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The New York Writers Workshop Presents |
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Writing to Perform
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New York Writers Workshop @ the JCC: Winter Courses 2004 |
Fall Courses 2003 | |||||||
Welcome!Based on the popular workshop format, NYWW@JCC offers novice writers the opportunity to move past the blank page with both in-class and at-home assignments aimed at building technique and providing the structure needed for good writing habits. For more advanced students, workshops provide closer attention to matters of craft and style, revision, and clarification, helping students move beyond the classroom and into the pages of leading magazines and journals. All students will appreciate the supportive yet rigorous class discussions of student work, led by some of New York's best known and well-regarded writing instructors.
Levels
Mixed Level ClassesAppropriate for students at beginning to intermediate levels, including those who have had previous writing workshops but who want to work further on matters of technique. Registration for these classes is on a first-come, first-served basis. Call 646.505.4404.
Advanced classesAppropriate for experienced and previously published writers who wish to focus on refining their work with an eye toward publication. Registration for these classes is by approval of the instructor. Students who have not studied with the instructor previously should submit a brief writing sample. Submissions should be 35 pages for fiction or nonfiction or 5 poems for poetry, and sent via e-mail to writingclasses@jccmanhattan.org, with Writing Sample in the subject line; be sure to include your name and class name. Submissions can also be mailed to Writing Samples, New York Writers Workshop @ the JCC, 334 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10023. You will be notified of acceptance by telephone on or before Friday, January 16, 2004, at which time we will take your registration over the phone. Students who have studied with advanced writing instructors previously should call the director of Literary Programs at 646.505.4404 to register.Questions? Please call the NYWW@JCC
hotline at 646.505.4377. |
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Writing Open House and Instructor Reading |
NYWW Faculty | |||||||
Heres your chance to meet the faculty of the NYWW@JCC and learn more about our classes. A short reading by instructors will be followed by an opportunity to meet teachers on a one-on-one basis. Location: The JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St. (Program room assignments will be available at the JCC Customer Service Desk, in the lobby of the Samuel Priest Rose Building.) |
Mon,
Jan 12, 2004 6:308:30pm FREE HOUSE/ELWW4 |
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Books & Writing (www.jccarts.org) |
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Queer Literature: What Is It, Anyway? |
Sarah Van Arsdale | |||||||
Is there a need today for specifically
gay and lesbian literature? How do we categorize books as queer, and why? Well examine these questions, and also go over some essential points of writing, looking closely at character, setting, and plot. Well read books which raise these questions, including Avoidance by Michael Lowenthal and Godspeed by Lynn Breedlove. Class includes guest appearances by authors. |
8 Wednesdays Feb 4Mar 24 6:308pm $175/$225 QUEER/ELAW4 |
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One-day Writing Intensives |
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Lifestories: A Workshop for Adults |
Patty Dann | |||||||
Have you accumulated experiences you want to try putting down on paper? No writing experience is necessary; well be offering a series of memory exercises throughout the day. Everyone is encouraged to read work aloud in class, and each student will meet with the teacher privately to discuss his/her work. |
Sun,
Feb 1 10am5pm (one hour lunch break) $100/$120 WINT1/ELWW4 |
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Publish Your First Novel |
Sasha Troyan | |||||||
Need help revising and marketing your novel? Then this one-day
intensive is for you. Working from your novel (finished or in-progress),
well examine what makes for a great beginning, and how to strengthen
the climax and ending. Using in-class exercises, |
Sun,
Feb 8 10am5pm (one hour lunch break) $100/$120 WINT2/ELWW4 |
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Pitch, Pilot, Payoff: Writing for Television |
Juliann Garey and Bronwen Hruska | |||||||
This two-part intensive will give you a broad overview of how the television business works and, using in-class exercises, will teach you how to pitch your ideas to producers and network executives. Writing exercises will help you structure your pilot according to the unique format of television scripts. The screenwriting team of Garey and Hruska has written original comedy and drama pilots for CBS, NBC, and Lifetime. |
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Sundays Feb 15 & 22 10am5pm (one hour lunch break) $200/$240 WINT3/ELWW4 |
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Reading the Personal Essay |
Vivian Gornick | |||||||
Join renowned memoirist Vivian Gornick for a delightful afternoon. Study classic examples of personal narrative writing, and discuss the work of such memoirists and essayists as George Orwell, Joan Didion, Thomas de Quincy, James Baldwin, Colette, and Edmund Gosse to see how the genre works in the hands of masters. |
Sun,
Feb 22 25pm $50/$60 WINT4/ELWW4 |
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Creative Nonfiction: All levels |
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Break Into Journalism |
Marci Alboher Nusbaum | |||||||
Are you a busy professional who wants to write? Marci Nusbaum, a lawyer-turned-journalist, explores the transition from other professions into nonfiction writing. Learn how to find story ideas, write successful pitch letters, and work with editors. Discover how to exploit your professional experience in your writing, and the importance of creating a supportive writers network. Guest speakers include editors, freelance and staff journalists, and a career counselor. |
10 Mondays |
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Mothers of Invention: A Class for Mothers, Daughters, and Grandmothers |
Rita Gabis | |||||||
Most women find motherhood to be the pivotal experience of their lives. In this class, we uncover the deeper aspects of this experience through journal writing, prose and poetry. Well consider questions of physical transformation, spiritual change, and profound connection, as well as the daily ups and downs. No previous writing experience necessary. |
10 Tuesdays |
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The Personal Essay |
Peter Bricklebank | |||||||
Explore the great elastic form of the personal essay, a short narrative form that combines personal experience and reflection with the use of fictional techniques, such as dialogue and scenes, to attain a blend of fact-based, but imaginatively rendered insight into ourselves and our world. |
10 Wednesdays
Jan 28Mar 31 79pm $330/$410 WCNB3/ELWW4 |
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Creative Nonfiction: Advanced |
Charles Salzberg | |||||||
The ultimate aim of this course is to prepare your workwhether it be a memoir, personal essay, op-ed piece, magazine article, or nonfiction bookfor publication. To that end, fictional techniques of narration, description, dialogue and structure will be discussed. Reserve a space early for one our most popular workshops! Instructors approval required. For more information, please call 646.505.4404. |
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Fiction |
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Dramatic Arc and Its Discontents |
Tim Tomlinson | |||||||
The goal of this workshop is to broaden writers craft by exposure to, and practice of, alternative techniques in storytelling that might be considered unconventional and that risk breaking the rules. Modular stories, shifting points of view, and non-linear strategies are discussed, as well as the conventions of exposition, development, and drama. Optional exercises are offered for work at home. |
8 Tuesdays
Jan 27Mar 16 6:309pm $330/$410 WFCB1/ELWW4 |
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Goodnight, Babar: Writing for Children |
Allison Estes | |||||||
Many people assume that writing for children is easier than writing for adults. In fact, the shorter the book, the more carefully crafted it must be. Explore how juvenile books have evolved over the years and learn how to adapt your ideas to the highly competitive bunny-eat-bunny world of childrens publishing. |
10 Wednesdays Jan 28Mar 31 79pm $330/$410 WFCB2/ELWW4 |
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Fiction/Nonfiction: Truth, Lies & Your Stories |
Sarah Van Arsdale | |||||||
Where is that fuzzy line between memoir and fiction? Isnt all fiction informed by our experience? Bring your ideas for writing about your life, or for writing fiction, or for playing with both. Using discussions and in-class and at-home writing exercises, well explore these questions and more. Students will also have an opportunity to have their short and long-form memoirs critiqued by the group. |
10 Thursdays Jan 29Apr 1 6:308:30pm $330/$410 WFCB3/ELWW4 |
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Advanced Fiction |
Maureen Brady | |||||||
In this class, we encourage each other to produce new installments of a novel or completed drafts of stories, giving the writer a regular series of deadlines. Work is read in advance for discussion in class and critique is rigorous but sensitive. The instructor also suggests readings and conducts discussions on elements of story writing, such as timing, tension and development of character. |
10 Wednesdays
Jan 28Mar 31 79pm $330/$410 WFCV1/ELWW4 |
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Poetry |
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The Soul of a Poem |
Hermine Meinhard | |||||||
Learn to draw on those elusive aspects of experience that give a poem its depth and mystery. Using weekly in-class exercises, physical objects, language, outside texts, and through personal journals, students will connect to their deepest material. In addition, an emphasis on critical issues of formline, space, and rhythmwill help students refine poems and shape them into finished work. |
8 Wednesdays Jan 28Mar 17 6:309pm $330/$410 WPOB1/ELWW4 |
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Poetry Slam! Spoken Word Poetics |
Regie Cabico | |||||||
Some critics wonder whether its the writing or the performance that makes slam poetry so winning. Others contend that its the combination of passion fused with pop culture and identity politics. Either way, in this class youll learn the elements of spoken word performance from one of New Yorks leading slam poets. Well focus on in-class writings that combine personal and political themes with experimental word play to help you find the right image and tone. Performance techniques will also be addressed. |
10 Mondays
Jan 26Mar 29 79pm $330/$410 WSLAM/ELWW4 |
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The Bones, the Brain and the Heart of the Poem |
Mary Stewart Hammond | |||||||
The Basque poet Bernardo
Atxaga states, "Either a poem is exact or bad--as happens with science."
Working from close readings of each participant's poem, this advanced-level
workshop examines what goes into raising a poem to "exact," with
attention given to how much of the emotional work of a poem the structure
and music do, or undo, to what language and syntax tell us about the clarity
of the poem's thinking and its complexity of feeling, to the way the poem's
particular vision determines these choices. These critiques take place in
a supportive, noncompetitive community of diverse voices, so that each poet
feels safe bringing to the table, not finished poems, but rather those in
search of exactness. |
Class limited to 10. Mary Stewart Hammond is also available for tutorials and mss. consultations. |
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Playwriting |
Charlie Schulman | |||||||
This workshop is designed for students who want to begin a new play or continue a play in progress. In-class writing exercises help students develop characters, sharpen dialogue, and dramatize conflict. Students are encouraged to bring new work to class on a regular basis for critique, with optional take-home assignments tailored to individual needs. The course concludes with a staged reading of student work for family and friends. |
10 Wednesdays Jan 28Mar 31 79pm $330/$410 WPWB1/ELWW4 |
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Screenwriting: Adaptation! |
Nicole Quinn | |||||||
Adaptations are core to the screenwriting industry and an excellent entrée for new talent. In this class, students will learn how to adapt basic plots from other sources in order to learn screenplay structure. Well focus on making scripts effective from page onedeveloping technique, discovering the secrets of middles, and finding satisfying endings. | 10 Tuesdays Jan 27Mar 30 79pm $330/$410 WSWB1/ELWW4 |
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INDIA: A 15-day trek through India of the imagination and the street |
Tim Tomlinson and Rochelle Almeida, tour leaders | |||||||
The New York Writers Workshop @ the JCC is proud to offer an unprecedented voyage of the imagination into India. Join us as our expert guides bring to life the locations of classic novels and recent films throughout India. Travel the gamut from palace to shanty-town, from sunrise on the dhobi-ghats to sunset over the Arabian Sea. Stay in the five-star luxury Taj Mahal chain, and ride in an air-conditioned coach. Youll have the opportunity to participate in a travel writing workshop and an introduction to Indian literature. Led by NYWW writing instructor Tim Tomlinson, and Rochelle Almeida, professor of Southeast Asian Culture at NYU. Information Session on Tuesday, February 3, 68pm, FREE. |
May 1631,
2004 $3999 INDIA/ELWS4 |
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