Workshops

Asynchronous workshops for writers of poetry and creative nonfiction

Asynchronous classes will be held on the Wet.Ink platform and are open to any number of participants; while there are weekly prompts and deadlines, you complete your work and written responses to classmates on your own time. Writers with little experience will work alongside those with published books. No writing or workshop experience necessary. Please click here to see current offerings, and sign up for my newsletter to be notified in the future.

Commenting on other people’s writing

One of the best ways we can support each other as writers is to respond by detailing what we see a poem or essay doing: the themes we see, the specific parts of the piece that led us towards those themes, the writing strategies we notice and how those strategies affected us as readers. Even if we don’t move on to questions or suggestions, we have given the writer so much information with this kind of response, information they can choose to use for revision–or not. This kind of response is usually more difficult than mere edits, and therefore more valuable.

*feel free to email me at kriegelwriter@gmail.com with questions*

Reviews

Tia

“Katie provides insightful feedback in a positive manner that is easy to digest even for artists as sensitive as myself. If poetry is a journey, Katie is a map keeper with intuitive knowledge of where the traveler is trying to go and how to get there on a single tank of gas.”

Sherri P.

“My first experience in a workshop setting was in Katie’s poetry class at USF. It was also my first experience with writing poetry. Before taking that class, I was terrified about writing poetry, and even more so about workshop, but Katie’s kind nature eased my fears. Over the course of the semester, I learned how to read, critique, write, and love poetry. To this day, I still use the core concepts I learned in her class.”

Tory

“Katie was my first poetry teacher and I can’t believe my good fortune to have found myself in her class. As an instructor and writer, she is as gentle as she is scrupulous, as funny as she is startling, as charming as she is resolved. Hers is a voice and a mind and a heart that many need to hear.”