About + Join
Welcome! If you are serious about growing as a poet, Fresh Darlings is for you! Fresh Darlings is an ongoing workshop and community, powered by you. You can participate in one of two ways:
Note: See latest post for current status of Fresh Darlings:
Bi-weekly Exercises
- Every two weeks, the editor will publish a prompt to lead you down a new path of creative thinking.
- You’ll have a week to write a piece that speaks to the prompt, and submit it for workshopping. Include the tag Fresh Darlings Prompt when you submit.
- Your piece will be published, along with all of the others responding to that prompt.
- Within a week, you must leave a detailed feedback comment for two other writers who participated that week. Comments should be constructive. Here is a brief introduction to giving high-quality constructive feedback to your peers. Highlight what the piece did well. Call out your favorite lines or concepts. But don’t be afraid to give your thoughts on how it could be stronger. To write fresh darlings, we must kill some of the ones we cherish too much. [Comments will be monitored to ensure they are respectful and constructive.]
Revisions
So you got great feedback from your peers, now what? There is a tab for revised pieces of the current prompt where you can submit your new version. Please submit to Fresh Darlings with the tag Fresh Darlings Revision. Revision is totally optional! Once we move on to the new prompt, your original pieces and revisions will be visible in the Archive tab.
How to Submit
For those of you who haven’t yet submitted to a publication, I wanted to leave a quick how-to. Once you have your draft ready and you want to submit to Fresh Darlings, click the three gray dots in the upper right hand corner and select “Add to Publication.” Fresh Darlings will appear as a sub-menu and all you have to do is toggle the dot and click “Submit Draft.” I’ll then receive notification that your piece is ready, and get it up on the homepage within a day or two. If you haven’t yet written with us, just leave me a comment and I’ll get you set-up as a contributor.
That’s it! The workshop process is an essential component of growing as a writer. Let’s surprise ourselves, and see what we can create!
