How to Navigate Poetry Fashions
And feel like you still belong
Hello friends and welcome new subscribers. Thank you for your support.
Today’s paid subscriber post is about the thing I hear most from writers I work with. If I had to choose a subject that came up over and over again in writer mentoring sessions it would be this: My writing is old fashioned. I can’t win competitions/will never get published/cannot compete because I don’t write like the people winning the competitions.
It is absolutely true and fair to say that there are trends and fashions in poetry. There always have been. So how do you write like the people winning the prizes? The answer is: You don’t. You do this instead…