- Class Length
- 4 Weeks
Whether you’ve never written poetry or you already love and write in this genre, this course is accessible for beginners to intermediates.
Over the course of 4 weeks, I’ll guide you towards creating new poems and learning how to polish them until they shine. We’ll look at examples of poems and you’ll receive prompts and inspiration for your own writing, as well as tools for editing.
You will also have the opportunity to submit 2 poems to me to receive personalised feedback and line edits.
Outline:
Over the course of 4 weeks, I’ll guide you towards creating new poems and learning how to polish them until they shine. We’ll look at examples of poems and you’ll receive prompts and inspiration for your own writing, as well as tools for editing.
You will also have the opportunity to submit 2 poems to me to receive personalised feedback and line edits.
Outline:
- Introduction to poetry & starting to write
- Finding your poem’s form
- Focusing on language and voice
- Develop your final draft & overview of self-editing techniques
- Class Format
- Savvy Authors' workshops are held on a forum: a bulletin board based system. You will receive a reminder notice one day prior to the start of the workshop that includes instructions on how to access the workshop forum. If you have not received instructions by the day the workshop begins, please check your spam filter.
The forum will be available the morning (EST) of the day the workshop starts and will remain accessible to all participants thereafter. You will also be given simple instructions on how to create a PDF of all your discussions along with our privacy and data retention policy.
Please note that you do NOT need to be online at a specific time to access the lectures. This is NOT a live video based class.