Workshops with Yellow Arrow Publishing
Yellow Arrow workshops are supportive, generative, small-group sessions offered online. Each workshop is led by a talented and supportive instructor. Writers of all levels and genres are encouraged to join! Workshops are fantastic for emerging writers seeking an encouraging community of creatives, or for experienced writers looking for inspiration for new drafts. Workshop enrollments are intended for women-identifying writers unless stated otherwise.
If you’re not sure which workshops you want to enroll for yet, you can commit to making time for your creative journey by purchasing a Gift of Writing card now and use it to sign up for individual classes as you like. The Gift of Writing cards also make incredible gifts for the other writers in your life! You can purchase one here.
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If you are interested in attending one of our workshops but find the cost prohibitive, join our No-Cost Workshop Wait List. When a no-cost space becomes available, we will contact you!
2025 Workshop Schedule
Poetry is Life
In each class we will read and discuss new poets and old favorites who have written gems on our monthly theme. We will continue to study and gain inspiration from women poets. Past themes have included writing about nature, grief, protest, and more. In the class you will write and share new work. You will come away from each session with three or four drafts. Those who commit to the full bundle of sessions will receive the added benefit of an extra workshop session for 30 minutes after the class, to have a new poem workshopped each month. Participants will also have the opportunity to share work with their cohort and the instructor between sessions.
When: 11:00 am-1:00 pm (1:30 pm for full-time students) EST
January 4, February 1, March 1, April 5, May 3, June 7
$35/session or $180 for all 6 sessions (Jan-June)
You are strongly encouraged to register for the full 6 sessions which provides an extra workshop session for 30 minutes after the class. However, you are invited to attend one session at a time as you are available.
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Ann Quinn is the poetry editor for Yellow Arrow Journal and conducts writing workshops at The Writer’s Center, for Yellow Arrow, and at writer’s conferences throughout the country. Ann holds an MFA in poetry from Pacific Lutheran University and lives in Catonsville, Maryland with her family. Her award-winning work can be read in Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Little Patuxent Review, Vietnam War Poetry, Haibun Today, and other journals and is included in the anthology Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women. Her chapbook, Final Deployment, is published by Finishing Line Press. Visit her at annquinn.net.
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PoeTics of Loving
In this workshop, you will explore poetry through the words of women and femmes across age, class, race, ethnicity, ability, nationality, religion, and orientation. All the works explored will be centered on divine, platonic, or romantic love. They will reflect on love in relation to the self and love in relation to the other. Participants will examine at least nine poems. Throughout, participants will individually and collectively write at least three poems.
When: 7:00 pm-8:00 pm EST
April 3, 10, & 24
$25/session or $60 for 3 session bundle
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Tramaine Suubi is a multilingual writer from Kampala. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her forthcoming debut is a full-length poetry collection titled "phases," which will be published in January 2025. Her forthcoming second book is also a full-length poetry collection titled "stages," which will be published in January 2026. Both books will be published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins.
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The literary therapist: a creative writer’s guide to therapy
Graham Greene said in “Way of Escape,” that “Writing is a form of therapy.”
This workshop invites participants to begin the cathartic and therapeutic process of putting pen to paper. If you enjoy writing and reading and are looking for an opportunity to steady yourself in the chaos of your day to day, then this workshop is for you.
Participants should be open to personal growth, insight, exploration, and healing. Each session will begin with a prompt from a female writer, (a poem, quote, or excerpt from a short story), and then participants will have the opportunity to write, journal, and reflect. They will be encouraged to identify and challenge, through their writing, negative thought patterns in order to better process patterns of grief and loss, and begin the art of self-healing. The final few minutes of class will allow everyone to come together as a group and share their writing if they wish. The group will practice reflective listening in order to create an environment built upon empathy, acceptance, and mutual trust.
In between sessions, writers are encouraged to journal 20 minutes per day as research suggests that the daily practice of journaling lowers depression and anxiety, fosters long-term health benefits, and allows individuals to better process grief and loss.
Some topics that will be discussed in this workshop include marriage, motherhood, aging, infidelity, grief, trauma, loss, and friendship.
When: 11:00 am-12:00 pm EST
March 12, April 23, May 21
$25/ session or $60 for the 3 session bundle
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Caroline R. Jennings spent ten years working in fitness and several more at home raising her two children. She recently found her way back to creative writing. Originally from Texas, Caroline grew up outside of Chicago. She graduated from Yale University in 2007 where she majored in Spanish with a focus in Spanish Literature. She holds a Master’s degree in Rehabilitative Counseling from The University of Texas at Southwestern. She currently lives in Darien, Connecticut with her husband, two children, and Golden Retriever, Rosie. Outside of writing, Caroline spends much of her time volunteering with the Darien Public School system and Fairfield County Swim League, considers her self a fitness junkie, and enjoys traveling, reading, and spending time with family and friends.
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Writing Ecopoetry
The natural world has inspired poets throughout history, as nature sustains and renews human beings. Today many poets recognize the need to rethink how we respect and protect non-human life as well.
In this workshop, participants will read and discuss poetry that spans a wide range of relationships between people and the rest of the natural world from anthologies such as Poet Laureate Ada Limon’s 2024 You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, Camille Dungy’s Black Nature, and Bradfield, Furhman & Sheffield’s Cascadia Field Guide.
Each class will include breakout rooms to share and discuss poems drafted from the models in the previous class.
At the final session, participants will have the opportunity to present and discuss one of their poems with the full group.
This workshop is appropriate for poets at all stages of their writing lives.
When: 7:00 pm-8:30 pm EST
March 5 & 25, April 16, & May 7
$25/ session or $80 for the 4 session bundle
You are strongly encouraged to register for the full 4 sessions as each session will build on the next.
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Joanne Durham is the author of To Drink from a Wider Bowl, winner of the Sinclair Poetry Prize (Evening Street Press 2022), and the chapbook, On Shifting Shoals (Kelsay Books 2023). Among her many awards are Third Wednesday Magazine's Annual Poetry Contest, the Mary Ruffin Poole Prize, and three Pushcart nominations. Her ecopoetry appears in Banyan Review, Poets for Science - The Nature of Our Times, Snapdragon, Feral, Kakalak and other journals. A former public school educator and adjunct professor, she has taught poetry with children and adults over many years. Visit her at https://www.joannedurham.com.
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