Chapbooks: Crafting a Collection

Join Straw Dog Writers Guild with presenter Adrie Rose on Sunday, February 11 via zoom from 3-5pm for this craft workshop. We will come together to work on pulling together poems into a chapbook collection. We’ll talk about what chapbooks are (and are not) and some strategies for arranging the poems in them. Participants are encouraged to bring 8-12 pages of poems. We’ll work in small groups to look at the poems participants brought and create a draft arrangement, then discuss how to send chapbook manuscripts out into the world.

Please register HERE for this free workshop.

Adrie Rose lives next to an orchard in western MA and is the editor of Nine Syllables Press at Smith College. Her chapbook Rupture is forthcoming with Gold Line Press in 2023, and she has a micro chap forthcoming in 2023 with Porkbelly Press. She is a Poetry MFA student at Warren Wilson College. Her work has previously appeared in Nimrod, The Night Heron Barks, Underblong, Witness, and more. 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.