The Advanced Poetry Workshop has ended.
Sessions and Meeting Times
This 8-week advanced poetry workshop is for poets at the intermediate to advanced level. Check our schedule page for places, dates, and locations. If one is not currently scheduled, join our mailing list for the first notification. We usually meet on a weekday evening and sometimes on Saturdays, for 2-1/2 to 3 hours per meeting. Our meeting locations vary from session to session.
Meeting Location and Group Size
The Advanced Poetry Writers Group is a creative writing workshop that concentrates on preparing poetry for submission. The group is a small, intimate group of poets, ranging from 5 to 12 people. We hold all our groups in private residences, and to protect the privacy of our group leaders, we do not post their addresses on our site. After you sign up, we will send you an email with the exact group location.
How the Advanced Poetry Workshop Works
This group focuses on preparing poems for submission. Sometimes we will do creative writing exercises to help create new poems and stretch those poetic muscles. This is a safe environment to read your work and to get critical feedback and critique from your fellow group members and the group leader on any work in progress you choose to bring in.
Our Writers Group Leaders
This group is moderated by a professional writer with credentials and experience in publishing, writing, and delivering professional critiques of poetry. We screen and pay our group leaders and hire only those with the supportive passion and experience our groups need.
Who can join?
This group is open to poets. All poets must submit work to be considered for membership. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been published or not, only that you are of a certain level in your poetic writing. Once we review your writing samples, we will email you to let you know whether you have qualified, along with a link to pay for the group. We encourage you to apply even if you think you may not be qualified. Don’t underestimate yourself!