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Memoir Manuscript: A Working Group with Leigh Stein

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

A workshop for writers working on book-length memoirs or essay collections. We examine and investigate the tricky questions that haunt writers of personal narrative: where does this story begin and end? What do I want my voice to sound like? How can I ever really know the truth of what happened? Will my unique experience resonate with readers who have never shared it? What will my family think? Through reading assignments and craft discussions, we...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$400

6 sessions

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Memoir-Writing with Betsy Bonner

92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY

This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. If we are able to offer an in-person version of this class in the coming months, we will contact you and make both options available to you.  Memoir is not autobiography, which is intended to cover the whole life to date, but a short and significant stretch of a life—like a novel.  It’s also different...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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$385

4 sessions

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Academic Writing Course

Learn to Succeed @ Virtual Classroom

For Students and Professionals Course Description: No experience in Academic Writing! Do not Worry! In this course, students will learn about how to write academic assignments (Essay, Thesis, Dissertations, Research papers, Lab reports, Book reports, etc.) in the shortest possible time.

(1) All levels 15 and older
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Poetry-writing with Omotara James

92nd Street Y

The space of the poem offers you the opportunity to free yourself. The work of the poem is to tell the truth: at all costs, in every place, no matter what. It has been said that the poet is the undoing of the family, because the poem reveals its secrets. The craft of undoing is necessary to the work of constructing meaning, no matter your subject matter. Poetry is not only where we go to confront the past, but to free ourselves of it. In...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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Writing Your Mind: The Art of the Personal Essay

Bronxville Adult School @ 177 Pondfield Rd, Bronxville, NY

For most of us, generating ideas is easy—we've got opinions, stories to share, points of view—but crafting these beginning points into a powerful political or persuasive personal essay can feel like an overwhelming project. In this inspiring course, each student will work to bring an essay to fruition, from conception to first draft to completion, with careful attention to craft, clarity of ideas, and an emphasis on personal voice. This is an...

(20) All levels 18 and older
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$155

5 sessions

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Bill Goldstein: Making Modernism: Virginia Woolf

92nd Street Y

Bill Goldstein: Making Modernism: Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster at Work  E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925) are two of the greatest and most widely read novels of the 20th Century.  This August, we will explore the ways in which Forster and Woolf, lifelong friends but also wary rivals, embraced and helped remake modernism. Despite their many literary differences, Woolf thought of...

(1061) All levels 18 and older
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TV Comedy Writing - Level 1

Jacob Krueger Studio @ Virtual Classroom

This is the only class of its kind—run like a real writer’s room on a 30 minute TV comedy series, taught by a professional showrunner with over 25 years of industry experience—and featuring the work of a community of talented student writers. Working with your classmates, and under the showrunning mentorship of Jerry Perzigian, you’ll develop a premise, structure, and episode for a new TV Comedy Series. What You’ll Learn You’ll learn...

(43) All levels 16 and older
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$375

4 sessions

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Television Comedy Writing Level 2

Jacob Krueger Studio @ Virtual Classroom

Now that you’ve completed our TV Comedy Level 1 Class it’s time to take your pilot to the next level, in this intermediate TV Writing workshop with Emmy Award Winner Jerry Perzigian. You’ll not only complete a half hour pilot or spec script for a tv comedy series, you’ll also collaborate on the development of your fellow students scripts for a different show each week. What You’ll Learn: Learn advanced structural techniques and how to...

(43) Intermediate 18 and older
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$1,200

10 sessions

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Writing for Stand Up Comedy - Knock Out Punch Workshop

Jeff Lawrence/Laughing Buddha Comedy

In this five week joke writing workshop, our instructor will provide you with new techniques and exercises to unleash your best writing to date.  With small class size and instructors who are professional working comedians, you'll learn both about developing your unique voice and what's expected in the marketplace.  Includes: Five Stand Up Comedy Workshops 10 Open Mics (two per week, priority booking, no cover charge, drink minimum...

(1) All levels 16 and older
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Moby-Dick: Reading the White Whale

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

We now think of Moby-Dick as the canonical American novel. During Melville’s lifetime, however, his “wicked book,” as he called it in a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, was a popular failure. The book sank into obscurity along with Melville’s reputation until  20th-century readers recovered the novel and refashioned it as a neglected masterpiece.  Nominally the story of a monomaniacal sea captain’s pursuit of revenge...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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Modern Poetry: Memory and Desire

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

“April is the cruelest month,” writes T.S. Eliot in the opening lines of The Waste Land (1922), “breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire.” What does modern poetry remember, and what does modern poetry want? This course, an introduction to the exhilarating, maddening, and strange experiments of twentieth-century poetry, explores how poets responded to the astonishing social, political, aesthetic, and technological...

(29) All levels 21 and older
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Works in Progress

West Side YMCA - Community Arts @ 5 W 63rd St, New York, NY

For nonfiction writers (eg. memoir, magazine, and personal essay) interested in working towards some form of publication. Each week participants share and discuss works in progress. The class has a special emphasis on how to use fiction techniques of narration, description, dialogue, and structure to improve each piece. Location Instructions: Students will need to check in with reception, and on their first visit they will need to check in with...

(30) Intermediate 18 and older
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$341

6 sessions

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Get Published: A Primer for Writing for the Web

Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY

You may have heard it's tough to make money as a writer, but the truth is some of the largest publications in the world pay people like you to write awesome content that brings readers to their sites. If you're ready to see your own byline alongside your favorite writers on the media channels you visit every day, sign up for this primer in getting published on the web. Whether it's your dream to make a living as a writer or you're just hoping...

(252) All levels 18 and older
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Personal Essay Writing

Q.E.D. @ 27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, NY

Everyone has a story. Now, it's time to share yours. Personal essays expose what makes us human. From fundamental truths about life to stories that illustrate the sheer absurdity of the world around us, our experiences shape us and help better understand one another — and ourselves. This class offers insight into the personal essay ideation process and will help writers draw out stories to craft into a narrative format. Open to all levels, we'll...

(252) All levels 18 and older
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Hudson Valley Introduction To Poetry (Online)

The Writers Studio

This class meets by live video; students are not required to live in the area.  Students in The Writers Studio Hudson Valley Introduction to Poetry Workshop learn how to create a “persona” or “narrator” for the poetic form. Through the use of Writers Studio exercises, students learn to recognize what makes a poem engaging and entertaining to the reader. While creating a persona narrator is a primary focus of the workshop, students will...

(7) Beginner 18 and older
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Online Crafting Fantastic and Imaginative Worlds

The Writers Studio

Your favorite writers and poets of speculative literature (including science fiction, fantasy, and horror) use narrative techniques like persona narrators, point of view, mood, and tone as well as worldbuilding to craft fantastic and imaginative worlds that parallel, reflect, and critique our own real world. Imagining utopias, dystopias, dinosaurs, aliens, monsters, magical beings and systems, sentient cities and starships to speculate about past...

(7) All levels 18 and older
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Fiction, Non-Fiction and Cool Writing

I Write NY @ 100 Washington Square E, New York, NY

Songwriters and rappers read and write every day. NFL, NBA and MLB teams create written game plans to win. Broadway actors use scripts to tell meaningful stories. Effective communication is your key to success. Writing Coaches will provide middle and high school students with the tools to write and speak well, to be heard and not misunderstood. Develop the true grit it takes to write the stories you wish to tell—in your voice! Note: Bring loose...

(1) All levels 12 and older
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How to Free The Writer Within - Part 2

The Academi Of Life

We have been asked to provide a follow up class to our “How to Free the Writer Within” – the introduction to memoir writing workshop, lead by author, entrepreneur, and lecturer, Marva Allen. To take this class as a prerequisite you would need to have taken a basic introduction to writing class, or our “How to Free the Writer Within” workshop, with clear understanding of such aspects as characterization, plot, voice and more. In this workshop,...

(6) Intermediate 18 and older
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Sketch Comedy Writing Studio

IN Studios @ 115 W 29th Street, New York, NY

Accelerate your writing and acting career! Create your own original sketch comedy material and develop your professional writing portfolio. If you've ever wanted to write for late night TV, it all starts here. Got an idea, or pitch or pages to read? We'll guide you through the process and help motivate you toward your goals. Work with supportive, sketch gurus every week. No experience necessary. Desire to learn is required! Our writers/performers...

(20) All levels 18 and older
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$99

4 sessions

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Book Proposal Intensive

Ideasmyth at The Writers Room

This in-person, seminar-based workshop will provide you with mentorship and support through a rigorous and pragmatic four-week program (plus two coaching sessions) as you complete a fully viable book proposal and agent cover letter, including (up to 120) proposal pages (with sample chapters) at a significant discount from Ideasmyth’s private editing and coaching rates. Whenever appropriate, Victoria will make personal introductions on behalf of...

Beginner 18 and older
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