Advanced Poetry Critique Workshop
with Mary Jean Chan
A workshop involving intensive critique to help intermediate and advanced poets develop their craft, with peer and facilitator critique of participants’ poems.
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Summary
Course code: MJ5
4 online workshops of 2-hours each
For Intermediate to Advanced Poets
Limited places available
Selective entry – we’ll offer places to writers who show promise
Dates
16, 23 & 30 October, 6 November 2021 (Saturdays)
5:00 to 7:00 pm SGT
No partial sessions accepted
Venue
Workshops will take place online via Zoom
Successful participants will receive a private link to the workshops
Overview
In this four week online workshop series, Faber poet and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing Mary Jean Chan offers an Advanced Poetry Course with peer and facilitator critique of participants’ poems.
Please note particiants are required to attend all the 4 workshops.
Learning Outcomes
After completion of the workshop series, participants will:
- have developed their understanding of approaches and techniques to improve, revise and edit their poems.
- have gained a deeper knowledge of how to revise and edit their work.
- experience peer critique and tutor feedback to enable all participants to produce new poetry, and hone and polish their work-in-progress.
Who should register?
Writers including:
- Intermediate Writers — Writers who have chosen to pursue writing as a full time or part time career with a serious, professional intent but who are not yet published with a mainstream or recognised independent publisher, or
- Advanced Writers — Writers who have published at least one book with a mainstream or recognised independent publisher, and/or published in at least one literary journal and/or anthology
Participants will be selected by the Visiting Writer with assistance from the Asia Creative Writing programme. A waiting list will be maintained.
Registration and Pricing
Course Prerequisites
To sign up, please register at this link with the following documents:
- A 500 word writing sample (your writing sample does not have to be from the genre of the course nor your current writing project; it will be an assesment of your standard and style of writing)
- A short summary of your writing project of ~100 words
- A short biography of ~100 words
Course Fees
- For 4 workshops:
- $100 for adults
- $40 for students, unemployed, low income migrant workers
- Free for undergraduates from Singapore tertiary institutions
- Non refundable if cancellation less than 2 weeks before the course starts
- Please email us if financial assistance is needed
About Mary Jean Chan
Mary Jean Chan (b. 1990) is the author of Flèche, published by Faber & Faber (2019) and Faber USA (2020). Flèche won the 2019 Costa Book Award for Poetry and was named as a Book of the Year in The Guardian, The Irish Times and The White Review. In 2020, Flèche was shortlisted for multiple literary prizes, including the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, the Jhalak Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize. In 2021, Flèche was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. In 2018, Chan was selected as the winner of the UK’s Poetry Society Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. They were shortlisted for the Forward Prizes in the Best Single Poem category in 2017 and 2019, and received an Eric Gregory Award in 2019 for a collection by a poet under the age of 30, awarded by the Society of Authors. Their reviews have appeared in The Guardian Review, with literary criticism published in The Journal of American Studies and The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. In Spring 2020, Chan served as guest co-editor with Will Harris at The Poetry Review. Their second poetry collection, Bright Fear, is forthcoming from Faber in 2023. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Chan is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University and serves as a supervisor on the MSt in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford.
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