Poetry Workshop Guidelines

We provide these guidelines to smooth out the process for our monthly informal workshops:

• Your poems must be sent to us as an email attachment prior to the workshop. Your work should be in .doc or docx format. We have time to cover only one poem per participant. Your file name should identify you, not the title of your work. Example: poemDonaldSmth.docx.
• Email your poem, by noon on the day of the workshop. Use the following address: cwpoetrycircle@gmail.com.
• If you did not send in a piece for a workshop, you will not be reading or receiving feedback. We need to see your work on the screen to offer useful feedback. The only exception will be for first timers and feedback will be limited.
• When you are called upon to read it would be helpful if you would say a few words about what feedback you are looking for. Examples: “Is the meaning of my poem clear? Do my line breaks make sense? Do I give too much or too little information? Should I think of a better title?”
• Prose pieces should be limited to five hundred words.

The link for each workshop will be sent in an email a few days before – usually on Sunday.

David, Ed and Lissa