In addition to the numerous free creative writing workshops we provide to unheard New Yorkers, NYWC offers a limited number of workshops open to the general public. Funds raised through these workshops support the rest of our programming.

Fort Greene, Brooklyn Workshop
Tuesday night workshop led by Aaron Zimmerman (read bio)

Spring Session: Seven Tuesdays, 7:15 PM to 9:30
May 11 - June 22
$280

Workshops take place at NYWC’s offices in Fort Greene, 80 Hanson Place. To register, calling 718-398-2883 or email aaron@nywriterscoalition.org. Space is limited and advance registration is required.

Gramercy Park Workshop
Tuesday night workshop led by Margaret Lubalin

Spring Session: Eight Tuesdays, 7:15 PM to 9:30 PM
May 4 - June 22
$320

Workshops take place at the home of Margaret Lubalin in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan. To register, call 212-689-5525 or email Margaret at mlubalin@nyc.rr.com. Space is limited and advance registration is required.

Margaret Lubalin has been a copywriter and advertising Creative Director for over 20 years. She is also a poet, book artist and general life observer. Margaret has taught writing and book-making classes at the Society of Scribes, The Ink Pad and in the Reading Program at P.S. 96. For the past two years she’s lead a NYWC writing workshop at Inwood House, a residence for pregnant teens. Margaret studied creative writing at The New School, in a variety of writers groups and at the New York Writers Coalition. She has authored and self-published two books of poetry, “Openings” and “Harvest” and has had several of her poems published by Plum Biscuit, the NYWC online literary magazine. She also has the rare distinction of inventing the “poem mobile.”