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Fiction Bootcamp

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Are you an aspiring writer who is just getting started? A practicing writer who wants to recharge your creative battery? Focus on brainstorming and new writing. Each class is split between guided writing exercises, discussions of published stories from the perspective of craft and creative problem-solving discussions. Get a handle on voice, character, pacing and how to generate ideas when you’re feeling stumped. Writers of all levels are welcome....

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$250

5 sessions

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Fiction Studio Session

Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY

Interested in learning how to write fiction? An experienced fiction writer who wants to hone her craft? Want to take a writing class but not ready to workshop a story? An avid reader who wants to know how fiction is created? Newbies and long-term writers are welcome in this session to explore how authors use craft techniques to create exciting prose stories. Participants will complete at least two writing exercises—the first a warm-up writing...

(252) All levels 18 and older
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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.

(252) All levels 18 and older
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Reading Wallace Stevens with Lisa Goldfarb

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

“Words are the only melodeon,” Stevens proclaims in his “Adagia,” a collection of aphorisms about the art of poetry. One of the 20th century’s great musical poets, Stevens invites us to think about his often playful, meditative, and philosophical poems in relation to music. In this course, we will explore Stevens’s work (early to late verse, from Harmonium to The Rock) with particular focus on his multiple musical aspects:...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$495

17 sessions

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Young Adult Fiction with Coe Booth

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Through discussions of student work, in-class writing exercises and required readings, we will work on creating compelling works of young adult fiction. The main areas of focus will be deepening your characterization and uncovering the emotional truth in your stories. We will also work to strengthen your dialogue, setting and structure. Please Note: Before the first class, please read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$400

6 sessions

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Novel Writing: Stephen Wright

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Hone your novel in this yearlong course, which offers extended sessions for intensive workshopping with Wright, author of Processed Cheese.

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$445

7 sessions

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Elegy and Ode with David Yezzi

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Explore poetry’s divided duty—to celebrate, to commemorate—in this weekend intensive. Working from models by Elizabeth Bishop, John Keats, Pablo Neruda, Sappho and others, students will compose original poems and participate in group discussion. Special attention will be paid to the ways in which song underlies these age-old forms.

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$400

2 sessions

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Poetry with R.A. Villanueva

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Gerard Manley Hopkins once wrote in a letter that he wanted his poetry to embody “more wreck and less discourse.”   Detour away from the well-worn routines of workshop in these dynamic sessions. Rather than laboring to finish or fix drafts, our sessions will be devoted to generative bursts, improvisational drafts, and provocative conversations about language, memory, and the future of what we create. We will seek to unsettle habits...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$400

6 sessions

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Crash Course in Creative Brief Writing

Miami Ad School PRO @ 35-37 36th St, New York, NY

In this half day account planning workshop, you'll explore the strategic processes and techniques employed by the world's best creative agencies to get closer to consumers and write razor sharp briefs. Great creative work begins with a killer brief. It's not easy to develop creative briefs filled with insight, consumer understanding, and inspiration for your team. It takes time, hard work, and passion. Luckily, there's a process to unlocking this...

(2) All levels 18 and older
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$300
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Documentary Research and Writing: Finding the Story

Made in NY Media Center by IFP @ 30 John St, Brooklyn, NY

Documentaries often tell stories that unfold in real time, and filmmakers must expect twists and turns along the way. By the time you get to the editing stage, it’s too late to figure out what your story is. This one-day workshop will guide you through the process of developing your story and honing your character arcs, from the research process through to the edit. The aim of this course is to help you navigate the many decisions that go into...

(33) All levels 18 and older
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$125
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Write Your Personal Narrative (for Professional Use)

Robin Grearson Workshops @ 137 Varick St , New York, NY

This three-hour workshop will help freelancers, entrepreneurs and artists learn how to write personal stories for a professional audience. Through group discussion of biographies, “About Me” pages and mission statements, students learn to identify the way personal information is incorporated into marketing and professional communications. In-class writing exercises help students learn to structure narratives for use on websites and professional...

All levels 18 and older
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Wild Mind, Open Heart: Writing from the Source

Input Lofts (formerly WECREATE) @ 576 9th St, Brooklyn, NY

This class will be held at the beautiful New Leaf Yoga Studio in Park Slope, Brooklyn. In this workshop, we'll explore writing as an art form that often lies in contradiction: structure and no structure, movement and stillness, wildness and tameness. Utilizing yoga, heart opening exercises, African dance and movement we will tap into the depths of our creativity. You will leave the workshop with a range of practical tools, a broader perspective...

(160) All levels 16 and older
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$119
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Workshop: Story Structure in the YA Novel

Karmen Lizzul Writing Workshops @ 134 W 29th St, New York, NY

This workshop is for writers who want to write or are currently working on a novel. This workshop examines story structure in three contemporary YA novels.  Please read these three novels before the workshop. If you don't read the books you will still come away with some guidelines for developing your YA novel. Read the books and the experience will be much richer. "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson  "Brooklyn Burning" by Steve Brezenoff ...

All levels 18 and older
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Advanced Memoir with Cris Beam

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Many of us want to write memoirs, but families — good or bad — are loaded territory. Memories conflict with family lore; trauma in the past can trigger trouble in the present; and only the dead don’t mind when you spill their secrets. How do we navigate wisely, mining recollections without either slipping into solipsism or pandering to an imagined audience? In this class we’ll look at published writers who have done it, to trace their fault...

(1061) Advanced 18 and older
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$400

8 sessions

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Memoir with Michele Lent Hirsch

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Memoir lets us tell the stories we’ve been carrying around for years—the ones we've been wanting to share. Yet part of the magic of writing is that it helps us uncover other stories, too: ones we didn’t even know we had inside. Whether it springs from a long-ago family saga, a shift in our lives, or an encounter just last week that speaks to history or identity, memoir can help us find new aspects of ourselves, give others the chance to reflect...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$385

4 sessions

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Poetry with Emily Skillings

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

When we consider and write poetry we are often drawn towards inescapably large abstractions such as love, death, and time. What happens when we invest (obsessively, meticulously, and with deep care) in the concrete objects that populate our daily lives? In this four-week workshop we will consider how artists in multiple disciplines have made use of things and thingness, meditating on objects and the worlds and affiliations they create in us. ...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$385

4 sessions

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Reading Old English with Miller Oberman

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

While Seamus Heaney’s brilliant translation of Beowulf introduced a wider audience to the only Old English epic poem, most contemporary readers have not encountered the fascinating shorter lyrics written in Old English. This course invites readers into the ancient ruins of the English language, moving through some of the most beautiful poems in The Exeter Book, written about a thousand years ago. From the anonymous voices of longing...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$385

4 sessions

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Advanced Fiction with Teddy Wayne

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

In addition to workshopping our own fiction, we will read published stories that focus on different elements of craft: showing versus telling, point of view, characterization, dialogue and narrative. When we discuss the class’s creative output, we will strive to isolate these elements as much as possible, homing in on problematic areas. In addition, we will talk about publishing and how to begin a writing career. Novel excerpts are permitted....

(1061) Advanced 18 and older
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$400

6 sessions

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Playwriting with Christina Quintana

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Despite the myth of the “well-made play,” the most innovative theatrical works of our time prove there is no one way to write a great play. In this generative workshop, we’ll explore theatrical texts that challenge the boundaries of genre, experiment with audience invitation, and flood the stage with poetry, all the while pursuing first drafts of our own daring new plays.

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$385

4 sessions

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Memoir with Anya Yurchyshyn

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Our personal stories are a vital part of who we are. When we explore our stories by writing memoir, we have the opportunity to understand our experiences more deeply and give others a chance to reflect on theirs. In this course, students will produce and share original autobiographical work, examine aspects of craft such as voice, structure and narration, and engage in critical conversations around topics such as memory, truth (and “truth”),...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$385

4 sessions

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