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

NYWC trains volunteers to lead creative writing workshops that provide a safe, supportive environment in which writers can find and expand their voices, take risks in writing and be part of a non-competitive writing community. Once trained, volunteer workshop leaders participate fully in all workshops they lead: writing, reading aloud and providing supportive feedback to workshop participants. Workshop leaders gain leadership skills while being part of a rewarding process of personal and interpersonal discovery.

If you are interested in becoming a NYWC volunteer creative writing workshop leader, download our volunteer application (msword)  (pdf)  . Workshop leaders undergo 20 hours of training. Our next training session will be on the following dates:  Friday, April 30, 2010, from 7 to 9 PM; Saturday and Sunday May 1 and 2, from 10 to 6 and Thursday, May 6 from 7 to 9. Trainings take place at NYWC’s offices in Fort Greene Brooklyn.  Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, so the earlier you submit, the better.  The deadline to apply for the Spring 2010 training is February 19, and those selected for interviews will be notified by February 23.  Interviews will take place on Thursday, March 4 and Friday, March 12.

All photographs were taken by Demond Waters.

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

Winter Session: Ten Tuesdays, 7:15 PM to 9:30
March 2 - May 4
$400

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

Winter Session: Eight Tuesdays, 7:15 PM to 9:30 PM
February 16 - April 6
$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.”

Join us as Lemon Andersen and Mary Ellen Sanger read with members of The Fortune Society. Writing Aloud celebrates  the publication of Inside Out, Writing From the Fortune Society, hot off NYWC press.

Saturday, January 16, 2010
The Jefferson Market Library, 425 6th Ave in Greenwich Village
2: 00 pm

Free!

LEMON ANDERSEN is a critically acclaimed poet, spokenword artist, and actor. As a poet he has the most aired episodes on HBO’s Def Poetry, eight times in six seasons, and was an original cast member of the TONY Award winning Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. Lemon was also nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his writing and work on the show. Lemon has traveled the spokenword and theater scene for the last decade performing and selling out venues such as the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Apollo Theater, Chicago Theater, Hollywood’s Kodak Theater and most recently he brought the house down in front 500,00 people at Philadelphia’s Live 8 concert.

MARY ELLEN SANGER lived for 17 years in Mexico, and has published short stories and poems in Spanish and English in several Mexican journals, including Luna Zeta and Zocalo. She has published poetry, essays, and stories in online venues, including Poets Against the War, Travelers’ Tales, Mexconnect, Hack Writers, Delirium Journal, and Mexico Files. Her essay “A Grammar of Place” was anthologized in Mexico, a Love Story. She is currently writing a collection of short stories inspired by the women of Ixcotel State Penitentiary in Oaxaca, Mexico where she spent thirty-three days and nights falsely imprisoned in the fall of 2003. Stories from the collection have appeared in CrossBronx and J Journal, New Writing on Justice (from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice).

THE FORTUNE SOCIETY believes in a world where all who are at-risk, incarcerated or formerly incarcerated can become positive, contributing members of society. Their work supports successful re-entry of formerly incarcerated men and women and promotes alternatives to incarceration, thus strengthening the fabric of our communities.