Buy a ticket. Get an incredible work of art. Support free creative writing workshops.

NYWC’s Art Riot is an exhibition of donated artwork from renowned artists—with a twist! You’ll get to explore the creative vision of artists in New York City, participate in a fundraiser that champions the written word as a form of art, and leave with a fantastic piece of art for just $300. All proceeds from the raffle will directly support NY Writers Coalition’s free creative writing workshops, anthologies, and readings across the city.

How It Works

You will receive a random number upon arrival at Chinatown Soup. That will determine who picks a piece of art first, second, and so on. All of the art is worth at least $300 (and some much more), so you are guaranteed to win, no matter what your number is.

The artwork will be wrapped at the end of the night for recipients to take home. (Buyers must be prepared to leave with their purchase. At the moment, the largest artwork measures 30″x 22″.)

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; the raffle begins at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets

Space is limited, so purchase your tickets as soon as possible! A minimum of 25 and a maximum of 30 pieces will be raffled off,

CLICK HERE to look at donated works of art

Ticket Options

• Art Buyer ($300): Includes entry for one person, one artwork, refreshments, and an NYWC chapbook
• Art Buyer + Guest ($325): Includes entry for two people, one artwork, refreshments, and one NYWC chapbook per guest

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When: Monday, June 24th from 6:30 – 9:00 PM

Where: Chinatown Soup (16 Orchard St between Canal & Hester)

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Join us as we come together and Write Aloud

Created by NY Writers Coalition in 2003, our Writing Aloud Reading Series is a free event that unites NYWC’s community of writers and activists with prominent literary figures to share prose, poetry, and other writings in safe and inspiring places. Here’s how it works:

1. Listen and watch a performance by this June’s special guest writer, Phillip B. Williams!
2. Receive a writing prompt from our guest writer.
3. WRITE.
4. Hit the mic!–if you want to. Feel free to just sit back and listen, too!

Thursday, June 27 at 5:45 PM at Queens Library at Broadway (40-20 Broadway)

This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome to write and share in this safe space. Click here to share the event on facebook & invite others.

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Phillip B. Williams

Phillip B. Williams is a Chicago, IL native and author of Thief in the Interior, winner of the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a 2017 Lambda Literary award. He received a 2017 Whiting Award and 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. Phillip is the co-editor in chief of the online journal Vinyl and currently teaches at Bennington College.

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This event is FREE, wheelchair accessible and open to the public. All are welcome to write and share in this safe space. It will take place Thursday, June 27th from 5:45 – 7:45 PM at the Broadway Branch of Queens Library (40-20 Broadway)

NYWC’s Fort Greene Summer Youth Program is back, and now in its 15th year! It’s a fun, six-week series of Saturday morning creative writing workshops for kids and teens around New York City. The workshops serve children 6 to 12 years old and teenagers in separate, dynamic and innovative writing groups designed to create a safe space for young writers to explore their imaginations and dive into different genres of writing. There is also a creative writing workshop for parents/guardians, all while the kids and teens are writing nearby.

The following Sunday, August 25th, after the final writing workshop we will hold our 15th Annual Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival (LitFest). It will take place this year at Roulette. The festival is our culmination event, where we celebrate the writing produced throughout the summer. The kids and teens from the program will take the mic and read alongside some well-known and up-and-coming writers. 

The Summer Youth Program and Literary Festival provides a means for self-expression and creativity for the youth while increasing the accessibility to the Arts and Literature for all. We hope you and the young writers in your life will join us for this annual Brooklyn literary tradition. Find out even more HERE.

Workshops will take place Saturdays at 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM in Fort Greene Park.

Here are the following workshop dates:

• July 13th
• July 20th
• July 27st
• August 3rd
• August 10th
• August 17th
• August 25th — FORT GREENE PARK SUMMER LITERARY FESTIVAL 2019

REGISTER NOW!

*NOTE: There is a $25 registration fee per child. Email us at info@nywriterscoalition.org regarding any questions.

NYWC’s Fort Greene Summer Youth Program is now in it’s 15th year! It’s a fun, six-week series of Saturday morning creative writing workshops for kids and teens around New York City. The workshops serve 6-12 year olds and teenagers in separate, dynamic and innovative writing groups designed to create a safe space for young writers to explore their imaginations and dive into different genres of writing. There is also a creative writing workshop for parents/guardians-all while the kids and teens are nearby writing.

The following Sunday after the final writing workshop we will hold our 15th Annual Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival (LitFest). It will take place this year at Roulette. The festival is our culmination event, where we celebrate the writing produced throughout the summer. The kids and teens from the program will take the mic and read alongside some well-known and up-and-coming writers. 

The Summer Youth Program and Literary Festival provides a means for self-expression and creativity for the youth while increasing the accessibility to the Arts and Literature for all. We hope you and the young writers in your life will join us for this annual Brooklyn literary tradition. Find out even more HERE.

Workshops will take place Saturdays at 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM in Fort Greene Park.

Here are the following workshop dates:

• July 13th
• July 20th
• July 27st
• August 3rd
• August 10th
• August 17th
• August 25th — FORT GREENE PARK SUMMER LITERARY FESTIVAL 2019

Registration will start this June … Stay tuned!

This month we celebrated our latest book launch, The Stars are Finally Yours: Writing from the students at Brooklyn East Collegiate Middle School. The chapbook features poetry and prose from 14 young writers.

We want to take a moment to thank all the kids who read at the book launch, your pieces were thought-provoking and hilarious at times. Also, a big thank you to our workshop leader Shanté Cozier for being such a dedicated workshop leader and really highlighting the talent with words these kids have with such inspiring prompts.

If you would like to order a copy directly from us, contact us at info@nywriterscoalition.org . By ordering directly from us all proceeds will go towards our creative writing workshops, chapbooks and readings such as this one. You can also order a copy from Amazon as well or read it online by clicking here.

This month we celebrated our latest book launch, The Baggage Carriers: Writing from the Center for Independence of the Disabled, New York. The chapbook features poetry and prose from 13 workshop participants. 

We want to take a moment to thank all who read at the book launch, your pieces were moving powerful and at times very humorous. Also, a big thank you to workshop leader Avra Wing. Avra has been leading the workshop at CIDNY for over 10 years, dedicating her time to bringing this community of writers together. To see more photos from the event, click here.

If you would like to order a copy directly from us, contact us at info@nywriterscoalition.org . By ordering directly from us all proceeds will go towards our creative writing workshops throughout the city, including our workshop at CIDNY. You can also order a copy from Amazon, by clicking here. Click here to read the book online for free.

Just a reminder we have various writing workshops happening every week (or every other week) throughout the city that are free and open to the public. Click here if you are interested in attending one. We hope to see you there with something to write with in tow. You never know, you just might see your name and work in our next chapbook!

We’re partnering up with Apogee Journal, and with the generous support of the Brooklyn Arts Council, to bring you one digital and eight craft-based writing and editing workshops in our conference room at 80 Hanson Pl, Brooklyn: Writing Resistance 3.0: Make Space for the Margins. The workshops will be led by Apogee contributors and community members: sára abdullah, Jennifer Baker, Jennifer Bartlett, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Crystal Hana Kim, Urayoán Noel, Raquel Salas Rivera, Aracelis Girmay, Ivelisse Rodriguez. Staying true to Apogee’s mission of creating accessible and socially-engaged programming, these workshops are affordable, inclusive and attentive to the ways identity informs reading and writing practices.

SCHEDULE OF CLASSES

• Saturday 4/20, 3:00 – 4:00 pm: Ivelisse Rodriguez (Writing with Fear)
• Tuesday 5/7, 7:00 – 9:00 pm: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (Procedures and Retellings)
• Tuesday 5/14, 7:00 – 9:00 pm: Urayoán Noel (Transversal Poetics)
• Tuesday 5/21, 7:00 – 9:00 pm: Raquel Salas Rivera (Decoloniality as Metaphor and Praxis)
• Tuesday 5/28, 7:00 – 9:00 pm: Crystal Hana Kim (Finding a Character’s Voice)
• Wednesday 6/5, 7:00 – 9:00 pm: Jennifer Bartlett (The Activist Body)
• Saturday 6/8, 2:00 – 4:00 pm: Aracelis Girmay (ode + possibility) [OUT OF STOCK]
• Wednesday 6/12, 7:00 – 9:00 pm: Jennifer Baker (What’s At Stake? Finding Connections in Personal Experiences and Political Structures) [OUT OF STOCK]
• Wednesday 6/19, 7:00 – 9:00 pm: sára abdullah (Bodies Beyond Bounds)
• Saturday 6/29, 2:00 – 4:00 pm: Poet’s Panel: Cyree Jarelle Johnson, Marwa Helal, & Andrés Cerpa

*All classes will take place at our Conference Room in the 4th floor at 80 Hanson Pl, Brooklyn.

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND

Single class: $25

Scholarships are still available, please email joey@apogeejournal.org or victoria@apogeejournal.org to apply.

To register and find out more about each class and the incredible work Apogee does…

CLICK HERE

Join us as we come together and Write Aloud

Created by NY Writers Coalition in 2003, our Writing Aloud Reading Series is a free event that unites NYWC’s community of writers and activists with prominent literary figures to share prose, poetry, and other writings in safe and inspiring places. Here’s how it works:

1. Listen and watch a performance by this March’s special guest writer, Angel Nafis
2. Receive a writing prompt from our guest writer.
3. WRITE.
4. Hit the mic!–if you want to. Feel free to just sit back and listen, too!

Thursday, March 21 at 5:30 PM at NYPL St. Agnes Library (444 Amsterdam Ave, Manhattan)

This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome to write and share in this safe space. Click here to share the event on facebook & invite others.

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Angel Nafis is the author of BlackGirl Mansion (Red Beard Press, 2012). Her work has appeared in The BreakBeat Poets Anthology, Buzzfeed Reader, The Rumpus, Poetry Magazine and more. She represented the NYC at the National Poetry Slam and the Women of the World Poetry Slam. She is the founder, curator, and host of the Greenlight Poetry Salon. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and the recipient of the 2016 Ruth Lily Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship and the 2017 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship. Nafis earned her  BA in English and Creative Writing from Hunter College and her MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College. With poet Morgan Parker she is The Other Black Girl Collective. 

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If you’re unable to make it to this one, then please mark your calendars for Thursday, June 27 for our next Writing Aloud. It will take place at Queens Library at Broadway (40-20 Broadway), from 5:45 – 7:45 PM.

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This event is FREE, wheelchair accessible and open to the public. All are welcome to write and share in this safe space. It will take place Thursday, March 21 from 5:30 – 6:45 PM at the St. Agnes branch of the New York Public Library (444 Amsterdam Ave).

Spring is here–although it may not feel like it yet! No matter the season it’s always a good time to join us at our free drop-in public workshops throughout Brooklyn, Manhattan & Queens. These workshops are open to writers of all genres and background levels. Included are workshops for kids and teens. Notebooks and pens will be provided, all you have to do is bring yourself and your imagination.

No advance sign-up or fee is required unless otherwise stated.

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.

We humbly invite you to attend NY Writers Coalition’s 2019 Red & Black Party on Friday, February 8 from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m at the home of author Libba Bray in Park Slope, Brooklyn (address to be delivered upon RSVP).

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Celebrate the tumult and ecstasy of love, loss, and passion!
Toast to your loved ones — or drown your sorrows with friends.

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Fall head over heels for our guest and honoree of the night, magazine publisher and literary activist Ron Kavanaugh, founder and executive director of the Literary Freedom Project. LFP is a Bronx-based nonprofit arts organization that produces the One Book One Bronx reading group, hosts the Mosaic Literary Conference, publishes the renowned Mosaic literary magazine, and develops literature-based lesson plans and workshops. We’ll be honoring his undying commitment to NYC arts, literature, and social justice.

HOST COMMITTEE

Melissa Cahill / Laura Cococcia / Louise Crawford / Atiba Edwards / Marian Fontana / Kaitlyn Greenidge / Susan Karwoska / Brooke MacKenzie / Matt Matros / Sophie McManus / Carley Moore / Alexis Nixon

All proceeds from our annual Red & Black Party benefits NY Writers Coalition’s free creative writing programs in New York City. We hope to see you there in your best red and/or black outfit! (It’s optional but encouraged).