Course Announcement -- Fall 2013!

So far, 2013 has been a great year for Community Writing Workshops in Morgantown! We've almost doubled in size and our classes have been better and more diverse than ever with courses like Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life and Copyediting For Writers (which you can still sign up for, by the way), bringing new subjects to the forefront of our program.

So it is with a great deal of excitement that I announce our upcoming Fall 2013 class. . .

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Country Music Will Settle Your Stomach: A Twangy Literary Hoedown!

Actually, that's just a bit of April Fool's humor.

Our real Fall 2013 course is going to be Imaginary Gardens, Real Toads: A Poetry Workshop and Craft Class, and it promises to be one of our best courses yet! I will be team-teaching the course with poet Keegan Lester, a brilliant young writer and all-around good guy. Keegan is a graduate of Columbia's prestigious MFA program and poetry editor of one of my favorite literary journals Souvenir. (Seriously, if you haven't checked this journal out yet, what are you waiting for?) We're lucky to be able to bring him on board this semester, and I'm sure that his unique perspective will make for a very memorable class.

If you want to be a part of this groundbreaking new course, all you have to do is head over to the registration page and digitally sign the contract. I think I can safely speak for both of us when I say that we hope to see you come Fall!

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Ed. Note: I picked the image above because it has toads in it (like our course title!). In my mind, at least, they look like they could be preparing to team-teach a poetry class. (You know, if that were the sort of thing toads did in their spare time.) I've since been told that they appear to be "riding one another" and that such a thing could send the wrong message about what Community Writing Workshops is all about. So . . . just to be clear: there will be no riding of one another in our fall class. No, instead, we will be learning all about poetry--whether you are new to the genre or an experienced poet, this class will provide you with a few fresh perspectives. The way I see it, between Keegan's brains and my penchant for baffling my students, we should have all bases covered.