ONLINE Your Poetic Voice
4 Weeks | Wednesdays | Begins April 1, 2026
9am-11am PT | 10am-12pm MT | 11am-1pm CT | 12pm-2pm ET | 1pm-3pm AT
Instructor: Marion Lougheed
MEMBER PRICE: $160.00
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $210.00
“My job is just to write what I need to write." - Adrienne Gruber. What do you need to write? In this four-part writing workshop, we'll look at a range of poetic styles and voices. We'll talk about what you want to do with your poetry and how you can dig deep into your own life and imagination. We'll discuss branching out from engrained habits and when it's worth sticking with what you know and love. Through prompts and exercises, we'll create poems of our own. If you choose, you'll receive feedback on your work from peers and the workshop leader. Every week, I'll provide you with free opportunities to submit to outlets that accept poetry, so we won't only be writing as an exercise. These are poems you might get published! This course is suitable for all levels, whether you're a seasoned writer or just starting out.
This class takes place online using the Zoom Web Conferencing platform.
Marion Lougheed is a writer, editor and anthropologist. Her poem "Pavane for a Dead Letter" was featured in the LCP's 2021 Poem In Your Pocket Day series, and "Rooftops" won the Prime 53 Poem Summer Challenge (Press 53). Marion runs Off Topic Publishing and ML Edits. Her flash fiction has appeared in This Will Only Take A Minute: 100 Canadian Flashes (Guernica Editions, 2022), Reflex Press and The Arcanist, among others, and was shortlisted for the Sunlight Press Flash Fiction Contest. She holds a diploma in professional writing from Memorial University of Newfoundland, where she worked for five years as a peer writing tutor.
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