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Upcoming Events
Welcome to the NY Writers Coalition!
Celebrate 10 years of NYWC by taking a free creative writing workshop! NYWC Day, May 18!
7th Annual NYWC Write-A-Thon! Sunday, June 24
It’s time for the 7th Annual Write-A-Thon!
NYC’S ONLY WRITING MARATHON
Guest Speaker: Ira Glass!
Change what it means to Marathon!
Write your a** off for a great cause!
Reading of the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated
Join NYWC and the Metro NY Prison Librarians for a reading that will showcase a dynamic and stirring line-up of writers. You’ll hear voices from the inside and from all sides of the criminal justice system. Featured readers include NYWC workshop leaders Deborah Clearman, Rita Hickey, Patrick Mathieu, John Maney, and Rebecca McCray.
Friday, May 11, 7:00
Castle Gardens
625 West 140th Street, 11th Floor
Chapbook Launch Reading
Join us to celebrate NYWC’s latest publication, Taking the Prompt, an anthology of poetry and prose by members of NYWC’s workshop at the Creative Center: Arts in Healthcare. This anthology spans human experiences from dealing with trauma to enjoying the small pleasures of everyday life, with strenth, emotional depth, and humor.
A reception will follow the reading.
Monday, April 30, 6:30
University Settlement
184 Eldridge St. (at the corner of Rivington), second floor library
New York, NY
Free!
NYWC’s Carley Moore and Madeleine George Book Launch Party and Reading
Join us to celebrate the publication of 2 Young Adult books by NYWC workshop member Carley Moore and NYWC Workshop Leader Madeleine George!
Moore’s The Stalker Chronicles tells the story of high school sophomore Cammie Bliss who has long been labeled a stalker by her peers. But when a cute new boy named Toby arrives at her small town high school, Cammie has a chance to be “normal.”
George’s The Difference Between You and Me is the story of school outsider Jesse, a lesbian, who is having secret trysts with Emily, the popular student council vice president. When they find themselves on opposite sides of 
a major issue and Jesse becomes more involved with a student activist, they are forced to make a difficult decision.
A wine and cheese reception celebrating these two publications will be held after the readings.
Greenlight Bookstore
Wednesday, April 11
7:30 p.m.
686 Fulton Street
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Write Makes Might Draws a Crowd!
On a recent Saturday afternoon more than seventy people gathered in the Andrew Heiskell Library on West 20th Street in Manhattan to listen with rapt attention to poetry and prose written in NYWC workshops. Nearly forty members of workshops for the formerly incarcerated, survivors of serious illness and disabilities, seniors, LGBT elders and homeless youth, Latino immigrants, among others, read their work. The audience, which ranged in age from five months to ninety-nine years, laughed, clapped, wept at times, sometimes gurgled (the baby). This annual event never fails to move us with the variety and power of the voices we hear.
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