Redact to Reclaim: Erasure Poems as Acts of Defiance
Redact to Reclaim: Erasure Poems as Acts of Defiance
$25 session in October
In a time of overwhelm and hopelessness, erasure poetry is one way to reclaim our power and write a new story. In this workshop, participants will learn more about the history of erasure poetry and the various ways erasure poems have responded to and/or subverted the original source material. We will explore erasure poems with political, socio-cultural, and literary themes.
The instructor will highlight different strategies for creating erasure poems including both digital and paper processes. Participants are encouraged to bring source materials for use during a generative writing portion of the workshop. Following the generative writing time, there will be an opportunity to share what has been created or any thoughts on the erasure poem process.
The instructor will also discuss suggestions for source material texts, considerations for publication, and publication opportunities. The goal of this workshop is for every participant to walk away feeling empowered to create their own erasure poetry in order to reshape or defy an existing narrative.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/erasurepoems
When: 2:00 pm-3:00 pm EST
October 25
$25/ session
*Participants are encouraged to bring source materials for use during a generative writing portion of the workshop.
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Candace Kronen is a poet, activist, and speech-language pathologist currently residing in Ontario, Canada. She is a strong believer in the power of language and storytelling to effect change. Candace is a co-editor of If You Ever: Poems Inspired by Kim Addonizio, an anthology with all proceeds going to Keep Our Clinics to support independent abortion clinics. Her first full-length collection features political erasure poems and is currently under development with North Meridian Press. Additional writing can be found on Substack at "Stories I'll Tell My Daughter."
Best of the Net Nominees Annoucement
The Best of the Net recognizes the work of writers published online by independent presses. The project was started in 2006 by Sundress Publications to create a community among the online literary magazines, journals, and self-publishing platforms. The award represents an incredible opportunity for Yellow Arrow to further showcase and support our authors. Our staff is committed to letting our authors shine. Every writer has a story to tell and every story is worth telling.
Information about our nominees from Vignette AMPLIFY is forthcoming.
Thank you to everyone who supports these women and all writers who toil away day after day. Please show them some love in the comments below or on Yellow Arrow’s Facebook or Instagram.
Yellow Arrow Publishing is a nonprofit supporting women writers through publication and access to the literary arts. To learn more about publishing, volunteering, or donating, visit yellowarrowpublishing.com.
Micro Fiction: Craft and Publish
Micro Fiction: Craft and Publish
$28 each session or $70 for all 3 sessions (October-November)
What is micro fiction in the context of a woman's busy and plucky life? In this workshop we will navigate and dissect the 50-word micro fiction/nonfiction art form. Weekly, we will enjoy the quality micro fiction work of other women across culture and identity through a "read, discuss, try it, and prepare for publication" approach. Micro fiction differs from poetry in that it's living prose, but is also related in that it reveals a narrative that is sometimes hard to tell. We will discover how the 50-word piece can pack a punch that is often more effective than longer prose.
There is a market and need for well-written, women-centric micro fiction, and we will unearth it.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/microfiction
When: 6:30 pm-8:00 pm EST
October 29
November 12
When: 10:30 am-12:00 pm EST
November 15
$28/ session or $70 for the 3 session bundle
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Elaina has seen her poetry, essays, and short stories published across dozens of literary journals. She’s also served as Editor in Chief for installment number two of a micro fiction anthology called 50-word Stories of 2023, while also acting as an acquisitions reader for Vine Leaves Press in the genres of memoir and historical fiction. She is also an active member of the Ocean County chapter for NOW: National Organization for Women.
Over the course of the last two years, Elaina has continued to devote her time to a few very important purposes—her favorite being The Toms River Arts Community (TRAC), bringing to fruition one of her final graduate projects that began as a hypothetical. In June 2025, Elaina collaborated with a two Jersey Shore high schools to collect and curate poetry, paintings, and textiles for a Queer Art Exhibition currently displayed in one of the main gallery windows in downtown Toms River. Future art exhibits for TRAC will call upon Elaina’s writing skills for informational panels and object labels. Elaina also served as communications coordinator for the Trans Equity Coalition’s community social calendar in 2024: a grassroots resource for transgender and nonbinary individuals in New Jersey.
Elaina is a writer, teacher, and graduate student. She wrote a short memoir collection of essays and poetry (Italian Bones in the Snow) and a short story collection (Heart and Salt) both published by Vine Leaves Press. She loves ice cream, antiques, dogs, and actively advocating for LGBTQ+ community. She’s a graduate student through CUNY in Museum Studies. Her newest memoir about growing up with sensory dysregulation in the 1980s and 1990s called Chomp, Press, Pull is a full-on immersive encounter. She loves ice cream, antiques, and fabric patterns.
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Writing the Body Politic: Poetry as Personal and Public Voice
Writing the Body Politic: Poetry as Personal and Public Voice
$28 session in November
This generative poetry workshop invites women-identified writers to explore how the body, memory, and personal experience can serve as powerful sites for political expression. Whether grappling with race, gender, religion, migration, or mental health, participants will learn to transform private truths into poems that speak with collective resonance.
Through close readings of contemporary poets, guided discussion, and writing prompts, we’ll explore how to braid the lyric and the political, the intimate and the structural. Emphasis will be placed on poetic strategies—image, repetition, fragmentation, juxtaposition—that allow for emotional complexity and ethical clarity.
Together, we’ll examine the role of the poet as witness, mythmaker, and world-builder. Writers will leave with drafts, craft tools, and a renewed sense of how poetry can carry both personal and communal stakes.
Craft Focus:
Weaving personal experience with sociopolitical insight
Writing poetry with urgency, clarity, and layered identity
Using form, structure, and voice to deepen emotional and cultural resonance
Ethical considerations when writing about trauma, family, and community
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/writingthebodypolitic
When: 6:00 pm-7:30 pm EST
November 6
$28/ session
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Kavitha Rath is a writer based in the Baltimore-DC area whose publications have appeared in Strange Horizons, Mythic Delirium, Papercuts Magazine, and more. She interweaves myth, magic, and mysticism into her poetry and short stories. Kavitha participated in the 2024 Yellow Arrow Writer-in-Residence program. She has lived in a number of other cities, including Atlanta, Chennai, and London.
Poetry is Life Workshop
Poetry is Life
$35 each session or $100 for all 3 sessions (September-November)
In each class we will read and discuss new poets and old favorites who have written gems on our monthly theme. Past themes have included writing about nature, grief, protest, and more. In the class you will write and share new work. You will come away from each session with three or four drafts. Participants will have the opportunity to share work with their cohort and the instructor between sessions.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/2025-poetry-life
When: 11:00 am-1:30 pm EST
September 6, October 4, November 8
You are strongly encouraged to register for the full 3 sessions. However, you are invited to attend one session at a time as you are available.
Cost: $35 each session or $100 for all 3 sessions (September-November)
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Ann Quinn is the poetry editor for Yellow Arrow Journal and conducts writing workshops at The Writer’s Center, for Yellow Arrow, and at writer’s conferences throughout the country. Ann holds an MFA in poetry from Pacific Lutheran University and lives in Catonsville, Maryland with her family. Her award-winning work can be read in Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Little Patuxent Review, Vietnam War Poetry, Haibun Today, and other journals and is included in the anthology Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women. Her chapbook, Final Deployment, is published by Finishing Line Press. Visit her at annquinn.net.
Micro Fiction: Craft and Publish
Micro Fiction: Craft and Publish
$28 each session or $70 for all 3 sessions (October-November)
What is micro fiction in the context of a woman's busy and plucky life? In this workshop we will navigate and dissect the 50-word micro fiction/nonfiction art form. Weekly, we will enjoy the quality micro fiction work of other women across culture and identity through a "read, discuss, try it, and prepare for publication" approach. Micro fiction differs from poetry in that it's living prose, but is also related in that it reveals a narrative that is sometimes hard to tell. We will discover how the 50-word piece can pack a punch that is often more effective than longer prose.
There is a market and need for well-written, women-centric micro fiction, and we will unearth it.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/microfiction
When: 6:30 pm-8:00 pm EST
October 29
November 12
When: 10:30 am-12:00 pm EST
November 15
$28/ session or $70 for the 3 session bundle
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Elaina has seen her poetry, essays, and short stories published across dozens of literary journals. She’s also served as Editor in Chief for installment number two of a micro fiction anthology called 50-word Stories of 2023, while also acting as an acquisitions reader for Vine Leaves Press in the genres of memoir and historical fiction. She is also an active member of the Ocean County chapter for NOW: National Organization for Women.
Over the course of the last two years, Elaina has continued to devote her time to a few very important purposes—her favorite being The Toms River Arts Community (TRAC), bringing to fruition one of her final graduate projects that began as a hypothetical. In June 2025, Elaina collaborated with a two Jersey Shore high schools to collect and curate poetry, paintings, and textiles for a Queer Art Exhibition currently displayed in one of the main gallery windows in downtown Toms River. Future art exhibits for TRAC will call upon Elaina’s writing skills for informational panels and object labels. Elaina also served as communications coordinator for the Trans Equity Coalition’s community social calendar in 2024: a grassroots resource for transgender and nonbinary individuals in New Jersey.
Elaina is a writer, teacher, and graduate student. She wrote a short memoir collection of essays and poetry (Italian Bones in the Snow) and a short story collection (Heart and Salt) both published by Vine Leaves Press. She loves ice cream, antiques, dogs, and actively advocating for LGBTQ+ community. She’s a graduate student through CUNY in Museum Studies. Her newest memoir about growing up with sensory dysregulation in the 1980s and 1990s called Chomp, Press, Pull is a full-on immersive encounter. She loves ice cream, antiques, and fabric patterns.
Micro Fiction: Craft and Publish
Micro Fiction: Craft and Publish
$28 each session or $70 for all 3 sessions (October-November)
What is micro fiction in the context of a woman's busy and plucky life? In this workshop we will navigate and dissect the 50-word micro fiction/nonfiction art form. Weekly, we will enjoy the quality micro fiction work of other women across culture and identity through a "read, discuss, try it, and prepare for publication" approach. Micro fiction differs from poetry in that it's living prose, but is also related in that it reveals a narrative that is sometimes hard to tell. We will discover how the 50-word piece can pack a punch that is often more effective than longer prose.
There is a market and need for well-written, women-centric micro fiction, and we will unearth it.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/microfiction
When: 6:30 pm-8:00 pm EST
October 29
November 12
When: 10:30 am-12:00 pm EST
November 15
$28/ session or $70 for the 3 session bundle
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Elaina has seen her poetry, essays, and short stories published across dozens of literary journals. She’s also served as Editor in Chief for installment number two of a micro fiction anthology called 50-word Stories of 2023, while also acting as an acquisitions reader for Vine Leaves Press in the genres of memoir and historical fiction. She is also an active member of the Ocean County chapter for NOW: National Organization for Women.
Over the course of the last two years, Elaina has continued to devote her time to a few very important purposes—her favorite being The Toms River Arts Community (TRAC), bringing to fruition one of her final graduate projects that began as a hypothetical. In June 2025, Elaina collaborated with a two Jersey Shore high schools to collect and curate poetry, paintings, and textiles for a Queer Art Exhibition currently displayed in one of the main gallery windows in downtown Toms River. Future art exhibits for TRAC will call upon Elaina’s writing skills for informational panels and object labels. Elaina also served as communications coordinator for the Trans Equity Coalition’s community social calendar in 2024: a grassroots resource for transgender and nonbinary individuals in New Jersey.
Elaina is a writer, teacher, and graduate student. She wrote a short memoir collection of essays and poetry (Italian Bones in the Snow) and a short story collection (Heart and Salt) both published by Vine Leaves Press. She loves ice cream, antiques, dogs, and actively advocating for LGBTQ+ community. She’s a graduate student through CUNY in Museum Studies. Her newest memoir about growing up with sensory dysregulation in the 1980s and 1990s called Chomp, Press, Pull is a full-on immersive encounter. She loves ice cream, antiques, and fabric patterns.
Writing Gratitude
Writing Gratitude
$25 for one session in November
Welcome this Thanksgiving season with a grateful and joyful heart. Join Caroline Jennings, for a gratitude journaling workshop. Caroline will begin the workshop by introducing 1-2 poems centrally themed on gratitude, joy, and what it means to give thanks. Discussion will follow. Caroline will then provide a journaling prompt inspired by these themes. You will have quiet time to write and reflect on your own, and then we will come back together as a group to share insights and reset for the season ahead.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/writinggratitude
When: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm EST
November 19
$25/ session
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Caroline R. Jennings spent ten years working in fitness and several more at home raising her two children. She recently found her way back to creative writing. Originally from Texas, Caroline grew up outside of Chicago. She graduated from Yale University in 2007 where she majored in Spanish with a focus in Spanish Literature. She holds a Master’s degree in Rehabilitative Counseling from The University of Texas at Southwestern. She currently lives in Darien, Connecticut with her husband, two children, and Golden Retriever, Rosie. Outside of writing, Caroline spends much of her time volunteering with the Darien Public School system and Fairfield County Swim League, considers her self a fitness junkie, and enjoys traveling, reading, and spending time with family and friends.
The Blaze Beneath: Ecofeminist Inheritance in a Burning World
The Blaze Beneath: Ecofeminist Inheritance in a Burning World
$25 for one session in November
In this workshop, participants will explore the slow, hidden burn of ecofeminist inheritance through vivid imagery and experimental writing techniques. Rooted in tropical and postcolonial landscapes, we’ll examine how women’s bodies, domestic spaces, and environments carry intergenerational tension: the unspoken, the overgrown, the moulding, and the scorched.
Using a mix of poetic and prose-based exercises, participants will engage with atmosphere, sensory language, and structural experimentation to write into the spaces where memory, climate, and matrilineal legacy intersect. Together we’ll investigate what blazes beneath the surface of place and self, and craft work that holds both beauty and unease.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/ecofeminism
When: 2:00 pm-4:00 pm EST
November 22
$25/ session
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Elizabeth M Castillo is a multilingual British-Mauritian poet, writer, and educator, currently reading for the MSt/MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford. She lives in Paris with her family and two cats, where she writes across genres, languages, and pen names, and runs a number of creative and editorial projects.
Her work explores the themes matrescence, ecofeminism, multilingualism, and the tropical gothic, drawing on the many cultures and countries that shaped her. A two-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, her writing has been published in English, Spanish, and French, and featured in journals and anthologies internationally.
Elizabeth is the author of two critically acclaimed poetry collections: Cajoncito: Poems on Love, Loss, y Otras Locuras and Not Quite An Ocean (Nine Pens Press). She teaches regular workshops for indie writers and provides creative mentoring and editorial services.
You can connect with her on social media @emcwritesthings, or via her website: www.elizabethmcastillo.net.
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Get to know our authors, the foundation and heart of Yellow Arrow Journal, and what writing means to them through our monthly series.
New journal author added on the first of every month!
Announcing our 2026 Pushcart Prize Nominees
The Pushcart Prize represents an incredible opportunity for Yellow Arrow to further showcase and support our authors. Our staff is committed to letting our authors shine. Every writer has a story to tell and every story is worth telling. We are so proud of everyone we publish at Yellow Arrow.
Information about our nominees is forthcoming.
Thank you to everyone who supports these women and all writers who toil away day after day. Please show them some love in the comments below or on Yellow Arrow’s Facebook or Instagram.
Yellow Arrow Publishing is a nonprofit supporting women writers through publication and access to the literary arts. To learn more about publishing, volunteering, or donating, visit yellowarrowpublishing.com.
Prerelease of februaries by Michele Evans
Michele Evans is the author of the debut poetry collection purl (Finishing Line Press, 2025), which was nominated for the 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award. She is a fifth-generation Washingtonian (D.C.), writer, teacher, and adviser for Unbound, an award-winning Northern Virginia high school literary magazine. This Watering Hole Fellow studied English at Smith College, King’s College London, and the Graduate School at the University of Maryland. Her poems have appeared in Gargoyle, Mid-Atlantic Review, Porcupine Literary, Spoken Black Girl Magazine, Welter Magazine, Zora’s Den, and elsewhere. She lives online at awordsmithie.com.
Composed over a 10-year period, februaries celebrates the contributions and achievements of Americans often showcased only during Black history month. Inspired by the African American Read-In, an event established in 1990 by the Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the poems in februaries pay homage to literary legends Maya Angelou and Alice Walker alongside lesser-known gems Dr. Joanne V. Gabbin and E. Ethelbert Miller. februaries also draws inspiration from an assembly of established and emerging writers with ties to the DMV (Washington, D.C. area) region. The poems within this chapbook honors the idea that Black history should be “celebrated, appreciated, or narrated” well-beyond the annual 28-day celebration.
Release of februaries by Michele Evans
Michele Evans is the author of the debut poetry collection purl (Finishing Line Press, 2025), which was nominated for the 2025 Maya Angelou Book Award. She is a fifth-generation Washingtonian (D.C.), writer, teacher, and adviser for Unbound, an award-winning Northern Virginia high school literary magazine. This Watering Hole Fellow studied English at Smith College, King’s College London, and the Graduate School at the University of Maryland. Her poems have appeared in Gargoyle, Mid-Atlantic Review, Porcupine Literary, Spoken Black Girl Magazine, Welter Magazine, Zora’s Den, and elsewhere. She lives online at awordsmithie.com.
Composed over a 10-year period, februaries celebrates the contributions and achievements of Americans often showcased only during Black history month. Inspired by the African American Read-In, an event established in 1990 by the Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the poems in februaries pay homage to literary legends Maya Angelou and Alice Walker alongside lesser-known gems Dr. Joanne V. Gabbin and E. Ethelbert Miller. februaries also draws inspiration from an assembly of established and emerging writers with ties to the DMV (Washington, D.C. area) region. The poems within this chapbook honors the idea that Black history should be “celebrated, appreciated, or narrated” well-beyond the annual 28-day celebration.
Burn Bright, Plant Anew: The Tower as a Guide for Revision
Burn Bright, Plant Anew: The Tower as a Guide for Revision
$30 each session or $50 for all 2 sessions (October)
Rooted in the fire of Aries, The Tower guides us in both releasing what we no longer need and reseeding the earth with what can truly serve us going forward. This Major Arcana card is the perfect tool for revision—a guide for the writer in both letting go and planting anew. As we face challenges in incorporating feedback, rethinking character development, and even questioning voice, we can look to the Tower to come home. We can let go of others’ assumptions and embrace the true fiery heart of our story.
This two-session workshop will feature craft study, creation, and revision in partnership with the Tarot, including but not limited to study of the following cards: The Tower, The Fool, and The High Priestess.
This workshop is for:
Writers about to embark on a revision journey
Writers struggling with current revision goals
Writers who are curious about their own drafting and revision process and are seeking new tools
*No previous knowledge of Tarot is necessary. All genres of writers are welcome.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/thetowerrevision
When: 7:00 pm-9:00 pm EST
October 1
October 8
$30/ session or $50 for the 2 session bundle
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
A novelist with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College, Claire Campbell is the founder of Blue Stone Writers. She reads Tarot for writers and seekers all over the world and loves teaching classes that blend artist needs with character quirks. As an avid gardener and Texas Master Naturalist, Claire is always incorporating wild spaces and weird nature into her work.
Poetry is Life Workshop
Poetry is Life
$35 each session or $100 for all 3 sessions (September-November)
In each class we will read and discuss new poets and old favorites who have written gems on our monthly theme. Past themes have included writing about nature, grief, protest, and more. In the class you will write and share new work. You will come away from each session with three or four drafts. Participants will have the opportunity to share work with their cohort and the instructor between sessions.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/2025-poetry-life
When: 11:00 am-1:30 pm EST
September 6, October 4, November 8
You are strongly encouraged to register for the full 3 sessions. However, you are invited to attend one session at a time as you are available.
Cost: $35 each session or $100 for all 3 sessions (September-November)
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Ann Quinn is the poetry editor for Yellow Arrow Journal and conducts writing workshops at The Writer’s Center, for Yellow Arrow, and at writer’s conferences throughout the country. Ann holds an MFA in poetry from Pacific Lutheran University and lives in Catonsville, Maryland with her family. Her award-winning work can be read in Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Little Patuxent Review, Vietnam War Poetry, Haibun Today, and other journals and is included in the anthology Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women. Her chapbook, Final Deployment, is published by Finishing Line Press. Visit her at annquinn.net.
Burn Bright, Plant Anew: The Tower as a Guide for Revision
Burn Bright, Plant Anew: The Tower as a Guide for Revision
$30 each session or $50 for all 2 sessions (October)
Rooted in the fire of Aries, The Tower guides us in both releasing what we no longer need and reseeding the earth with what can truly serve us going forward. This Major Arcana card is the perfect tool for revision—a guide for the writer in both letting go and planting anew. As we face challenges in incorporating feedback, rethinking character development, and even questioning voice, we can look to the Tower to come home. We can let go of others’ assumptions and embrace the true fiery heart of our story.
This two-session workshop will feature craft study, creation, and revision in partnership with the Tarot, including but not limited to study of the following cards: The Tower, The Fool, and The High Priestess.
This workshop is for:
Writers about to embark on a revision journey
Writers struggling with current revision goals
Writers who are curious about their own drafting and revision process and are seeking new tools
*No previous knowledge of Tarot is necessary. All genres of writers are welcome.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/thetowerrevision
When: 7:00 pm-9:00 pm EST
October 1
October 8
$30/ session or $50 for the 2 session bundle
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
A novelist with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College, Claire Campbell is the founder of Blue Stone Writers. She reads Tarot for writers and seekers all over the world and loves teaching classes that blend artist needs with character quirks. As an avid gardener and Texas Master Naturalist, Claire is always incorporating wild spaces and weird nature into her work.
Yellow Arrow Journal .Writers.on.Writing.
Get to know our authors, the foundation and heart of Yellow Arrow Journal, and what writing means to them through our monthly series.
New journal author added on the first of every month!
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Melanie Hyo-In Han - .W.o.W. #77
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Poetry is Life Workshop
Poetry is Life
$35 each session or $100 for all 3 sessions (September-November)
In each class we will read and discuss new poets and old favorites who have written gems on our monthly theme. Past themes have included writing about nature, grief, protest, and more. In the class you will write and share new work. You will come away from each session with three or four drafts. Participants will have the opportunity to share work with their cohort and the instructor between sessions.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/2025-poetry-life
When: 11:00 am-1:30 pm EST
September 6, October 4, November 8
You are strongly encouraged to register for the full 3 sessions. However, you are invited to attend one session at a time as you are available.
Cost: $35 each session or $100 for all 3 sessions (September-November)
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Ann Quinn is the poetry editor for Yellow Arrow Journal and conducts writing workshops at The Writer’s Center, for Yellow Arrow, and at writer’s conferences throughout the country. Ann holds an MFA in poetry from Pacific Lutheran University and lives in Catonsville, Maryland with her family. Her award-winning work can be read in Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Little Patuxent Review, Vietnam War Poetry, Haibun Today, and other journals and is included in the anthology Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women. Her chapbook, Final Deployment, is published by Finishing Line Press. Visit her at annquinn.net.
Yellow Arrow Journal .Writers.on.Writing.
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Sarena Tien - W.o.W. #76
Yellow Arrow Vignette BLAZE release
Yellow Arrow Publishing is delighted to release the next issue in our online series, Yellow Arrow Vignette BLAZE. For our fourth issue we chose the theme of BLAZE, our 2025 yearly value. With that, here is the BLAZE issue of Yellow Arrow Vignette:
yellowarrowpublishing.com/vignette/blaze-2025
yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/vignette-release-follow-spark-ember-blaze-2025
With Vignette BLAZE, we wanted to continue some of the earliest goals of Yellow Arrow: sharing and augmenting the creative work of voices and themes that aren’t heard loudly enough. This summer’s Vignette series is dedicated to emphasizing those women who aren’t often heard enough, and the stories, essays, poems, themes, and topics that are too often missed. And as part of commitment to our roots in Charm City: we wanted to hear from writers who live in or are otherwise connected to our home base of Baltimore.
Learn more about the conception of BLAZE and Yellow Arrow Vignette:
Yellow Arrow Vignette BLAZE 2025 by Vignette Managing Editor Catharine Robertson
BLAZE-ing the Path: The Importance of Yellow Arrow Publishing and Yellow Arrow Vignette by Vignette Intern Sophia Graney
Yellow Arrow Vignette was created by Siobhan McKenna. Through Yellow Arrow Vignette we hope to continue and expand our mission of creating a space where writers who identify as women have a place where their voices are amplified and create ripples of empathy and resilience. We landed on “vignette” because literary vignettes are known to be pieces of writing that depict brief, but highly detailed moments in time. Through the Yellow Arrow Vignette we look forward to sharing vibrant and poignant glimpses into the lives of our writers and hope that these stories, when viewed as a collective, will tell an expansive and inclusive narrative.
If you have any questions, please email them to submissions@yellowarrowpublishing.com.
Yellow Arrow Journal .Writers.on.Writing.
Get to know our authors, the foundation and heart of Yellow Arrow Journal, and what writing means to them through our monthly series.
New journal author added on the first of every month!
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Mandy Shunnarah - .W.o.W. #75
Submissions to Yellow Arrow Journal X/02 are now open
Yellow Arrow Publishing is excited to announce that submissions for our next issue of Yellow Arrow Journal, Vol. X, No. 2 (fall 2025) are open August 1-31, exploring the aftermath and aftereffects of catalytic moments, forged from either small flash fires or conflagration.
yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/yaj-x-02-submissions-open-kairos
The second issue of volume X will reflect on this idea, our (collective/individual) experiences with the blazes, trials, and/or life events that shape both our present and imagined futures as we search for our path(s) forward. This issue’s theme is KAIROS
: a time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action
: an opportune and decisive moment
: in modern Greek, also ‘weather’ or ‘time’
: in ancient Greek, ‘the right or critical moment’
Here are some guiding questions about the topic and theme:
Consider the long-term effects of an event, feeling, or experience. How has it shaped you, your speaker, or your writing as a whole?
Has this impactful experience uncovered something positive?
What is the timeliness of your writing? What is it about now that makes you want to reflect?
When you write, what is it you are looking for? If you’re unsure, search for something.
For more information regarding journal submission guidelines, visit yellowarrowpublishing.com/submissions. Please read our guidelines carefully before submitting. To learn more about our editorial views and how important your voice is in your story, read About the Journal. This issue will be released in November 2025. To learn more about KAIROS’ guest editor, Darah Schillinger, visit yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/become-unbecome-unveil-recover-guest-editor-yaj-x-02-schillinger.
Thank you for supporting independent publishing.
YAJ X/02 Theme Announcement
Yellow Arrow is excited to announce the theme for our next issue.
The Vol. X, No. 2 issue, guest edited by Darah Schillinger (she/her) will explore the aftermath and aftereffects of catalytic moments, forged from either small flash fires or conflagration. It will reflect on our (collective/individual) experiences with the blazes, trials, and/or life events that shape both our present and imagined futures as we search for our path(s) forward.
Darah is a writer based in Lexington Park, Maryland. Her poems have appeared in AVATAR Literary Magazine, Yellow Arrow Journal, Maryland Bards Poetry Review, Empyrean Magazine, Grub Street Magazine, and The Eunoia Review and on the Spillwords Press website. In October 2024, her poem, An elegy for the Pompeii woman the Internet wants to fuck, was named a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her first poetry chapbook, when the daffodils die, was released in July 2022 by Yellow Arrow Publishing. Her second collection, Still Warm, is a work in progress.
To learn more about our submissions guidelines, visit yellowarrowpublishing.com/submissions. Thank you for supporting independent publishing.
Meet the Guest Editor for Yellow Arrow Journal X/02
Yellow Arrow Publishing would like to announce the next guest editor for Yellow Arrow Journal, Darah Schillinger. Darah will oversee the creation of our Vol. X, No. 2 issue (fall 2025).
yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/become-unbecome-unveil-recover-guest-editor-yaj-x-02-schillinger
Darah Schillinger (she/her) is a writer based in Lexington Park, Maryland. Her poems have appeared in AVATAR Literary Magazine, Yellow Arrow Journal, Maryland Bards Poetry Review, Empyrean Magazine, Grub Street Magazine, and The Eunoia Review and on the Spillwords Press website. In October 2024, her poem, An elegy for the Pompeii woman the Internet wants to fuck, was named a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her first poetry chapbook, when the daffodils die, was released in July 2022 by Yellow Arrow Publishing. Her second collection, Still Warm, is a work in progress.
This next issue of Yellow Arrow Journal reflects on the aftermath and aftereffects of catalytic moments, forged from either small flash fires or conflagration. It will reflect on our (collective/individual) experiences with the blazes, trials, and/or life events that shape both our present and imagined futures as we search for our path(s) forward.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS:
Theme announcement: July 21
Submissions open: August 1
Submissions close: August 31
Issue release: November 11
Yellow Arrow Journal .Writers.on.Writing.
Get to know our authors, the foundation and heart of Yellow Arrow Journal, and what writing means to them through our monthly series.
New journal author added on the first of every month!
yellowarrowpublishing.com/writersonwriting
Kalehua Kim - .W.o.W. #74
A Garden of Words: A Yellow Arrow Celebration and Fundraising Event
Please join us on June 28th at 3pm on Good Contrivance Farm for an afternoon of celebration and fun! A Garden of Words celebrates women's storytelling as we blaze the path forward. We will have a fabulous assortment of food catered by Of Love & Regret, drinks from The Wine Collective, live musical performances by SABS and Selena Raj, readings by incredible Yellow Arrow writers, and more!
Grab your tickets here.
Poetry & Prose in the Park
Join us for a free community event for creatives! Poetry & Prose in the Park, hosted by Yellow Arrow Publishing, is a space for creatives to gather in one of Baltimore’s public parks to connect with other creatives and share in a creative exercise. Led by Kerry Graham & Annie Marhefka, creatives will have the opportunity to share about their creative goals, respond to a writing prompt, and share their reflections (or words) with the group.
For our June 22 session, meet us at 10:00 am at Patterson Park. Look for the yellow blanket near the Observatory!
Bring something to write with/on, and if you’d like, a coffee, tea, or snack item for nourishment while you write.
Flourishing Together: A Reading from UNFURL
On June 11 at 7pm, join us to celebrate the newest issue of Yellow Arrow Journal, UNFURL, guest edited by Sara J. Streeter, in a virtual reading event!
We’ll hear pieces from the publication read aloud by the writers, and hear about their inspirations and connections to UNFURL. This event will take place on Zoom.
Consisting of works only published by women-identifying writers, UNFURL, Vol. X, No. 1, is a soul-searching survey of the unique journeys people take when experiencing and undergoing self-transformation, journeys that all start with a little fire, a desire, deep inside.
Hope you can celebrate with us!
When: June 11, 7pm
Where: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87154785191
Want to purchase the journal before the event? You can do so here: https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/p/yellow-arrow-journal-unfurl-paperback
Chapbook submissions open June 1 to 30
From June 1 to 30, 2025, Yellow Arrow Publishing will accept submissions of poetry, creative nonfiction, and hybrid chapbooks by authors who identify as women from around the world. For more information, see yellowarrowpublishing.com/cbsubmissions. You will be asked to submit through the YAP Chapbook Submissions Form.
Please note that as a small press we produce a limited number of publications each year. We pour our hearts and souls into each submission and each Yellow Arrow publication and thank everyone for their interest and inquiries.
Learn more about our guidelines and check out our FAQs at yellowarrowpublishing.com/cbsubmissions. Please read the guidelines completely before submitting.
Yellow Arrow Journal .Writers.on.Writing.
Get to know our authors, the foundation and heart of Yellow Arrow Journal, and what writing means to them through our monthly series.
New journal author added on the first of every month!
yellowarrowpublishing.com/writersonwriting
Majiq Vu Mai - W.o.W. #73
Release of YAJ Vol. X/01
UNFURL, Yellow Arrow Journal Vol. X, No. 1 issue (spring 2025), guest edited by Sara J. Streeter, is now available as a paperback and a PDF from the Yellow Arrow bookstore. You can also find UNFURL through most online distributors.
yellowarrowpublishing.com/news/yaj-unfurl-release-self-reflection
UNFURL is a soul-searching survey of the unique journeys people take when experiencing and undergoing self-transformation, journeys that all start with a little fire, a desire, deep inside. The cover of UNFURL had its own journey to creation from choosing one to feature among the incredible submissions we received to unfortunately not hearing back from the artist, and finally and happily, to finding the perfect voice for the issue’s cover in Yellow Arrow’s Creative Director Alexa Laharty. According to Alexa, “My intention with the piece was to portray the joyous emotions that accompany a release from the constraints of worry and anxiety.” The guest editor of UNFURL, Sara J. Streeter, adds, “Alexa brilliantly showcases the cover woman’s unfurling sense of joy and freedom through her expression and stance.” Thank you, Alexa and Sara, for your incredible vision.
Get your copy today at yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/yellow-arrow-journal-unfurl-paperback.
Writing Ecopoetry
Writing Ecopoetry
$25 each session or $80 for all 4 sessions (March-May)
The natural world has inspired poets throughout history, as nature sustains and renews human beings. Today many poets recognize the need to rethink how we respect and protect non-human life as well.
In this workshop, participants will read and discuss poetry that spans a wide range of relationships between people and the rest of the natural world from anthologies such as Poet Laureate Ada Limon’s 2024 You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, Camille Dungy’s Black Nature, and Bradfield, Furhman & Sheffield’s Cascadia Field Guide.
Each class will include breakout rooms to share and discuss poems drafted from the models in the previous class.
At the final session, participants will have the opportunity to present and discuss one of their poems with the full group.
This workshop is appropriate for poets at all stages of their writing lives.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/writingecopoetry2025
When: 7:00 pm-8:30 pm EST
March 5 & 26, April 16, & May 7
$25/ session or $80 for the 4 session bundle
You are strongly encouraged to register for the full 4 sessions as each session will build on the next.
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Joanne Durham is the author of To Drink from a Wider Bowl, winner of the Sinclair Poetry Prize (Evening Street Press 2022), and the chapbook, On Shifting Shoals (Kelsay Books 2023). Among her many awards are Third Wednesday Magazine's Annual Poetry Contest, the Mary Ruffin Poole Prize, and three Pushcart nominations. Her ecopoetry appears in Banyan Review, Poets for Science - The Nature of Our Times, Snapdragon, Feral, Kakalak and other journals. A former public school educator and adjunct professor, she has taught poetry with children and adults over many years. Visit her at https://www.joannedurham.com.
Prerelease of YAJ UNFURL X/01
It’s official! Here is the cover of Yellow Arrow Journal’s issue on UNFURL (Vol. X, No. 1), guest edited by Sara J. Streeter. The issue will be released on May 20. Reserve your copy today.
yellowarrowpublishing.com/store/yellow-arrow-journal-unfurl-paperback
UNFURL is a soul-searching survey of the unique journeys people take when experiencing and undergoing self-transformation, journeys that all start with a little fire, a desire, deep inside. The cover of UNFURL had its own journey to creation from choosing one to feature among the incredible submissions we received to unfortunately not hearing back from the artist, and finally and happily, to finding the perfect voice for the issue’s cover in Yellow Arrow’s Creative Director Alexa Laharty. According to Alexa, “My intention with the piece was to portray the joyous emotions that accompany a release from the constraints of worry and anxiety.” The guest editor of UNFURL, Sara J. Streeter, adds, “Alexa brilliantly showcases the cover woman’s unfurling sense of joy and freedom through her expression and stance.” Thank you, Alexa and Sara, for your incredible vision.
Poetry is Life Workshop
Poetry is Life
$35 each session or $180 for all 6 sessions (January-June)
In each class we will read and discuss new poets and old favorites who have written gems on our monthly theme. Past themes have included writing about nature, grief, protest, and more. In the class you will write and share new work. You will come away from each session with three or four drafts. Those who commit to the full six sessions will receive the added benefit of an extra workshop session for 30 minutes after the class, to have a new poem workshopped each month. Participants will also have the opportunity to share work with their cohort and the instructor between sessions.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/2025-poetry-life
When: 11:00 am-1:00 pm (1:30 pm for full-time students) EST
January 4, February 1, March 1, April 5, May 3, June 7
You are strongly encouraged to register for the full 6 sessions which provides an extra workshop session for 30 minutes after the class. However, you are invited to attend one session at a time as you are available.
Cost: $35 each session or $180 for all 6 sessions (January-June)
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Ann Quinn is the poetry editor for Yellow Arrow Journal and conducts writing workshops at The Writer’s Center, for Yellow Arrow, and at writer’s conferences throughout the country. Ann holds an MFA in poetry from Pacific Lutheran University and lives in Catonsville, Maryland with her family. Her award-winning work can be read in Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Little Patuxent Review, Vietnam War Poetry, Haibun Today, and other journals and is included in the anthology Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women. Her chapbook, Final Deployment, is published by Finishing Line Press. Visit her at annquinn.net.
Yellow Arrow Journal .Writers.on.Writing.
Get to know our authors, the foundation and heart of Yellow Arrow Journal, and what writing means to them through our monthly series.
New journal author added on the first of every month!
Poetics of Loving
Poetics of Loving
$25 each session or $60 for all 3 sessions in April
In this workshop, you will explore poetry through the words of women and femmes across age, class, race, ethnicity, ability, nationality, religion, and orientation. All the works explored will be centered on divine, platonic, or romantic love. They will reflect on love in relation to the self and love in relation to the other. Participants will examine at least nine poems. Throughout, participants will individually and collectively write at least three poems.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/poetics-of-loving-2025
When: 7:00 pm-8:00 pm EST
April 3, 10, & 24
$25/session or $60 for 3 session bundle
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Tramaine Suubi is a multilingual writer from Kampala. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her forthcoming debut is a full-length poetry collection titled "phases," which will be published in January 2025. Her forthcoming second book is also a full-length poetry collection titled "stages," which will be published in January 2026. Both books will be published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins.
The Literary Therapist
The Literary Therapist: A Creative Writer’s Guide to Therapy
$25 each session or $60 for all 3 sessions (March-May)
Graham Greene said in “Way of Escape,” that “Writing is a form of therapy.”
This workshop invites participants to begin the cathartic and therapeutic process of putting pen to paper. If you enjoy writing and reading and are looking for an opportunity to steady yourself in the chaos of your day to day, then this workshop is for you.
Participants should be open to personal growth, insight, exploration, and healing. Each session will begin with a prompt from a female writer, (a poem, quote, or excerpt from a short story), and then participants will have the opportunity to write, journal, and reflect. They will be encouraged to identify and challenge, through their writing, negative thought patterns in order to better process patterns of grief and loss, and begin the art of self-healing. The final few minutes of class will allow everyone to come together as a group and share their writing if they wish. The group will practice reflective listening in order to create an environment built upon empathy, acceptance, and mutual trust.
In between sessions, writers are encouraged to journal 20 minutes per day as research suggests that the daily practice of journaling lowers depression and anxiety, fosters long-term health benefits, and allows individuals to better process grief and loss.
Some topics that will be discussed in this workshop include marriage, motherhood, aging, infidelity, grief, trauma, loss, and friendship.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/theliterarytherapist2025
When: 11:00 am-12:00 pm EST
March 12, April 23, May 21
$25/ session or $60 for the 3 session bundle
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Caroline R. Jennings spent ten years working in fitness and several more at home raising her two children. She recently found her way back to creative writing. Originally from Texas, Caroline grew up outside of Chicago. She graduated from Yale University in 2007 where she majored in Spanish with a focus in Spanish Literature. She holds a Master’s degree in Rehabilitative Counseling from The University of Texas at Southwestern. She currently lives in Darien, Connecticut with her husband, two children, and Golden Retriever, Rosie. Outside of writing, Caroline spends much of her time volunteering with the Darien Public School system and Fairfield County Swim League, considers her self a fitness junkie, and enjoys traveling, reading, and spending time with family and friends.
Writing Ecopoetry
Writing Ecopoetry
$25 each session or $80 for all 4 sessions (March-May)
The natural world has inspired poets throughout history, as nature sustains and renews human beings. Today many poets recognize the need to rethink how we respect and protect non-human life as well.
In this workshop, participants will read and discuss poetry that spans a wide range of relationships between people and the rest of the natural world from anthologies such as Poet Laureate Ada Limon’s 2024 You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World, Camille Dungy’s Black Nature, and Bradfield, Furhman & Sheffield’s Cascadia Field Guide.
Each class will include breakout rooms to share and discuss poems drafted from the models in the previous class.
At the final session, participants will have the opportunity to present and discuss one of their poems with the full group.
This workshop is appropriate for poets at all stages of their writing lives.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/writingecopoetry2025
When: 7:00 pm-8:30 pm EST
March 5 & 26, April 16, & May 7
$25/ session or $80 for the 4 session bundle
You are strongly encouraged to register for the full 4 sessions as each session will build on the next.
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Joanne Durham is the author of To Drink from a Wider Bowl, winner of the Sinclair Poetry Prize (Evening Street Press 2022), and the chapbook, On Shifting Shoals (Kelsay Books 2023). Among her many awards are Third Wednesday Magazine's Annual Poetry Contest, the Mary Ruffin Poole Prize, and three Pushcart nominations. Her ecopoetry appears in Banyan Review, Poets for Science - The Nature of Our Times, Snapdragon, Feral, Kakalak and other journals. A former public school educator and adjunct professor, she has taught poetry with children and adults over many years. Visit her at https://www.joannedurham.com.
Poetry is Life Workshop
Poetry is Life
$35 each session or $180 for all 6 sessions (January-June)
In each class we will read and discuss new poets and old favorites who have written gems on our monthly theme. Past themes have included writing about nature, grief, protest, and more. In the class you will write and share new work. You will come away from each session with three or four drafts. Those who commit to the full six sessions will receive the added benefit of an extra workshop session for 30 minutes after the class, to have a new poem workshopped each month. Participants will also have the opportunity to share work with their cohort and the instructor between sessions.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/2025-poetry-life
When: 11:00 am-1:00 pm (1:30 pm for full-time students) EST
January 4, February 1, March 1, April 12*, May 3, June 7
You are strongly encouraged to register for the full 6 sessions which provides an extra workshop session for 30 minutes after the class. However, you are invited to attend one session at a time as you are available.
Cost: $35 each session or $180 for all 6 sessions (January-June)
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Ann Quinn is the poetry editor for Yellow Arrow Journal and conducts writing workshops at The Writer’s Center, for Yellow Arrow, and at writer’s conferences throughout the country. Ann holds an MFA in poetry from Pacific Lutheran University and lives in Catonsville, Maryland with her family. Her award-winning work can be read in Poet Lore, Potomac Review, Little Patuxent Review, Vietnam War Poetry, Haibun Today, and other journals and is included in the anthology Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women. Her chapbook, Final Deployment, is published by Finishing Line Press. Visit her at annquinn.net.