Check out the lineup for Black Lawrence Press events!
Hello My Name Is: Tension and Tenderness of Naming in Poetry
Generative Workshop
Instructor: Livia Meneghin
Date: 9/13/2026
Fee: $25
Join us for a generative group writing session! Come away with new material inspired by writing prompts led by Livia Meneghin. Participants will be given a series of prompts, each followed by time to write silently while in community with other writers. All participants will receive:
- a PDF of additional prompts for future writing
- a surprise chapbook, mailed to your address
Workshop Description
When can a direct address in a poem feel like an intimate gift? A risk? An alienation of a reader? An invitation in?
As poets, we engage our readers through specificity. We write for and to very real people, often addressing them directly in our poems. We also may want to protect an addressee’s identity, or may want our writing to exist in a more genre fluid space by hiding or warping factual detail.
In this generative workshop, we will consider the power of naming, and the risks that come with shout outs. Through play and prompts, we will explore the opportunities and limitations of labels and name-dropping via redactions, using initials, and other imaginative possibilities.
We will discuss examples and draw wisdom from writers such as Tiana Clark, Joy Harjo, Patrycja Humienik, and more.
What are you so afraid of?: The Poetics of Turning Inward Toward Fear
Generative Workshop
Instructor: Kyla-Yen Giffin
Date: 10/4/2026
Fee: $25
Writing Your Memoir in Essays: Discover, Uncover, Recover
Workshop Series
Instructor: Christopher Locke
Date: October 4, 11, 18, 25 and November 1, 8
Fee: $295
Personal essays are revelations. In this workshop, we will explore how a memoir-in-essays is an exacting and viable artform capable of contradiction, vulnerability, inquiry, grief, humor, memory, rage, longing, landscape and beauty, all at once. Talk about your heavy lifting.
Through generative writing, experimentation, and discussion, workshop members will develop 4-6 substantial new essays or hybrid pieces. We will take multiple contemporary essays as models, discuss revision strategies, and cover the various techniques for building essays and fragments into a cohesive manuscript.
In addition to their completed essays, workshop members will leave the course with blueprints for their manuscripts along with submission and publication strategies.
Form-enomenon: Celebrating Queer Subversions of Poetic Forms
Craft Workshop
Instructor: Anne Marie Wells
Date: 10/13/2026
Fee: Free
Less Is More: Structuring a Short Story
Craft Workshop
Instructor: Piper White
Date: 11/9/2026
Found Poetry
Generative Workshop
Instructor: Christine Huang
Date: 12/6/2026
Courage and Questions: Writing into the Unknown
Craft Workshop
Instructor: Allison Macy-Steines
Date: 12/8/2026