NYWC is one of the largest community writing organizations in the country. NYWC creates opportunities for formerly voiceless members of society to be heard through the art of writing. We provide free, unique and powerful creative writing workshops throughout New York City for people from groups that have been historically deprived of voice in our society, including at-risk and disconnected youth, the homeless and formerly homeless, the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated, war veterans, people with disabilities, cancer and major illness, immigrants, seniors and others.  Since emerging in 2002, NYWC has won awards from the Union Square Awards and Petra Foundation, and received program grants from local and national funders including Time Warner, the Pinkerton Foundation, Independence Community Foundation, Hot Topic Foundation, the Kalliopeia Foundation, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the NY State Council on the Arts and others. Our workshop participants have been featured on The New York Times Blog, WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show and The Huffington Post, in stories about NYWC.

As Part of Immigrant Heritage Week, NYWC continues our quarterly reading series at Greenlight Book Store. This reading will feature poet and novelist Sinan Antoon (Baghdad Blues, Harbor Mountain Press and I’jam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, City Light Books) along side Immigrant NYWC workshop members.

April 19, 2010
Greenlight Book Store
686 Fulton St.Fort Greene, Brooklyn
7:30pm

Readers:

Sinan Antoon
Luz Aguirre
Aidan Amog
Abdel Baidhani
Jacqueline Carter-Cutting
Yasuko Nasasawa

Thanks to everyone who came out to our fourth annual Red and Black Party! Here are some photographs from the event.

All photographs were taken by Demond Waters.