’t feasible, the poems can be written on the hour but posted to the community later.

The event will be hosted in a private, member-only space on Circle, a community platform that allows participants to read and respond to one another’s works.

Participants are asked to apply by May 12.

Join 2025 Summer Words Writers Conference in Snowmass Village, CO!

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Registration Deadline: June 1, 2025
Join us for the Aspen Summer Words Writers Conference June 22-27 in Snowmass Village, CO! Three different workshops to ignite your creativity. Generative Writing to prompt the writer in you. Book Branding for guiding authors through a successful launch and beyond. Readers Retreat for the book lover. A week full of panels, community and inspiration. All in a beautiful, rocky mountain location. Open flyer to scan QR Codes for more information.

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Birds & Muses Literary Mentorship for Women & Nonbinary Writers

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Deadline: Rolling
Realize your vision with acclaimed novelist, memoirist, editor Kate Moses, as invested in your story & your growth as you are. Taking writers under her wing for 3 decades. Recent mentees have won Pushcart Prize, Narrative Prize, Independent Book Publishers Association Medal, finalists for Greywolf Nonfiction Prize, Next Generation Indie Book Award. Substack: The Museletter with Kate Moses. For more information view flyer or visit website.

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Stories and Songs Writing Retreat – Montana/Yellowstone – Sept. 22-26, 2025

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Registration Deadline: May 15, 2025
Immerse yourself in pristine mountains and write under starry skies. For prose storytellers and songwriters. With novelist/memoirist/essayist Carolyn Flynn, novelist and songwriter Karen Leslie and the award-winning songwriter Clay Mills of Songtown. View our flyer for more information and link to our website.

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Join The Write Gym: An Online Accountability and Group Coaching Program

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The path of a writer is often paved with challenges. Distractions, rejection, self-doubt, writer’s block, imposter syndrome, resistance, and a lack of structure can make the journey feel impossible. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed and wondered if you’ll ever be able to finish projects or write consistently, you’re not alone. Come write with Writer’s Atelier! View flyer for more information and link to our website.

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Discover Art and Creative Inspiration with The Ekphrastic Academy

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Deadline: Rolling
The flagship journal of ekphrasis offers a variety of inspiring Zooms on art history and the writer’s craft. Join a welcoming community and connect in conversation and creativity. View our flyer for a link to our website.

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A Breakthrough Experience for Writers of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror

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Application Deadline: April 1, 2025
Have you ever wished you could attend your own private writing workshop that would teach you exactly what you need to know, at the right pace for you, and provide feedback and guidance in extensive one-on-one sessions? That’s Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop. It’s an intensive, personalized, one-on-one online workshop experience combining advanced lectures, expert feedback, and deep mentoring. View flyer for more information and a link to our website.

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It’s a Valentine’s Day Virtual Book Launch and Open Mic!

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This Valentine’s Day, ditch the clichés and embrace the real. Join us on Zoom February 14 at 8 PM ET (5 PT) for the launch of Benjamin Talbot’s Periscope City: Where the Lonely Go to Live Alone. Following a brief reading by Benjamin, it’s your turn, so bring your best “love stinks” piece for our open mic. Sign up now. For more information, please view our flyer.

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$20,000 in Fellowships for Writers: Martha’s Vineyard Summer Writers’ Conference

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Deadline: January 19, 2025
The Martha’s Vineyard Summer Writers’ Conference is offering Full Fellowships for Parent Writers, LGBTQIA+ Writers, Writers of Color, Educators, and more! Devote a week to your writing at our 2025 Summer Writers’ Conference! Winners receive the Full Attendance Package, which includes registration, lodging, and a manuscript session. View flyer for more information and link to apply!

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Apply Now to The Kenyon Review Summer Residential Writers Workshop!

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Application Deadline: February 16, 2025
View our flyer and visit our website to learn more about our week-long residential writers workshops hosted at Kenyon College.

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Phyllis Biffle Elmore and Annmarie Kelly Writing Retreat in France

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Application Deadline: March 1, 2025
We’ll begin each morning in community. What is the heart of your story? Why are you the only one to tell it? Ultimately, we’ll practice writing as healing. This once-in-a-lifetime retreat is for women who long to write achingly beautiful prose in a transcendently beautiful place. Apply now for $900 off with code 25AK. See flyer for more information and link to apply.

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Writing from Atrocity to Healing: A Multi-Genre Virtual Workshop

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This four-session virtual workshop will provide poets and writers of all levels, genres, and backgrounds with the tools to write from their experiences with atrocity, the traumas produced by atrocity, and the healing (personally, communally, nationally) your words can make of it. Featured Speakers include Ellen Bass, Jacqueline Osherow, Joy Ladin, Geoffrey Philp, Jehanne Dubrow, Sam Fleischacker, and Mehnaz Afridi. View flyer for more information and link to registration information.

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The Kenyon Review Summer Residential Writers Workshops Applications Are Open!

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Application Deadline: February 16, 2025
Join us for our week-long, residential writing workshops in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with acclaimed faculty in beautiful Gambier, Ohio. The Kenyon Review Writing Workshops are generative, focused on giving writers time and space to produce new work. Since 1995, these workshops have provided thousands of writers with a nurturing space to take creative risks and push their writing to the next level. The low student-teacher ratio and supportive, rigorous, and immersive writing community have proved so popular that many students return again and again. View flyer for more info and link to our website.

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Apply to The Kenyon Review’s Winter 2025 Online Adult Writers Workshops!

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Application Deadline: December 10, 2024
Learn more about The Kenyon Review’s Winter Online Adult Writers Workshops and apply on our website! See flyer for more info and link to our website.

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50% Off First Online Poetry, Publishing, & Critique Workshops

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Caesura Poetry Workshop aims to support, inspire, and energize poets and writers through a wide variety of affordable Zoom workshops hosted by award-winning poet, editor, teacher John Sibley Williams. Most workshops include poem analysis, active group discussion, and writing prompts. Some are even self-paced! Reference NewPages and get 50% off your first workshop. View flyer for more info and a link to our website. Register via email.

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Low-Cost Classes and a 2025 DIY Publicity Cohort

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Forest Avenue Press’s Liz Prato and Laura Stanfill are hosting two online classes in October about submissions and small presses. Each class costs $30. Forest Avenue is also beta testing a $100/month DIY Publicity Cohort for authors with 2025 books. See flyer on both programs which includes a link to sign up on our website.

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Todos Santos Writers Workshop: Come write with us this winter!

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Registration Deadline: December 1, 2024
Based in the historic pueblo mágico of Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico, TSWW offers workshops for writers at all levels. Written works are read and critiqued in a supportive, participatory setting, with one-on-one mentoring sessions. Special events include guest speakers, craft discussions, and Fiesta Night featuring regional food and music. Discount for NewPages applicants before October 15. View flyer for a link to our website and to learn more.

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Affordable Online Poetry, Publishing, & Critique Workshops / Poetry Editing & Mentoring

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Caesura Poetry Workshop aims to support, inspire, and energize poets through a wide variety of affordable Zoom workshops hosted by award-winning poet, editor, and teacher John Sibley Williams. Most workshops include poem analysis, active group discussion, and writing prompts. Some are even self-paced! We also offer critiques of poems and manuscripts, as well as ongoing mentoring. Visit us at our website and view our flyer for more information.

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Event :: 2024 Poetry Marathon

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The 2024 Poetry Marathon is now open for applications! No running shoes required for this marathon, but you will definitely need stamina and perseverance!

This annual event invites writers to join in a half or full day of poetry writing, responding to prompts posted on the hour starting a 9:00am EST on Saturday, June 15, and running (pun intended) through 9:00am EST Sunday, June 16.

If you’re not up for the full 24-hour marathon, there are two 12-hour half-marathons (my speed). The first is for day folk and goes from 9:00am-9:00pm on June 15, and the second is for night owls, from 9:00pm on June 15 to 9:00am on June 16.

The platform software is new this year, and organizers promise it is designed to be more community-centric, allowing for more seamless engagement in posting, providing feedback, and staying connected.

Participants who successfully complete their event will receive a certificate of achievement and have up to a chapbook’s worth of poems! Over its history, the marathon has had as many as 500+ participants each year, though not all finished. That’s the challenge!

Registration is open through 9:00 PM EST on June 10. Hope to see some of you there!

Write in the Redwoods!

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Join Writing Coach & Author Lynne Golodner for five glorious days October 20-24, 2024, in the Redwood forests of northern California for a writers retreat that will change your life! Includes daily craft lessons, guided hikes and yoga in an intimate setting plus daily breakfast, two lunches and a celebratory final night dinner. NewPages readers are eligible for EARLY BIRD PRICING. View flyer to learn more and apply here. ONLY TWO SPOTS LEFT!

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2024 Independent Bookstore Day

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Saturday, April 27 will mark the 11th annual Independent Bookstore Day. Bookstores across the country join in the party in their own unique ways. Stores have author events, live music, cupcakes, scavenger hunts, kid events, art tables, readings, and so much more!

Stop by the NewPages Guide to Indie Bookstores to find a store in your area and join in on the fun this weekend! If you have several near you, this is a great time to do a literary crawl and visit them all!

Chapbook Feedback Opportunity and Poetry Workshop from Black Fox Lit!

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Application Deadline: April 30, 2024
Apply to receive feedback on your chapbook from Black Fox’s poetry editor before submitting it for publication! Only ten spots available. Deadline to apply: April 30, 2024! We’re also hosting a poetic forms workshop led by Heather Lang-Cassera on April 28, 2024 at 1-3 PM EST! View flyer and visit website for more information.

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Tremont Writers Conference in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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Deadline: April 30, 2024
Applications are open for the Tremont Writers Workshop, a five-day experience for a select group inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Join renowned author workshop leaders Maurice Manning (poetry), Monic Ductan (fiction), David Brill (nonfiction), and guest faculty Frank X Walker for a writers conference like no other. View flyer for more information. Apply at our website.

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Event :: Friday Night Comics Workshops at SAW

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The Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW) offers free weekly online comics workshops on Fridays, each hosted by a professional cartoonist who leads participants through a structured drawing and/or storytelling exercise. The series was originally started by The Believer (‘We Believe in Comics’).

SAW is an online and in-person grassroots, non-profit comics school located in Gainesville, Florida, founded in 2011 by indie cartoonist Tom Hart. “At SAW we help budding cartoonists discover their own path in visual storytelling. Students learn core comics techniques like storytelling, character creation, panel design, storyboarding, inking and lettering.”

Numerous working groups meet via their online SAW Mighty Network Community, and the SAW Certificate Program enrolls every fall for a nine-month intensive instruction in drawing for comics, comic storytelling, comics history, and more. Many SAW graduates from the past ten years have gone on to publish full-length works.

Event :: Sarabande Books Free Weekly Zine Lunch

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Zine Lunch! presented by Sarabande Books is a free weekly online workshop “designed to be a fun and low-stakes way to make time for creativity.” Each one-hour session (12-1PM EST) is hosted by an author or friend of the press who guides participants in a uniquely designed practice. A full archive of over 60 recorded sessions is available on the publisher’s Vimeo page along with video directions on folding a one-page zine.

Each workshop is unique, the presenter offers a concentrated writing and/or imaging practice (such as collage). Not every session actually produces a ‘zine’ booklet. It seems the ‘zine’ concept can also mean a condensed practice in creativity, though some presenters come a bit ‘overprepared’ for the limited time, leaving participants to finish their projects afterward.

There is also an opportunity for attendees to share their work if they would like. It’s a friendly, welcoming workshop; I have attended a live session and have viewed about half of the recordings. The series is run by Natalie Wollenzien, Publishing & Communications Assistant, who is wonderful at introducing the presenter, participating, sharing, helping troubleshoot any tech issues, and continuing to curate a superb lineup for the community.

Event :: The Common Postcard Auction 2023

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The Common‘s annual postcard auction opens for bidding on Monday, November 13. If you aren’t familiar, it’s an annual fundraiser where you can bid to receive a postcard from your favorite author. This year’s list of 40+ authors includes folks like Anthony Doerr, Gina Chung, Sandra Cisneros, David Sedaris, Rick Russo, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Anne Tyle, Alison Bechdel, Julia Alvarez, and Rabih Alameddine just to name a few. Authors always put a lot of their creative energy into writing (and drawing!) these, and they’re always completed by the holidays if you want to buy one as a gift for someone. Bidding closes at noon EST on December 4, 2023.

Event :: 2023 Poetry Marathon

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The 2023 Poetry Marathon is now open for applications! No running shoes required for this marathon, but you will definitely need stamina and perseverance! This annual event invites writers to join in a half- or full-day of poetry writing, responding to prompts posted on the hour starting a 9:00am EST on Saturday, September 2, and running (no pun intended) through 9:00am EST Sunday, September 3. If you’re not up for the full 24-hour marathon, there are two 12-hour half-marathons (my speed). The first is for day folk and goes from 9:00am-9:00pm on September 2, and the second is for night owls, from 9:00pm on September 2 to 9:00am on September 3. The platform is WordPress, which allows each participant their own space to post as well as to give and receive feedback. Participants who successfully complete their event will receive a certificate of achievement and are eligible to submit works for inclusion in the annual anthology. Over the past several years, the marathon has had over 500 participants each year, though not all finished. That’s the challenge! Registration is open through August 28. Hope to see some of you there!

Independent Bookstore Day 2023

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Independent Bookstore Day takes place the last Saturday in April every year. For 2023 that makes it April 29. Indie bookstores across the country participate with special events and so much more. This year is the 10th anniversary of this special day to support stores that offer so much more than good books to our communities.

Want to find a bookstore near you and support them this weekend or see what fun events they may be hosting? Stop by our Guide to Indie Bookstores in the US & Canada (we just finished up a round of adding and updating more bookstores, too). It’s the perfect place to plan an indie bookstore tour of stores near you.

February 2023 eLtiPak :: Affordable Poetry, Publishing, & Critique Workshops

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Registration Deadline: Year-round
Caesura Poetry Workshop aims to support, inspire, and energize poets through affordable monthly Zoom workshops hosted by award-winning poet, editor, and teacher John Sibley Williams. All workshops include poem analysis, active group discussion, and writing prompts. Upcoming class themes include nature journaling, book marketing, poetic forms, erasure, sequence poems, monthly critique workshops and writing circles, and more. View flyer and visit website for more information.

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Interested in advertising in the eLitPak? Learn more here.

Event :: YA Literature Summit 2023

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Sponsored by Oklahoma State University and Aquinas College and facilitated by members of NCTE’s ELATE Commission on the Study and Teaching of Young Adult Literature, the sixth annual Summit on the Research and Teaching of Young Adult Literature will be held fully online Friday, April 21, 2023. The Call for Proposals is open until February 27 and is open to Classroom Practice Sessions, Research Presentations, and Panel Presentations. Registration for the event opens on March 1, 2023. For full details, visit the YAL Summit website.

Event :: 2023 Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference

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The 2023 Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference will take place May 18 through 21 in Brevard, North Carolina. They are currently accepting applications through December 15. Faculty include Camille Dungy, Jamie Ford, and Margaret Renkl. Workshops are limited to 12 participants and there are scholarships available.

Stop by the NewPages Classifieds to learn more.

Event :: Winter 2022-23 Caesura Poetry Workshop Offerings

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John Sibley Williams’ Caesura Poetry Workshop has announced Winter 2022-23 virtual events! First off there is a FREE generative workshop taking place Saturday, December 10 via Zoom: Burning Down the Old Year: Writing Poems About the New Year. Then in January, enjoy a critique and generative workshops series happening each Friday while in February these will be held on Sundays.

View their ad in the NewPages Classifieds to learn more.

Events :: Poetry Foundation Library

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You don’t need to live in New York to take advantage of the many free events offered by the Poetry Foundation Library. Their calendar is peppered with community activities that include in-person with a virtual option as well as virtual-only events. Events like a Book Club with small group discussion online, moderated by library staff, with all participants residing in the U.S. offered a complimentary copy of the book; Forms & Features, which is billed as “part discussion, part poetry workshop,” online monthly series; and numerous Readings and Lectures, Screenings, and Performances.

The two upcoming Book Clubs are All the Blood Involved in Love by Maya Marshall [pictured] on September 30 and Somebody Else Sold the World by Adrian Matejka on October 21. Participants are welcome to sign up for one but not both club events. Closed captioning is available via Google Meet and an ASL interpreter will be provided upon request.

Event :: National Write Out 2022

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Write Out (#writeout) is a free two-week celebration of writing, making, and sharing inspired by the great outdoors. It is a public invitation to get out and create that is supported with a series of online activities, made especially for educators, students, and families, to explore national parks and other public spaces. The goal is to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing using the common hashtag #writeout.

This year’s Write Out is STEAM-Powered (STEAM = Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) and will run October 9-23, 2022. To support this theme, Write Out will be organized around the use of notebooks and journals that inspire observing, describing and annotating just like STEAM professionals do!

Write Out encourages all participants to get outdoors, write, create, reflect, share, and connect with one another on and offline. Your time commitment and level of participation in Write Out is flexible; you can use any of the content created in your own way, at your own pace, for and with your own community—you are also welcome to create your own!

Sign up now to receive information to support your planning and participation: https://writeout.nwp.org.

Event :: Caesura Poetry Workshops Fall 2022 Offerings

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Join award-winning poet, editor, and writing coach John Sibley Williams this fall for virtual Caesura Poetry Workshops. These are hosted via Zoom. Upcoming classes include Writing Evocative Love Poems (September 17), Elegy: Writing Poems of Loss (October 2 & 9), two group critique classes (Fridays in October, Sundays in November), and more.

See the ad in the NewPages Classifieds to learn more.

Events :: Chestnut Review Aug/Sept Workshops

Stubborn writers wanted! Join Chestnut Review Managing Editor Maria S. Picone and Poetry Editor A.R. Salandy for a variety of unique workshops offered through August (there’s still time!) and September:

  • Drop-in Accountability Workshop (August 28)
  • Using Multiple Languages in Your Work (September 4)
  • The Submission & Editorial Process: Understanding the Literary World (September 10)
  • Stubborn Writers Workshop (September 17)
  • Unpacking Flash (September 25)

Discounts are available for contributors, staff, or returning attendees. For more information see the Chestnut Review workshops page.

Free Feedback Fridays Ongoing

If you’re not following Chestnut Review on Twitter, you’re missing out on Free Feedback Fridays! Follow and retweet our #freefeedbackfriday post on the first Friday of each month and you’ll enter a drawing to win a free critique on your submission. The next one is on Friday, September 2nd.

Event :: Rain Taxi “Coffee Break”

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Rain Taxi Review of Books is holding its first event of the 2022-2023 season on Wednesday, September 14, 3pm Central. Their first Fall event is a virtual “coffee break” visit to celebrate the new novel W. with Swedish author Steve Sem-Sandberg in conversation with the book’s English-language translator, Saskia Vogel. This event is free to attend, but registration is required.

W. (The Overlook Press) is a literary reimagining of one of modern literature’s touchstone texts, the play Woyzeck. Considered the first modern drama, Woyzeck tells the story of a poor soldier who kills the woman he loves. In 1836 this true story inspired Georg Büchner to write the play, unfinished at his death at just twenty-three years old.