Our Next Workshop
Form or Function? Exploring Schemes of Poetics
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INSTRUCTOR: Cindy Childress
TIME: Tuesday, January 14, 6-9 pm CST/CDT PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Wednesday, January 8. After Wednesday, January 8: $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here. LOCATION: Online Zoom LEVEL: All levels CAP: 15 Poetry can be seen as the limitless use of words to express oneself, but if so then why are there so many historical forms that have remained popular for centuries? Join poet Cindy Childress in this Writespace workshop to explore sonnets, haikus, concrete poetry and more in an effort to find the best ways to express your inner self through poetry! Are you planning on reading your poetry or using the white space of the page to play with the reader's eye? Do you have a cultural connection that you would like to explore or a historical figure you would like to emulate? We have answers! Dr. Cindy Childress supports entrepreneurs to write books that make money and make an impact. Her clients achieve bestseller status, give TEDx Talks, win book awards, sign book deals, and more. Highlights of her results in the past seven years:
She was awarded a gold American Business Award for Company of the Year: Media & Entertainment in 2022. The year before she won two gold awards with the International Business Awards 2021: Company of the Year in Business or Professional Services and Company of the Year in Media & Entertainment. She co-authored The Logical Law of Attraction with Helen Racz and was quoted in U.S. News and World Report, plus featured in Thrive Global, amongst many other publications. Cindy holds a Ph. D. in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. In addition to bespoke ghostwriting services, she leads online writing and editing classes and author coaching programs. She’s also a foster mom with Rescued Pets Movement and a faculty member with Writespace Houston in Texas. |
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Our Next Event
January Community Reading
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TIME: Friday, January 31, 7-9:30 pm
LOCATION: Sabine Street Studios, 1907 Sabine Street, Houston, TX 77007 (map) FEATURING: Featured Members: Aaron Martinez COST: Free for members, $5 for nonmembers. Become a member here. REGISTRATION: To become a reader sign up here. Sign-ups are open to all and on a first come, first served basis. You must sign up here to read! Come out and listen to our featured reader and read yourself! Our featured reader will have their work for sale and for signing at the Itty Bitty Book Fair! Please note that you will need to arrive before 7:00 p.m. to get a seat. Accessibility and parking: Parking for Sabine Street Studios is on Spring Street. Overflow parking at Spring Street Studios. Fully accessible building. Parking lot at Spring Street is gravel. |
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What people are saying about our workshops:
"I hadn’t written poetry in more than 6 months. Not because I didn’t have anything to say—but rather, the opposite: I have too much to say, and not enough time to say it. That’s the beauty of short-form poetry—and I can think of no one better than Dr. Kendra Leonard to be your guide into this world.
If you’re like me—an unpracticed, imperfect poet who doesn’t know anything about the mechanics of sonnets or limericks—it can feel super intimidating to step into a poetry workshop. But Dr. Leonard made me feel anything but intimidated. She is kind, encouraging, and takes a gentle, question-led (rather than feedback-led) approach to workshopping poetry.
What’s truly amazing is that she’s helped me turn short-form poetry into a habit. I’ve written a poem every day since taking her workshop. Often, I don’t have a big block of time to sit down and journal out all my thoughts and feelings. Dr. Leonard’s workshop showed me that I can be just as expressive through short-form poetry, and in a fraction of the time.
I’m really excited to take her workshop on ekphrastic writing."
—Ynes Freeman, on Kendra Preston Leonard's Writing Short: Poetry in the Palm of Your Hand
If you’re like me—an unpracticed, imperfect poet who doesn’t know anything about the mechanics of sonnets or limericks—it can feel super intimidating to step into a poetry workshop. But Dr. Leonard made me feel anything but intimidated. She is kind, encouraging, and takes a gentle, question-led (rather than feedback-led) approach to workshopping poetry.
What’s truly amazing is that she’s helped me turn short-form poetry into a habit. I’ve written a poem every day since taking her workshop. Often, I don’t have a big block of time to sit down and journal out all my thoughts and feelings. Dr. Leonard’s workshop showed me that I can be just as expressive through short-form poetry, and in a fraction of the time.
I’m really excited to take her workshop on ekphrastic writing."
—Ynes Freeman, on Kendra Preston Leonard's Writing Short: Poetry in the Palm of Your Hand
All donations made to Writespace are tax-deductible.
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Writespace is a Houston grassroots literary arts nonprofit whose mission is to embrace and celebrate our city’s diversity by providing the type of high-quality training available through Master of Fine Arts creative writing programs at a fraction of the cost to writers of all genres, with a focus on providing programming for underserved communities and scholarships for low-income writers. |
