Virtual Public Workshops
Earlier in 2020, at the onset of COVID-19, we here at NY Writers Coalition deployed our corps of writers & activists—our workshop leaders—to provide virtual creative writing workshops to our community. In spite of the difficulties of these times, each workshop continues to bring reminders that most people are caring, loving, creative, and compassionate in the face of the most challenging circumstances. In our virtual public workshops, our leaders and participants have been able to form deeply supportive communities, and their stories that have emerged continue to help name what may feel unspeakable at this moment. Please find their words below.
Dante’s Inferno
by Alexis M.…
Morris and Cynthia in the New Reality (& other stories)
by Allan Yashin…
The Memory
by Allison Reser…
To Risk
by Allison Reser…
Sliding Toward Winter (& other poems)
by Arlene Metrick…
IT TAKES A PANDEMIC (& other poems)
by Barbara Macklowe…
Life After 80, During the Pandemic
by Granny of…
War Songs (& other stories)
by Granny of…
Tribute
by Carol Foresta…
Sleep
by Celena Gonzalez…
Personifying Femininity
by Christina Joy…
The Misconception about Light
by Crystal Valerie…
[Untitled]
by danica pantic…
Afterlife (& other poems)
by Danie Brawand…
2020 (& other poems)
by Deborah Clearman,…
Quandary
by Elizabeth Haak…
Doggerel (& other poems)
by Ellen Bilofsky…
It Is Possible to Love
by Ellie Musgrave…
The Outraged (& other poems)
by Evelyn F.…
Seasoned Greetings (& other poems)
by Fran McManus,…
Trapped
by Ellis Grayce…
Thoughtful Garment
by Helene Lara…
Give Me The Rites (& other poems)
by QnIrie When…
Nothing but Trouble
by J.Jill His…
Twenty Years Next June
by Janis La…
Turn Off the Lights
by Jenson Smith…
Recipes (& other stories)
by JSmith She…
Would You Marry Me (& other poems)
by Joanne Cole…
Here
by Jo she…
Up
by Jo I’m…
Untitled
by Leonora M.…
Dear Summer (& other poems)
by Linda Quigley…
2sides of 1child
by Ermestina Sanjur…
Home Sick (& other stories)
by lynn parkerson…
Choose to Hear Yourself
by Queen María…
A Stitch In …
by Maria Lisella…
Joseito (& other stories)
by Maria Lisella…
Hands
by Marina Bonanno…
Quarantine (& other poems)
by Marina Bonanno…
Visions
by Mark-Anthony Hudson…
The Red Muse (& other poems)
by Mary Arda…
Breath
by M. Kaizu…
In the Dark (& other stories)
by Meryl Branch-McTiernan…
Ordinary Angels (& other poems)
by Michael Cunningham…
Black Oak (& other poems)
by Michele Gilliam…
My Life in Jeans
by Michele Klausner…
Taking Flight
by Michele Shapiro…
Vanity
by MonaLisa Ortiz-Rosa …
It’s All Relative (& other stories)
by MonaLisa Ortiz-Rosa …
Supplications
by Noel T.…
The Hand I Was Dealt (& other poems)
by Omayma Khayat…
Memorabilia
by Roberta Curley…
In the Distance
by Sarah Marie…
Let Go
by Rhema She…
Fly
by Rhema Just…
Silence.
by TSMorrow SMACK…
Shadows (& other poems)
by T'challa Williams…
The Reluctant Informant
by t. jahan…
HAVING NIGHTS WITH YOU (& other poems)
by Vanessa DeWolf…
Apartment 13M
by Vanessa-Renee Mical…
Kettle Steam Promise (& other poems)
by Victoria Ruiz…
Counting Coconut Blessings
by Sowmya Swaminathan…