Online Readings
20th Anniversary Reading/Conversation Celebration
in Two Parts
Press 53 published its first book on October 10, 2005, and twenty years later we have published 308 titles by authors in 40 states. This pop-up reading will feature Press 53 authors who drop in and help us celebrate. Open and free to the public, with prizes for those outside the Press 53 family who attend. Let’s have some fun and celebrate twenty years of finding and sharing remarkable voices in poetry and short fiction.
Part I: Saturday, October 11, 3-5PM Eastern
Part II: Sunday, October 12, 3-5PM Eastern
Online Workshops
Thursday, October 23, 3-5:00 PM Eastern
If you’ve attended Let’s Write Together! with Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, you’ll recognize the format: she’ll share a piece of writing to inspire you, offer a prompt related to it, and you will have time to write. Except she’ll be offering a new piece and prompt every 6-15 minutes during this two-hour generative class. Think of it like speed dating—there’s another piece and prompt ready to inspire you just around the corner, with time for sharing at the end. Cost: $45. Registration is required. Note: This class will be recorded for those who register and cannot attend.
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
“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
Enjoy this FREE workshop on October 7 in celebration of Press 53’s twentieth anniversary! Invite your writer-friends to join you.
THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL
“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.
"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.
"These workshops have been excellent, and they are exactly what I need in the middle of my busy work day." —J.B.
"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.
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