Our Next Workshop

The Happy Hour: Making Yourself and Your Creative Practice a Priority

INSTRUCTOR: Angélique Jamail
PRICE: $60 per month
TIME: Mondays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. CST, starting March 3. 2025
LOCATION: Online via Zoom
LEVEL: All levels
Join master teacher Angélique Jamail (an author, artist, and choreographer) for a Creative Happy Hour once a week to trouble-shoot whatever you’re working on and get some work time in. Our sprints will allow you to write or draw or develop or make whatever you want or need to, in a friendly and supportive environment with low stakes and even lower pressure.
This is not a workshop. It’s not a class. You won’t be given prompts (unless you ask for one) and won’t have to produce anything for formal critique. There’s no specific homework. Just show up with your project, your questions, and whatever snack or beverage you want for a one-hour Zoom session to start your week off with a creative, nurturing vibe.
Our Next Event

April Community Reading 

TIME: Friday, April 25, 7-9:30 pm
LOCATION: Sabine Street Studios, 1907 Sabine Street, Houston, TX 77007 (map)
FEATURING: FEATURED READER Emily Bludworth de Barrios, author of the new, award winning poetry collection Rich Wife!
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 on a first come, first served basis.

You must sign up here to read!

Featured readers, member readers, and an open mic for YOU to participate!
Join us in the South gallery of Sabine Street Studios with local literary and craft vendors, 7 pm til we run out of words :)
Check the link above to sign up to read as well! Some of our readers will have their work for sale and for signing at the Itty Bitty Book Fair! Please note that you should 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.

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
All donations made to Writespace are tax-deductible.

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.