In addition to our onsite workshops, we offer online workshops at all levels using the Wet Ink platform for students outside of NYC and/or those whose schedules don’t allow them to meet at a regular weekly class time. Wet Ink is an online platform built exclusively for writing classes, with state-of-the-art digital tools for teachers and students to offer written critiques of work, including inline comments on selected text. Students receive a digital file containing all of their written work at the end of each workshop. Wet Ink is paid for by Brooklyn Poets and free for all of our students.
Online workshops typically run asynchronously each week, meaning there is no regular “class” meeting (i.e. no Skype or Google chat session or the like). This allows students to work on their writing at their own schedules. At the beginning of the workshop, profs offer an introductory video overview, and at the start of each week, post a writing assignment (or several options) and models for that assignment, accompanied by brief video instruction. At the end of each week students post their work for critique by the class. Profs might also post additional reading assignments or discussion prompts. Workshops typically offer FaceTime/phone conferencing with the prof at the end, and some like Poetry Rehab meet for an online video conference at a regular time each week.
Fall 2019
October 5–November 8
In Praise Of: The Ode
Jay Deshpande / Level I
October 15–November 18
MFA Application Bootcamp
Natalie Eilbert / Level III
October 16–November 19
Poetry and Memoir: Whose Story Am I Telling?
JP Howard / Level I
