Practices of Assembly: Compiling Your Poetry Manuscript (Age 18+)

April 6 & 27 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm

Are you interested in organizing your poetry into a chapbook or poetry manuscript? Are you working toward journal and book publication? Join this intensive workshop with poet, teacher, and editor John Sibley Williams! You’ll go from inspiration to publication, learning different ways to begin compiling a poetry manuscript and exploring all the ins-and-outs of organization and publishing a chapbook or full-length. You’ll write toward a given theme and learn about setting and keeping creative deadlines. John will also teach you how to submit smarter, not harder, and he’ll guide you through a series of lessons and hands-on activities that each focus on a different aspect of creating, structuring, and finally publishing a new collection. Writers are encouraged to use whatever they feel most comfortable writing with: pen and paper, computer, or phone note.

Teaching Artist: John Sibley Williams

John Sibley Williams is the author of Scale Model of a Country at Dawn (Cider Press Review Book Award, 2021), The Drowning House (Elixir Press Poetry Award, 2021),  As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize, 2019), Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press, 2019), skyscrape (WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Contest), Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize, 2019),  Disinheritance, and Controlled Hallucinations. His book Sky Burial: New & Selected Poems is forthcoming in translated form by the Portuguese press do lado esquerdo.  

John holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rivier University and an MA in Book Publishing from Portland State University. He is the founder and head teacher of Caesura Poetry Workshop, a virtual workshop series, and serves as co-founder and editor of The Inflectionist Review. He also works as a poetry editor and book coach.

Cost: $45 Member / $50 Non-Member

Location: Virtual