Write. Belong. Be Read.
Multi Genre: Lyric and Style
Format
In-person Or Online
Duration
36 Hours, 12 Weeks
Current Cohort
Jan-March 2026
Next Enrolment
April-July 2026
Inperson Schedule
2pm, Saturdays
Online Schedule
10am, Sundays
from idea to publication
About the Multi Genre pathway
What You Will Achieve
- By the end of the pathway, you will produce poems that establish authority through deliberate voice, tonal control, and formal decision rather than expressive impulse.
- You will shape poems that balance image, sound, and reflection, allowing meaning to emerge through pressure, rhythm, and restraint.
- You will articulate poetic intention and cultural positioning, demonstrating how context, form, and audience shape interpretation.
- You will complete a polished creative portfolio of approximately twelve poems, showing coherence across voice, craft, and thematic concern.
- You will participate in selected publication opportunities through the Sahab Collective Journal, producing audience-facing work suitable for submission or further development.
- You will demonstrate the ability to give and receive rigorous poetic feedback, integrating peer insight into revision and contributing meaningfully to communal critique.
Writers
Who the Multi Genre pathway is for
This pathway is designed for adults who wish to develop a sustained poetic practice grounded in attention, craft, and intentional choice. You may already be writing poems that feel intuitive but lack formal control, or you may be exploring poetry for the first time as a way of thinking through experience. This pathway suits writers interested in voice, image, rhythm, and form, including those working across cultural contexts who want to understand how poems position a reader and carry meaning beyond the personal.
You might:
You might:
- have material, images, or impulses that need shaping through line, rhythm, and form rather than raw expression
- want to understand how voice, tone, and poetic stance generate authority and emotional resonance on the page
- be open to poetic craft and theory that clarify intention, selection, and the pressures poems place on a reader
- seek a community that offers attentive, rigorous feedback on precision, coherence, and the responsibilities of writing poems for real audiences
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Aekta Khubchandani
Creative Director, Educator, Writer
About
Award-winning writer and poet. Instructor for poetry, and hybrid work. Loves to consider grief (personal and political) with grace, enjoy silent films and paintings.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need prior study or a writing portfolio to join?
No. Curiosity, discipline and a willingness to be read are central. This programme supports both beginners shaping early pages and experienced writers refining longer manuscripts. You will encounter literary theory in accessible extracts, learning how ideas from thinkers such as Kristeva, Gusdorf or de Mann can refine intention and reader experience. The communal nature of critique means you learn as much from reading others as from having your own pages read. You do not need polished work to begin, only a readiness to draft, listen, revise and pursue clarity in language.
How much time should I expect to commit between seminars?
Weekly seminars provide the foundation for learning, but momentum is sustained between sessions. Most writers spend several hours across the week drafting new material, revising existing pages and completing short reflective prompts that prepare discussion. Reading selections are concise and chosen to sharpen craft, not overwhelm. The developmental meetings toward the end of the pathway provide personalised guidance, ensuring your independent work is purposeful. The expectation is not constant labour, but steady attention. This rhythm builds pages with intention and prevents projects from stalling in isolation.
What kind of feedback will I receive on my work?
Feedback comes through a combination of communal critique, close reading and one-to-one developmental meetings. You will learn to listen for how real readers experience tension, clarity, voice and structural movement. Comments focus on intention rather than taste, and emphasise revision across drafts rather than quick fixes. Communal critique cultivates an editorial eye that becomes transferable to your own pages; what you learn by responding to others often illuminates your own decisions. Developmental meetings guide portfolio cohesion and support the critical commentary, helping you articulate why your narrative choices matter.
Will my work be published?
Selected work from each pathway is published in the Sahab Collective Journal, a curated print and digital publication that brings emerging voices into conversation. Publication is accompanied by a public reading, which shifts your writing from private ambition into communal reception. Your final portfolio may include short stories, memoir fragments or chapters from longer projects, supported by a 2,000-word critical commentary that reflects on cultural positioning and reader response. These outcomes form a tangible artefact for approaching agents, editors and writing competitions, demonstrating disciplined revision and an awareness of audience.
Can I take more than one pathway?
Yes. Pathways may be taken sequentially to deepen craft and extend a manuscript over time. Many writers begin in fiction or nonfiction and later pursue Author’s Craft and Voice, or Genre and Form, to strengthen narrative stance and reader awareness. Because each pathway focuses on different experiential effects of storytelling—psychological interiority, cultural positioning, or structural clarity—returning writers encounter new tools rather than repetition. Continuing within the academy also strengthens community ties, expanding your network of attentive readers and sustaining accountability beyond a single semester.
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