Lab Partners is The Poetry Lab’s membership program for writers who want to stay connected to a consistent creative practice throughout the year. More than a discount program, Lab Partners is designed to support the long arc of a writing life through accessible workshops, deeper educational opportunities, and an ongoing sense of community.
As a Lab Partner, you’ll receive:
Free enrollment in our monthly BrainTrust generative workshops
Reduced enrollment rates across many of our courses and programs (Enroll as a Member!)
Significant savings on premium offerings like the Feedback Circle
Access to exclusive member communications, opportunities, and announcements
A direct way to stay engaged with The Poetry Lab’s evolving educational ecosystem year-round
Lab Partners is ideal for writers who know they want to keep showing up to the page, whether through monthly workshops, multi-week courses, critique spaces, or independent creative practice.
Membership also directly supports our mission to keep poetry education accessible through sliding-scale programming, financial aid opportunities, and sustainable compensation for teaching artists. There’s no minimum committment. You can cancel anytime.
This is not just a membership. A writing life. 🌿
Why Become a Member Too?
Your course enrollment gives you four weeks of creative momentum. Membership helps you sustain it.
When you become a Lab Partner Member alongside your course registration, you also unlock automatic access to The BrainTrust, our monthly live generative writing workshop built to keep your creative practice active year-round. Each BrainTrust session is a standalone creative experience centered on a unique craft theme, poetic technique, or experimental prompt structure designed to help writers generate fresh work in an energized, low-pressure environment.
In other words: the course gives you depth. Membership gives you continuity.
Many students leave a class energized and inspired, only to struggle maintaining momentum afterward. The BrainTrust helps bridge that gap by giving you a consistent creative space to return to each month alongside a community of serious, curious writers who are actively making new work too.
If you’re already investing in your writing practice through a course, membership helps turn that momentum into an ongoing creative rhythm instead of a one-time experience.
Membership is month-to-month with no long-term commitment, and you can cancel anytime directly through your account settings.
