5th Annual Write-A-Thon
5th Annual NYWC Write-a-Thon, Saturday June 12th! In-Person in New York City!
It’s time for the 5th Annual Write-A-Thon!
NYC’S ONLY WRITING MARATHON
Change what it means to Marathon!
Write by the seat of your pants for a great cause!
*Devote a day to writing
*Meet other writers
*Attend free creative writing workshops
*Inspiring lunch time talk with Nicholas Dawidoff, bestselling author of
The Crowd Sounds Happy (see bio below)
*Help NYWC’s free creative writing programs
for the formerly homelss, at-risk youth, seniors & others
*Prizes for top pledge-getters
Saturday, June 12th, 2009 from 10:30am-6:00pm
Free lunch and light breakfast will be served!
NY Center for Independent Publishing
20 West 44th Street, NYC
One of last year's Write-A-Thonners
Prizes to top fundraisers!
iPod Touch, donated by Tekserve
NEO AlphaSmart word processor, donated by Renaissance Learning
Rubin Museum - Drinks and a movie passes for four at their K2 Lounge
$250 gift certificate to Better World Books
4 Field level Tickets to a Mets Game
30 Minute writing conference with bestselling novelist Jennifer Belle
10 Dance Classes at Mark Morris Dance Center
Books Package from prize-winning indy publisher Akashic Books
Astrology Reading from writer/astrologer Emily Trinkaus
Gift pack from the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.
2.5 hour home detox session with Raganella
Paid entry fees to the St. Lawrence Book Award and Black River Chapbook Competition
One year subscriptions to the Bellevue Literary Review
And many more!
Featured speaker:
Nicholas Dawidoff
Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of four books. One of them, The Fly Swatter, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and another, In the Country of Country, was named one of the greatest all-time works of travel literature by Conde Nast Traveller. His first book, The Catcher Was A Spy: The Mysterious Life Of Moe Berg was a national bestseller and appeared on many 1994 best book lists. His most recent book is The Crowd Sounds Happy: A Story of Love, Madness and Baseball. He is also the editor of the Library of America’s Baseball: A Literary Anthology. A graduate of Harvard University, he has been a Guggenheim, Civitella Ranieri and Berlin Prize Fellow, and is a Contributing Writer to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and the American Scholar. He’s been the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University where he sometimes still teaches. The Crowd Sounds Happy won a NAMI Book Prize for writing about mental illness.
NYWC declares June 12th Write Your A** Off Day! Online from anywhere!
Join the NYWC Write-A-Thon website and take the 3k word challenge!
This is the first year that we are offering the chance for you to Write Your A** Off from anywhere! We’ve created the challenge of writing 3,000 words (about 10 pages) in one day, and we know you can do it!
Our FREE Write-A-Thon site features discussion forums, a prompt station, online workshops, resources to help you on June 12th (as well as before and after), chances to connect with other Write-A-Thonners and much more. Click here to sign up!
You can use the site at any time, and on June 12th be sure to log on to get prompts, get support, tell us about your progress, and get inspired by best-selling novelist Jennifer Belle! (see below)
There is no cost to participate in Write Your A** Off Day with us, but you can also join us at beex.org, an exciting new site that allows you to create personal challenges and get support from friends and family while helping NYWC’s free programs. We will have prizes for top fundraisers, including a $250 gift certificate to Better World Books.
In addition, everyone who completes the challenge and writes 3,000 words on June 12 will have the chance to enter a drawing to win a free private phone consultation about your writing project with Jennifer Belle!
If you are in the NYC area, you can also attend the in-person Fifth Annual Write-A-Thon. Click here for all the details.
