Application is required to participate in this class, and is open until Friday, January 26 at 11:59PM EST.

$400 w/financial aid available. Classes open to residents of Greater Philadelphia only (Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties)

8 week class: Tuesdays 6-8PM EST, February 20- April 9 (optional make up date April 16)

Writing in Place—Poetry: Home Sounds Like w/ Gabriel Ramirez

We will be leaning into our truest of voices. Writing how we talk. No hiding. No tricks. You don't have to be poetic. You are poetic. Do you want to whisper? Scream? Laugh? You adjust the volume. Just don't be fake about it. 

Gabriel Ramirez is a Queer Afro-Caribbean writer, performer and educator. A 2023 Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry at Adroit Journal.  Gabriel has received fellowships from the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, The Conversation Literary Arts Festival, CantoMundo, Miami Book Fair, a graduate fellow at The Watering Hole, and a participant in the Callaloo Writer’s Workshops. You can find his work in publications like POETRY magazine, Muzzle Magazine, Split This Rock, BOMB, and Acentos Review. Learn more about Gabriel Ramirez @RamirezPoet and RamirezPoet.com.

Writing in Place is a multi-genre storytelling project in which participants are encouraged to explore issues of identity, community history, and personal culture through the lens of their residence—new or lifelong—within the city of Philadelphia. The writing of selected participants will be published, along with the work of other writers, in an edition of APIARY literary magazine in hard copy and digital media.

The project will conduct three 8-week writing instruction classes that focus on development of craft in poetry (with Gabriel Ramirez), fiction (with Camille Acker), and creative nonfiction (with Joseph Earl Thomas); two workshops in small press and online publishing, including sessions where participants learn to prepare and revise their work for publication; and the opportunity to see their work published in APIARY, a respected publication devoted to Philadelphia writers.

8 week classes will be held online, and publishing workshops will be held in-person at Head & the Hand Books.