NYWW in Mexico 2023 Cancelled 
featuring Kim Addonizio, Danny Caron, Andrea Muriel, Ravi Shankar, & Tim Tomlinson 
CANCELLATION
We'll get this conference, with these writers and these locations, back on the docket in the near future. For now, with great regret, we've had to cancel. Please check back for updates on future NYWW offerings and retreats. 
Mexico City—May 21-May 28
Workshops M-W-F mornings, T-Th-S afternoons. Downtime is for private writing time and exploration of Mexico City. Workshops will be led by Kim Addonizio (poetry), Ravi Shankar (poetry/memoir), and Tim Tomlinson (prose), with special sessions featuring Kim & guitarist/arranger Danny Caron (on setting poetry & prose to music), and Kim, Ravi, and local poet/translator Andrea Muriel (on translation). CDMX Workshops will be held in Somos Voces bookshop and cultural center in the Juarez section. NYWW will host three events:  an orientation/reception in Hotel Geneve, reading/panel/talks with local poets and writers, and a dinner midway through the week.

Workshops
The M-W-F sessions will offer two workshops, beginning at 9:30 or 10:00 AM and ending by 1:00 or 1:30 PM.
The T-Th-S sessions will offer a workshop followed by a panel or reading featuring NYWW faculty and local writers.  

The fee includes:
  • Welcome reception in Hotel Geneve, w/wine, beer, soft drinks, canapes.
  • One lunch service, and all coffee service provided @ Somos Voces.
  • Mid-week dinner hosted by NYWW.
  • All panels, workshops, readings.
The fee does not include:
  • airfare
  • hotel/accommodations
  • meals (other than noted above)
  • other transportation
Local scholars will be available to lead groups to various cultural centers, including the Frida Kahlo Museum.
 
The Cost—Mexico City Only
  • Early Bird Registration (through March 21, 2023): $1295
  • After March 21: $1450
  • [former NYWW conferees take an addition $45 off = $1250 Early Bird/$1405 after March 21]
  • Register via this paypal link: NYWW CDMX Only *
  • *NOTE: the link will read "Donate to New York Writers Resources, Inc." -- that's correct
  • or write to newyorkwritersworkshop@gmail.com to send check or make other payment arrangement
 
Valladolid (Yucatan)—May 28-June 2
Valladolid is the small city that the tourists miss: surrounded by jungle, Mayan ruins, and an abundance of cenotes, it's the site of a major Mayan uprising  against the Spaniards and has through this day maintained traditional Mayan culture, with many locals speaking Mayan and wearing traditional clothing. Every Sunday locals  gather on the town square for traditional music and dance. Most of the small restaurants and pensions serve traditional food exclusively.

Workshops M-T-W-Th late afternoon/early evening. Each morning/afternoon is devoted to private writing time, individual consultations, and/or exploration of Valladolid and surroundings (Ek Balam, cenotes, chapels, and museums).
Valladolid Workshops will be held on the rooftop of Hotel Mesōn del Marquēs.   
NYWW will host one reading/panel/event at the hotel.
The fee includes:
  • Welcome reception in Hotel Mesōn del Marquēs, w/wine, beer, soft drinks, canapes.
  • Mid-week excursion to Ek Balam and cenote, w/lunch hosted by NYWW.
  • All panels, workshops, readings.
  • transfer from Cancun airport to hotel.​
The fee does not include:
  • airfare btw CDMX and Cancun
  • hotel/accommodations
  • meals (other than noted above)
  • return to Cancun airport 
  • other transportation
Local guides will be available to lead groups to various cultural centers and locations in and around Valladolid.
 
The Cost
Valladolid Only: $550
CDMX + Valladolid: $1845 (Early Bird until March 21, 2023)
After March 21: $1985
  • Register via this link: NYWW Valladolid Only*
  • Register via this link: NYWW CDMX + V*​
  • *NOTE: the link will read "Donate to New York Writers Resources, Inc." -- that's correct
  • or write to newyorkwritersworkshop@gmail.com for details to send check or make other (Zelle or Venmo) payment arrangement
 
Scholarships
NYWW in Mexico offers three scholarship slots for international writers (or prose and/or poetry) under thirty. To apply, send a cover letter to newyorkwritersworkshop@gmail.com. In the cover letter, provide (in the body of the email) an artist statement of ≈ 500 words. Attach a sample of your work (five poems/ten pages max; one story/chapter/excerpt ten pages max; one lyric essay/creative nonfiction ten pages max; three flash fictions ten pages max). Label the email subject line: SCHOLARSHIP NYWW Mexico. Label the attachment: YOUR NAME, NYWW Mexico.
  • One scholarship will cover all expenses except air fare to and from CDMX.
  • Two other scholarships will offer 50% reduction in tuition.
  • Scholarships are for NYWW in Mexico City only; the Valladolid leg of the conference is not included (but scholars are welcome to attend at the registration cost). 
 
Questions: please write to newyorkwritersworkshop@gmail.com.

Daily Workshops in poetry, prose, spoken word, & translation; readings, performances, and panel discussions with NYWW faculty and local writers. 
Workshops held at Somos Voces: Libros, Café y Cultura (Calle Niza #23A 06600) in the vibrant Juárez section of CDMX. 

Faculty bios [click the name]

NYWW conferences past.
NYWW in Athens: May 22 - May 29
Seven nights in boutique hotels, workshops at the Old University of Athens, visit to Delphi, readings/events in temples and ruins.

NEWSFLASH April 9: Australian novelist Julia Prendergast (The Earth Does Not Get Fat) joins faculty for NYWW in Athens & NYWW in Hydra. 
In Athens, Dr Prendergast will offer a workshop featuring her pioneer methodologies involving ideasthetic imagining.  She'll also participate in Stories on the Couch, for which Dr Vasilis Manousakis will apply psychoanalysis to stories, characters (and authors!). On Hydra, she'll offer a talk on ex-pat Australian authors Charmian Clift, George Johnston and their influence on the Leonard Cohen circle. 
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Picturel to r: E.R. Pulgar, Ashley Somwaru, Dean Kerrison

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THE SCHEDULE*
May 22: Arrival -- NYWW hosted dinner, introduction to faculty, staff, orientation
May 23 - 24: Morning/afternoon workshops (in prose, poetry, translation); 1-2 days free. ​Evening events.
May 25: Morning free, afternoon workshop followed by panel/reading. NYWW hosted dinner.
May 26: Trip to Delphi, tour of temple and ruins, NYWW hosted lunch, workshop in temple/ruins.
May 27: Morning workshops; afternoon free. Evening panel/reading.
May 28: Morning free; late afternoon workshop, followed by panel, reading, dinner/celebration/collaborations hosted by Hellenic Foundation for Culture.
May 29: Depart -- for NYWW in Hydra (see † below for details), or home, or elsewhere.
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*Keynote addresses will be offered by our featured guest writer, Kim Addonizio, and by a local writer (details tk).

Breakfast is included at all locations. NYWW will host three dinners: Sunday welcome, Wednesday celebration, and Saturday farewell, and two lunches, at our workshop location, the Old University of Athens, and in Delphi. For all other meals, participants are free to explore the many rich options available--suggestions from locals will always be available.
All our accommodations are in Plaka, in close (walking) proximity to each other, to the University of Athens, and to the Acropolis and Acropolis Museum.
They are: Home & Poetry, Acropolis Select, and the Adams Hotel.   
Our sessions will be joined by local authors and students. Local authors as well as our team will offer readings and craft talks, and local writers/students will be integrated in as many activities as possible. 
On Sunday, May 29, we say goodbye to Athens, and some of us will continue, by ferry, to the nearby island of Hydra (see † below).
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SCHOLARSHIPS for International Writers Under Thirty
Three scholarship winners for NYWW in Athens:



E.R. Pulgar is a Venezuelan American poet, journalist, editor and translator based in New York City. Their criticism has appeared in i-D, Rolling Stone, Playboy, and elsewhere. Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Epiphany, PANK Magazine and b l u s h. They have designed interdisciplinary writing courses for Catapult, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, and The New York Public Library. They run Endless Blue, a monthly queer salon and reading series at the Bowery Poetry Club. 
Ashley Somwaru is an Indo-Caribbean woman who was born and raised in Queens, New York. She received an MFA in poetry from CUNY Queens College. Somwaru has published a chapbook with Ghostbird Press in 2021 titled, Urgent \\ Where The Mind Goes \\ Scattered. Previous work can be seen in Honey Literary, Solstice, SWWIM, The Margins, VIDA Review, and elsewhere.
Dean Kerrison is an Australian who can be a bit of a rascal if he’s had enough sleep but the tone of his writing doesn’t always reflect that. His work often focuses on the (dis)connection of the outsider in foreign lands and has been published in TEXT Journal, Meniscus, The Bangalore Review, Joao Roque Literary Journal, Usawa Literary Review, The Incompleteness Book II, The Lit Quarterly, Allegory Ridge, among others.

NYWW offers one full scholarship (covers everything but airfare), and two partial scholarships. To apply, write to newyorkwritersworkshop@gmail. In your cover letter, tell us where you're at in your writing, and attach a sample (5-8 pp prose, 5 poems). We'll announce scholarship winners in February. Apply here: NYWW in Athens Scholarships for Writers Under Thirty.  

Scroll down to meet our local scholars, Marina Galanou and Rami Alexios Ampou-Chantizi

​Cost: $2985* (includes workshops, accommodations, events)
Early Bird Special: $2875 (thru Feb 14, 2022)
*for Sardinia Conference participants: $2675
*for APWT members: $2745
DEPOSIT: $500 (Full Payment Due by March 15, 2022)
Refund Policy: Full Refund until April 1, 2022; 50% until April 15; 25% Refund until May 1; after May 1, no refund

Register: to avoid fees and other irritations, we recommend using Paypal (button below), especially if you're registering from outside the US. If you need to wire transfer, write to newyorkwritersworkshop@gmail.com for details; wire transfers may be subject to an additional fee.  
† The Hydra Supplement: Five Nights (May 29 - June 3)
When NYWW in Athens closes, NYWW in Hydra opens. On May 29, we board a ferry for nearby Hydra, the island famous for its arts, beaches, and Leonard Cohen's long-time residency. On the island, faculty and participants will stay in several Douskos properties: the Port House, the Guest House, and the Beach House. Each is either at or near the port and beaches, each is within walking distance of the others. We'll continue to gather in the mornings and late afternoons for workshops, panels, and readings (in the same spaces where Leonard Cohen and Australian ex-pat writers Charmian Clift & George Johnston gathered). We'll also intersect with some of the island's cultural events and host one of our own. NYWW will host one dinner on the island. 

Cost:
  • $845 (for those who've signed on for NYWW in Athens) 
  • $1025 (for those signing on only for NYWW in Hydra)

DEPOSIT: $500 (Full Payment Due by March 15, 2022)
Refund Policy: Full Refund until April 1, 2022; 50% until April 15; 25% Refund until May 1; after May 1, no refund

  
The Faculty*
  • ​Kim Addonizio is the author of seven poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award. She also has two word/music CDS: Swearing, Smoking, Drinking, & Kissing (with Susan Browne) and My Black Angel, the companion to My Black Angel: Blues Poems and Portraits, a collaboration with woodcut artist Charles D. Jones.   Her poetry has been translated into several languages including Spanish, Arabic, Italian, and Hungarian. Collections have been published in China, Spain, Mexico, Lebanon, and the UK. Addonizio’s awards include two fellowships from the NEA, a Guggenheim, two Pushcart Prizes, and other honors. Her latest books are a poetry collection, Mortal Trash (W.W. Norton), and a memoir, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin). A new book of poems, Now We’re Getting Somewhere, was published by W.W. Norton (March 2021).
  • Moira Egan A resident of Rome, Italy, Moira Egan earned a BA from Bryn Mawr College, an MA from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, and an MFA from Columbia University, where James Merrill chose her graduate manuscript for the David Craig Austin Prize. Her most recent collection, Synæsthesium (2017), won The New Criterion Poetry Prize. Previous books published in the U.S. are Hot Flash Sonnets  (2013); Spin (2010); Bar Napkin Sonnets (2009), which won the 2008 Ledge Poetry Chapbook Competition; and Cleave (2004). In Italy, three bilingual collections, with translations by her husband, Damiano Abeni, have appeared: Olfactorium (2018), Botanica Arcana / Strange Botany (2014), and La Seta della Cravatta / The Silk of the Tie (2009). She has also translated (with Damiano Abeni) the work of several authors into Italian, including volumes by John Ashbery, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Simic, Mark Strand, and Charles Wright. Egan has had writing residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (as a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellow), the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, and the James Merrill House. She teaches Creative Writing at the St. Stephen’s School in Rome. 
  • Damiano Abeni is an epidemiologist. He has been translating American poetry since 1973, when he spent a year in Arizona. He collaborates with numerous publishing houses and literary magazines, and is an honorary citizen on cultural merits of the cities of Tucson, Arizona, and Baltimore, Maryland. He lives in Rome with his wife, the poet Moira Egan.
  • Vasilis Manousakis is a short-story writer, poet and translator, whose work has appeared in New American Writing, Hayden's Ferry Review, Barcelona Ink, Parentheses and Drunken Boat among others. He writes reviews and translates poetry and short stories for literary magazines and e-zines. He has been one of the founding members of Bonsai Stories, the blog directly linked to Planodion literary magazine. The blog is dedicated to Flash Fiction and work from many well-known writers from Greece, the United States and other countries has appeared there. These flash stories have been collected in two printed volumes so far and a special tribute to 9/11 stories has appeared in a third volume, in which Vasilis was in the editorial committee. He holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary American Poetry and currently teaches Creative Writing, Modern Poetry, Short Fiction and Literary Translation at the Hellenic American College, Athens, Greece. His focus on the human thought and behavior in his writings has led him to a Master's Program in Mental Health Counselling and he holds individual and group sessions with clients, specialising in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.  
  • Julia Prendergast is a writer of short and long-form fiction. She lives and works in Melbourne, Australia, on unceded Wurundjeri land. Julia’s novel, The Earth Does Not Get Fat, was published in 2018 and longlisted for the Indie Book Awards for debut fiction. Her short stories have been recognised and published: Lightship Anthology International Short Story Competition (UK), Ink Tears International Short Story Competition (UK), Glimmer Train International Short Story Competition (US), Séan Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition (IE), TEXT, Elizabeth Jolley Prize, Josephine Ulrick Prize (AU). Julia’s short story collection is forthcoming (October 2022). Julia is Senior Lecturer and Discipline Coordinator (Writing) at Swinburne University. She is Chair of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP), the peak academic body representing the discipline of Creative Writing in Australasia. Julia is a practice-led researcher—an enthusiastic supporter of transdisciplinary, open and collaborative research practices, with a particular interest in neuropsychoanalytic approaches to writing and creativity. Her research has appeared in various publications including New Writing (UK), TEXT (AU), Testimony Witness Authority: The Politics and Poetics of Experience (UK).
  • Ravi Shankar Pushcart-prize winning poet, author, editor, translator, and professor, Ravi Shankar is the author and editor of over fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry, including the Many Uses of Mint: New and Selected Poems: 1998-2018 (Recent Works Press); W.W. Norton & Co.'s Language for a New Century called a "beautiful achievement for world literature" by Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer; the Muse India Award winning translations of 8th century Tamil poet/saint Autobiography of a Goddess (Zubaan/University of Chicago Press); the National Poetry Review Prize winning Deepening Groove; the Carolina Wren judges award winning What Else Could it Be; and the finalist for the Connecticut Book Awards Instrumentality, poems from which have appeared around the world. Translated into over 12 languages and recipient of a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner as well as winner of the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, Shankar has taught at such institutions as Columbia University, Fairfield University, the City University of Hong Kong and the University of Sydney. He has held fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Jentel Foundation, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Blue Mountain Center and many others. Recipient of numerous grants and awards, including multiple "Excellence-in-Teaching Awards," his students have gone on to publish dozens of books of their own. Granted fellowships by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Rhode Island State Commission on the Arts, Shankar has been featured in The New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, BBC, NPR and the PBS Newshour. His essays have appeared in such places as the Georgia Review, the Hartford Courant, and for the Poetry Society of America. He has been featured at the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, Poetry International and he founded one of the world's oldest electronic journals of the arts, Drunken Boat, winner of a South-by-Southwest Web Award. He currently teaches for the New York Writers Workshop and lives a nomadic existence centered around Boston, Massachusetts and Sydney, Australia. In addition to performances and lectures, he is available for individual consultancy, workshops, editing and mentoring services around the world. 
  • Tim Tomlinson’s books include Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire (poetry), This Is Not Happening to You (short fiction), The Portable MFA in Creative Writing (as co-author), and the chapbook Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse. Recent work appears in Another Chicago Magazine, Joao Roque Literary Journal, Litro, and Telephone: A Game of Art Whispered Around the World (Crosstown Press). He’s traveled heavily throughout the Asia-Pacific region, and has lived in China, the Philippines, and Thailand. He’s a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop, and a professor in NYU’s Global Liberal Studies. 
 *we will be joined by local poets, writers, some ex-pats, some native Greeks

GETTING THERE
If you're traveling from the US, we recommend the Tzell Travel Group. For NYWW in Sardinia 2020, Tzell handled air bookings for many of the participants and everyone was pleased with the outcomes.
Contact Tzell Travel Group​ 
Local scholar Marina Galanou will join us in Athens.
Local Scholar Rami Alexios Ampou-Chantizi will join us in Athens.
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Marina Galanou, Rami Alexios Ampou-Chantizi
Marina Galanou earned a BA English Language and Literature, with a minor in psychology from the Hellenic American College. In 2019, she received the President’s Award for Student  Leadership. At the University of Nottingham, UK, she earned an MA in Stylistics, where she wrote her dissertation on pragmatics and theater. She  would like to continue her studies and pursue a PhD in Theater, as well as an academic career.
 
Rami Alexios Ampou-Chantitzi, aka James Kingston, holds a BA in English Language and Literature from Hellenic American University, with a minor in theater. He’s been writing long and short forms of fiction in English and in Greek since childhood, and he’s excited to bring those interests to the New York Writers Workshop Conference in Athens, May 2022. Rami says, εγγραφείτε σήμερα υπάρχουν ακόμα θέσεις!