Coffee & Crafts is a workshop designed to help aspiring authors learn the fundamentals of writing and become best-selling authors. Our experienced team of authors will provide hands-on instruction and advice on everything from crafting engaging characters and captivating plots to finding the right publisher and marketing your work. Attendees will be given the opportunity to attend lectures and participate in guided writing exercises, as well as receive personalized feedback from our authors. This workshop is perfect for those looking to take their writing to the next level and make their dreams of becoming a best-selling author a reality.

Karisma Price’s stunning debut collection is an extended meditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and New York City, these poems braid personal and public histories into a cultural reckoning of past and present. James Booker speaks to Ringo Starr, a phone “Autocorrects ‘N***a’ to Night’,” If Beale Street Could Talk is recast with characters from The Odyssey. In these pages there is grief, there is absence, there is violence—“We know that mostly everything around us / is measured in blood.”—but there is also immense love and truth. Karisma Price has created a serious masterpiece, a book “so dark you have no other option but to call it / precious.”

About Karisma Price

Karisma Price is an assistant professor of English at Tulane University. A poet, screenwriter, and media artist, she is the author of I'm Always So Serious (Sarabande Books, 2023). Her work has appeared in publications including Poetry, Indiana Review, Four Way Review, wildness, and Adroit Journal. She is a Cave Canem Fellow, was a finalist for the 2019 Manchester Poetry Prize, and was awarded the 2020 J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation. A native New Orleanian, she holds an MFA in poetry from New York University, where she was a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow.