We're very excited to see the start of workshops -- this has been in development for more than a year, and has taken an enormous amount of work to create, coordinate, and launch.

Congratulations to everyone involved -- to Hooded Stranger, who is leading the program; to our AEC members: Race_9togo, crypticbard, Pugilist, scribbler, & Seren; to our first group of workshop leaders: CCFire, China Blue, Eduardo Cruz, Lou, Pamela A. Lamppa, & Weirdelf; to our first group of workshop moderators: Barbara Writes, Bonitaj, candlewitch, Ziggy, Yenti, whitescatter, scribbler; to all our workshop participants, including: Ayaz Warith, Geezer, Geremia, judyanne, Kailashana, kaligantsaros, Lonnie, magics02, Nevel, Poetree, raj, Roscoe Lane, Samaira, Tam the Chanter, themoonman, TheUnknownAuthor, xena465; and finally a second thanks to Nevel, for posting the poem "Too white, too dark, just eggs" which was the very first to get a workshop critique (by CCfire, followed a few hours later by Kailashana and by themoonman), and the first to improve in response (which you can track with the revisions feature!).

The introduction of workshop groups is the biggest change we've made to Neopoet since our initial launch in 2007. It's thrilling to see the first day has gone so well.

Again, a congratulations to everyone! [I've just thanked more people here than Kayne West at an award show so I might just include everyone now...]

Andrew, Paul, & Rett