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Crafting Flawless Figurative Language
Figurative language isn’t just a tool; it’s the heartbeat of writing—the quickest way to bridge the gap between writer and reader, idea and impact.
Figurative language creates crackling tension and emotional resonance, and allows the reader to experience the richness of each world. This workshop will break down the fundamentals and show you how to craft fierce and flawless figurative language that does the heavy lifting for you.
Workshop Takeaways
Learn the vital ingredients for metaphor, sensory detail, personification, and hyperbole, including how and when to use each effectively
Understand the balance between the literal and figurative and how one informs, deepens, and complicates the other
Learn what makes figurative language impactful and how to make yours linger long after the reader has left the page
Take your figurative language from bland to brilliant with revision exercises that infuse sharpness and surprise
This workshop begin’s on August 4, 2025. Paid subscribers will receive full access to this and all of our workshops for $10/mo
How It Works
Kelly will publish a new lesson every Monday in August. If you're subscribed, they'll be sent directly to your email. Our workshops are self-paced, so you can take them anytime that works for you.
In the comment section of each lesson, writers taking the workshop do assigned exercises, swap feedback, and engage with each other.
At the end of the month, this workshop will be added to our collection, and a new instructor will take over to teach something else!
About The Instructor
Kelly Grace Thomas is a poet, writer, coach, and an ocean-obsessed Aries from Jersey. She is the author of Future Tense (forthcoming from Alice James Books, 2026) and Boat Burned (YesYes Books, 2020). She is the winner of the Jane Underwood Poetry Prize and the Neil Postman Award for Metaphor. Kelly’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: The Sun, The Adroit Journal, 32 Poems, Los Angeles Review, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. Kelly has received fellowships from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and Kenyon Review Young Writers’ Workshop. Kelly is also the co-author of poetry curriculums Voices in Verse: Poetry, Identity, and Ethnic Studies; Stanzas of America: Celebrating BIPOC Poetry; and Words Ignite: Explore, Write, and Perform Classic and Spoken Word Poetry (Get Lit), which are currently taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Kelly was a Blackburn Fellow in the Randolph College MFA program. She lives in Benicia, California, where she coaches poetry online. She is currently working on her first novel. www.kellygracethomas.com