Editors From The Sun, Ploughshares & Okay Donkey on What Makes Them Keep Reading

A one-shot workshop on pacing, voice, and turning good openings into great work

Derek Askey, Rachel Dillon, steve chang, and The Forever Workshop

Mar 11, 2026

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Rachel Dillon

Rachel Dillon's poetry appears in The Slowdown, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, Pleiades, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. A former high school English teacher in NYC public schools, she is Managing Editor of Ploughshares. (rachelmdillon.com)