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Jump Into Memoir
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
Whether you’re a new, continuing, or returning writer, take the plunge into memoir writing! This workshop will provide a supportive and stimulating springboard for shaping the raw material of your life into short pieces worth sharing. Together we'll explore elements of craft, experiment with form, tackle obstacles to creativity, and inspire one another. Students who participate are eligible to partake in the December student reading. Location...
The Art and Craft of Novel Writing
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
You have an idea for a novel. Perhaps you’ve sketched out some characters or jotted down some scenes. Maybe you’ve written a few chapters, or a first draft — or maybe you haven't been able to get started. This workshop will help you proceed from where you are, whether that’s Square One or somewhere along the way. Writing a novel involves creating a world populated by compelling characters while making sure every moment brings the story to...
The Heart of the Matter
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
Making the reader feel is one of the most important goals of creative writing. But there aren’t cheap shortcuts and creating emotion on the page is an artful enterprise. This seminar will discuss the importance of risking sentimentality to get at sentiment. Some methods we’ll look at include surprise, restraint, opposing forces, and the use of concrete, resonate detail. The seminar will include a talk, discussion,...
$125
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How to Read a Memoir with Lori Rotskoff
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Memoirs offer a rewarding way to enhance cultural understanding, expand social awareness, and build empathy by inviting you to see the world through another person’s eyes. Learn why memoirs have become such a powerful (and sometimes controversial) genre; how to select the most compelling books; and how to analyze the works to enrich your intellectual and emotional understanding. Cultural historian Lori Rotskoff will present a lecture and interactive...
$35
Advanced Poetry with Lynn Melnick
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
This course will explore how we tell our stories through poetry, whether directly or slant, and ways we can be more adventurous, musical and honest. Experience with poetry-writing will be expected. Students will be required to turn in a poem a week to be workshopped by the group. Experience with reading poetry is also a must. Familiarity with the poetry that is being written and published right now is crucial to understanding, appreciating, and...
$25
Writing for Late Night TV with Dave Hanson
Jeff Lawrence/Laughing Buddha Comedy @ 104 W 14th St, New York, NY
In this unique course you will explore the styles and structures of a writing packet and how that leads to a writing job. You will also learn to draw the curtain back and show what it takes to write for a late night daily or weekly television show, the variety of types of jobs within a writing staff and a show staff at large, how best to prepare yourself to apply for such jobs and how it all relates to the world of stand up comedy, sketch and improv....
Memoir Writing & the Gift of Incomplete Memories
New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
Memoir writers excavate the past to recreate emotions, feelings, and events, weaving story from personal life experiences. But memory is often faulty. What happens when key memories create logjams, disappear into holes, or stubbornly refuse to surface? Explore the positives of when “problem” memories can actually be opportunities, beckoning us to dig deeper for stories from our innermost being – the heart. Participate in several guided...
$155
Writing to Awaken: Memoir as a Path of Transformation
New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
Those of us who are committed to spiritual growth often turn to the written page as a place for personal awakening. In dialogue with our writing self, we’re able to explore our deepest questions, investigate our darkest shadows, and articulate our boldest visions. In this transformational, one-day workshop for writers of all levels, students will learn to use writing as a path of insight and self-realization, This opens pathways to creativity,...
$155
Non-Fiction Book Writing
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
Take this one-day crash course on the essentials of conceptualizing, researching, organizing, and writing a professional-level non-fiction book proposal. The seminar also focuses on techniques for reporting and writing non-fiction books. Students are given insights into negotiating book contracts as well. The session draws on Prof. Glenn Lewis’ experiences as a book packager, agent, writer, and book proposal doctor. Guest speaker Stephen Morrow,...
$79
Sketch Comedy Writing
The Barrow Group Acting School @ 312 W 36th St, New York, NY
A sketch comedy writing workshop, focusing on the history, elements, structure, and forms. Comedy writing tools, techniques, and exercises will be introduced. Students will write original comedy sketches every week both in class and out and workshop them in a supportive class environment. Additional topics will include tools for eliminating writer’s block, using improv to enhance the creative process, punching up sketches with a writer’s roundtable,...
Kyung-sook Shin: I’ll Be Right There
The Korea Society @ 950 3rd Ave, New York, NY
Kyung-sook Shin, one of Korea’s most acclaimed writers and author of the international bestseller Please Look After Mom, has written a seventh novel, I’ll Be Right There, a coming-of-age story set in South Korea’s turbulent 1980s. Following the June 3rd release of the English translation of I’ll Be Right There, Ms Shin will visit to discuss her life and writing, as well as her latest book. A reception and book signing will...
$20
Comedy as a Tool of Journalism
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
We will examine how comedy is useful to provide perspective and to meet journalism's core mission: to call bullshit. Every student will be expected to bring to class an example of comedy-as-journalism that informs the audience. We will examine the uses of various flavors of comedy -- satire, ridicule, irony -- and also examine the ethical boundaries. And we will hear from a comedy writer who writes about the news.
Take Your Personal Essay From Promising to Publishable
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
If you love the personal essay, have been working on a piece and want to take it to the next level–and dream of seeing it in print or online–this hands-on master class with Self magazine editor Paula Derrow will help you get there. Personal essays are everywhere from the Styles section of The New York Times to your favorite blog to the Op Ed pages of your hometown paper. But what does it take to write a compelling, focused, personal essay that...
Developmental Intensive
Ideasmyth at The Writers Room @ West 50's, New York, NY
Make your greatest ambition a polished–and published!–reality. Ideasmyth’s Developmental Intensive invites serious writers and creative professionals working in any genre and any form (memoirs, blogs, website copy, article pitch letters, screenplays, novels, one-person shows, poetry cycles, proposals, business plans, etc.) to prepare work for professional submission. Each class opens with a mini-lecture on an element of craft, working habits...
Intermediate
18 and older
Sketch Comedy Online Class
New York Improv Theatre (8 Improv) @ 318 W 53rd St, New York, NY
Develop, collaborate, write, produce and showcase original sketch comedy of your very own in just four weeks. In this class you learn to write and produce original sketch comedy scripts. This class is a forum for beginners and those looking to further sketch comedy studies, develop their portfolios and gain exposure for their work. Space is limited to EIGHT students. FOUR one hour sessions will be designated to learning about sketch comedy, script...
Designing E-Mail Newsletters
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
E-mail newsletters are quickly becoming one of the most popular ways deliver the news and for good reason. The open rate of email newsletters is comparatively high -22% according to MailChimp-, the technology involved comparatively cheap, making it a great product for news organization big and small to grow subscriptions and memberships. In this workshop, we will dig into why many brands now use e-mail newsletters, best practices to connect with...
Copy Editing
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
Copy editing in an ever-changing media landscape remains core to good journalism. The platform doesn’t lower the bar for editing standards. Copy editing enforces consistency, accuracy and fairness — something we need now more than ever. In this three-hour workshop, learn how to self-edit, catch grammar, spelling and style mistakes and produce clear, readable copy for publication.
$49
Writing Speculative Fiction for Children Master Class
Irish Arts Center @ 726 11th Ave, New York, NY
Join author Patricia Forde as she shares insight from writing her latest book, The Girl who Fell to Earth, and provides tips on how to write your own piece of speculative fiction/dystopian fiction. The workshop will consider the challenges of worldbuilding, the capacity of dystopian fiction to frighten and warn and how history can play a part in writing about the future. Trish can address any part of the process, from setting up...
$56
Food Writing Workshop
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
Indrani Sen leads this workshop that will introduce students to the fundamentals of the beat. Writing about food must be as simple as eating it, right? Wrong. Food writing requires more than a fine-tuned palate, a table at the hottest, hot-hot restaurant, or a good recipe for authentic Neapolitan pizza dough. Locavores, the Farm Bill, food safety scares, commodity prices, environmental justice, pop ups, CSAs, molecular gastronomy, buying clubs...
$65
How to Get Your Comic Books Published for Adults
Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo @ 98 Water St, Brooklyn, NY
Discover the secrets of becoming a published comic book writer in this immersive course. Explore visual storytelling techniques, create a pitch packet, and receive invaluable feedback from experienced professionals. Unleash your creativity and bring your adult comic book dreams to life at Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo.
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