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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.

 

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.