TONIGHT HEAR THE WRITERS OF THE NYC WRITER’S COALTION READ FROM IF THESE STREETS COULD TALK AT COMMUNITY BOOKSTORE. 7:30 p.m. Seventh Avenue between Garfield and Carroll Streets.
NYWC’s first-ever book-length anthology of writing from our 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 talent through unforgettable poetry and prose.
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NYWC
creates opportunities for formerly voiceless members of society to be
heard through the art of writing. We provide free, unique and powerful
creative writing workshops throughout New York City for people from
groups that have been historically deprived of voice in our society,
including at-risk youth, adult residents of supportive housing, seniors
and others.
NYWC is one of the largest community
writing organizations in the country. NYWC creates opportunities to be
heard, through the art of writing, for formerly voiceless members of
society. Each year, we provide hundreds of free, unique and powerful creative writing workshops throughout New York City for at-risk youth, adult residents of supportive housing, the formerly incarcerated, seniors and others.
We’ve published numerous anthologies of writing by our workshop members as well as 3 issues of Plum Biscuit, an online literary magazine edited by our workshop members. NYWC also produces the Writing Aloud Reading Series,
a monthly event featuring members of our community reading alongside
established and emerging authors, Write Makes Might, an annual marathon
reading by our workshop members; and is a partner in the annual Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival, a series of writing workshops for young people culminating in a reading by the young writers with literary icons.
Our workshop participants have had poems, stories and plays published
and performed. Others have read their writing on NPR’s All Things
Considered, WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show (listen here) and WBAI’s Global Movements, Urban Struggles. We’re also continually adding words from our workshops to this site, so we hope you enjoy reading our writers’ work!