Celebrate NYC Pride with Writing Aloud, a quarterly reading series created NY Writers Coalition where NYWC workshop leaders and participants share their work alongside award-winning authors, getting previously silenced stories heard by new audiences.
This month will feature prose and poetry from NYWC workshops at SAGE, New Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth, the Ali Forney Center, and other members of the LGBTQ community. Continue reading
Registration for this year’s Fort Greene Park Summer Youth Workshops is about to begin! For six Saturdays, beginning July 13, young writers age 7 to 17 are invited to join NY Writers Coalition in beautiful Fort Greene Park to write in a supportive, creative environment. At the end of the summer each workshop participant will have the opportunity to share their work at NYWC’s 9th Annual Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival, where they’ll read alongside established writers. Past readers include Amiri Baraka, Jennifer Egan, Jhumpa Lahiri, Rick Moody, Gloria Naylor, Sapphire, Sonia Sanchez, Colson Whitehead, and many others.
These workshops are free and open to the public, and we hope you’ll join us for this amazing community writing tradition. Registration opens Monday, June 10, and there are two ways to register: Continue reading
208 West 23rd Street (between 7th & 8th Avenues)
Tuesday, June 4
Doors open @ 7:30 p.m.
SHOWTIME @ 8:00 p.m.
NYWC provides free writing workshops inside New York City’s prisons and jails, including three workshops for men and women inside Rikers Island Jail and workshops for hundreds of recently released youth and adults as they work to rebuild their lives. Support NYWC’s Justice Writing Program — and have a few laughs! FEATURING: Host Angelo Lozada, Eddie Brill, Shaina Feinberg, Mark Normand, Mike Vecchione, and Rena Zager!
General Admission: $20 + 2 drink minimum
VIP Admission: $100, includes top shelf open bar and preferred seating
MAKE RESERVATIONS HERE.
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PLUS! Take a peek into NYWC’s Justice Writing Program.
Beginning May 31, download your free e-book of 7Upper: Writing from Rikers Island through the Fortune Society here. Enjoy!
NY Writers Coalition has helped unheard voices be heard for over ten years now by way of our city-wide workshops, reading events, and NY Writers Coalition Press publications. This year, we’re happy to dip our toes into another golden pond with our first film, Voices of NY Writers Coalition.
Here, a few of NYWC’s dedicated workshop leaders and participants discuss the work, share their writing, and remind us of the importance of bringing voice to the voiceless in New York City.
Special thanks to Louise Crawford, Erick Fix, and Marian Fontana for their hard work in making this video happen, as well as to all the writers and workshop leaders who appeared in the film. Enjoy!
NYWC is proud to present Michael Cirelli, Angel Nafis, and Jon Sands: three poets who inspire us. We love them for their poetic bravery and innovation, their dedication to community and honest dialogue, and just being damn fine human beings! Join us on Saturday, May 18 at Urban Folk Gallery (101 Smith Street, Brooklyn) for the third leg of BKLYN LitCrawl 2013.
Hosted by NYWC Executive Director Aaron Zimmerman. Poets hit the stage at 7:15 p.m. Continue reading
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