New York 
Writers Coalition
  • Home
  • About
  • Editors and Contributors
  • NY Writers Coalition
  • Log In

Archives for May 2012

visual anthropology: jason gardner

May 31, 2012 By

Jason Gardner was first introduced to New York Writers Coalition through a photography project. From Kingsbridge to Canarsie: reflections of 8 NYC girls was a collaborative effort by young teenage authors to describe their neighborhoods in New York. Through the alternative Urban Academy, project based learning gave the girls time to give tours of their […]

Filed Under: Social Justice

Need some creative juice? Come to our Pint & Prompt Happy Hour

May 30, 2012 By

“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy,” so said Dorothy Parker or maybe Tom Waits.  This spoonerism, or the switcheroo of sounds, might hold some wisdom for writers.  A recent study examining the connection between alcohol and creativity showed a 30% increase in creative problem solving after 40 young […]

Filed Under: Shoptalk

Get Mortified at 92Y Mainstage

May 30, 2012 By

I knew there was some subconscious — yet good — reason I never faithfully wrote “Dear Diary…” as a teen. Between the menstrual moments and that first ill-fated May/December crush on a science teacher, some stories are better left off the page. Let’s call it self-preservation of dignity. Today, though, if I’d preserved those embarrassing […]

Filed Under: Arts

The Big One

May 28, 2012 By Derek Loosvelt

“At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her […]

Filed Under: Writing Prompts

Friday 5: Best Books by Entertainers

May 25, 2012 By

Famed singer, record producer, song writer, leading actress, mother of Blue Ivy and overall Earth God, Beyonce Knowles added award winning journalist to her resume after receiving an award from the New York Association of Black Journalists. I always thought she was overrated and overexposed but apparently there is not anything she cannot master. The award […]

Filed Under: Friday 5

NYWC Day Diary: A Writer’s Adventure

May 24, 2012 By Nancy Weber

by Jen Weitsen Jen Weitsen volunteers for NYWC committees and events. She lives in Manhattan, and is working on her first novel. Last Friday, May 18, I took the day off. I laced up my sneakers, grabbed my notebook, camera and headed out for a day long creative writing adventure – courtesy of the New […]

Filed Under: Shoptalk

american legion post 398

May 24, 2012 By

 What do Obama, the first feminist general assembly of Occupy Wall Street, retired Marines and Swedish oil and mining representatives have in common? Jazz, apparently.  Thursday the 17th, as every Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings, the American Legion post 398 hosted free jazz performances.  The Colonel Charles Young spot is personable and inviting, located in […]

Pages: 1 2

Filed Under: Social Justice

Voices From Inside and Out

May 24, 2012 By

On May 11th, I was lucky enough to participate in a reading event featuring an array of writers who have been touched in some way by the criminal justice system. Organized by New York Metro Prison librarians Sarah Ball and Sara Medlicott, as well as New York Writers Coalition workshop leader Patrick Mathieu, the event […]

Filed Under: Shoptalk

NYWC Day connects writing communities across New York

May 22, 2012 By

On Friday, May 18, 2012, people gathered from all five boroughs to celebrate NY Writers Coalition Day with writing workshops in iconic spots throughout New York.  Executive Director Aaron Zimmerman and several members of the NY Writers Coalition converged at Times Square, where they staged a guerilla-style takeover of the No. 7 train to host a […]

Filed Under: Shoptalk

Octavia Butler: Honored by SFWA at the Nebula Awards

May 22, 2012 By

This past weekend in Arlington, VA, women were given their due at the 47th Annual Nebula Awards, hosted by Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. Female authors of the field took top prizes for Best Novel (Jo Walton’s Among Others), Best Novella (Kij Johnson’s “The Man Who Bridged the Mist”), and Best YA Sci-fi […]

Filed Under: Arts

Next Page »

Welcome to Our Blog!

Recent Posts

  • Pack Your Bags For An Adventure
  • Orcs, Hobbits and Dragons
  • Post A Facebook Story
  • Would the Real St. Nick Please Stand Up?
  • Give An Awful Christmas Gift

Recent Comments

  • Jessica on Friday 5: Five ways to be a Better Friend
  • tory meringoff on Friday 5: Five ways to be a Better Friend
  • Pat on Good Poet, Bad Father
  • christine doudna on Good Poet, Bad Father
  • tory meringoff on Put Your Writing In Hyperdrive

Categories

  • 10 Days of NYWC
  • Arts
  • Fort Greene Park Summer Writing
  • Friday 5
  • News
  • NYWC Tell Your Story Campaign
  • Shoptalk
  • Social Justice
  • Writing Prompts

Links

  • Afghan Women's Writing Project
  • Akashic Books
  • Association of Writers and Writing Programs
  • Bitch Magazine
  • Black with the Blues
  • Bomb Magazine
  • Brooklyn Public Library
  • Feminist Fatale
  • Fringe Magazine
  • Granta
  • Greenlight Bookstore
  • Harper's Magazine
  • Ms.
  • National Council for Research on Women
  • National Novel Writing Month
  • NY Public Library
  • Omnivorous Reader
  • Osborne Association
  • PEN American Center
  • Poets and Writers
  • The Chicagoan
  • The Millions
  • The Nation
  • The New Yorker's Page Turner
  • The Paris Review
  • The Prison Arts Coalition
  • The Rumpus
  • Transom
  • Tribal Link
  • Verbiage

Archives

  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012

Copyright © 2019 ·New York Writers Coalition Theme · Genesis Framework by StudioPress · WordPress · Log in