The Ultimate Poetry Writing Planner

Write, revise and gather your poems into a collection. The Poetry Writing Planner has 7 sections: ideas, workshop, collection, submissions, edit, pitch & blurb and publish.

Choose your format below. Each format is an instant download, and every format comes with the Recommended Resources for Authors PDF.

• Goodnotes & PDF: 45-page digital planner with clickable tabs, contents and back links; two designs: Classic and the colourful Pop design; printable US Letter versions of both designs.
• Microsoft Word: Editable Word document (.docx) with clickable contents; worked examples showing how each page is used; prints on A4 or US Letter.
• Notion template: Notion template you duplicate into your own workspace; linked dashboard and pages, with built-in databases and tracker tables; works on the free Notion plan, on desktop, tablet and phone.
• Scrivener template: Scrivener 3 project template; the planner's pages set up in the binder, beside your manuscript.
• E-ink edition: Hyperlinked PDF made for e-ink tablets; larger text and high-contrast pages.

What's inside

7 sections, 45 pages in the PDF: Ideas, Workshop, Collection, Submissions, Edit, Pitch & Blurb and Publish.

Draft, revise, read aloud

• Poem idea bank and a word & image hoard
• Forms to Try: tick the ones you've tried and want to try
• Planners for eight poems: central image, turn and ending
• Revision passes, Sound & Line and a writing practice log

Shape a collection

• Collection Concept: your obsessions, voice and shape
• A poem inventory of every finished poem
• Two running order pages so each poem speaks to the next
• Acknowledgements for where poems first appeared

Find your poems readers

• Magazines & journals, with reading windows, fees and rules
• Two submission tracker pages
• Competitions and pamphlet prizes
• Readings & open mics: what you read and how it went

Polish, pitch and publish

• A Poem Checklist to test each poem before you send it out
• A feedback page for workshops, groups and mentors
• Logline, hooks, taglines and a blurb workshop
• Amazon keywords, categories and a cover brief

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