East Hill Writers: Poetry Workshop with Chivas Sandage
This 6-week poetry workshop offers supportive and insightful feedback, inspiring discussions, and creative explorations within community.
We explore:
- remarkable poems by contemporary writers from around the world
- your questions about poetry, your work, and the practice of writing
- multiple perspectives on what’s strong and what can be stronger in your poems
- accessible and intriguing writing prompts
- craft issues including “the poem as score”
- creative strategies for cultivating, revising and editing poems
- traditional and alternative publishing options
- the art and pleasure of reading your work for others
Facilitator: Chivas Sandage, author of Hidden Drive (Antrim House, 2012), holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA from Bennington College. ForeWord Reviews has just selected Hidden Drive as a finalist for its Book of the Year Awards. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and the anthologies Paradise Found (Levellers Press, forthcoming in ’13), Morning Song: Poems for New Parents (St. Martin’s Press, ’11), and Manthology: Poems on the Male Experience (Univ. of Iowa Press, ‘06).
When: Six Sundays, 7-9 pm: June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 & July 7
Where: East Hill Writers in Canton, Connecticut (go to http://easthillwriters.com for details)
Cost: $260
Method of payment: Check to East Hill Writers @PO Box 1008, 59 East Hill Rd., Canton, CT 06019, or PayPal.
For further information: 860.559.8051, info@easthillwriters.com, or http://easthillwriters.com/
Write Like a River: Women’s Multi-Genre Writing Workshops
These multi-genre women’s workshops support you exactly where you are in your writing process. Whether you write spontaneously, regularly and/or just when we meet, Write Like a River workshops offer:
- intriguing prompts
- time to write
- supportive, immediate feedback
- discussion of craft
- balanced, inspiring manuscript critiques
- community with other women writers
In Northampton, MA: Our 4-year-old group meets Tuesdays 1-4 pm at the Writers in Progress studio, a literary arts center located in the Arts & Industry Building on 221 Pine Street in Florence, MA.
In Collinsville, CT: Our new, thriving group meets Thursdays noon-3 pm. Workshops take place a short walk from LaSalle’s Market. Hear the river as you write!
Currently:
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There are 1-2 openings in the Northampton workshop
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The Collinsville group is full
If you are interested in visiting, substituting, or joining one of these workshops, please contact me directly. The substitute list also acts as a waiting list for those who are interested in joining once a spot opens up.
Read ”Testimonials” for participants’ comments about Write Like a River workshops.
Read “Spill Theory” to jumpstart your writing!
For more information contact chivas@csandage.com.