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Passengers Journal Open Workshop with Workshop Coordinator/Assistant Poetry Editor Syd Shaw
Workshop Description: Welcome to the Passengers Open Workshop! This workshop does not have a theme like other Passengers offerings. Instead, we are inviting you to bring whatever work you have, and share it in a roundtable with other participants. This will offer a unique opportunity to give and receive feedback from peers, and receive personal feedback from a Passengers editor.
Workshops for this coming cycle will be Monday evenings, 5pm Pacific Time. We are currently taking applicants for summer sessions, beginning on June 16. Workshops will run for six weeks, and each workshop will be 1 - 1.5 hours. During that time, we will read and provide feedback on one poem per participant. We will also offer generative prompts and the occassional additional short reading.
Schedule & Cost
Each session will be 4 - 6 participants. We will reach out to accepted participants when we receive enough applications to assemble a cohort. All sessions will meet on Mondays.
The cost for this workshop, if accepted, is $200 for six weeks/sessions. If you would like to request financial assistance or a scholarship but are still interested in participating, please indicate this in your application. A request for scholarship funds does not affect acceptance. Please be aware that we are unable to offer full scholarships to participants at this time, and we therefore ask that everyone pay something to attend. We have a limited budget of funds for each session and we try to ensure that our funds are spread among all participants who request assistance.
About the Facilitator
Syd Shaw is a poet from the San Fernando Valley. She writes about love, witchcraft, and body horror. Syd is Workshop Coordinator and Assistant Poetry Editor at Passengers Journal, and has a degree in creative writing from Northwestern University. Syd has previously been published in Cathexis Northwest, Sad Girls Club, Ember Chasm, Waxing & Waning, Eclectica Magazine, Panoply Zine, and The London Reader, among others. Syd’s work can be found on twitter/ instagram @sidlantro or at https://sydshaw.carrd.co