In-Person Events
October 10, Lewisville, NC
The Terri Kirby Erickson & Press 53 Book Launch Celebration & Fundraiser for the American Brain Foundation on Saturday, October 10, at 3 p.m. at the beautiful Mary Alice Warren Community Center, 7632 Warren Park Drive, Lewisville, NC. Free to attend.
by Terri Kirby Erickson
Coming September 2026
Pre-Orders ship Early to mid-September
ISBN 978-1-968783-08-2
9 × 6 softcover, 120 pages
Featuring music by musician, vocalist, producer and composer Susan Terry, light refreshments, poetry reading, and book signing. It is a celebration of the release of award-winning poet Terri Kirby Erickson’s eighth collection of poems, The Light That Follows Us Home (published by Press 53, book cover painting by famed NC artist Stephen White) as well as a fundraiser for the American Brain Foundation, which supports research for numerous brain/neurological diseases and conditions like Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, autism, PTSD, multiple sclerosis, ALS, Parkinson’s disease, and many others. Twenty percent of every book sold, along with any other donations during this event, will go to the ABF. Please come out and support the arts and the American Brain Foundation!
Online Workshops
Generating Form with Richard Jackson
a Three-Part Generative Workshop Series
(Plus a one-hour introduction/preparation meeting on Sept 21, 7-8 PM Eastern)
with Richard Jackson (Limited to 15 Poets)
Mondays, 7-9 PM Eastern on Zoom
Session 1: The Sonnet, Oct 12 (7-9 PM)
Session 2: Villanelle, Sestina, Pantoum, Nov 23 (7-9 PM)
Session 3: Elegy and Ode, Dec 14 (7-9 PM)
In this generative workshop we will not only practice some traditional forms but also examine how our understanding of them can inform our own free verse poems. “Form is an extension of content,” as one saying goes, and “content is an extension of form,” goes another. Included in the workshop series is a free online booklet of examples and related essays. Cost: $150. Limited to 15 poets. Note: These sessions will be recorded for those who register and cannot attend.
(Plus a one-hour introduction/preparation meeting on Sept 21, 7-8 PM Eastern)
with Richard Jackson (Limited to 15 Poets)
Mondays, 7-9 PM Eastern on Zoom
Session 1: The Sonnet, Oct 12 (7-9 PM)
Session 2: Villanelle, Sestina, Pantoum, Nov 23 (7-9 PM)
Session 3: Elegy and Ode, Dec 14 (7-9 PM)
In this generative workshop we will not only practice some traditional forms but also examine how our understanding of them can inform our own free verse poems. “Form is an extension of content,” as one saying goes, and “content is an extension of form,” goes another. Included in the workshop series is a free online booklet of examples and related essays. Cost: $150. Limited to 15 poets. Note: These sessions will be recorded for those who register and cannot attend.
Richard Jackson is the author of seventeen books of poems, including Footprints: Poems (Press 53, 2025), The Heart as Framed: New & Select Poems (Press 53, 2022); Broken Horizons (Press 53, 2018); Out of Place (2014, rpt. Ashland Poetry Press, 2017); The Hearts’ Many Doors (anthology, 2017); and Retrievals (2015), as well as ten books of criticism, anthologies and translations. He is a winner of Guggenheim, Fulbright, NEA, NEH, and Witter-Bynner fellowships, five Pushcart Prize appearances, the Dane Zajc residency in Slovenia, and the Order of Freedom medal from the President of Slovenia for humanitarian and literary work during the Balkan wars.
Let’s Write Together! with Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Your Tuesday Lunchtime Workshop! (one hour, online, $10)
Noon to 1PM Eastern Time on ZOOM
Having a hard time finding inspiration and motivation to write? We’ll talk about a piece of writing, Shuly will give you a prompt, and then you will WRITE.
Workshops are on most Tuesdays from Noon to 1PM Eastern Time
These workshops are not recorded
“Shuly's ingenious prompts in her Tuesday workshops have led me into many important scenes in my novel and expanded my understanding of craft and creativity. This online community of writers is just wonderful.” —Erika Higgins Ross, winner of a 2023 Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writers Award
with Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Tuesday, September 29, Noon-1 PM Eastern / 11 AM-Noon Central / 10-11 AM Mountain / 9-10 AM Pacific
Having a hard time finding inspiration and motivation to write? Join Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, author of A Small Thing to Want, in this online one-hour session. We’ll talk about a piece of writing, Shuly will give you a prompt, and then you will WRITE. Sharing is optional.
"Tuesday is magic, I always get something out of it. I end up with a workable poem almost every time or the start or an idea for a flash." —P.G.
with Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Tuesday, October 6, Noon-1 PM Eastern / 11 AM-Noon Central / 10-11 AM Mountain / 9-10 AM Pacific
Having a hard time finding inspiration and motivation to write? Join Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, author of A Small Thing to Want, in this online one-hour session. We’ll talk about a piece of writing, Shuly will give you a prompt, and then you will WRITE. Sharing is optional.
“The uniqueness of Shuly’s selections has been as useful as the prompts themselves to expand my ideas of what craft and form can do. She has shaken out the starts of so many pieces, even when I thought I was in a writing rut. Not to mention she’s a wonderful person and talented writer and teacher. 10/10, highly recommend.” —E.M.
with Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Tuesday, October 13, Noon-1 PM Eastern / 11 AM-Noon Central / 10-11 AM Mountain / 9-10 AM Pacific
Having a hard time finding inspiration and motivation to write? Join Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, author of A Small Thing to Want, in this online one-hour session. We’ll talk about a piece of writing, Shuly will give you a prompt, and then you will WRITE. Sharing is optional.
"I love the poems and the prompts. I always come out of the class with a draft I want to continue to develop." —L.V.
with Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Tuesday, October 20, Noon-1 PM Eastern / 11 AM-Noon Central / 10-11 AM Mountain / 9-10 AM Pacific
Having a hard time finding inspiration and motivation to write? Join Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, author of A Small Thing to Want, in this online one-hour session. We’ll talk about a piece of writing, Shuly will give you a prompt, and then you will WRITE. Sharing is optional.
"These workshops have been excellent, and they are exactly what I need in the middle of my busy work day." —J.B.
with Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Tuesday, October 20, Noon-1 PM Eastern / 11 AM-Noon Central / 10-11 AM Mountain / 9-10 AM Pacific
Having a hard time finding inspiration and motivation to write? Join Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, author of A Small Thing to Want, in this online one-hour session. We’ll talk about a piece of writing, Shuly will give you a prompt, and then you will WRITE. Sharing is optional.
with Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Tuesday, November 3, Noon-1 PM Eastern / 11 AM-Noon Central / 10-11 AM Mountain / 9-10 AM Pacific
Having a hard time finding inspiration and motivation to write? Join Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, author of A Small Thing to Want, in this online one-hour session. We’ll talk about a piece of writing, Shuly will give you a prompt, and then you will WRITE. Sharing is optional.
with Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Tuesday, November 24, Noon-1 PM Eastern / 11 AM-Noon Central / 10-11 AM Mountain / 9-10 AM Pacific
Having a hard time finding inspiration and motivation to write? Join Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, author of A Small Thing to Want, in this online one-hour session. We’ll talk about a piece of writing, Shuly will give you a prompt, and then you will WRITE. Sharing is optional.
with Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Tuesday, December 1, Noon-1 PM Eastern / 11 AM-Noon Central / 10-11 AM Mountain / 9-10 AM Pacific
Having a hard time finding inspiration and motivation to write? Join Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, author of A Small Thing to Want, in this online one-hour session. We’ll talk about a piece of writing, Shuly will give you a prompt, and then you will WRITE. Sharing is optional.
with Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Tuesday, December 8, Noon-1 PM Eastern / 11 AM-Noon Central / 10-11 AM Mountain / 9-10 AM Pacific
Having a hard time finding inspiration and motivation to write? Join Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, author of A Small Thing to Want, in this online one-hour session. We’ll talk about a piece of writing, Shuly will give you a prompt, and then you will WRITE. Sharing is optional.
with Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Tuesday, December 15, Noon-1 PM Eastern / 11 AM-Noon Central / 10-11 AM Mountain / 9-10 AM Pacific
Having a hard time finding inspiration and motivation to write? Join Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, author of A Small Thing to Want, in this online one-hour session. We’ll talk about a piece of writing, Shuly will give you a prompt, and then you will WRITE. Sharing is optional.
About Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Shuly Xóchitl Cawood is the author of Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough (Press 53) and A Small Thing to Want: Stories (Press 53) and four other books: What the Fortune Teller Would Have Said: Flash Essays, winner of the 2022 Iron Horse Literary Review Prose Chapbook Competition; Trouble Can Be So Beautiful at the Beginning (Mercer University Press), winner of the 2019 Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry; 52 Things I Wish I Could Have Told Myself When I Was 17 (Cimarron Books, 2018); and The Going and Goodbye: A Memoir (Platypus Press, 2017). Shuly earned her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, and her writing has been published in The New York Times, Brevity, The Sun, and others. Shuly also leads writing workshops through Press 53’s High Road Fest Online, including the popular Let’s Write Together!, a one-hour lunchtime workshop at Noon Eastern on Tuesdays. Learn more at shulycawood.com