It’s that time of year. You are likely making your way through a gauntlet of parties, gift shopping, and cookie baking…while trying to meet at least one or two work deadlines. The contents of your closet are cluttering the room as you try to find the silver curling ribbon and snowflake goody bags that went missing between last year and now. You have to run out to buy your child black dress shoes for the music concert tomorrow, and once you manage to find a parking spot, you discover all the stores are out of the right size. Perhaps you picked up that cold that’s going around. Whether it’s frantic and stressful, or enjoyable chaotic cheer, you may not be getting much writing done right now.
So, I want you to take a quick break with me.
Imagine stepping away from your desk and walking out into the crisp winter air. Maybe you can smell a bit of wood smoke from someone’s fireplace. Ahead, you see the warm glow of string lights and a bustling row of wooden stalls.
Welcome to the Writer’s Holiday Market, where the booths are stocked with possibilities for a year of deepening your writing journey.
I have made a decision to say no to most affiliate marketing opportunities, but this one is so fun that I had to participate. Plus the organizer, Daniel David Wallace, is someone whose work I respect. For this offering (open starting December 18, 2025), a bunch of writing coaches, teachers, and editors have contributed courses, workbooks, and other resources, and you can get all of them for one price. I believe my contribution is the only one for poetry, but if you’re working on a novel in 2026 (or trying to shop one around or market it), this is a great deal, even if you only take advantage of a small fraction of what’s available. Some offers are relevant to memoir and creative non-fiction too, and there are a couple things for people writing YA fiction or children’s books.
Here are the “stalls” that I think are the most enticing:
- Danika Bloom’s Scrappy Rough Draft: Use Science to Strategically Motivate Yourself and Finish Writing Your Book. Offers gentle guidance that honors your real life – not hustle culture that makes you feel worse.
- Lemon Friday’s Sell Your Book (Without Feeling Salesy). Contains templates and real-world examples.
- Rhonda Douglas’s Focused Writer Workshop. Nine lessons to help creative writers focus and reduce overwhelm. Rhonda has been working with writers for years specifically on finishing.
For my own offer, I have combined an ebook version of How to Write a Poem Every Day and my Finding Guideposts for Your Writing package into the Explorer Bundle for Poets and the Poetry-Curious. (Though Finding Guideposts I believe can be helpful for all writers, and there are fiction examples throughout the recorded talk and workbook.) While for simplicity’s sake I’ve left it out of the official market description, I have also included a number of discount codes as a bonus, which can save you $70 or more depending on how many you use and for what offering:
- An extension of the now-ended early-bird pricing for the January 2026 cohort of How to Write a Poem Every Day ($5 off $20 or $30 off $130).
- 50% off a four-part installment of Poetry Revision Lab that I’m offering this spring. We’ll examine the revision practices of three different poets (including one who says he doesn’t revise at all) in service of gaining a better understanding of this practice, and helping us advance our own revision routines. I’m planning on offering a package with all four sessions at $60 full price.
- A 20% off coupon for use with any one-time purchase in the future.
Plus, if you use my link when you purchase your access to the Market, I will give you a free invite to a group discussion of three Emily Dickinson poems that will take place in the first half of 2026 on a weekend day. You’ll receive a link that can automatically apply the discount at checkout. This discussion will be a more-condensed version of the class described here. A recording will be provided. Buying this class on its own will be $15 (use the previous link to leave your email and get a notification when it’s open for registration, without subscribing to my main list).
You can sign up through December 31st. Once you’ve bought your ticket, you’ll then have a few more weeks in January to collect the resources you want. I hope you find something here that brings you a 2026 where you achieve more than you thought you could with your work.