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A one-week introductory course with Charles Fleming, MFA
Description:
Have you written some poems?
Do you find yourself wishing that you had a writing group who could help you make your poems better?
Do you want to “workshop” your poems but don’t know exactly what that means or entails?
Do you desperately want to make connections with other writers but find it difficult to attend in-person events and build your network?
Since we’ve been running workshops at Passengers, we have noticed a need in the Lit community for a truly entry-level workshop in which participants can learn the processes and expectations of the workshop space. We are proud to offer this unique course virtually via zoom and at an affordable rate. Some of the important topics we will cover include:
- The (unsurprisingly fraught) history of the workshop as a tool for writers inside and outside of academia.
- The more recent troubling of the workshop model and how this method of teaching and learning is evolving in our current culture.
- Different perspectives on how to deliver (and receive) critiques in the workshop setting.
- How to tell if your workshop is functioning properly or if it has become toxic to your creative process.
Structure and cost:
This workshop will run for one week, including six sessions, with a day off in the middle. A start date will be set once we we have a full cohort of 6 participants. Each session will be approximately 2 hours. Each session will include a brief lecture and then we will workshop 3 poems, so each participant will have 3 poems workshopped during the week-long intensive.
The cost of the workshop is $250. Limited scholarship funds are available if cost is prohibitive.
About the Facilitator:
Charles Fleming served as Assistant Editor-in-Chief of Passengers Journal, a fully-voiced journal of Literature and Art. He holds a BA in English Education and an MFA in Poetry from North Carolina State. Charles has attended a multitude of workshops in a variety of formats including within academia as well as local, community-based organizations and informal collectives. During his time in academia, Charles attended workshops taught by Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar, Eduardo C. Corral, Meg Day, and Sumita Chakraborty. Please reach out to Charles with any questions about this workshop at Charles.passengers@gmail.com.