See what some of our workshop participants have to say about the NYWC:

For me this workshop…“Is an escape from my home, my building. It’s my favorite day of the week because I get to meet up with my awesome friends. There is almost no limit to the imagination. Unlike in other places like school, I have a voice and people listen. In writing workshop, I am not alone. My friends all understand me….All these things is what the writing workshop is to me. My amazing friends and having a voice.”
-Brooklyn Public Library, Coney Island, workshop participant, age 15

This writing workshop has “…Given me permission to write,….permission to be in a group of cancer survivors of which I am one, and over time we hear each others’ words and thoughts and images and language, as over time the image making so opened and affirmed, as over time, just a little bit more, over time,….ever growing, in color and shape of story, in ways nowhere else encountered develop.  And so we are sister scribes, and in time, in distinct time, we can lose a creative sister to death, with the reminder that death has looked for each beyond the sphere we currently occupy…. .The uniqueness of writing in this setting, of reading aloud as we can learn one’s voice, to be affirmed by listeners so we can grow….so, out of cancer comes unique good forming for the unlimited unknown space of time we occupy.”
-The Creative Center workshop participant

“The thing I really liked about the workshop is that we have free writing and all of the things we write are new to me and I enjoy learning them.”
-Brooklyn Public Library, Sunset Park,  workshop participant, age 8

“I think your writing workshops could help change the world. It’s so utterly therapeutic, validates me, my vision, more—lets me express myself, opens up what I didn’t even know was desperate to come out.”
-14th Street Y workshop participant

“I never thought I could make up stories so quick and for them to sound so good.”
-Blossom Program for Girls workshop participant

“This workshop has inspired me to break away from the fear of writing… It is like a healing medicine for your mind and soul”
-Gilda’s Club workshop participant

“I have felt my confidence grow as a writer and as a person. (The workshop) is a blessing, a boon, a beautiful experience! I truly feel that anyone could benefit from it-any age, sex, level of writer”
-The Aurora workshop participant