English classes aim at teaching students how to be better wordsmiths, to hone our individual voices. But how do you compose stronger prose if you don't know what a sloppy, inconsistent sentence looks like? This playful, hilarious class, taught by a professional line editor, uses excerpts from real fantasy romances and bestsellers to demonstrate the nuts and bolts of what makes good, solid writing stand out from the bad.

C.M. Crockford is a poet, writer, and editor based in Philadelphia but he's originally from New England. He's published many poems, stories, and essays, sung in a few bands, edited over a dozen books, and co-hosted The Barn: A Podcast About The Shield. In 2022 "Spam Love Poem" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry collection, Birdsongs: Poems 2020-2023, is forthcoming from Alien Buddha Press.