Shannan Mann - Creative Director of ONLY POEMS and Strange Pilgrims
Workshop Instructor
Shannan Mann is the Creative Director of ONLY POEMS, Nonfiction Editor of Strange Pilgrims, and Executive Editor of Sub Club (the #1 Fiction Substack). Her upcoming poetry collection God Has Nothing To Do With This was a finalist for the 2025 Michael Waters Poetry Prize. Awarded the Emily Morrison Short Story Award, Alta Lind Cook Writing Award, Irene Adler Essay Prize, Peatsmoke Poetry Prize, and Palette Poetry Love & Eros Prize (selected by Carl Phillips), she’s also placed for the Rattle Poetry Prize, Auburn Witness Prize (selected by Joy Harjo), and the Foster Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in Poetry Daily, Black Warrior Review, ARC, Missouri Review, The Offing, Poet Lore, Gulf Coast, The Literary Review of Canada, EPOCH, december, & elsewhere; essays in Tolka Journal and Going Down Swinging. She also translates Sanskrit poetry. Corporeally speaking, she’s an Indian-Canadian-New Zealander.
Workshops by Shannan
The Erotic Poetry Workshop
Everything you need to write top-tier poems about love and sex — from award-winning poet and founding editor of ONLY POEMS Shannan Mann