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Intensive workshops

Beyond Baroque’s intensive writing workshops allow writers from all schools and walks of life to learn from world-class authors in single and multi-session workshops.

Writing in the Unknown—Embracing Mystery in Poetry with Nicelle Davis Saturday, September 13, 2025 11:00 AM -2:00 PM PT In Person at Beyond Baroque This generative writing workshop invites writers to explore how ambiguity shapes a poem's impact and opens possibilities. Facilitated by poet Nicelle Davis, participants will examine open-ended narratives, shifting perspectives, and unresolved renditions through prompts and discussion. Nicelle Davis is a California poet, collaborator, and performance artist. Her poetry collections include The Language of Fractions (Moon Tide Press, 2023). The Walled Wife (Red Hen Press, 2016), In the Circus of You (Rose Metal Press, 2015), Becoming Judas (Red Hen Press, 2013), and Circe (Lowbrow Press, 2011). Penguin Noir recently won the Changing Light Novel in Verse Prize from Livingston Press and will be released in the Summer of 2025. Her poetry film collaborations with Cheryl Gross have been shown across the world. She has taught poetry at Youth for Positive Change, MHA, Volunteers of America in their Homeless Youth Center, Red Hen’s WITS program, and with MEP. She currently teaches Middle School in the High Desert.

Ghost School: A Generative Workshop for 'Haunted' Writers with Brendan Constantine Saturday, September 27, 2025 11:00 AM -2:00 PM PT In Person at Beyond Baroque In 1876, Emily Dickinson wrote "Nature is a Haunted House – but Art – a House that tries to be haunted.” Brendan Constantine presents ‘Ghost School,' a generative workshop for 'haunted' writers! Join us for an afternoon of writing, discussion, games, and a few surprises as we confront the poem ‘that stays with you.’ All are welcome. Sufferers of ‘Writer’s Block’ strongly encourage Brendan Constantine is a poet based in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in many standards, including Poetry, The Nation, Best American Poetry, and Poem a Day. His fifth collection, ‘The Opposites Game,’ is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2026. He teaches at the Windward School and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Please, Cross the Line Creative Writing Workshop Tuesday, October 14 - Tuesday, November 18, 2025 6:00 PM PT Online via Zoom Creation is a path of aesthetic knowledge and, at the same time, of self-knowledge and self-determination. This practical workshop responds to the personal needs of attendees and their search for and development of their own writing. It seeks to provide the fundamental tools of poetic creation and introduce them to classical and contemporary authors. This workshop will be conducted across six Tuesdays. Manuel Becerra (Mexico City, 1983) studied Creative Writing at the Autonomous University of Mexico City. Becerra has won numerous poetry prizes, most recently the Jaime Sabines International Poetry Award (2024) for his book Estética de los objetos aislados. His poems appear in magazines in Mexico and abroad, and he has read at festivals in Spain, Cuba, Canada, Colombia, China, Japan and the United States. He was a resident at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2019, at Stockton University in New Jersey in 2019, at Art Omi in New York State in 2018, and at the Residencia Literaria 1863 in Coruña, Spain, in 2025.