Check out the lineup for Black Lawrence Press virtual events!
A Buyer’s Guide to the Afterlife Launch
Reading
Date: 7/23/2026
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 PM Eastern, Virtual
Fee: Free
Join us in celebrating Erica Wright’s new poetry collection A Buyer’s Guide to the Afterlife, featuring a reading by award-winning poet, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, author of The Life Assignment (Four Way Books, 2020). This event will include time for author discussion, as well as a Q&A portion with audience members. We hope to see you there!
How Musical is Poetry
Craft Workshop
Instructor: Antonis Bargilly
Date: 8/11/2026
Time: 8:00 – 9:30 PM Eastern, Virtual
Fee: Free
Drama without Dragons: Writing Lightly Plotted Fiction
Craft Workshop
Instructor: Kevin Fenton
Date: 9/8/2026
Hello My Name Is: Tension and Tenderness of Naming in Poetry
Generative Workshop
Instructor: Livia Meneghin
Date: 9/13/2026
What are You So Afraid Of?: The Poetics of Turning Inward Toward Fear
Generative Workshop
Instructor: Kyla-Yen Giffin
Date: 10/4/2026
Writing Your Memoir in Essays: Discover, Uncover, Recover
Workshop Series
Instructor: Christopher Locke
Dates: October 4, 11, 18, 25 and November 1, 8
Time: 4-6 pm Eastern, Virtual
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
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