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Write That Fu*king Pilot
Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY
In this no-nonsense, no-excuses one-off, we'll lay the foundation for that half hour comedy pilot you've been dragging your heels on. The course will tackle loglines, title, concept and theme, and then work on A,B and C stories and structure. This straightforward formula will make the actual writing part far less intimidating, you'll have everything you need for your first draft in just three hours. Please Note: Outside food and drinks are...
$60
Intensive Creative Writing Weekend
Alaa Al Aswany Creative Writing Workshop @ 159 20th St, Brooklyn, NY & Virtually Online
Unlock your creative potential and become a master storyteller in this immersive workshop. Learn the secrets of captivating fiction, from crafting compelling characters to creating vivid settings. Join us for a weekend of intensive training in the art of exceptional storytelling.
All levels
18 and older
Reading Chaucer with Noam Scheindlin
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales takes us back to a time when the sun still revolved around the Earth, and the Earth was at the center of the Divine Plan. How heavily that cosmic order weighs upon the average person! Chaucer, through his collective portrait of a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, takes us into the backwaters of this cosmic order, and helps us to understand what it is like to live life amidst the hierarchies of both...
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Creative Writing for Documentary Filmmakers
Made in NY Media Center by IFP @ 30 John St, Brooklyn, NY
This two-part, six hour workshop is for all levels of documentary filmmakers, ideally with a film in development or production. Participants will use and improve their creative writing skills to develop their subjects into characters and to describe the action of a film in dynamic, readable ways that make audiences want to engage more with the project. Filmmakers will write, and through peer collaboration, come away with writing that can be applied...
Migration: Short Memoir
Fledgling Writing Workshops @ 417 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY
Migration workshops combine traditional manuscript critique with Fledgling’s signature generative approach, meaning plenty of in class writing time and feedback. With a focus on short memoir, we’ll spend the first three sessions writing to prompts and learning how to choose what belongs in a piece about one’s self, what a three act structure is and how to make it work for any length piece, and what mixing “big and little voice” means, plus...
All levels
16 and older
Creative Writing
Brooklyn Public Library @ 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY
Creative Writing Workshop with Aimee Herman, poet and writing instructor. Participants will read and evaluate poems and stories, answer prompts and create and critique their own work. Note: This program is free and open to all adults, with general seating. Pre-registration does not guarantee a seat.
Free
Write For Your Erotic Side: Creative Writing Workshop
Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY
During this creative writing workshop, we will develop your idea into a full-fledged erotic short story or vignette through group and solo writing and concept development exercises. Attendees will gain an understanding of what makes an erotic story "erotic", how sex scenes should be written, how important the characters are to erotic writing and ways to weave eroticism into what are considered non-erotic scenes. Writing can be PG-13, R or X-rated....
$20
"Anatomy of a One-Liner" Joke Writing Course
Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY
"Anatomy of a 1-Liner", is a two-hour joke writing course which describes the various types of 1-Liner jokes used in monologues and roasts, and teaches how to write them. Students will also be able to have a few of their own jokes "punched up" at the end of the course.
$40
Novel-Writing with Sandra Newman
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
In this workshop, students will be able to submit three excerpts from a novel in progress for close reading and group discussion. We'll discuss general issues of writing fiction, but focus on the specific problems of writing a novel: developing a narrative voice that doesn't run out of steam after two chapters; writing characters who change and are gradually revealed; and how to structure a plot over 200+ pages. We'll be reading a selection of...
Fiction Bootcamp
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Are you an aspiring writer who is just getting started? A practicing writer who wants to recharge your creative battery? Focus on brainstorming and new writing. Each class is split between guided writing exercises, discussions of published stories from the perspective of craft and creative problem-solving discussions. Get a handle on voice, character, pacing and how to generate ideas when you’re feeling stumped. Writers of all levels are welcome....
Reading Wallace Stevens with Lisa Goldfarb
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
“Words are the only melodeon,” Stevens proclaims in his “Adagia,” a collection of aphorisms about the art of poetry. One of the 20th century’s great musical poets, Stevens invites us to think about his often playful, meditative, and philosophical poems in relation to music. In this course, we will explore Stevens’s work (early to late verse, from Harmonium to The Rock) with particular focus on his multiple musical aspects:...
Young Adult Fiction with Coe Booth
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Through discussions of student work, in-class writing exercises and required readings, we will work on creating compelling works of young adult fiction. The main areas of focus will be deepening your characterization and uncovering the emotional truth in your stories. We will also work to strengthen your dialogue, setting and structure. Please Note: Before the first class, please read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman...
Novel Writing: Stephen Wright
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Hone your novel in this yearlong course, which offers extended sessions for intensive workshopping with Wright, author of Processed Cheese.
Elegy and Ode with David Yezzi
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Explore poetry’s divided duty—to celebrate, to commemorate—in this weekend intensive. Working from models by Elizabeth Bishop, John Keats, Pablo Neruda, Sappho and others, students will compose original poems and participate in group discussion. Special attention will be paid to the ways in which song underlies these age-old forms.
Poetry with R.A. Villanueva
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Gerard Manley Hopkins once wrote in a letter that he wanted his poetry to embody “more wreck and less discourse.” Detour away from the well-worn routines of workshop in these dynamic sessions. Rather than laboring to finish or fix drafts, our sessions will be devoted to generative bursts, improvisational drafts, and provocative conversations about language, memory, and the future of what we create. We will seek to unsettle habits...
Writing Sonnets
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
How can poets use sonnets to communicate a whole world of thought and emotion in just fourteen lines? Join Rachel Hadas for an immersive weekend looking at how writers have grappled with the sonnet—one of our most durable, versatile, challenging, and generative forms—throughout its long and still evolving history. Each day begins with looking at a wide range of Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets, followed by writing a sonnet of your own.
Poetry with Emily Skillings
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
When we consider and write poetry we are often drawn towards inescapably large abstractions such as love, death, and time. What happens when we invest (obsessively, meticulously, and with deep care) in the concrete objects that populate our daily lives? In this four-week workshop we will consider how artists in multiple disciplines have made use of things and thingness, meditating on objects and the worlds and affiliations they create in us. ...
Reading Old English with Miller Oberman
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
While Seamus Heaney’s brilliant translation of Beowulf introduced a wider audience to the only Old English epic poem, most contemporary readers have not encountered the fascinating shorter lyrics written in Old English. This course invites readers into the ancient ruins of the English language, moving through some of the most beautiful poems in The Exeter Book, written about a thousand years ago. From the anonymous voices of longing...
Advanced Fiction with Teddy Wayne
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
In addition to workshopping our own fiction, we will read published stories that focus on different elements of craft: showing versus telling, point of view, characterization, dialogue and narrative. When we discuss the class’s creative output, we will strive to isolate these elements as much as possible, homing in on problematic areas. In addition, we will talk about publishing and how to begin a writing career. Novel excerpts are permitted....
Developing an Illustrated Children’s Book
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Get an insiders’ overview of how to begin, develop, polish and pitch a successful children’s book. Explore theory and technique, including developing an image vocabulary and a child-friendly style. Learn about story line, story boarding, pacing, rhythm, the variety of media available and more.
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