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Offering literature & creative writing classes outside of academia since 2019.
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A carosel of slides with the following text by slide: 1. pile of poems to manuscript Instructor: Zoe Tuck Location: Zoom Wednesdays 6-8pm July 1, 8, 15, 22 2. “You cannot write a single line w/out a cosmology a cosmogony laid out, before all eyes” —Diane di Prima, “Rant” In which we will explore the concept of ORDER as it pertains to the arranging and selecting of poems for a manuscript, with a special emphasis on how other art forms approach form, such as... 3. “If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. ” —Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, translated by Maria Jolas ...architecture, which invites us to ask: what is the organizing logic of a house? What might poetry learn from this blueprint? 4. “An album is more than a container for songs...It shapes how meaning travels: the order of tracks, the space between them, the cover image, credits, and the listening environment all guide interpretation.” —Richard Varey ...music, through which we’ll consider what album and playlist sequencing have to teach writers about organizing our work. 5. ...and other forms, such as film, dance, with attention to aleatory (chance-based) and magical compositional strategies. And of course, we will attend to the poetry book qua poetry book! Each slide bears the Threshold Academy logo (with the name handwritten, the first word above the last with a horizontal line between them). The first slide has a drawing of an alembic. The backgrounds of the next few slides have images in the background that allude to their content. Respectively, a map of the cosmos, a house, a vinyl LP, and then an alembic again. The last slide has a photo of Zoe Tuck, taken by Miriam Saperstein. by @threshold.academy
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4 week class starts 6/3! Early bird price: $100 until 5/15, $125 after 5/15. Pile of Poems to Manuscript is a class for anyone who has been writing poems but is struggling to turn them into a manuscript. Over the course of four weeks, we’ll look at various organizing principles and techniques that authors and other artists have used and apply them to our own work. We will engage in a series of exercises involving arranging, adding, and removing poems, and editing work not only with an eye towards a single piece but its role within a larger whole. We will also talk about why we create and publish books and work on tailoring our plans for publication and circulation to the scale and audience we want. About the instructor: Zoe Tuck was born in Texas, became a person in California, and now lives in Western Massachusetts. Founder of Threshold Academy, she also is a poet, teacher, and book worker. Zoe is the author of the poetry books Bedroom Vowel and Pussy Studies (forthcoming). She is currently working on a book about the cultivation of reading as a spiritual and liberatory practice. by @threshold.academy
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Announcing: Journalism for Fiction & Other Forms taught by Sierra Dickey on zoom 7-8:30pm et, Mondays 2/16-3/23. Threshold-academy.com by @threshold.academy
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WHALE FALL Communal rituals to metabolize the past year and nourish what we want to grow in the new. poetry divination creative prompts being read to Sunday, January 11, 1-3 IN PERSON Cost? Sliding scale $100-180. Limited number of spots available at a lower sliding scale, please specify on your registration if requesting this option. Where? Register for address Access Info —Two flights of stairs at entrance. —KN-95 or similar masks required except if you need to take medicine/drink water. Air filters will be on. Please stay home if exposed to those who are feeling ill, or if you are having symptoms of illness. —Soft lighting, lots of seating options, stimming and moving around encouraged. —Supplies will be provided. For access requests, please reach out to Miriam at miriamsaperstein@gmail.com Who? For artists, healers, deep feelers, and anyone needing creative nourishment for the year to come. Led by: Zoe Tuck—local poet, teacher, and founder of Threshold Academy. Miriam Saperstein—a poet and visual artist, stewarding Jewish incantational rituals and tending to the ecological web we are all part of. taken in Northampton, Massachusetts by @threshold.academy
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WHALE FALL Communal rituals to metabolize the past year and nourish what we want to grow in the new. poetry divination creative prompts being read to Monday, December 29, 2-4 ET ONLINE Cost? Sliding scale $100-180. Limited number of spots available at a lower sliding scale, please specify on your registration if requesting this option. Where? On Zoom For access requests, please reach out to Miriam at mailto:miriamsaperstein@gmail.com Who? For artists, healers, deep feelers, and anyone needing creative nourishment for the year to come. Led by: Zoe Tuck—local poet, teacher, and founder of Threshold Academy. Miriam Saperstein—a poet and visual artist, stewarding Jewish incantational rituals and tending to the ecological web we are all part of. by @threshold.academy
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Journalism for Fiction & Other Forms   a six week class taught by Sierra Dickey   Journalism for Fiction and other forms is a generative writing class applicable to any genre. We will study a few core techniques of journalism (structure, quotes, research, attribution, 3rd person) and experiment with ways they might apply to other less “objective” projects. This class is for anyone who’s ever been curious about writing journalistically and for any poets, fiction writers or essayists who would like to shake up the way they think about their work by applying the lens of another discipline onto it. Infuse your writing with research, quotes, ledes and nuts. Discussion will tilt towards the genre-blurring and technique robbing variety.   Six sessions on zoom  Mondays, 7—8:30pm ET  2/16/2025—3/23/2025  $180  For sliding scale and scholarship spots, please emaildickey.sierra@gmail.com    Alt text: a cloud-shaped unit of newspaper text with writing above and below in the Courier font, reading, “Journalism for Fiction & Other Forms” above and, “Sierra Dickey Zoom 7-8:30pm ET Mondays, 2/16-3/23 threshold-academy.com” below, with the Threshold Academy logo (the words threshold and academy hand-written one above the other with a horizontal line between them) below. by @threshold.academy
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Also coming up: the December iteration of the ongoing trans lit reading group! In December, we’ll be reading selections from (and a bit of classic psychoanlytic writing and contemporary trans writi f about) Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of my Nervous Illness. Soul-voluptuousness! Why God wants me to be a woman! Etc. Graphic for “ONGOING TRANS LIT READING GROUP,” featuring the title of the group and meeting information to the right of a graphic of three books stacked on each other. Text reads, “ONGOING TRANS LIT READING GROUP 1 MONTH 1 TEXT MEETS SUNDAYS 7-8PM ET ON ZOOM FACILITATED BY ZOE TUCK Next session begins: 12/7” Below this is the text, “In December, we’ll be reading selections from (and writing about) Daniel Paul Schreber’s <<Memoirs of my Nervous Illness>>,” next to a graphic of three stacked books.There are green horizontal bands at the top and bottom of the image. The following images are the cover of the above book and two interior pages. by @threshold.academy
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New faculty member just dropped! Look out for Sierra Dickey’s first Threshold class soon! Sierra D. Dickey is a writer, educator, and organizer living in Montague, MA. Their reporting and creative works have been published in Prism Reports, Shadowproof, Talk Poverty, Modern Farmer, Adroit Journal, Barrelhouse, and more. Their piece “Stick in the mud” was the 2025 winner of the Looky Here Magazine short story contest. Sierra’s research interests include queer, material, and third world feminisms, the environmental humanities, and police and prison abolition. Sierra has taught writing and journalism at the Northfield Mount Hermon School, the Community College of Vermont, and more. They are presently at work on an anthology of writings against new women’s prison projects in New England. Gemini sun, Taurus rising. by @threshold.academy
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@bitter_water_babe’s Text and Image class starts Tuesday, 8/5, and it’s going to be good! See you there? #workshop #hybrid #textandimage taken in Ｗｏｒｌｄ Ｗｉｄｅ Ｗｅｂ by @threshold.academy
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LOVE TO PLAY but feeling stuck? Want to get WEIRD in a low stakes creative environment? Get a weekly burst of inspiration, drop in or sign up for the whole series. PLAYING WITH TEXT + IMAGE an online, generative drop-in class Tuesdays in August 1-2 ET on zoom Sign up through @threshold.academy Audio ft poem read by @zoe.tuck [close up and zoomed out shots of a white hand pulling a pink boa out of a tangled mass of blue boa. The boas are on top of an open book.] #generativeworkshop #writingworkshopsonline #ekphrasis #comicspoetry #textandimage #multimediaworkshop taken in ZOOM by @threshold.academy
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Image description: lined notebook page with green and blue text (punctuated by small hearts) “Do you want to close read with fellow nerds? You might consider Ongoing Reading Group facilitated by Zoe Tuck. ‘I decided I would not edit out my somatic conditions, but instead consider them valid as research, ways of reading.’ -Eleni Stecopoulos. Our first book will be Dreaminf in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing by [arrow pointing to Stecopoulos’s name above] August Mondays 1-2pm ET. Zoom. Threshold-academy.com” Get the book from @nightboat_books! by @threshold.academy
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Do you want to be writing more? Take Generative Writing as a Form of Play! August, mondays, 6-830pm in person in Northampton, MA. Sign up at threshold-academy.com or hmu if you need sliding scale. Always NOTAFLOF. by @threshold.academy
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