Hosted by Passengers Press EIC Zac Furlough and Poetry Editor Kimberly Casey.

A craft talk on constructing a manuscript, submitting it to various publications, acceptance, revisions/editing, publishing, and promoting, followed by a Q&A.

Hosted by Passengers Journal Assistant Poetry Editor Syd Shaw.

Come one, come all! Read us something you've created in a workshop this week, share an old favorite, or honor us with your latest work-in-progess. A great chance to share and connect with the Passengers team, and other conference attendees. Please plan to take no more than five minutes on the mic.

Hosted by Passengers Journal Assistant Poetry Editor Dilys Wyndam Thomas.

A panel discussion and Q&A with writers who run online and in-person writers’ groups, accountability groups, and literary events. Followed by break-out rooms for participants to talk to panelists about their organisations.

Panelists include: 

• Kimberly Casey (writer, founder of Out Loud Huntsville & Passengers Press Poetry Editor)

• Derville Quigley (writer, cofounder of Strange Birds Migratory Writing Collective)

Hosted by Passengers Journal Visual Art Editor Lauren Viar.

A talk (or conversation pending on Hoyon decides to host with me) about how digital spaces such as the internet and digital publications can uplift marginalized artists and their art in terms of representation.

Hosted by Passengers Journal EIC Anna Genevieve Winham.

A panel discussion and Q&A among 3 very different writers who discuss how they’ve made ends meet—and beyond. 

Hosted by Passengers Press Poetry Editor Ralph Jenkins.

A generative workshop for poets looking to translate their spoken word into poems that live a second life on the page. We will discuss the work of several poets who’ve made a name for themselves in both performance and publishing: Patricia Smith, Danez Smith, and Hanif Abdurraqib.

Hosted by Passengers Journal Assistant Prose Editor Holly Eva.

A cycling feedback workshop for very short flash fiction where attendees will share/ read micro pieces and receive feedback from host and all attendees who feel they have feedback they’d like to share. Various generative questions and points of focus will be covered in order to elicit feedback from attendees and self-reflection and editing from writers on their own work.

Hosted by Passengers Press Prose Editors Izzy Wallace and Femi Sobowale.

If you’ve ever had the thought “all of the good ideas have already been done,” this panel is for you. In this panel, we’ll discuss how to pinpoint what makes your manuscript stand out and express that selling point by creating a unique, compelling theme that highlights your authorial voice.

Hosted by Passengers Journal Assistant Poetry Editor Syd Shaw and Visual Art Editor Lauren Viar.

A generative workshop using visual art from the Passengers Journal archive as prompts for short poems.

Hosted by Passengers Journal Prose Editor Devon Capizzi.

What happens when you write something you no longer agree with? Especially in a lit world at large that puts a premium on publishing, how do we as writers allow ourselves and our work to change over time? How can we allow ourselves and our work to contradict itself?

This hour-long conversation and reading will feature writers reading work that is fresh and uncertain, or older and trapped in time, and discuss how our work will inevitably change as we evolve, as the world around us changes, and how, knowing this, we can still allow ourselves the freedom to create. 

Hosted by Passengers Journal Poetry Editor Andreea Ceplinschi.

A generative workshop session where participants will have the opportunity to read and discuss the poetry stylings of Rosa Alcala, Jennifer Sperry Steinorth, and Chris Abani (alongside painting by Percival Everett), then create their own pieces inspired by each poem: one piece using heritage and personal history as background, a second piece by erasure of the first, and finally an ekphrastic piece. The workshop is meant to be both generative and educational, an open conversation about making personal history relevant to a larger audience, how to approach erasure of one’s own work vs. erasure of an existing work, and the role personal perspective plays in tackling the ekphrastic.