Workshop
Small but Mighty: Creating and Submitting a Poetry Chapbook
with Adrie Rose
January 22 • 7:00 PM (EST) - 9:00 PM (EST)
Dates
January 22 • 7:00 PM (EST) - 9:00 PM (EST)
Duration
2 hours
Location
Online
Price
US$65
About the workshop
Curious about what the deal is with chapbooks? In this 2 hour workshop with Adrie Rose, you will explore the history of poetry chapbooks, their possibilities, and how to pull yours together and submit it.
Details
Chapbooks were for a long time the sad forgotten younger sibling of "real" "big" books of poems. But chapbooks have a rich history of subversion and accessibility, and they are currently experiencing a resurgence, with even established poets choosing to create chapbooks in addition to new full-length collections.
We'll talk about the history of the chapbook, why you might want to create one (or why you might not), the possibilities the chapbook container offers, some juicy examples, and then get into the nitty gritty of how to pull your collection together and where to send it when it's ready to put on its big (little) pants and go out into the world.
What you will learn
How to assemble a chapbook collection, and where and how to submit it for publication.
Workshop takeaways
Students will leave with a more full understanding of what a chapbook is, how to bring their own chapbook vision to life, and a plan for how to get it out into the world.
Additional info
If you can't attend this class live, it will be recorded! Students will receive a recording the day after the class, and it will be available for 30 days.
About the instructor
Adrie Rose lives next to an orchard in western MA and is the editor of Nine Syllables Press. Her work has previously appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal,The Baltimore Review, Nimrod, The Night Heron Barks, Underblong, and more. Her micro chap I Will Write a Love Poem was released in December 2023 with Porkbelly Press, and her chapbook Rupture is forthcoming with Gold Line Press in 2024. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2019, a finalist for The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry in 2021, named a Highly Commended Poet for the International Gingko Prize in 2023, and won the 2023 Radar Coniston Prize. She won the Elizabeth Babcock Poetry Prize, the Ethel Olin Corbin Prize, and the Gertrude Posner Spencer Prize in 2021, and the Anne Bradstreet Prize, the Eleanor Cederstrom Prize, and the Mary Augusta Jordan Prize in 2022. Find her on Instagram @AdrieRose_
Learn how to put together a poetry chapbook and submit it for publication