The Contemporary Poetry Landscape

INSTRUCTOR: Melissa Huckabay
​TIME: Saturday, May 10, 4:30-7:30 pm CST/CDT
PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Sunday, May 4. After Sunday, May 4: $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here.
LOCATION: Writespace, 1907 Sabine Street, #125, Houston, TX 77007 (map).
LEVEL: All levels
CAP: 15

Where do submit poems for publication? How do they get there? We all want to get our work out into the world, to feel that we've contributed to society with our artistic endeavors (and maybe make a little money along the way) but the steps from writing to publishing can be opaque and confusing! Whether you are submitting individual poems to journals or chapbooks to presses, there are invisible hoops to jump through and landmines to avoid along the way.

Fret not! This workshop will explore and explain the ways the contemporary poetry landscape of publishers and printers in order to best set you up for success. Led by poet Melissa Huckabay, we will explore avenues a poem can travel successfully to find its home (or homes!) on the printed page.

Melissa McEver Huckabay is a graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Texas State University, an adjunct college instructor, and an experienced writer in a wide range of fields.. She also has taught English Language Arts and creative writing at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

Melissa’s creative work has appeared in SWWIM, Thimble, Poetry South, Sweet: A Literary Confection, and elsewhere, and her short fiction has won the Spider’s Web Flash Fiction Prize from Spider Road Press. She was a 2023 Contributor to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Photo by Mark Harpur on Unsplash

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