The Sealey Challenge: A Mid-Month Jump-Start

The Sealey Challenge, started by poet Nicole Sealey, challenges readers to read one collection of poetry every day through the month of August.

If you’re anything like us, you’ve started this challenge before, fully convinced that you would finish the month without missing a day. But, like us, you may have hit a wall mid-month (or so), not just with finishing a collection every day, but with honoring your own creative space when you’re spending so much time reading the work of others.

That’s what this offering is all about: join us in mid-August to reflect on what you’ve read so far and to cull writing prompts and other insights from the collections you’re reading. We’ll spend part of our time together sharing our experiences of The Sealey Challenge (favorite collections, tips for completing, etc), then move into provided ideas for writing prompts. The instructor will bring prompts and other aides, but we’ll also open up discussion so we can all learn from each other.