Misfit Writing workshop with Zach Hively

One of these things is not like the other. We’ll learn to pluck the threads that connect unrelated ideas, in order to mine new depths in our writing. This generative workshop, our most popular offering to date, requires no formal training and strengthens writers of all genres. (We will focus on short poetry in order to gain functional practice in a two-hour course. The skills practice can apply to all forms of creative writing.)

Date: Thursday, April 3, 2025. 6-8 p.m. MDT via Google Meet. Unable to make it live? Registered participants will also receive a link the following day to view the workshop.

Instructor: Zach Hively

Special pricing: $22 per participant. $50 option provides full member access to Zach Hively and Other Mishaps for one year. Assistance available—contact us to request.

Zach Hively lives and writes near Abiquiú, NM. His poetry book Desert Apocrypha (which includes a poem originating in the first Misfit Writing workshop!) earned the Reading the West Book Award for Poetry. He is also the author of the essay collection Call Me Zach Hively Because That Is My Name. His humor column has four times earned first place from the Society of Professional Journalists’ Top of the Rockies awards, and he’s won a Maxwell Medallion from the Dog Writers’ Association of America. He holds a master’s degree in creative writing from Trinity College Dublin. He is a frequent workshop instructor, including the Jimmy Santiago Baca Writers Retreat (June 2025) and the Casa Urraca Press Taos Writers Retreat (August 2025).