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Young Adult Fiction with Coe Booth
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Through discussions of student work, in-class writing exercises and required readings, we will work on creating compelling works of young adult fiction. The main areas of focus will be deepening your characterization and uncovering the emotional truth in your stories. We will also work to strengthen your dialogue, setting and structure. Please Note: Before the first class, please read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman...
Novel Writing: Stephen Wright
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Hone your novel in this yearlong course, which offers extended sessions for intensive workshopping with Wright, author of Processed Cheese.
Elegy and Ode with David Yezzi
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Explore poetry’s divided duty—to celebrate, to commemorate—in this weekend intensive. Working from models by Elizabeth Bishop, John Keats, Pablo Neruda, Sappho and others, students will compose original poems and participate in group discussion. Special attention will be paid to the ways in which song underlies these age-old forms.
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Poetry with R.A. Villanueva
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Gerard Manley Hopkins once wrote in a letter that he wanted his poetry to embody “more wreck and less discourse.” Detour away from the well-worn routines of workshop in these dynamic sessions. Rather than laboring to finish or fix drafts, our sessions will be devoted to generative bursts, improvisational drafts, and provocative conversations about language, memory, and the future of what we create. We will seek to unsettle habits...
Writing Sonnets
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
How can poets use sonnets to communicate a whole world of thought and emotion in just fourteen lines? Join Rachel Hadas for an immersive weekend looking at how writers have grappled with the sonnet—one of our most durable, versatile, challenging, and generative forms—throughout its long and still evolving history. Each day begins with looking at a wide range of Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets, followed by writing a sonnet of your own.
Creative Nonfiction 101 Level 1: 6 Weeks
Gotham Writers Workshop @ 555 8th Ave, New York, NY
Unleash your storytelling prowess and hone your craft in the world of nonfiction writing. Join a community of aspiring writers at Gotham Writers Workshop to explore the art of crafting compelling true stories that resonate with readers. Embrace creativity while mastering the techniques of nonfiction writing in this transformative course.
Advanced Memoir with Cris Beam
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Many of us want to write memoirs, but families — good or bad — are loaded territory. Memories conflict with family lore; trauma in the past can trigger trouble in the present; and only the dead don’t mind when you spill their secrets. How do we navigate wisely, mining recollections without either slipping into solipsism or pandering to an imagined audience? In this class we’ll look at published writers who have done it, to trace their fault...
Memoir with Michele Lent Hirsch
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Memoir lets us tell the stories we’ve been carrying around for years—the ones we've been wanting to share. Yet part of the magic of writing is that it helps us uncover other stories, too: ones we didn’t even know we had inside. Whether it springs from a long-ago family saga, a shift in our lives, or an encounter just last week that speaks to history or identity, memoir can help us find new aspects of ourselves, give others the chance to reflect...
Poetry with Emily Skillings
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
When we consider and write poetry we are often drawn towards inescapably large abstractions such as love, death, and time. What happens when we invest (obsessively, meticulously, and with deep care) in the concrete objects that populate our daily lives? In this four-week workshop we will consider how artists in multiple disciplines have made use of things and thingness, meditating on objects and the worlds and affiliations they create in us. ...
Reading Old English with Miller Oberman
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
While Seamus Heaney’s brilliant translation of Beowulf introduced a wider audience to the only Old English epic poem, most contemporary readers have not encountered the fascinating shorter lyrics written in Old English. This course invites readers into the ancient ruins of the English language, moving through some of the most beautiful poems in The Exeter Book, written about a thousand years ago. From the anonymous voices of longing...
Advanced Fiction with Teddy Wayne
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
In addition to workshopping our own fiction, we will read published stories that focus on different elements of craft: showing versus telling, point of view, characterization, dialogue and narrative. When we discuss the class’s creative output, we will strive to isolate these elements as much as possible, homing in on problematic areas. In addition, we will talk about publishing and how to begin a writing career. Novel excerpts are permitted....
Memoir with Anya Yurchyshyn
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Our personal stories are a vital part of who we are. When we explore our stories by writing memoir, we have the opportunity to understand our experiences more deeply and give others a chance to reflect on theirs. In this course, students will produce and share original autobiographical work, examine aspects of craft such as voice, structure and narration, and engage in critical conversations around topics such as memory, truth (and “truth”),...
Memoir with Wendy Salinger
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Nabokov said that the true purpose of memoir should be to discern and follow “the thematic designs of one’s life.” In that spirit, this class attempts to guide students in the quest to discover what story to tell and how to tell it. Class discussions — of works in progress and of weekly exercises written in reponse to excerpts from classic memoirs — explore elements of craft such as character, description, dialogue and pacing. The goal...
Developing an Illustrated Children’s Book
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Get an insiders’ overview of how to begin, develop, polish and pitch a successful children’s book. Explore theory and technique, including developing an image vocabulary and a child-friendly style. Learn about story line, story boarding, pacing, rhythm, the variety of media available and more.
Written in the Stars—A Workshop on Poetry and Astrology
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Even if we were all to speak the same language, we would speak it differently. This is what makes communication so exciting and so troublesome. For those of us who seek connection that is beyond our personal context, symbolic archetypes can offer a great deal of information. Like math, astrology is a system shared between many cultures (with variation granted for Vedic interpretations); its symbolic correlations can be found in ancient spiritual...
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How to Write Your Autobiography
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Each of us has a story to tell. But finding the words and voice to tell it with is an art and craft specific to each storyteller. This course will concentrate on each student’s unique approach to telling his or her tale. Not for the shy or faint of heart.
Advanced Memoir with Wendy Salinger
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
In that spirit, this class attempts to guide students in the quest to discover what story to tell and how to tell it. Class discussions — of works in progress and of weekly exercises written in reponse to excerpts from classic memoirs — explore elements of craft such as character, description, dialogue and pacing. The goal is to help students find their own voices and the written shape of their own truths.
Advanced Poetry with Emily Fragos
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
In this advanced workshop, students strengthen their writing style and voice by addressing lucidity, the musical line and poetic unpredictability and originality — the transformative and magical power of the art. They also delve into poetry from around the world as inspiration for writing assignments. Students are chosen by Emily Fragos on the basis of a manuscript submission. Click here for submission guidelines.
Reading Calvino with Joseph Luzzi
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Italo Calvino is synonymous to readers worldwide of the literary imagination’s power to create alternate worlds of staggering beauty. In this course, we will consider the Italian author’s remarkable mix of compelling cultural analysis and otherworldly fantasy in three of his most enduring works: Invisible Cities, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, and If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. Our conversations will explore such...
Advanced Fiction with Mark Doten
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
What is “voice” in fiction? How does one establish voice, sustain it, complicate or even undermine it? In this workshop, we will consider voice as a fundamental problem of craft and narrative, reading literary and theoretical works that illuminate questions of perspective, dialogue, mood, description, structure and tone. We’ll examine all of this in relation to our own short stories, in engaged and constructive discussions of the writing...
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