Ryan Fox holds a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. He graduated with an MFA in Poetry from the University of Virginia, and his poetry has earned the “Discovery”/Boston Review prize and a Yaddo residency. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Boston Review and others. Ryan holds a B.A. from the University of Missouri. He is admitted to the New York State Bar.
NEW YORK WRITERS WORKSHOP
in KATHMANDU POSTPONED January 9 - 16, 2022 Sun, Jan 9, 2022, 4:00 PM - Sun, Jan 16, 2022, 10:00 PM
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Risky Business
How to Assess your Legal Liability when Writing about Real People and Corporations Does artistic “theft” lead to new works of art, or to lengthy (and costly) visits to court? Join attorney at law Ryan Fox, as he addresses this increasingly important question in the age of Dorland v Larson (see “Who Is the Bad Art Friend?” NYT). Counselor Fox will look at law and liability through the lens of this and other recent cases. Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions (in the chat). Ryan Fox is of counsel at Lyons & Salky, LLP, where he provides counsel to individuals and businesses on a wide range of matters, including book publishing, motion picture and television, copyright and trademark, and content clearance and fair use. Before joining the firm, Ryan was Policy & Advocacy Director at the Authors Guild, where he focused on copyright law and the publishing industry, drafting numerous policy papers on issues such as fair use, moral rights, and internet piracy, and assisting members with issues regarding their publishing contracts. He has spoken at bar association, government, and publishing industry events on topics such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, fair use, developing digital markets, and extended collective licensing. He has also worked on entertainment industry contracts as an attorney at HBO, and has held internships at the Guggenheim Museum and Sterling Lord Literistic. DATE: Thursday, Dec 16 TIME: 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM PLACE: Zoom (link provided after registration; link will open ten minutes prior to start time) COST $10 (NYWW Members) $15 non-members* *become a member now and enjoy the member rate for this and future events REGISTER NYWW Paypal Buy tickets for NYWW Risky Business: Legal Liability when Writing about Real People Contact: [email protected] NYWW in KATHMANDU -- POSTPONED
With regret, New York Writers Workshop will have to postpone this event ... again. But the current news coming out of the region makes it impossible for NYWW to move ahead with safe planning. We'll continue to gather reports from Kathmandu and the region in the coming months and we hope, and expect, to offer the same conference, more or less, in January of 2023. Keep checking back for updates. For now, we thank you for all the enthusiastic interest. And to the many of you who've made deposits to reserve space, please look for your full refund in the next couple weeks. Namaste, NYWW Program On Sunday late afternoon, everyone will gather for orientation and a welcome dinner. Monday morning, poet/writer/teacher/musician Kim Addonizio will launch the conference with a keynote address, followed by workshops. Every day will feature workshops and a panel discussion. Several readings planned at various locations. Workshops cover fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, essay, travel writing, and poetry. On two afternoons, we'll hold workshops in nearby temples. One, in the Changu Narayan temple, will be led by Nepalese poet Yuyutsu Sharma. Another will be led by Indian poet/writer Arundhati Subramaniam (temple tba). The temple sessions will be open to everyone. Into the busy schedule, we'll carve out daily free time for writing or exploration. We’ll take several off-site excursions to local sites and events. On the closing weekend, Sat-Sun Jan 15-16, NYWW in Kathmandu will intersect with the Himalayan Literary Festival with full access. Details of that event tba. NB: all events are optional. Participants are free to attend, explore, isolate, or gather stones together, as the song goes. Hotel Shanker single and double rooms available Cost/s*
For participants of NYWW Sardinia Jan 2020 15% discount (off full price) Includes: room, breakfast daily, two lunches, two dinners, all workshops/talks/panels, participation in Himalayan Literary Festival, transfer airport to hotel, transportation to off-site temple workshops. Does not include airfare, or return fare to airport. Faculty
Payment A deposit of $350 secures your space. To qualify for the Early Bird rate, deposit must come in before July 1, with full payment by August 1. After August 1, all space is full price. Refund* of deposit: full refund (minus 10% handling) until Sept 1. Half-refund after Oct 15. No refund after Dec 1. *However: Full refund in the event of shutdown due to covid or covid-related matters. |
MULTITUDES: BOB DYLAN AT 80
On May 24, 2021, sculptor-painter-poet-memoirist-distiller-songwriter-rock star-Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan reaches his eightieth birthday. New York Writers Workshop, with a little help from its friends, will mark this milestone through discussion, reflection, and celebration. Please join us in the zoom gallery on Saturday, May 22, 10:00 AM (EST), for a morning full of Dylanology.
NEW YORK WRITERS WORKSHOP
in KATHMANDU POSTPONED January 9 - 16, 2022 Sun, Jan 9, 2022, 4:00 PM - Sun, Jan 16, 2022, 10:00 PM
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MULTITUDES: BOB DYLAN AT 80
On May 24, 2021, painter-poet-sculptor-memoirist-distiller-songwriter-rock star-Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan reaches his eightieth birthday. New York Writers Workshop, with a little help from its friends, will mark this milestone through discussion, reflection, and celebration. Please join us in the zoom gallery on Saturday, May 22, 10:00 AM (EST), for a morning full of Dylanology.
Among those joining the discussion will be
NYWW in KATHMANDU -- POSTPONED
With regret, New York Writers Workshop will have to postpone this event ... again. But the current news coming out of the region makes it impossible for NYWW to move ahead with safe planning. We'll continue to gather reports from Kathmandu and the region in the coming months and we hope, and expect, to offer the same conference, more or less, in January of 2023. Keep checking back for updates. For now, we thank you for all the enthusiastic interest. And to the many of you who've made deposits to reserve space, please look for your full refund in the next couple weeks. Namaste, NYWW Program On Sunday late afternoon, everyone will gather for orientation and a welcome dinner. Monday morning, poet/writer/teacher/musician Kim Addonizio will launch the conference with a keynote address, followed by workshops. Every day will feature workshops and a panel discussion. Several readings planned at various locations. Workshops cover fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, essay, travel writing, and poetry. On two afternoons, we'll hold workshops in nearby temples. One, in the Changu Narayan temple, will be led by Nepalese poet Yuyutsu Sharma. Another will be led by Indian poet/writer Arundhati Subramaniam (temple tba). The temple sessions will be open to everyone. Into the busy schedule, we'll carve out daily free time for writing or exploration. We’ll take several off-site excursions to local sites and events. On the closing weekend, Sat-Sun Jan 15-16, NYWW in Kathmandu will intersect with the Himalayan Literary Festival with full access. Details of that event tba. NB: all events are optional. Participants are free to attend, explore, isolate, or gather stones together, as the song goes. Hotel Shanker single and double rooms available Cost/s*
For participants of NYWW Sardinia Jan 2020 15% discount (off full price) Includes: room, breakfast daily, two lunches, two dinners, all workshops/talks/panels, participation in Himalayan Literary Festival, transfer airport to hotel, transportation to off-site temple workshops. Does not include airfare, or return fare to airport. Faculty
Payment A deposit of $350 secures your space. To qualify for the Early Bird rate, deposit must come in before July 1, with full payment by August 1. After August 1, all space is full price. Refund* of deposit: full refund (minus 10% handling) until Sept 1. Half-refund after Oct 15. No refund after Dec 1. *However: Full refund in the event of shutdown due to covid or covid-related matters. |
For a sense of what NYWW in KATHMANDU might look like, watch the video above by Anita Thomas, who attended NYWW in Sardinia, January 2020.
New York Writers Workshop @ 11th Street Bar
Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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NYWW @ 11TH STREET BAR, W/ THADDEUS RUTKOWSKI, TAMUIRA REID, E.R. PULGAR, AND GUESTS
THADDEUS RUTKOWSKI is a graduate of Cornell University and The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of six books, most recently Border Crossings, a poetry collection. His novel Haywire won the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s members’ choice award, and his memoir Guess and Check won the Electronic Literature bronze award for multicultural fiction. He received a fiction writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He teaches at Medgar Evers College and the West Side YMCA and lives with his wife, Randi Hoffman, in Manhattan. TAMUIRA REID is a writer and educator living in New York City. Her first feature-length screenplay, Luna’s Highway, was recently optioned by Cynthia Phillips & Co. (San Francisco/Los Angeles). The script earned her a 2010 Finalist placement in Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenwriting Competition and a 2010 Semifinalist placement in The Nicholls Screenwriting Fellowship Competition, sponsored by The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Tamuira taught screenwriting as a guest faculty member at the Global Social Change Film Festival and Institute in 2011, in Bali, Indonesia, and again in 2012 in New Orleans. Currently, she teaches writing full-time in NYU’s Global Liberal Studies Program. She is now beginning work on a book-length collection of essays on single parenting in NYC. E.R. PULGAR New York-based music & culture writer, editor, and media manager with 5+ years of experience in national & international digital/print editorial and in-depth knowledge of music marketing, promotion, publicity, and booking. Raised in Miami, born in Venezuela. Published in Rolling Stone, i-D, Remezcla, Billboard, VICE en Español, PAPER, Office, V Magazine, DIY, BeatBitesTV etc. Alt Citizen's 'Of Poets + Punks' Columnist. His bio in the webzine Blush states: “His writing deals with love, loss, Latinidad, and the intersection of all three.” 11th Street Bar, 510 E 11th Street, NYC 10009 / no cover, no minimum |
NYWW Last Mondays @ Bowery Poetry Club
Monday, March 30, 2020, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea (Carcanet), named a Best Book of the Year by UK's Financial Times and a Finalist by Lambda Literary. He heads the NYC-based literary non-profit Singapore Unbound and its imprint Gaudy Boy. His latest book of poetry is Connor & Seal (Sibling Rivalry).
Shayla Lawson is the author of This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls & Being Dope (Harper Perennial, 2020), the poetry collections I Think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean, A Speed Education in Human Being, and Pantone. She has written for Tin House, PAPER, ESPN, Salon, Guernica, & others, but she mostly writes for you. A MacDowell and Yaddo Artist Colony Fellow, Shayla Lawson is a member of The Affrilachian Poets. She curates The Tenderness Project with Ross Gay and writes poems with Chet’la Sebree (pronounced Shayla, no relation). She was raised in Lexington, Kentucky, is a professor at Amherst College, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma is a world-renowned Himalayan poet and translator. His books include The Second Buddha Walk, A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems, Quaking Cantos: Nepal Earthquake Poems, Nepal Trilogy, Space Cake, Amsterdam and Annapurna Poems. Eternal Snow: A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Twenty-Five Poetic Intersections with Himalayan Poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma has just appeared. Yuyutsu’s work has been translated into German, French, Italian, Slovenian, Hebrew, Spanish and Dutch. He just published his nonfiction, Annapurnas & Stains of Blood: Life, Travel and Writing a Page of Snow, (Nirala, 2010). Currently, Yuyutsu Sharma is a visiting poet at Columbia University and edits, Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing. |
NYWW in SARDINIA, January 2020
Mon, Jan 13, 2020, 9:00 AM - Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 12:00 PM NEW YORK WRITERS WORKSHOP IS THRILLED TO OFFER OUR FIRST IMMERSION EXCURSION ON THE MAGICAL ISLAND OF SARDINIA. |
New York Writers Workshop leads a seven-day immersion in Sardinia, hosted by local writer Ciriaco Offedu, blending Sardinian culture with NYWW workshops led by poet/writers Ravi Shankar (The Many Uses of Mint) and Tim Tomlinson (This Is Not Happening to You). Open to writers of all levels, the trip will include all (delicious!) meals, accommodations on the island, local transportation, event excursions and tuition for writing and translation workshops. We plan to have some of Italy's best writers and translators visit and we will spend time visiting galleries and wineries, eating gourmet meals, reading and writing, and privately touring Grazia Deledda's house (the first Italian woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature). Details are here and spaces are very limited, especially because the stay will be heavily subsidized and represents a great chance to visit a part of Italy you might not have seen.
NEWSFLASH (JULY 23): FORREST GANDER, PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY 2019, JOINS THE NYWW SARDINIA STAFF. Forrest Gander, a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature, was born in the Mojave Desert, grew up in Virginia, and taught at Harvard and, for many years, Brown University. Among Gander’s most recent books are Be With, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, the novel The Trace, and Eiko & Koma. Gander’s recent translations include Alice Iris Red Horse: Poems by Gozo Yoshimasu and, with Patricio Ferrari, The Galloping Hour: French Poems of Alejandra Pizarnik. He has a history of collaborating with artists such as Ann Hamilton, Sally Mann, Graciela Iturbide, and Vic Chesnutt. The recipient of grants from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim, Howard, Whiting and United States Artists Foundations, Gander lives in northern California. UPDATE: POETS/TRANSLATORS MOIRA EGAN AND DAMIANO ABENI WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE IMMERSION. Damiano Abeni, MD, MPH, is an epidemiologist who has been translating American poetry into Italian since 1973. He has been a Literature Fellow at the Liguria Study Center of the Bogliasco Foundation, a Director’s Guest at the Civitella Ranieri Center, a Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, and a Writer in Residence at the James Merrill House. He has published more than fifty books in translation in Italy, by authors including Frank Bidart, Elizabeth Bishop, Lewis Carroll, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Edward Lear, Jack London, Mark Strand, Charles Simic, and C.K. Williams. Moira Egan has published eight volumes of poetry (five in the U.S.; three in Italy); the most recent of these are Synæsthesium (The New Criterion Poetry Prize, 2017) and Olfactorium (Italic PeQuod, 2018). Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies on four continents. She was a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and has held writing fellowships at the St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Malta; the Civitella Ranieri Center; the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center; and the James Merrill House. Together, Abeni and Egan have published volumes in translation in Italy by authors including John Ashbery, John Barth, Aimee Bender, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Anthony Hecht, Ben Lerner, Charles Simic, Mark Strand, Ocean Vuong, and Charles Wright. Their translation of Ashbery’s Un mondo che non può essere migliore: Poesie scelte 1956-2007) won a Special Prize from the Premio Napoli (2009); their translation of Mark Strand’s L'uomo che cammina un passo avanti al buio won the Premio di Poesia La Torre dell’Orologio (2011); and, most recently, their translation of Italia by Charles Wright won the Benno Geiger Translation Prize from the Fondazione Cini in Venice. Dates: January 13 – 20, 2020 Location: Sardinia, Italy The immersion will include daily workshops in
Read about the kinds of meals we’ll be having here, here, and here. Read about the kinds of discussions we’ll be having here, here, and here. Read some of Ravi’s work here, here, and here. Read some of Tim’s work here, here, and here. Read about our fabulous accommodations here*. Read about Sardinian literature here, and here. And read about Ciriaco Offedu, our host, here. Register: brownpapertickets Contact: [email protected] Deposit: $250 (refundable until Sept 15 minus a 10% handling; after Sept 15 minus a 25% handling fee). Cost: $1,345 Early Bird price until August 15, 2019 (includes workshops, most meals, all local cultural excursions, local transportation & events, and accommodations). $1,495 after Aug 15, 2019. Refund policy: Early Bird & General fees fully refundable minus a 10% handling until Oct 15; minus a 25% handling fee until Nov 15; minus a 50% handling fee until Dec 15th. Space is limited. Reserve early (and save!). *We may add a second hotel. No accommodations will be any less splendid than Bidderosa. |
ANNUAL DRIVE
Tue, Dec 3, 2019, 2:00 PM - Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 3:00 PM |
Dear Friend of New York Writers Workshop,
We're thankful for the generous assistance our friends have provided. We want to give you a sense of what you’ve helped us achieve this year: In collaboration with NYWW faculty, Prison Writes workshops have served over 350 people in prisons, jails and detention centers throughout NYS, including Otisville Correctional Facility, and our Youth Writes program at Children's Village. Our support has reached women preparing for re-entry; youth in detention; and young adults at Rikers Island Jail, where we supply journals and books that educate and inspire our participants to help reduce recidivism. New York Writers Workshop held classes at Goddard-Riverside Community Center and the JCC of Manhattan. Our recent collaboration with the New York Public Library inspired senior writers in our Creative Aging workshops. Our online offerings added screenwriting to our mix of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Our global outreach attracts world-wide participants on all levels of the socioeconomic ladder. In January, we offer a workshop immersion in Sardinia, Italy. With an international group of participants, and an award-winning faculty, featuring Forrest Gander (2019 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry), we're excited to plan other similar excursions in the near future. Our monthly reading series at Red Room (above the legendary KGB Bar) continued to feature international poets and authors, and to launch important new books, including My Caesarean: Twenty-one Mothers on the C-section Experience and After (Eds. Fields, Moritz), Under Every Yard of Sky, Sebastian Meyer, and others by authors at Feminist Press and Akashic Books. We remained active on the conference and festival front, with tables and events at the NYC Poetry Festival, the AWP Conference in Portland, the Brooklyn Book Festival, and the Asia Pacific Writers & Translators Global/Local Conference in Gold Coast, Australia. In 2020, we’ll return to several, including APWT in Bangalore, India in November. 2020 promises to be an especially busy year for Greenpoint Press. In the spring, we’ll be publishing Esther Amini’s memoir, Concealed, about her Jewish family’s coming to Queens, New York from Persia in the early 1950s. Another memoir for spring release is Vivian Conan’s Losing the Atmosphere, about her fifty-year struggle with a mysterious psychological illness (some of which has appeared in New York magazine). In early fall, we’ll be publishing One-Legged Mongoose, Dr. Marc Straus’s fascinating memoir of growing up in Brooklyn, New York, the son of European immigrants, a hardworking father and an abusive mother. All three of these authors worked on their books in Charles Salzberg’s Advanced Nonfiction class. Please visit our website to see the other exciting things we're up to. Your contributions help maintain New York Writers Workshop as the leading metropolitan literary organization. Your gifts allow aspiring writers to find their voice. Your generosity enables us to continue the community service we’ve dedicated ourselves to. · $1,000 can fund a series of free workshops at New York Public Library. · $500 can fund a four-week workshop for detained teens. · $300 covers the expenses of one reading at Bowery Poetry Club. · $100 pays a featured author. · $50 enables us to thank an intern. We value any contribution—nothing is too small. Any donation will help us do good things. Right now. Please click on our DONATE button here: http://www.newyorkwritersworkshop.com/ All contributions are tax-deductible. If you’d prefer, send a check to New York Writers Workshop, c/o Charles Salzberg, 200 Riverside Boulevard, Suite 32-E, New York, NY 10069. The board and all the members of New York Writers Workshop wish you the very best over the holiday season. Thank you so much for your support, Tim Tomlinson, President |
Kauai Writers Conference
Mon, Nov 4, 201910:00 AM - Sun, Nov 10, 20196:00 PM
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NYWW recommends the Kauai Writers Conference
“After the phenomenal success of the 2018 Kauai Writers Conference, we surveyed all attendees to ask how they liked the event. The great majority gave it five stars out of five (average rating 4.5.) So what did folks who found room for improvement want to see changed? The number one request was for more workshops on craft. We’ve taken this to heart. This year, we will offer an expanded slate of master classes focusing on specific aspects of craft.” Offerings: MASTER CLASSES The Art of Short Story w/Richard Bausch and many others. NYWW Members get 20% discount—write us at [email protected] for code |
NEW YORK WRITERS WORKSHOP ONLINE RIDES AGAIN
Mon, Oct 21, 2019, 1:00 AM - Mon, Dec 2, 2019, 1:00 PM |
New York Writers Workshop Online returns Fall 2019.
On October 21, New York Writers Workshop Online returns with three NYWW staples, Robert Anasi’s* The Personal Essay, Ravi Shankar’s Write from Inception to Publication, and Tim Tomlinson’s Developing Narrative Prose. In addition, we introduce the maiden voyage of screenwriting legend Hal Ackerman and his six-week screenwriting module, Writing the First Draft. Registration, via Brown Paper Tickets, will open on Friday, August 23. We hope you’ll join us for another round of challenging, stimulating, productive online sessions. *that wild man steadying the chopper is our own Robert Anasi, a long way from the sidewalks of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and apparently enjoying it. |
Forrest Gander joins NYWW in Sardinia StaffThu, Aug 22, 2019, 4:30 PM - Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 5:30 PM
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Meet the Winners
Congratulations to Cristina Correa, the winner of the 2019 New York Writers Workshop full writers fellowship, and congratulazioni to Heather Altfeld, Lisa del Rosso, Kelly Hevel & Kortney Morrow, the finalists for the NYWW inaugural immersive writing workshop in Sardinia (January 13th to January 20th, 2020). Spaces are still available for this seven-day immersion in Sardinia, hosted by local writer Ciriaco Offedu, blending Sardinian culture with NYWW workshops led by poet/writers Ravi Shankar (The Many Uses of Mint) and Tim Tomlinson (This Is Not Happening to You), Moira Egan (Synæsthesium), translator Damino Abeni, and 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander.
Cristina Correa (above left) holds an MFA from Cornell University where she now teaches English. She has been published by journals including The Missouri Review, TriQuarterly, Diálogo, and Western Humanities Review. Her poem “Reflection from a Bridge” was selected by Tracy K. Smith for the 2015 Best New Poets anthology. Correa has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Hedgebrook, and the Whiting Foundation.
Kelly Hevel (above 2nd from right) is an American who lives and writes in Istanbul, Turkey, a place which inspires and frustrates her daily. Her writing explores the universal humanity and motivations that drive us all and, in contrast, how our particular place on this earth in this particular time shapes us in ways that are indecipherable to outsiders and often invisible to those affected.
Kortney Morrow (above center) is an MFA candidate in poetry at Ohio State University and serves as the reviews and interviews editor for The Journal. Her work has been featured in the O, Miami Poetry Festival, MACK by Raptor Editing, and Louisiana Cultural Vistas. She has worked extensively with the 826 National Network, helping to open their first writing center in the south—826 New Orleans.
Heather Altfeld (above 2nd from left) is a poet and essayist. Her two books of poetry are “Post-Mortem” (forthcoming Spring 2020) and “The Disappearing Theatre” (2016) and she is at work on a book of essays. Her work is featured or forthcoming in the 2019 Best American Essays, Orion Magazine, Conjunctions, Narrative Magazine, Aeon Magazine, and other literary magazines. She lives in Northern California where she teaches Humanities courses at CSU Chico.
Lisa del Rosso (above right) originally trained as a classical singer and completed a post-graduate degree at LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art), living and performing in London before moving to New York City. She is the author of the memoir, Confessions of an Accidental Professor. Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Literary Traveler, Serving House Journal, Barking Sycamores Neurodivergent Literature, Razor’s Edge Literary Magazine, The Huffington Post, Time Out New York, Sowing Creek Press and One Magazine (UK), for whom she writes theater reviews. She teaches writing at NYU (New York University).
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Congratulations to Cristina Correa, the winner of the 2019 New York Writers Workshop full writers fellowship, and congratulazioni to Heather Altfeld, Lisa del Rosso, Kelly Hevel & Kortney Morrow, the finalists for the NYWW inaugural immersive writing workshop in Sardinia (January 13th to January 20th, 2020). Spaces are still available for this seven-day immersion in Sardinia, hosted by local writer Ciriaco Offedu, blending Sardinian culture with NYWW workshops led by poet/writers Ravi Shankar (The Many Uses of Mint) and Tim Tomlinson (This Is Not Happening to You), Moira Egan (Synæsthesium), translator Damino Abeni, and 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner Forrest Gander.
Cristina Correa (above left) holds an MFA from Cornell University where she now teaches English. She has been published by journals including The Missouri Review, TriQuarterly, Diálogo, and Western Humanities Review. Her poem “Reflection from a Bridge” was selected by Tracy K. Smith for the 2015 Best New Poets anthology. Correa has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Hedgebrook, and the Whiting Foundation.
Kelly Hevel (above 2nd from right) is an American who lives and writes in Istanbul, Turkey, a place which inspires and frustrates her daily. Her writing explores the universal humanity and motivations that drive us all and, in contrast, how our particular place on this earth in this particular time shapes us in ways that are indecipherable to outsiders and often invisible to those affected.
Kortney Morrow (above center) is an MFA candidate in poetry at Ohio State University and serves as the reviews and interviews editor for The Journal. Her work has been featured in the O, Miami Poetry Festival, MACK by Raptor Editing, and Louisiana Cultural Vistas. She has worked extensively with the 826 National Network, helping to open their first writing center in the south—826 New Orleans.
Heather Altfeld (above 2nd from left) is a poet and essayist. Her two books of poetry are “Post-Mortem” (forthcoming Spring 2020) and “The Disappearing Theatre” (2016) and she is at work on a book of essays. Her work is featured or forthcoming in the 2019 Best American Essays, Orion Magazine, Conjunctions, Narrative Magazine, Aeon Magazine, and other literary magazines. She lives in Northern California where she teaches Humanities courses at CSU Chico.
Lisa del Rosso (above right) originally trained as a classical singer and completed a post-graduate degree at LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art), living and performing in London before moving to New York City. She is the author of the memoir, Confessions of an Accidental Professor. Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Literary Traveler, Serving House Journal, Barking Sycamores Neurodivergent Literature, Razor’s Edge Literary Magazine, The Huffington Post, Time Out New York, Sowing Creek Press and One Magazine (UK), for whom she writes theater reviews. She teaches writing at NYU (New York University).
Explode with Caution: NYWW @ Red Room takes a July 4 breakThursday, July 4, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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NYWW @ RED ROOM’s First Thursdays reading series takes a holiday on July 4. We’ll swirl some sparklers, set off a few well-placed M-80s, and think about how we might spread some light in these benighted times. We’ll return in August with a stellar line-up hosted by Ravi Shankar. See you Thursday, August 1. Till then, explode with caution! |
#YEAH YOU WRITE: Tim Tomlinson, Scott Edward Anderson, Rabeah Ghaffari, and Juliet Lapidos @ Bo's Kitchen & Bar Room
Tuesday, May 14, 2019, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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Scott Edward Anderson is the author of Dwelling: An Ecopoem, Fallow Field, and Walks in Nature’s Empire.
Rabeah Ghaffari is the author of To Keep the Sun Alive. Juliet Lapidos is the author of Talent. Tim Tomlinson is the author of This Is Not Happening to You, Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, and Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse. |
NYWW @ NYPL Countee Cullen: A Workshop in Memoir
Thu, May 2, 2019, 5:00 PM - Thu, May 23, 2019, 6:30 PM
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RIGHT HERE (WRITE HERE): A WORKSHOP IN MEMOIR.
The question that confronts—and confounds—the beginning memoirist is: where do I enter this vast morass, my life? This workshop in memoir will provide a number of answers to that question, all of which boil down to one: right here. We’ll look at samples of memoir, both recent and classic, for ideas about entry points, structure, movement, and voice, and we’ll use those samples as springboards for our own work. Over the course of the four sessions, we’ll build self-portraits in prose, and we’ll explore how those portraits connect to and depend three pillars of personal experience: places, times, and other people. Over the course of the four sessions, you’ll enter and re-enter what appeared to be a morass, but now becomes your story. THIS IS A FOUR SESSION WORKSHOP. PLEASE SIGN UP IF YOU ARE WILLING TO COMMIT TO ALL SESSIONSRegister: NYPL Creative Aging Series—Memoir w/Dr Kaia Niambi Shivers, or call (212) 491-2070 DATES: Four Thursdays—May 2, May 9, May 16, & May 23, 2019 TIME: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm FOR: Adults 50+ PLACE: NYPL Countee Cullen 104 W 136th St, New York, NY 10030 Kaia Niambi Shivers lives by her lifelong mantra — academia, artistry and activism as a professor in Liberal Studies at New York University. Her research focuses on black representations in media and the African diaspora. Currently, she looks at how Nollywood audiences imagine, construct and perform identity in the urban United States. Before the academy, Shivers worked as a journalist, covering the beat then entertainment and travel. Soon after she freelanced as a writer and blogger on current affairs. Now as a professor, she embarks on making films that fuse her research and journalism background. As well, Shivers is a writer and poet, producing short stories and poems for over two decades, some of them found in anthologies and her book, Bits & Pieces of My Truth. Since 2016, she has been filming a docuseries called, “Orisa in the Ghetto,” a 15-part documentary delving into the experiences of Black folk in the United States, it is a fusion of Afrofuturism, African storytelling, and African diaspora culture. The first part in the series titled, “The Black Divine,” investigates the concept of god and how diasporans (and specifically descendants of enslaved Africans) envisioned themselves as divine. Her second installation explores experiences and ideas around social justice. Last year, Shivers launched Ark Republic, a news media site that uses robust storytelling to explore and cover issues and topics of the day. The site works with about 40 contributors all over the world to produce and create narratives through multi-media. |
LITERARY EXCURSIONS: Tim Tomlinson & Pat Falk at Setauket Neighborhood HouseMonday, April 8, 2019, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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Tim Tomlinson is the author of two books of poetry, Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (a chapbook in the voices of survivors of super-typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines), and Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, a collection suffused with “a Whitmanesque sense of acceptance and openness as well as an ultimate skepticism” (American Book Review). His most recent book, the story collection This Is Not Happening to You, has been likened to “licking something sharp from a very sharp knife” (TEXT). His work has been published in Australia, China, India, the Philippines, Singapore, and in numerous US venues. Forthcoming work will appear in anthologies dedicated to the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, and to stories by Italian-American writers. Tomlinson is a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop, and a professor in New York University’s Global Liberal Studies. Originally from Suffolk County, Long Island, he now lives in Brooklyn.
Pat Falk is Professor Emeritus at SUNY Nassau. She’s the author of In the Shape of a Woman, Crazy Jane and the forthcoming A Common Violence; the literary memoir, It Happens As We Speak: A Feminist Poetics; and her edited anthology Sightings: Poems on Discovery. The American Book Review calls her writing “visionary” and “uplifting,” saying she has created “a new language.” Wheelhouse calls her “a truly unique and honest voice in American poetry.” Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Thirteenth Moon, The Mickle Street Review, and Women Artists News. Her research and activism concern human rights, global ecology, and the integrity of all life in industrial and institutional settings. She's received awards from Creative Non-Fiction, National League of American Pen Women, The National Writer's Voice Project, Many Mountains Moving, Black Bear Review, and the Pushcart Press, among others. Originally from Queens, she lives on the south shore of Long Island. Visit her website at patfalk.net For more information contact [email protected] or [email protected] About the conveners: Dr. Carmen Bugan is an award-winning memoirist, poet, and critic whose work has received international praise. Her books are: Crossing the Carpathians, The House of Straw, Releasing the Porcelain Birds: Poems after Surveillance, Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police, and Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile. Pramila Venkateswaran, poet laureate of Suffolk County 2013-15, is the author of Thirtha, Behind Dark Waters, and most recently, The Singer of Alleppey. She teaches at SUNY Nassau. |
CALLING ALL POETS @ The Roost, New Paltz, NYFriday, February 1, 2019, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
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New Paltz Beacon Ellenville
Friday: February 1, 2019 7:30pm Featured Poets: Susan Konz & Tim Tomlinson Roost Studios, 69 Main Street, New Paltz, NY Refreshments available! Open mic! $5.00 $3 CAPS/Roost members/Students/Seniors New Paltz, NY – As we have every month for 20 years, Calling All Poets welcomes poets and patrons throughout the Hudson Valley, NYC, Albany, and the tri-state area to our First Friday Readings. Our diverse community of voices and open, democratic forum provide novice and veteran poets alike a creative atmosphere to exercise their voices and listen to their peers. Celebrating our 20th Anniversary as the Hudson Valley’s longest running poetry performance series, Calling All Poets invites one and all to our regularly scheduled First Friday reading, this month featuring Susan Konz & Tim Tomlinson. Susan Konz holds an MFA from Hunter College and her first book, Second Sleep, was published in 2016 (Lion Autumn Publishing) Her poems have appeared in publications such as Waymark I Want You to See This Before I Leave zine as well as the CAPS 2015 Poetry Anthology (CAPS Press) She sometimes wonders whether she is, in fact, waking or dreaming. Tim Tomlinson is a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. He is also the author of the chapbook Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse, the poetry collection Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, and the collection of short fiction, This Is Not Happening to You. His work has been published globally, and he runs workshops in poetry and prose in New York as well as Australia, China, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Tim’s a certified yoga instructor, an avid scuba diver, and sits on the Advisory Board of Asia Pacific Writers & Translators, and Whatabook (India). He’s been teaching in NYU’s Global Liberal Studies since the early 1990s and lives in Brooklyn with his wife. All CAPS events streamed live on Facebook www.facebook.com/callingallpoetsseries [email protected] www.callingallpoets.net Calling All Poets,Inc. is funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. Please consider a yearly membership to CAPS Calling All Poets, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization |
Laura Hruska Two-Week Fellowship - DATE TBAMonday, October 1, 2018, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM
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Co-founder of the award-winning independent publisher SOHO Press, Laura Hruska was also an attorney and novelist who published under her maiden name, Laura Chapman. A lifelong lover of books and story, Laura discovered talented writers who have gone on to have long and productive careers, including MacArthur Fellow Edwidge Danticat and best-selling mystery writers Cara Black and Jacqueline Winspear, to name a few. The Laura Hruska Fellowship is open to writers of literary fiction, mystery fiction or young adult fiction. The winner will be chosen based on a combination of a strong voice, compelling story and quality writing. Please submit thirty to fifty pages of your novel, a rough synopsis and a list of any writing awards, citations, credits or residencies, as well as up-to-date contact information for three references who can talk about you and your work. Deadline to apply: September 1, 2018. Mail your application materials, along with a cover letter explaining why you think you would be a good fit for a Wellstone Center in the Redwoods residency, to [email protected] and please put “Hruska Fellowship” in the subject heading. The fellow will come to the Wellstone Center for two weeks in October, November or early 2019, the specific dates to be determined.
Located at the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods in the heart of the Santa Cruz Mountains, run by Sarah Ringler and best-selling author Steve Kettmann, the fellowship provides a room and evening meals for the selected writer for fourteen days, starting on a Monday. The writer can also participate in Wellstone offerings, including weekly yoga; our low-key Tuesday night open readings; and a Wednesday morning nature hike on the private trails extending back behind the Center into the Santa Cruz Mountains. The fellow will also receive a half-hour consultation with current Soho Press Publisher Bronwen Hruska – not a detailed manuscript discussion, but a chance to ask general questions, either in person or on the phone, depending on availability. Writing residencies can jump-start a writer to make dramatic progress. The Wellstone Center in the Redwoods offers immersion in an environment of spectacular beauty sure to inspire any writer not only to find new directions to make progress with a writing project, but also a chance to escape the distractions of normal day-to-day life. The resident writers will stay in the Zen Suite, with a balcony looking down on the forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains and, in the distance, Monterey Bay, and a rear exit toward a grove of redwoods. ABOUT THE WELLSTONE CENTER Founded in 2012 by Sarah Ringler and Steve Kettmann, the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods writers’ retreat center was named to San Francisco Magazine‘s 2013 “Best of the Bay” issue and has been extolled in the San Jose Mercury News as “kind of like heaven” for writers, and in the San Francisco Chronicle as a “the kind of place where inspiration seems to just hang in the air, waiting to be inhaled,” and also featured in the Wall Street Journal and Good Times. Our books, published through our Wellstone Books imprint, have attracted attention at the New Yorker and in The New York Times. |
Summer Poetry Retreat in Umbria, Italy with Kim Addonizio
Mon, Jun 4, 2018,8:00 AM - Mon, Jun 18, 2018,8:00 AM |
Join poet Kim Addonizio for a two week writer's retreat in Umbria, Italy. Kim has published 13 books--poetry collections, novels, and books on poetry--which have been translated into multiple languages. She has received fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation, two Pushcart Prizes, and was a National Book Award Finalist for her collection Tell Me. For more, visit http://www.kimaddonizio.com.
Everything but airfare is included in the cost of the workshop: room, amazing food and wine, trips to surrounding hill towns and literary sites, and creative feedback. Once you are at La Romita, a former monastery in the Umbrian hills, there’s nothing to do but read, write, and enjoy. More information is available at http://www.laromita.org. Those interested should feel free to email Kim at [email protected] with any questions. |
New York Writers Workshop Pitch Conference
Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 9:30 AM - Sun, Apr 22, 2018, 12:30 PM |
NYWW PITCH CONFERENCE
New York Writers Workshop hosts three-day pitch conferences in New York City. The conferences, offered twice yearly, in the spring and fall, welcome writers of fiction, nonfiction, and YA with book-length manuscripts (or projects). With the guidance of New York Writers Workshop faculty, participants polish their pitches on Day One, then present them to three different editors from major publishing houses. Editors provide feedback and may request proposals and manuscripts after the conference. Conferences feature a panel discussion of literary agents on the morning of the second day. See Conference Leadership for a list of details on some of the agents, editors and publishing houses we work with. Editors this conference: tba--check back in mid-March Agents this conference: tba--check back in mid-March CONFERENCE INFO Date: April 20 - 22, 2018 Location: Ripley-Grier Studios (NY Spaces), 520 Eighth Ave (36th/37th), 16th Fl Cost: Early Bird Special through April 1, $495; after April 1, $550 Register: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3224811 (pending acceptance) |
Jhumpa Lahiri Interview at NYU's Global Liberal Studies
Friday, March 30, 2018, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM |
On Friday morning, March 30, 2018, NYWW co-founder Tim Tomlinson interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri. The conversation ranges across questions dealing with Lahiri's career, her themes, and the concerns that guide her craft, including her relatively recent decision to write in Italian.
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SPECIAL WORKSHOP: MAKE YOUR OWN BOOK VIDEO TRAILER
Sunday, March 11, 2018, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM |
Craig Serling & Charles Salzberg
It's a noisy universe out there and getting an idea up on its feet in today's digital age sometimes requires a "sizzle" -- or what's become known as a pitch deck. Whether you have just finished your first manuscript, published your 10th novel, or just have that outline of an idea, this course will help you conceive and execute a multimedia tool to help communicate your story to potential buyers, agents, and publishers. With graphics and/or video, participants will conceive and develop a concept, and learn the steps required to produce it. There will be a one hour lunch break from noon to 1 pm Craig Serling is an award-winning producer, director and editor, who has worked for nearly every major television network (CBS, NBC, FOX) and cable outlet (Discovery Channel, Animal Planet) on some of television's most successful shows. He has been nominated for three primetime Emmy awards and is a former American Film Institute directing fellow. In film, Serling wrote and directed the award-winning feature "JAM" starring Jefferey Dean Morgan, Gina Torres, Jonathan Silverman and distributed by Showtime Networks. Other notable credits include the PBS documentary "American Heroes" and "Amazing Race." Serling is currently at work on a new feature film to be shot in New York City. Visit his website at: www.craigeserling.com/ Charles Salzberg is the author of more than twenty non-fiction books, including From Set Shot to Slam Dunk, and Soupy Sez: My Zany Life and Times, and has written for New York, Esquire, Redbook and The New York Times. He is also the author of the Shamus Award nominated Swann's Last Song, Swann Dives In, Swann's Lake of Despair, Swann's Way Out, and Devil in the Hole, which was named one of the best crime novels of 2013 by Suspense magazine. He is a Founding Member of the New York Writers Workshop. DATE: Sunday, March 11 TIME: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm PLACE: JCC of Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue (at 76th St.) Register |
POETRY-MUSIC COLLABORATION: A Workshop Intensive
Saturday, January 13, 2018, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
WORKSHOP IN POETRY-MUSIC COLLABORATION We’ll listen to some classic performances of poetry & jazz collaborations, dating back to the ‘30s with Langston Hughes poetry with jazz. Other poets and musicians of the 1960s with Beat Generation poets and their predecessors, Kenneth Rexroth and Kenneth Patchen. The listening will be accompanied by discussion of the value and difficulties of such collaborations/ performances. We’ll also talk about current performance and recording of poetry & music. Examples of hip-hop and rap music will be welcome. Then the workshop will turn to students practicing performance of their poetry. All the time remaining will belong to the students and their recitations and/or questions about all of the above.
THE INSTRUCTOR Barry Wallenstein is the author of eight collections of poetry, the most recent being At the Surprise Hotel and Other Poems [Ridgeway Press, 2016] and Drastic Dislocations: New and Selected Poems [New York Quarterly Books, 2012]. His poetry has appeared in over one hundred journals, including Ploughshares, The Nation, Centennial Review, and American Poetry Review. Among his awards are the Poetry Society of America’s Lyric Poetry Prize (1985), and Pushcart Poetry Prize Nominations 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2016. A special interest is his presentation of poetry readings in collaboration with jazz. He has made eight recordings of his poetry with music, most recently What Was, Was (Audioscope, 2015) and Lucky These Days (Cadence Jazz Records, 2013). He is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the City University of New York and an editor of the journal, American Book Review. www.barrywallenstein.com Location: Arts-on-Site, 12 St. Mark's Place, Studio 4F Register: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3182765 Contact: [email protected] |
ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES: Fiction Intensive
Thursday, December 14, 2017, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM |
ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES: FICTION INTENSIVE
In this three-hour intensive we will read and discuss short experimental works that operate outside the conventions of mainstream fiction. These will serve as prompts for you to write in session. Volunteers will share results for workshop critique. Participants are welcome to bring their own material to share and discuss. All are welcome, from beginners to experienced writers. Get up and do that writing you keep putting off! THE INSTRUCTOR Jade Sharma is the author of Problems, which the New York Times called “[a] novel about a heroin addict [that] shouldn’t be this much fun to read.” She has reviewed for the New York Times Book Review, and her work has appeared in Lit Hub, The Evergreen, and Your Unspeakable Voice. Sharma is also a celebrated teacher. One former student writes, “To have Jade Sharma as a writing teacher is a unique experience. Imagine a friend who never judges you and who has your back and who is in close communication with you. That’s Jade.” Location: Arts-on-Site, 12 St. Mark's Place, Studio 4F Register: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3182747 Contact: [email protected] |
NYWW @ RED ROOM: An evening with Soho Press
Thursday, November 2, 2017, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM |
AN EVENING WITH SOHO PRESS AND NEW YORK WRITERS WORKSHOP @ RED ROOM
NOVEMBER 2, 2017, 7:00 P.M.--85 EAST 4TH STREET (BTW 2ND & 3RD AVENUES, ONE FLIGHT ABOVE KGB BAR) Join Soho Press and the New York Writers Workshop for an evening of readings at the KGB Bar and Red Room on Thursday, November 2nd at 7:00 p.m.! Dale Peck is the author of fourteen books in a variety of genres, including Visions and Revisions, Martin and John, Hatchet Jobs, and Sprout. His fiction and criticism have appeared in dozens of publications, and have earned him two O. Henry Awards, a Pushcart Prize, a Lambda Literary Award, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. He lives in New York City, where he has taught in the New School’s Graduate Writing Program since 1999. Dan Josefson has received a Whiting Award, a Fulbright research grant and a Schaeffer Award from the International Institute of Modern Letters. He has an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of That’s Not a Feeling. He lives in Brooklyn, and works at a book club for children’s literature. Gina Apostol is the PEN/Open Award and two-time National Book Award (Phillipines) winning author of Gun Dealers’ Daughter, Bibliolepsy, and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata. Her short stories have appeared in various anthologies and journals, including “The Gettysburg Review” and the Penguin anthology of Asian American fiction, Charlie Chan is Dead, Volume 2. |
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Hal Ackerman: Write Screenplays That Sell
Thursday, October 12, 2017, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM |
Hal Ackerman: Write Screenplays That Sell
The Drama Book Shop is pleased to welcome author Hal Ackerman to celebrate the 15th edition of his popular book, Write Screenplays That Sell – the Ackerman Way. Ackerman will discuss his methods and the art of screenwriting on Thursday, October 12th 2017 at 6pm. The discussion will be followed by a signing. Admission is free and open to the public. You don’t have to attend film school to take a screenwriting course with the master teacher in the field – it’s all in his book! Meet Hal Ackerman, up close and personal, just as hundreds of his students have known him through the years. Hal Ackerman offers a treasure trove of information on the writing of quality, saleable screenplays by teaching the art of story structure, substance and style. Over the last quarter century, dozens of screenplays written in his classes have been sold and several have become films, including ones starring Tom Hanks (directed by Steven Spielberg), Gwyneth Paltrow, Christian Bale, Hilary Swank and Diane Lane. They have won accolades in many prestigious contests and have been the gateway scripts to writing jobs in feature films and TV including HBO, Showtime, TNT, OWN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Disney, and more. With this book every professional writer gets a lifetime collaborator and every aspiring writer has a teacher in residence on his or her shelf. An accomplished screenwriter, playwright, novelist, author and educator, Hal Ackerman joined the faculty at the acclaimed UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television in 1985. He taught in the screenwriting program for thirty years, the last decade as Co-Area head. Ackerman has nurtured, mentored and collaborated with hundreds of aspiring screenwriting students, many of whom have gone on to successful, award-winning careers in the industry. Hal Ackerman is emeritus Co-Area Head of the UCLA Screenwriting program. His book has guided the careers of scores of successful writers. He has sold original material to all the major studio and networks. He has had numerous short stories published in literary journals. Belle & Melinda was selected by Robert Olen Butler as the World’s Best Short Short story for Southeast Review. TESTOSTERONE: How Prostate Cancer Made A Man of Me won the William Saroyan Centennial Prize for drama. Under its new title, PRICK, it won BEST SCRIPT at the 2011 United Solo Festival. Ackerman’s Roof Garden, published by Kindle, won the Warren Adler 2008 award for fiction. Alfalfa was included in the anthology I Wanna Be Sedated ... 30 Writers on Parenting Teenagers. He has also published two successful novels in a detective series about an aging counterculture P.I. Stein, Stoned, which won the Lovey award for best first novel in 2010. It was followed in 2011 by Stein, Stung. The Drama Book Shop, currently celebrating its 100th Anniversary Year, is located at 250 West 40th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. Events are free and open to the public. For more information, or to browse the shop's online bookstore, visit www.dramabookshop.com. Event date: Thursday, October 12, 2017 - 6:00pm Event address: 250 w 40th Street NY NW Write Screenplays That Sell: The Ackerman Way (Paperback) By Hal Ackerman $21.95 ISBN: 9781931290654 Availability: On Our Shelves Now Published: Tallfellow Press - September 10th, 2017 |
Writing the Addict: A Multi-Genre Workshop in the Representation of Addiction
Fri, Oct 6, 2017, 3:30 PM - Wed, Nov 1, 2017, 4:30 PM |
In this six-week online course, participants consider the ways that addiction has been written about in poetry, memoir, and fiction, then borrow premises and strategies to launch their own work. The first week looks at a number of angles on addiction. Weeks two through five trace an arc: early experiences, deeper involvement, bottoming out, getting out. We’ll see instances of tolerance, withdrawal, relapse, craving. We’ll look at a few examples that deal specifically with various steps of Twelve-Step recovery. In each section, participants will be asked to write their own accounts, based on the craft or the content (or both) of the samples under consideration. The sixth and final week will look at methods of revision, consolidation, and publication. Workshop critique guidelines will establish methods of manuscript analysis. Each participant will receive at least one extensive analysis from the instructor. By the end of the sessions, participants will have an overview of addiction as it’s appeared in prose and poetry, along with several drafts-in-progress (of prose or poetry), one or more of which might lead completed, publishable work. [Models for course work will derive from some of the following sources: Ann Marlowe, D. Watkins, Kim Addonizio, Solomon Jones, Mary Gaitskill, Robert Bingham, Emily Carter, Raymond Carver, Jeet Thayil, others.]
DATES Oct 6 – Nov 17: six online sessions COST Early Bird $215 – now thru 9/15 General $245 – 9/15 on Register: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3067328 BIO Tim Tomlinson is co-founder of New York Writers Workshop, co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing, and author of the poetry collections Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse, and Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire. His collection of short fiction, This Is Not Happening to You, appears in Fall 2017. His work has been published in Australia, China, Singapore, the Philippines, and in many venues in the US, including the anthologies Long Island Noir (Akashic Books), and the Brooklyn Poets Anthology (Brooklyn Arts Press). He’s offered workshops and given talks at many international locations, recently including Guangzhou and Shanghai, China, Adelaide, Australia, and at the Philippines Consulate in New York City. He’s a certified yoga instructor, an avid scuba diver, and his past addresses include extended residencies in Shanghai, Manila, London, Florence, New Orleans, Boston, Miami, Andros Island, Bahamas, Manhattan, and Brooklyn, where he currently lives with his wife. He’s a member of Asia Pacific Writers & Translators. He teaches writing workshops and hybrid seminars on addiction in NYU’s Global Liberal Studies program. |
READING at Red Room
Thursday, October 5, 2017, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM |
Ali Cobby Eckermann Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal poet Ali Cobby Eckermann is the author of seven books, including the verse novel Ruby Moonlight, the poetry collection Inside My Mother, and the memoir Too Afraid to Cry. In 2017 she was awarded Yale University’s Windham Campbell Prize in Poetry.
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is a Liberian civil war survivor who immigrated to the United States with her family in 1991 during the fourteen year Liberian civil war. She is the author of five books of poetry: When the Wanderers Come Home, (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), Where the Road Turns (Autumn House Press, 2010), The River is Rising (Autumn House Press, 2007), Becoming Ebony, (Southern Illinois University Press, 2003) and Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa (New Issues Press, 1998). She is also the author of a children’s book, In Monrovia, the River Visits the Sea, (One Moore Books, 2012) Her poem, “One Day: Love Song for Divorced Women” was selected by US Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser, as an American Life in Poetry June 13, 2011 featured poem. Patricia has won several awards and grants, including a 2016 WISE Women Award from Blair County, Pennsylvania, 2011 President’s Award from the Blair County NAACP, the 2010 Liberian Award for her poetry and her mentorship of young Liberians in the Diaspora, a Penn State University AESEDA Collaborative Grant for her research on Liberian Women's Trauma stories from the Civil War, a 2002 Crab Orchard Award for her second book of poems, a World Bank Fellowship, among others. Her poems have been nominated twice for the Pushcart Awards. Her individual poems and memoir articles have been anthologized and published in literary magazines in the US, in South America, Africa and Europe, and her work has been translated in Spanish and Finnish. Patricia holds a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University. She is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Penn State University’s Altoona campus. A short story writer, novelist and memoirist, Roberta Allen is the author of nine books. Her latest is the story collection The Princess of Herself (Pelekinesis Press). Over 300 of her stories have been published in such magazines as Conjunctions, Guernica, Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail and The Collagist, among many others. She is also a conceptual artist in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum. www.robertaallen.com Tim Tomlinson is co-founder of New York Writers Workshop and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. He is also the author of Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse, Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire (poetry), and This Is Not Happening to You (short fiction), which he’ll be launching at tonight’s reading. His work has appeared in Australia, China, Singapore, and the Philippines, and is anthologized in the Brooklyn Poets Anthology, Long Island Noir, and We Contain Multitudes: Twelve Years of Softblow. He teaches in the Global Liberal Studies Program, NYU. |
READING at Red Room
Thursday, September 7, 2017, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM |
Suzanne Maria Menghraj teaches writing and arts criticism in NYU's Liberal Studies program. She is currently at work on a collection of essays on art and wilderness, as well as experimental translations of French literary criticism and an Italian novel. A former contributing writer for Guernica, her essays have appeared or will soon appear in Flyway: A Journal of Writing and Environment, Writing on the Edge, and Punctuate. Suzanne lives in Brooklyn and grew up in the Bronx and in Queens. Her family hails from Trinidad, an island that often figures in her work.
Carley Moore is the author of 16 Pills, a collection of personal essays forthcoming from Tinderbox Editions in December 2017, Portal Poem, a poetry chapbook from Dancing Girl Press, and The Stalker Chronicles, a young adult novel published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2012. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Brainchild, The Brooklyn Rail, The Establishment, GUTS, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Nervous Breakdown, and Public Books. She is a Clinical Professor of Writing in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University and a Senior Associate at Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking. James Polchin’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming from The Smart Set, The New Inquiry, Painted Bride Quarterly, Lambda Literary Review, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, DUCTS and Brevity. He has taught writing at Princeton University, The American University in Washington, D.C., and the New School for Public Engagement. He is Clinical Professor in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University. Stephen Policoff's 1st novel, BEAUTIFUL SOMEWHERE. ELSE, won the James Jones Award and was published by Caroll & Graf in 2004. His 2nd novel, COME AWAY, won the Dzanc Mid-Career Author Award and was published by Dzanc Books in 2014. His fiction and essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Provincetown Arts, Sunday Stories,and many other publications. He is Clinical Professor of Writing in Global Liberal Studies at NYU. |
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Philippine Readers & Writers Festival @ Raffles, Makati
Stories Worth Telling: Rules for Writing Fiction Tim Tomlinson moderates a panel with Dean Francis Alfar, Maria L.M. Fres-Felix, and VJ Campilan. |
Book Proposal Essentials
Sunday, August 13, 2017, 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
COURSE
You've put time and effort and life lived into writing your non-fiction book. Now, to get it to the next level, you're going to need a book proposal. Whether or not you've completed your manuscript, understanding what goes into a book proposal is key. Your proposal is the marketing document that will introduce your idea to an agent, and ultimately a publisher. It's like a brochure for your book, with a fairly standard formula. Of course, you could look this formula up online and start typing, but in this course you'll get personal, constructive feedback on shaping yours. You'll come away with ideas for putting the strongest elements of your book forward. As a marketing professional with more than 20 years' experience building national and international brands, I understand the strategy behind book proposals. As a published author and freelance writer, I also know first-hand how hard it is to market one's own work. In this class, I'll show you what those essential elements are, and we'll talk about your project in particular to help you create a clear idea of what your book is about in order to attract an agent. BIO As a freelance journalist, Lisa L. Kirchner placed essays, articles, and stories with outlets such as The Washington Post, Salon.com, xoJane.com, Budget Travel, and The New York Post among numerous others. In her day job she led marketing efforts for The Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Tribeca Film Festival. That experience enabled her to craft a book proposal and a plan that resulted in the publication of her book, Hello American Lady Creature (Greenpoint Press), as well as features on FOX! News, NPR stations, BBC Radio, Glamour, Yahoo! Shine, and Bustle, to name a few. More at LisaLKirchner. To Register: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3048108 |