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Writing Speculative Fiction for Children Master Class
Irish Arts Center @ 726 11th Ave, New York, NY
Join author Patricia Forde as she shares insight from writing her latest book, The Girl who Fell to Earth, and provides tips on how to write your own piece of speculative fiction/dystopian fiction. The workshop will consider the challenges of worldbuilding, the capacity of dystopian fiction to frighten and warn and how history can play a part in writing about the future. Trish can address any part of the process, from setting up...
$56
Video for Social Media
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
Enhance your social media with video. This is a workshop for journalists, social media managers and other communicators. Video is a powerful engagement tool. Marketing research shows that including visuals with your social media posts increases engagement by 180%. It's no wonder that social media feeds include more and more videos. But those videos follow new rules - they need to be shorter, intimate, explanatory. This two-hour evening workshop...
$25
Intro to Augmented Reality Storytelling with Spark AR
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
Intro to Augmented Reality Storytelling with Spark AR Studio Learn how to start making 3D stories that your audiences can experience dynamically in their own space. In this workshop taught by multimedia designer and artist Ziv Schneider you'll explore augmented reality storytelling and work hands-on with Spark AR Studio to create short spatial experiences. Augmented reality has been used by new organizations like The New York Times, USA Today and...
$10
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Food Writing Workshop
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
Indrani Sen leads this workshop that will introduce students to the fundamentals of the beat. Writing about food must be as simple as eating it, right? Wrong. Food writing requires more than a fine-tuned palate, a table at the hottest, hot-hot restaurant, or a good recipe for authentic Neapolitan pizza dough. Locavores, the Farm Bill, food safety scares, commodity prices, environmental justice, pop ups, CSAs, molecular gastronomy, buying clubs...
$65
Harnessing the Power of Studies
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
Whatever topic you are covering, from the weighty to the superficial--cyberterrorism, bullying, perfectionism, hiccups--there likely are scientists, medical researchers, psychologists or other academics who concern themselves with that very thing, all day long. They publish in specialized journals, which are easily accessible and searchable--yet many journalists have no idea they exist. Whether your specialty is health and science or cultural, urban,...
$59
How to Get Your Comic Books Published for Adults
Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo @ 98 Water St, Brooklyn, NY
Discover the secrets of becoming a published comic book writer in this immersive course. Explore visual storytelling techniques, create a pitch packet, and receive invaluable feedback from experienced professionals. Unleash your creativity and bring your adult comic book dreams to life at Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo.
Storytelling for the Social Media Era
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
This class decodes the traditions of sometimes-perplexing social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as emergent communities such as Pinterest and Instagram; it is a guide to mastering the art of storytelling that feels native to these platforms. You will learn to cut through noise to glean trending stories, interact with sources for investigative reporting, compose and package stories for viral distribution, while collecting a massive...
$25
Social Media for Journalists
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
We will explore how social media tools – from Twitter and Facebook to LinkedIn and Pinterest – can spark story ideas, reveal trends, and connect you with new sources. Whether you’re a Twitter newbie or a master Tweeter, here’s your chance to dive in deep. In addition to covering social media ethics and etiquette, we will explore best practices and tips, tricks, and tools. Discover how social media can help you build your brand in the new...
$39
Be Your Own Brand
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
In this workshop given by former BusinessWeek personal finance editor Toddi Gutner, now a successful independent writer and media consultant, students will learn the importance and particulars of building their own brand. Increasingly, today’s young journalists are following new, much more entrepreneurial career paths than their predecessors did. Instead of getting a job at a single media organization, these “indies” are going out into the...
$35
Audio Workshop 01: Back to the Basics
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
For students feeling behind on basic audio mixing skills. This would be ideal for people continuing on with radio classes but feel behind on the basic stuff. Problems with recording, problems with basic ProTools use. Problems with organization.
$49
Covering the 2016 Presidential Election
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
Juan Manuel Benítez, NY1 political anchor and reporter, will lead a discussion of how to cover the 2016 presidential candidates and election issues.
$49
Getting Your Projects Funded
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
In a world of shrinking newsrooms, journalists need to get creative about how to bring the stories they care about to light. Grants, fellowships and crowd funding have become one piece of that puzzle. But how do you take a project from conception to funding? This session will be a crash-course on getting started down that road. We’ll talk about creating a beat or an area of expertise, putting together a proposal, and what a budget should look...
$49
Covering the Middle East and its Peoples in the USA
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
Learn how to cover the varying communities accurately and with nuance The Middle East has dominated headlines for decades, especially since the September 11, 2001 attacks and the wars the US has waged in the region. Its peoples are often seen as foreign to the US. However, they have been immigrating to the US since the late 1800s. They come from a variety of ethnic and religious groups and are by no means monolithic politically and socio-economically....
$25
Tools for Instagram Stories
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
Move over, Snapchat. Instagram Stories are now twice as popular than Snapchat with hundreds of millions of people using the feature everyday. It’s no wonder that news organizations and brands are hiring staff that can produce these short, punchy that connect with audiences. But creating a compelling Instagram story takes more than being #blessed. This two-hour course will cover everything you need to know to take your visual storytelling to the...
$49
Comedy Writing Intensive
ETB Teaching @ 134 W 29th St, New York, NY
Learn the fundamentals of comedy writing from an Emmy-nominated comedy writer! This 6-hour, 1-day workshop will guide you through the fundamentals of comedy so that you can improve you comedy writing no matter your medium or experience level.
All levels
18 and older
$175
Blogger Basics Workshop
CLSRM by The Urban Interest
@
The Harlem Collective
, New York, NY
So you want to share your work & build community. Learn how to strategize your blog, plan posts, participate in writing exercises to help you develop topics readers will enjoy. Also, we will navigate the technical aspects such as domains, web hosting & more!
$50
Build a Bot: Artificial Intelligence and Bots for News
Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY
Chat apps for news, Twitter bots, Alexa Skills… artificial intelligence is a growing trend in media. More and more media brands are automating their internal processes and experimenting with the automated delivery of news on mobile.Bots can keep an eye on things for us and engage with users in a more efficient way. In this evening workshop, we will cover: How news organizations are using AI and internal and external bots Best practices...
$25
Writing Out the Bones of Poetry: Experimental Writing
Poetry Teachers NYC @ 244 West 54th St, Brooklyn, NY
In this two day workshop, we will create experiments on the page through spills, cut-ups (inspired by William S. Burroughs) and various prompts leading us out of conventional language and into hybrid dialects. Where is the urgency of your words? How often do you color outside of the lines with your poetics. We will stretch out the margins and encourage each other to break out of our habits. This class will also offer students the opportunity...
All levels
18 and older
Atmospheric Writing
Cherry Lane Theatre @ 38 Commerce St, New York, NY
Atmospheric Writing: Bringing the World of Your Play to Life Setting is not just where your story takes place, it's the physical manifestation of your play's conflict, ideas, and themes. Learn to create dimension in the physical life of your work through Atmospheric Writing. Note: $26 dollar for first class, $16 for second class If this is your second class, contact CourseHorse to avail of the discount
$26
Winter Poetry Salon with Pen Parentis
LMHQ @ 150 Broadway, New York, NY
Incredible award-winning poets read from current work and discuss poetry and life-work balance. Laughter, conversation, complimentary wine. Meet exemplary poets Timothy Donnelly, Diane Mehta, Len Lawson and Sarah Kain Gutowski in conversation with M. M. De Voe and Christina Chiu at our annual Winter Poetry Salon - where the audience and the poets really get to know each other! All lovers of the written word are always welcome, 21+, ...
$10
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