Editing Poetry

INSTRUCTOR: Melissa Huckabay

TIME: Saturday, February 8, 4:30 - 7:30 p.m. CST

PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Monday December 2. After Monday, December 2: $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here.

LOCATION: Writespace, 1907 Sabine Street, #125, Houston, TX 77007 (map)

LEVEL: All levels

CAP: 15

Join poet and professor Melissa Huckabay, and bring your poems to revise!

Getting words down may seem like the biggest hurdle when you're staring at a blank page, but it's just the beginning. Editing poetry is an important step along the way to expressing yourself and your emotions in the clearest way possible. With various techniques and concrete examples, we will look at the how and why as well as engage in generative creation.

Melissa McEver Huckabay is a graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Texas State University, an adjunct college instructor, and an experienced writer in a wide range of fields.. She also has taught English Language Arts and creative writing at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.

Melissa’s creative work has appeared in SWWIM, Thimble, Poetry South, Sweet: A Literary Confection, and elsewhere, and her short fiction has won the Spider’s Web Flash Fiction Prize from Spider Road Press. She was a 2023 Contributor to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

1907 Sabine St #125, 1907 Sabine Street, Houston, United States