SWEAT, TEARS, OR THE SEA
An online Creative community // 12 workshops for $77 year
Sweat, Tears, or the Sea where YOU CAN explore YOUR whole creative self. Learn to lead a more creative life—using tools and techniques from writing— to feel endlessly inspired & soulfully fed.
The Creative Crossover is also an online writing community that teaches you to express yourself more clearly and intentionally. The writing community is available to all of our paid subscribers.
Free subscribers include:
Occasional prompts and posts
Paid subscriber benefits include:
A monthly workshop for beginning and experienced writers to help you master one aspect of your craft at a time. Replays are available.
Exclusive writing (essays, craft tips, poetry) you cannot find anywhere else to show you how I’m pushing myself to a deeper creative level.
Discounts on 1-to-1 editing and writing coaching opportunities with me
The Creative Crossover also offers an exclusive membership where Kelly can help you clarify your creative vision.
As an exclusive subscriber, you’ll receive:
Access to paid subscriber benefits
One free 30-minute 1-to-1 writing coaching session where we look deeply at your work to examine your strengths, patterns, and unmet potential
Discounts on 4-pack sessions
ABOUT ME: Hi! I’m Kelly, a feral writer, deep feeler, and the author of five books: Boat Burned (YesYes Books); Future Tenses (forthcoming from Alice James Books), Words Ignite: Explore, Perform, Write Classic and Spoken Word Poetry; Voices in Verse: Poetry, Identity, and Ethnic Studies; Stanzas of America: Celebrating BIPOC Poetry. I’m also the winner of the Jane Underwood Poetry Prize and the Neil Postman Award for Metaphor. My poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Best New Poets, 32 Poems, Los Angeles Review, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. I’ve received fellowships from Randolph College, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and Kenyon Review Young Writers’ Workshop. I’m the former Director of Education for Get Lit-Words Ignite, and the craft books and curricula I’ve written are taught in Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest district in the country.
Most importantly, I landed a book deal with my dream publisher before taking a formal workshop. Everything I learned, I learned by teaching myself to read closely and write strategically, by letting my creativity lead, and I can teach you to do the same.My goal is to get you closer to who you want to be and what you need to say.