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Unleash your creativity and master the art of storytelling with creative writing classes in NYC. Learn to craft compelling narratives, develop memorable characters, and ignite your imagination.

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Fiction and Short Story Writing

Alaa Al Aswany Creative Writing Workshop @ 159 20th St, Brooklyn, NY

Learn the art of writing from a master at his craft Through the magic of imagination, fiction takes us deep inside worlds and into the lives of characters. This workshop course teaches students to recognize the qualities that make for spellbinding fiction, including the natural rhythm and tone, mapping the structure, and shaping the content. The short story exemplifies a unique genre of writing. This workshop teaches the essential short story...

All levels 18 and older
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$670

10 sessions

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Intro to Poetry Writing

Classeteria @ 284 Suydam St, Brooklyn, NY

What makes a poem a poem? How do poems engage us, surprise us, make us laugh, or give us goosebumps? Emily Dickinson said, “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” How do poets make us feel this way? In this workshop you will read modern poets (Dickinson, Frost, Gluck, Neruda, Roethke,Stevens, Tate, Whitman) and develop an awareness of the techniques they use (structure, music, line breaks, stanzas,...

(3) Beginner 18 and older
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$200

4 sessions

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Summoning The Magic From Your Poetry & Photography

The Tiny Cupboard @ 1717 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY

Summoning The Magic From Your Poetry & Photography Manuscript Do you think your poems and photographs have a power, language, and magic of their own? Maybe they have just the right energy to pair well in a book of poetry and photography. In this intimate workshop, meet author/artist Christine Sloan Stoddard, and go through exercises to help you see the strengths in your work. Together, we will look at sample poetry and photography work, including...

All levels 18 and older
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Meditative Writing For Screenwriters

Meditative Writing @ 39 W 29th St, New York, NY

The Process of Creativity & Story Mining+ One-on-One Script Consultation At the intersection of science, art, and meditation we build an approach to writing that draws from the most powerful part of your mind.  Cognitive and meditative exercises will be crafted specifically to help you get the most out of every writing session and discover the deepest truth of your unique voice. ​These tools can also be flipped upside-down to...

(5) All levels 18 and older
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$635

4 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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Writing Satire

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

If you're ready to share a bold statement but want to leave a more lasting impact than you might with a Facebook rant, join us to explore the art of satire writing. For people who love The Onion, Reductress, McSweeney's and even Shakespeare, this class will offer an introductory lesson in satire, complete with writing exercises to help you hone the craft. We'll cover approaches to satire and topic generation, and will also offer tips for maximizing...

(252) Beginner 18 and older
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Don't Think, Just Write - Online

Bronxville Adult School @ Virtual Learning via Zoom

You think about writing, but every time you face the blank page, anxiety takes over and you can't let yourself go. Maybe you have an idea for a novel, journal or essay, but feel confused and don't know how to start. This is the class for you! Each week we will have lessons on craft where you will learn basic techniques, like structuring your plot or creating a convincing dialogue.  You will also learn how to better organize thoughts, call...

(20) All levels 18 and older
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$50

3 sessions

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Readying Your Book for Literary Agent Consideration

Ideasmyth at The Writers Room

Ideasmyth founder, Victoria C. Rowan, has been acknowledged in many well-received and best-selling books, and has coached many authors who have earned six- and even seven-figure advances. So whether becoming an author has always been your most cherished artistic dream or the necessary next step for you to establish your professional expertise, why wait any longer to polish up your proposal for the fall market? This in-person, seminar-based workshop...

All levels 18 and older
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Sense Writing Two-Day Workshop

The Jalopy Theatre and School of Music @ 315 Columbia St, Brooklyn, NY

Re-imagine the writing process as both a sensual and intellectual process. Often the songs we write, the music we make, the paintings we paint start with our own life stories. This innovative, seven-hour writing workshop uses memory and life stories to explore and refine the connection between your senses, emotions, thoughts, and imagination to open up new dimensions in your work. ​Learn to reduce anxiety over writing to fully inhabit the world...

(41) All levels 15 and older
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$140

2 sessions

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Flight Behavior

Fledgling Writing Workshops @ 417 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY

Always wanted to write a book, but unsure how or where to start? Stuck on chapter four and searching for support? In our weekly sessions we'll discuss the bones of creating a successful manuscript including lessons on plotting, character development, setting, and more. We'll turn to examples from master novelists to light our way and write together in class to hone our skills and develop ideas. During the height of fall migration, birds are on the...

All levels 18 and older
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$425

6 sessions

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The Fledgling Course

Fledgling Writing Workshops @ 417 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY

In this weekly class we'll spend 1.5 hours a session writing to two or three new prompts. This class is meant for the most tenderfoot-ed of fledglings, participants with some workshop experience, or veterans who are looking for something new. Multifaceted prompts are designed to encourage writers of all levels to approach their work through varying perspectives and simply get some words on paper. Group discussion will focus on what techniques each...

All levels 18 and older
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$350

7 sessions

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College Essay Talk for Parents

Bee Tutored

As a parent, it’s easy to get bent out of shape about the unknowns of the college application process. This 1 hr interactive talk by educator and college essay expert Sara Nolan will give you insight into what makes a great college essay, and how to effectively support your teen in the writing process. When we understand better, we do better. Don’t let the college essay become a battle ground or loaded with impossible expectations. This talk...

All levels 18 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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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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Master Class: Bill Goldstein

92nd Street Y

Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster-Aspects of Two Novels: Howards End and To the Lighthouse E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf were lifelong friends and literary rivals and reading their novels in tandem illuminates’ key aspects of their enduring achievements. In this class, we will read two masterpieces of 20th Century English literature: Forster’s Howards End, published in 1910, and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, published in...

(1061) All levels 18 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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