Intermediate Haiku Course (Longer Course) - Booking now open!

Start Date: 16th January 2025

End Date: 3rd April 2025

Format: Not live (asynchronous). Participants work individually on written assignments and tutor feedback is sent as a group email, for shared learning.

Level: Intermediate haiku writers; haiku improvers; beginners at haiku who are otherwise very experienced in creative writing.

No. of Assignments and Feedback: 4

Group Size: up to 6 (3 places left)

Course Description: This is our longest running course. It is suitable for those with some experience of either creative writing or haiku already, as it is quite advanced and the feedback quite technical, but it's still welcoming and inclusive. Participants submit two haiku poems four times over the course (total 8 poems over two and a half months) and may also add three rewritten poems for final comments during that time. Each session's prompts are accessed online. Feedback is sent by email, with participants reading Alan's commentary on each others' poems as well as their own in a group learning process.

Cost: £190 (approximately US$247)

Early Bird Rate: £180 (approximately US$234) if booked by end of 2nd January 2025

Below the Booking section you can read what previous students have said about this course.

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Intermediate Haiku (Long Course)

190.00 GBP

A place on the Intermediate Haiku (4 Session Course) starting 16th January 2025.

What our students have said about this course...

Thank you again for another helpful class. Esp. liked the chance to share two poems (and revisions, loved revisiting poems after getting feedback).

That also meant reading so many poems by the other participants, also enjoyable and helpful.
David (2024)

As always, when I complete a course with COTP I feel so much richer. It makes me work with more depth and attention to details - structuring and deconstructing. And the feedback for us all is so valuable. I love the encouragement to go for it and still watching the form.
I savoured the reading of everyone's wonderful work and Alan's feedback. Alan your capacity to create gorgeous poems out of the prose explode is infuriating!...
Ella (2024)

I would like to thank Alan, Karen & Alison. I have enjoyed the course material and enjoyed doing the assignments very much. Alan, your encouragement to newer voices across the globe is exemplary and extremely generous.
Rupa (2024)

Many thanks to all - I have thoroughly enjoyed the experience and feel as if I have made some progress. I am looking forward to returning to the my next course in August and will be doing my homework.
Sheila (2024)

Thank you - it's been a helpful and interesting course.
Sue (2024)

I learned a lot, especially about the power of "the". Great fun and educational. I’m looking forward to my next course. I’m learning new ways to enhance the writing of my memoir.
Bob (2023)

Thanks for your suggestion and in depth comments Alan, I have enjoyed this course immensely and learnt some new things and it has reinforced things I had forgotten.
Marilyn (2023)

My sincere thank you to the Call of the Page team. I'm so glad I took this course! Alan's comments, examples, and references are invaluable and motivating. For me, it's been a thought-provoking, productive, and fun course. I look forward to more...
Sherry (2023)

As always, a great course I take regularly that's my key framework for writing haiku, and without which I would be less active and engaged. Thank you Call of the Page team for facilitating my growing skills and learning as a writer. And it's wonderful to read everyone elses poems and creative process, makes a real difference.

Ella (2023)

Thank you Alan, for another enlightening course. Much appreciated. Your format which allows us to read and enjoy each other's work and learn from your comments provides a rich experience for us all.

Leslie (2023)

Thank you to Alan, Karen and certainly Alison for your comprehensive analysis of my haiku. You all make the courses seem personal. I love the opportunity to challenge my mind with creative prompts.

Pat (2023)

The precision of Alan’s feedback and the way he models how to gather the elements of haiku from the prose explode is marvellous. I’m chock full of learning from just the first read through of his comments…so good..time for a cuppa and a second read!
Thanks

Tim (2023)

Thank you for an excellent class with stimulating prompts. I enjoyed reading everyone's work throughout this course.

Leslie (2022)