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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
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
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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...
You Want to Write for Print? Sh*t You Gotta Know
Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY
Mike Sacks, Vanity Fair editor and author of four humor books, teaches a workshop on humor writing for print and how to get published. Advanced purchase is mandatory. Bonus: Two of Mike's heralded books are on sale in the QED bookshop.
$40
Works in Progress
West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY
For nonfiction writers (eg. memoir, magazine, and personal essay) interested in working towards some form of publication. Each week participants share and discuss works in progress. The class has a special emphasis on how to use fiction techniques of narration, description, dialogue, and structure to improve each piece. Location Instructions: Students will need to check in with reception, and on their first visit they will need to check in with...
Fiction, Non-Fiction and Cool Writing
I Write NY @ 100 Washington Square E, New York, NY
Songwriters and rappers read and write every day. NFL, NBA and MLB teams create written game plans to win. Broadway actors use scripts to tell meaningful stories. Effective communication is your key to success. Writing Coaches will provide middle and high school students with the tools to write and speak well, to be heard and not misunderstood. Develop the true grit it takes to write the stories you wish to tell—in your voice! Note: Bring loose...
$60
Nonfiction Writing (Online)
Brooklyn Comedy Collective @ **Virtual Classroom
A writing workshop with poet & comedian Arti Gollapudi. A 101 in writing short comedic nonfiction pieces starting - from how to start writing to how to write a collection. Tips and tricks on how to edit, collaborate with other writers, DIY print, and get your writing out there. Over the course of this six-week class, each student will produce three short written pieces to a collaborative blog space featuring the pieces - as well as a final performance...
Memoir Manuscript: A Working Group with Leigh Stein
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
A workshop for writers working on book-length memoirs or essay collections. We examine and investigate the tricky questions that haunt writers of personal narrative: where does this story begin and end? What do I want my voice to sound like? How can I ever really know the truth of what happened? Will my unique experience resonate with readers who have never shared it? What will my family think? Through reading assignments and craft discussions, we...
Memoir-Writing with Betsy Bonner
92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY
This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. If we are able to offer an in-person version of this class in the coming months, we will contact you and make both options available to you. Memoir is not autobiography, which is intended to cover the whole life to date, but a short and significant stretch of a life—like a novel. It’s also different...
Writing Your Mind: The Art of the Personal Essay
Bronxville Adult School @ 177 Pondfield Rd, Bronxville, NY
For most of us, generating ideas is easy—we've got opinions, stories to share, points of view—but crafting these beginning points into a powerful political or persuasive personal essay can feel like an overwhelming project. In this inspiring course, each student will work to bring an essay to fruition, from conception to first draft to completion, with careful attention to craft, clarity of ideas, and an emphasis on personal voice. This is an...
Personal Essay Writing
Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY
Everyone has a story. Now, it's time to share yours. Personal essays expose what makes us human. From fundamental truths about life to stories that illustrate the sheer absurdity of the world around us, our experiences shape us and help better understand one another — and ourselves. This class offers insight into the personal essay ideation process and will help writers draw out stories to craft into a narrative format. Open to all levels, we'll...
$25
How to Free The Writer Within - Part 2
We have been asked to provide a follow up class to our “How to Free the Writer Within” – the introduction to memoir writing workshop, lead by author, entrepreneur, and lecturer, Marva Allen. To take this class as a prerequisite you would need to have taken a basic introduction to writing class, or our “How to Free the Writer Within” workshop, with clear understanding of such aspects as characterization, plot, voice and more. In this workshop,...
P 1: Intro to Essay Writing “Personal & Subject Themes”
Learn the art and craft of first-person, real-life storytelling and writing about subjects near and dear to you––from how to construct 100-word essays to developing 500 to 1,000-word pieces you can submit for possible online publications and use for high school and college applications. Bring a notebook and pen or two no.2 pencils
P 2: Intro to Essay Writing “Long-form & College Prep”
Learn the art and craft of first-person, real-life storytelling and writing about subjects near and dear to you––from how to construct 100-word essays to developing 500 to 1,000-word pieces you can submit for possible online publications and use for high school and college applications. Bring a notebook and pen or two no.2 pencils
Travel Writing
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
One reason most of us got into journalism was to see the world, and tell people about it. CUNY J-School Craft Prof. Tim Harper leads this workshop that aims both to inspire and inform, whether your goal is to become a full-time travel writer or you merely want to supplement your day job with stories you do while on vacation. The sessions will cover everything from how to find and pitch travel stories to what you can write off on your taxes when...
$40
Online Essays and the Persona Narrator
The Writers Studio @ Instructor-led Online Learning, New York, NY
Do you live with realities that shock, delight, or implore you? Do you have expertise, confusion, curiosities, appreciations, or denunciations that you want to share in a way that others can hear? In this 6-week class, we will look at essays by James Baldwin, Joan Didion, Brian Doyle, Maya Angelou, and Rebecca Solnit to see how their use of a persona narrator and other elements of craft help them to welcome the reader. This class will be conducted...
Essay & Opinion Writing Level 1: 10 Week Workshop
Gotham Writers Workshop @ Zoom Conference, New York, NY
This course gives you a firm grounding in the basics of essay/opinion writing craft and gets you writing an essay or opinion piece (or two). Course components: Lectures Writing exercises Workshopping of student projects (each student presenting work two times) Essay & Opinion I is for beginners or anyone who wants to brush up on the fundamentals. Essay & Opinion Writing I — Syllabus Introduction to Essay & Opinion Writing: The...
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