Poetry Masterclass Webinars: Getting Your Poetry Published

Nine Arches Press editor Jane Commane will lead these 1-hour webinars focused on giving useful guidance and top tips for shaping up your poetry and getting it ready to send to journals, magazines and publishers.

Each session will feature a webinar presentation, plus an opportunity to ask your own questions at the end of each session. Zoom links will be sent close to webinar date.

ACCESS: webinars are recorded, so ticketholders can attend live or watch the recording up to two weeks after the session.

£17 per session (click on the specific date to buy)

£45 for all three (select 'All 3' option via any date)

Monday 10 March - Introduction to Getting your Poems in Print
In our introductory session, discover what the current poetry publishing landscape looks like, and routes into getting your poems into print through magazines and journals as well as in pamphlets and a full collection. What are editors looking for and how does the submissions process work? Get an insight into how publishers find new work and pick up plenty of tips and guidance to help you prepare your poems for sending out. This session will include a short audience Q&A at the end of the webinar with the opportunity to ask your own questions.

Monday 17 March - Bringing a Poetry Collection Together
This session looks at the different types of poetry collections and pamphlets and considers how to put a book or poetry collection together. You've now written and edited your poems, so how do you go about ordering them into a manuscript? What will readers (and editors) notice? And how important are themes and narrative threads? We'll look up close at several examples of different structures and ways of ordering in published poetry books. This session will include a short audience Q&A at the end of the webinar with the opportunity to ask your own questions.

Monday 24 March - Refining Your Poems for Publication
Finally, we'll look at how to give your poems the final edit and polishing-up - what should you be looking out for before you send your manuscript or poems off to a poetry editor? In order to give them the best chance of success, we'll look at how different technical aspects such as line endings, punctuation, titles, and refinement of imagery and language can help you to make sure that your poems are ready to go. This session will include a short audience Q&A at the end of the webinar with the opportunity to ask your own questions.