Workshop groups now open for January submission
New Subscribers welcome!
(Click on title of post, heart, or comment symbol to go directly to the Substack site for The Unschool.)
I have sent out notices to all those who have previously emailed me to be signed up for the workshops. But am going to post this for all to see and consider…
WORKSHOPS: picturebook, poetry, and ‘scene’—both fiction and nonfiction
All paid subscribes are welcome to take part in one or more of the workshops. Through the fall months we had a couple dozen pieces posted, and feedback given from both peers and myself. It’s been amazing, really, to see this happen… all for the price of your subscription. The community is growing, but it would be good to see more involved, and to share work and thought. Workshopping is a sizeable piece of becoming a writer. You learn not only from posting your own work, but from offering feedback, too.
Quick re-cap on how to access:
go to your icon, upper RH corner
click “manage subscription”
click “the Unschool workshop space” under “newsletter notifications”
and you’re registered
to access, once on the home page, click under the title—Unschool for Writers—to where it says The Unschool Workshop Space (here is the link, if registered—bookmark it)
look for the visual cue—kid reading a book for “picturebooks,” “poetry” for…poetry! And “scene” for scene…
*note: in order to post pieces, you must email them to me: alison@alisonacheson.com
Maximum word limits are strict:
600 for picturebooks
1200 for scenes
no more than 1 one-page poem per submission
I post one piece per week in each workshop, in the order in which they arrive in my mailbox.
Poetry Discussion Thread
Also, you might want to know that the Poetry Discussion Thread has kicked off for January and is right here. For this month I’ll open it to all subscribers, but as of February, will close it to paid-only folks. Many took part in the December first-run of comments and review of Annie Finch’s A Poet’s Craft.
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Earlier this week, I posted an explanatory piece about how to navigate The Unschool email and site. I’ve been rather stunned by the feedback—there was a real need for this. If you missed it, take a look. Especially timely if you’ve just joined us.
Questions??
I love reading the submitted works and the comments in these workshops Learning lots. But have serious ‘typing fatigue.’ I have a book I am working on, so can’t avoid it.
Having lost every member of my immediate family in the past six years - father, mother, uncle, brother and now and ongoing the last in my small family my sister to dementia at five thousand miles remove, I find my only other literary energy these days is put to ‘memoir poetry’… if I don’t recall and write about my family past, who can…
Some days Zoom sessions are a step too far. My email writing group a challenge some weeks. And contributing much here is beyond me right now.
So I will continue to Lurk from time to time , and learn. And perhaps later this year may reconnect with picturebooks and the poetry workshop. Meanwhile I applaud everyone’s creative energy. And thank them for being so willing to share. And Alison, thanks for all your insights and wisdom.