WRITING WORKSHOPS.
Our writing workshops are small, live, online spaces for collective writing and inquiry. We work with narrative practice, documentary materials, and shared prompts to examine experience, perception, and social conditions through language.
Some workshops bring educators together to write in sustained community; others explore poetry as a public practice through documentary and socially engaged writing.
Workshops also provide space to bring work already underway or to begin shaping new pieces within a sustained workshop setting for writing and thoughtful feedback.
Current Workshops
Educator Writing Groups
Some workshops bring educators working inside and outside of schools together to develop nonfiction, memoir, and reflective writing projects. These groups create sustained space for writing, feedback, and conversation among people engaged in teaching and cultural work.
Artist-Led Workshops
Pop-up workshops are led by poet Mark Nowak and other visiting writers and artists working in documentary poetics and socially engaged forms. These sessions explore methods for writing with interviews, archival materials, and public language.
Saturday, 30 May / Free, Live, Online
1:30 pm ET / 6:30 pm BST
Documentary poet Mark Nowak will read from his new book . . . AGAIN — a photo-text commentary on MAGAism in America — followed by an abecedarian haiku workshop.
Praised by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Boyer as "a work of structural fury. Through a relentless abecedarian progression that cycles through the American seasons—from one autumn to the next—the book builds a damning index of the mundanity and terror of our times. This is a masterful, harrowing, and formally audacious work.”
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Every season, award-winning documentary poet Mark Nowak offers a haiku poetry pop-up workshop. This end-of-spring gathering coincides with Nowak's UK book launch at London's Housmans Bookshop — bringing together participants and guests from the UK, US, and beyond for a live, online abecedarian haiku workshop exploring how the alphabet's forward motion can structure observation, restraint, and the practice of witnessing.
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Saturday, 30 May
1:30-3:00 pm ET / 6:30-8:00 pm BST
Live, online via Zoom
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Register for the Zoom link above.
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Poets and other writers, including those who may not yet call themselves writers; educators working both inside and beyond schools; and anyone interested in photo-text work, white nationalism, effacement as a new form of erasure poetry, and compressed forms that bring together social and political life.
Tuesday, 9 June / Live, Online
6:00-8:30 pm ET / 5:00-7:30 pm CT / 3:00-5:30 pm PT
A pop-up writing workshop offered by award-winning documentary poet Mark Nowak, treating the three-line poem as a tool for refusal, solidarity, and public speech.
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Every season, award-winning poet Mark Nowak offers a different haiku poetry pop-up workshop. The summer 2026 workshop explores the radical history of haiku and studies multiple haiku forms, including Afriku, hay(na)ku, low coup, tanka, and haibun. Participants will experiment with this short-form, image-driven, minimalist poetry.
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Tuesday, 9 June 2026
1:00-3:30 pm ET / 12:00-2:30 pm CT / 10:00 am-12:30 pm PT
Live, online via Zoom
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This is a small-group, live, online writing workshop held on Zoom. Everyone is encouraged to join from a quiet, private space with a reliable internet connection, using a laptop or desktop computer.
It is helpful, but not required, to have an active Google Drive account to easily access some of our shared resources. To sign up for Google Drive, visit accounts.google.com. -
$80
Participation in “Low Coup” entitles you to a 10% discount on one other 2026 workshop or one Prose Lab session. A code will be provided after registering.
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Reduced-rate access is available when cost is a barrier. Please reach out through Connect if you would like to discuss options.
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Poets and other writers, including those who may not yet call themselves writers; educators working both inside and beyond schools; and anyone interested in compressed poetic forms that bring together social, familial, street, community, and political life, with humor and vernacular language.