Partnership with James Baker Hall Foundation

Posted on by Christopher McCurry

We are excited to announce that we are partnering with the James Baker Hall Foundation to continue providing opportunities for working writers around the state of Kentucky. Thanks to their generous support we are able to develop an exciting new program called Workhorse Mentors. Each Fall, we will open applications for mentors of young writers to apply for a stipend to facilitate their relationship with a student who is working on a project in conjunction with a writing program, class, or experience. Workhorse and the James Baker Hall Foundation share a vision of writers working and learning from each other as we build and grow community. This collaboration ensures Lexington Poetry Month and Yearling have a stable foundation to continue serving writers in and around Kentucky. To learn more about the James Baker Hall Foundation, visit their website: https://www.jamesbakerhallfoundation.org/

A Community for the Working Writer

Posted on by Christopher McCurry

Workhorse is a community and publishing company. We want to make studying and publishing more accessible to working writers by collaborating with a supportive, diverse, and talented community. 

Currently we are working on the following:

Lexington Poetry Month: a month long celebration of poetry and writing challenge in June @ lexpomo.com

Yearling: A Literary Journal featuring members of our community and writers from all over the world.

We have a small team. Christopher McCurry and Robin Rahija co-founded Workhorse in 2015, originally intending to serve the spectrum of the writing experience. In 2017, Workhorse shifted to focus on the working writer, as Rabbit Catastrophe spilt off to focus on literary publishing. After inheriting Lexington Poetry Month from Accents Publishing, Workhorse published the culminating anthology over ten years. The writing challenge is in its second decade. Workhorse celebrated 5 years of serving readers and writers in 2020. During that time, the press published over a dozen chapbooks by local poets. In 2021, we launched our literary journal, Yearling, edited by Manuel Grimaldi.

If you’d like to help us grow, please consider becoming a Patreon!

https://www.patreon.com/workhorsewriters