Check out the lineup for Black Lawrence Press events!
Levine Prize Celebration
Readers: Amanda Hodes & William Archila
Date: 10/8/26
Fee: Free
Join us in celebrating the release of the 2024 Philip Levine Prize Winner, Into the Into of Earth Itself by Amanda Hodes. Featuring a reading by the 2023 Philip Levine Prize Winner, William Archila, author of S is For. This reading will include time for author discussion, as well as audience Q&A. We look forward to seeing you there!
Form-enomenon: Celebrating Queer Subversions of Poetic Forms
Craft Workshop
Instructor: Anne Marie Wells
Date: 10/13/2026
Fee: Free
In this 90-minute workshop Anne Marie Wells will guide participants through a brief history of traditional poetic forms before diving heart first into modern poetic forms that flip the bird at convention. Together, the group will explore constraint as a means of defying constraining societal structures as well as a means of experimentation and fun! Poetic forms don’t have to be metered or rhyming or trite. Poetic forms can be cultural, they can be political statements, they can contain secret messages, they can be puzzles, they can be nonsensical, and they can be even more than all that when the participants in the class invent their own forms, adding to the diversity and beauty of the literary universe. This workshop is for the established form fetishist, the form curious, and form skeptics. This class’s content spotlights the work of LGBTQIA+ poets.
Anne Marie Wells is an award-winning poet, playwright, memoirist, and oral storyteller. She is the author of two poetry collections: Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems (Curious Corvid Publishing, 2023) and Mother, (v) (Cinnamon Press, 2024). She also authored two children’s books: Mommy, Why Am I a Bird? (Imprensa Universidade de Coimbra, 2015) and Underwater Explorers & Rescuers (Ethical Seafood Research Publishing, 2025). In 2025, she self-published a book of writing prompts titled Write Some Cool Sh!t: 366 Prompts to Rekindle Your Creativity. And her travel memoir, Happy Iceland — a finalist for the Wild Dog Press Travel Book Award — debuted in June 2026. She is a freelance editor, ghostwriter, and writing coach. Learn more at AnneMarieWellsWriter.com or on IG @AnneMarieWellsWriter.
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