Genre: Poetry

Poetry at Round Top Festival

March/April 2025

The 23rd annual Poetry at Round Top Festival will be held from April 25 to April 27 at the Round Top Festival Institute campus in Round Top, Texas. The program features workshops, readings, craft talks, open mics, panel discussions, and manuscript consultations. The faculty includes poets Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Hayan Charara, Mark Doty, Amanda Johnston, Joan Logghe, Cecily Parks, and Kim Stafford. Poets Katie Dozier and Timothy Green will be the workshop leaders. The cost of the conference is $150 ($50 for students) or $75 to attend only Saturday programming.

Type: 
FESTIVAL
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no
Event Date: 
April 25, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
August 26, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
August 26, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Poetry at Round Top Festival, Round Top Festival Institute, 248 Jaster Road, Round Top, TX 78954. (979) 249-3129. Katherine Durham Oldmixon Garza, Director. 

Katherine Durham Oldmixon Garza
Director
Contact City: 
Round Top
Contact State: 
TX
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
78954
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry

American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute

March/April 2025

The American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute will offer workshops to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers from July 1 to July 23 on the university’s campus in the seventh arrondissement of Paris. The faculty includes poet and fiction writer Siân Melangell Dafydd; poet, fiction writer, and nonfiction writer Biswamit Dwibedy; poet and nonfiction writer Lisa Robertson; and fiction writer Amanda Dennis. The cost of tuition is €2,224 (approximately $2,289) for auditors or €4,448 (approximately $4,577) for transferable academic credit.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
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no
Event Date: 
July 1, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
August 26, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
August 26, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

American University of Paris Summer Creative Writing Institute, 5 Boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg, 75007 Paris, France. Andrea Christmas, Summer School and Financial Aid Coordinator.

Andrea Christmas
Summer School and Financial Aid Coordinator
Contact City: 
Paris
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
75007
Country: 
FR
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Nobody’s Fool

The Time Is Now
2.18.25

In a recent video, Maggie Millner, Yale Review senior editor and author of Couplets: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), speaks about her favorite love poems, including June Jordan’s short poem “Resolution #1,003,” which she says “illustrates the way that love between two people can inspire a politics, a kind of political vision.” Spend some time thinking about the relationships in your life and who might inspire in you a sort of political vision. Write a poem that captures how to “love who loves me” and “stay indifferent to indifference,” as Jordan writes in her poem. How might the circumstances, breadth, and boundaries of your adoration for someone be political?

Lit Fest

March/April 2025

The Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s 2025 Lit Fest was held from June 6 to June 13 online and at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop headquarters in Denver. The festival featured weekend and weeklong workshops, craft seminars, salons, business panels, and agent consultations for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The faculty included poets Eduardo C.

Type: 
FESTIVAL
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yes
Event Date: 
August 26, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
August 26, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
August 26, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Lit Fest, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, 3844 York Street, Denver, CO 80205. (303) 297-1185. Torin Jensen, Assistant Director of Special Programs.

Torin Jensen
Assistant Director of Special Programs
Contact City: 
Denver
Contact State: 
CO
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
80205
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Get Lit! Festival

March/April 2025

The 27th annual Get Lit! Festival was held online and in person from April 10 to April 13 at various venues in and around Spokane, Washington. The festival featured readings, craft classes, panel discussions, and a bookfair at Montvale Event Center for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. Participating writers included poets Andrés Cerpa, Ayokunle Falomo, and Margot Kahn; fiction writers Debra Magpie Earling, Jessica E.

Type: 
FESTIVAL
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
April 10, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
August 26, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
August 26, 2025
Free Admission: 
yes
Contact Information: 

Get Lit! Festival, Get Lit! Programs, 601 E Riverside Avenue, Room 440, Spokane, WA 99202. (509) 828-1435. Kate Peterson, Director. 

Kate Peterson
Director
Contact City: 
Spokane
Contact State: 
WA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
99202
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Tags: 
literary festivals

Atlanta Writers Conference

The fall 2025 Atlanta Writers Conference, sponsored by the Atlanta Writers Club, will be held on October 24 and October 25 at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel. The conference includes a book fair featuring attendees’ books; presentations on the craft and business of writing, including a workshop titled AI and Publishing: What You Need To Know, led by fiction writer, business writer, and IT specialist Jeff Lakusta; agent and editor pitch sessions; manuscript sample critiques; query letter critiques; and Q&A panels for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction writers.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
no
Event Date: 
October 24, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
yes
Application Deadline: 
August 26, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
August 26, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Atlanta Writers Conference, 8080 Jett Ferry Road, Atlanta, GA 30350. (404) 632-3525. George Weinstein, Conference Director. 

George Weinstein
Conference Director
Contact City: 
Atlanta
Contact State: 
GA
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
30337
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

Chicago Writers Association Conference

March/April 2025

The Chicago Writers Association Conference was held from March 21 to March 23 at the Warwick Allerton Hotel in Chicago. The program featured faculty presentations, workshops, panel discussions, master classes, pitch sessions, author interviews, and social events for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The faculty included poet Curtis L. Crisler; poet and fiction writer Stuart Dybek; poet, fiction writer, and nonfiction writer Dipika Mukherjee; and fiction writers Ann Garvin, Dana Kaye, Eric Charles May, and Jeremy T. Wilson.

Type: 
CONFERENCE
Ignore Event Date Field?: 
yes
Event Date: 
August 26, 2025
Rolling Admissions: 
ignore
Application Deadline: 
August 26, 2025
Financial Aid?: 
no
Financial Aid Application Deadline: 
August 26, 2025
Free Admission: 
no
Contact Information: 

Chicago Writers Association Conference, P.O. Box 6505, Evanston, IL 60204. (312) 520-5090. Samantha Hoffman, Executive Director.

Samantha Hoffman
Executive Director
Contact City: 
Chicago
Contact State: 
IL
Contact Zip / Postal Code: 
60611
Country: 
US
Genre: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction

The Pistil by Ben Lerner

Caption: 

“Noses of bats, it’s time / To write the first poem in English / Each line the last, small / rain turning glass.” In this Poetry Book Society video, Ben Lerner reads his poem “The Pistil,” which appears in a special U.K. slipcase edition of his collection The Lights released by Granta Books and the Poetry Books Society.

Genre: 
Poetry
Tags: 
Ben Lerner
The Lights
Granta Books
Poetry Book Society
reading
2024

Etymology

The Time Is Now
2.11.25

Did you know that the word robust comes from the Latin word robur meaning “oak tree?” Merriam-Webster’s “12 Words Whose History Will Surprise You” provides the fascinating etymological history of words such as boudoir, phlegm, amethyst, and assassin, essentially mini lessons demonstrating an English word’s linguistic origins from an assortment of languages, including Medieval Latin, Greek, Arabic, French, and Middle English. Jot down a list of some of your favorite nouns, verbs, and adjectives, and look up their origin stories. (Tip: Merriam-Webster often lists a word’s etymology in the “Word History” section.) Write a poem inspired by this newly discovered and intriguing story behind the language, incorporating past iterations of the word into your verse.

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