Spring Sale!! If These Streets Could Talk --- our anthology of writing from the first few years of our workshops. The special sale price is $10 (33% off!), plus 2.50 S&H. Pre-order now and be the first on your block to have it! Read Excerpts: Pretty by Cindy Lei, Age 7 Night Sweeps by Ann Quintano Johnny by Judy Taylor Dead Rat Hamburgers by Tiffany Wong, Age 8 "If These Streets Could Talk is a rich and vibrant collection of writing. Deeply moving at times, wonderfully humorous at others, and always rewarding and absorbing. . . .This book is rare and special.”                    -- Mark Salzman, author of True Notebooks, Iron & Silk, and Lying Awake  "NY Writers Coalition provides writers in its workshops a sense of community, spirit and freedom of voice. Reading If These Streets Could Talk gave me the same sense of possibility and joy.  It's a compelling reflection of the tremendous and important work NYWC does."                    --T Cooper, author of Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes and co-editor of A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing For the last 5 years, NY Writers Coalition (NYWC) has provided free creative writing workshops throughout New York City for people who have been historically deprived of voice in our society. Working with at-risk youth, adult residents of supportive housing, the formerly incarcerated, senior citizens and others, this not-for-profit organization creates unique opportunities for such groups to be heard through the powerful art of writing.  Now, with the publication of If These Streets Could Talk: Fiction & Poetry from NY Writers Coalition (NY Writers Coalition Press/publication date September 15, 2006/$15), the general public can share in the exciting poetry and prose collected from the first several years of NYWC’s writing workshops. If These Streets Could Talk brings together an impressive and eloquent sampling of NYWC’s varied voices.  From children of recent immigrants in Queens to formerly incarcerated men and women in Bed-Stuy to seniors in the East Village to survivors of the World Trade Center (and many others), each contributor reveals their formerly untapped talent through unforgettable poetry and prose. By turns funny and haunting, touching and harrowing, the stories and poetry collected in If These Streets Could Talk reflect the city's most neglected and yet most vibrant populations. As Mark Salzman says, "These are the authentic and all-too-often unheard voices of the people that live, work, play, struggle, love, fight, and triumph in the City of New York."  *** Recent Events Friday, October 6th, 7:30 PM: Manhattan Book Launch and Reading Prince George Tea Room, 14 East 28th Street, New York, New York Sunday, October 22nd, 6 PM: Brooklyn Book Launch and Reading MoCADA, 80 Hanson Place, Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, NY. Friday, November 17th, 7 PM: Reading at Astor Place Barnes & Noble 4 Astor Place, New York, New York. Friday November 17 - 19th, NYWC BOOKFAIR at Astor Place Barnes & Noble. A portion of all sales benefit NY Writers Coalition (download the voucher required to be presented at time of purchase) Tuesday, December 5th, 7:30 PM: Reading at Community Bookstore 143 7th Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn NY. *** If These Streets Could Talk: Fiction & Poetry from NY Writers Coalition $15.00, Anthology/Fiction/Poetry, paperback, 5.5” x 7.5”, 178 pp.; 0-9787794-0-1 Published by NY Writers Coalition Press.  Available at local bookstores and at www.nywriterscoalition.org.  Available to the trade through Consortium and other major wholesalers (Ingram, Baker & Taylor, etc.) *** All media inquiries contact Aaron Zimmerman at NY Writers Coalition, (718) 398-2883 or aaron@nywriterscoalition.org