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Unlock your writing potential with a wide range of professional writing classes in NYC. From creative writing to business communication, enhance your skills, expand your knowledge, and gain a competitive edge in today's competitive landscape.

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Just Write

Gotham Writers Workshop @ 555 8th Ave, New York, NY

Unlock your creativity and overcome writer's block with Just Write. Join a group of writers once a week for three hours and dive into your chosen project, whether it's a novel, script, memoir, or stand-up routine. With a teacher offering guidance and inspiration, this cross-genre course provides the time and space you need to make progress on your writing goals.

(745) All levels 18 and older
$220

6 sessions

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Business Writing Bootcamp

NYIM Training @ 185 Madison Ave, New York, NY

Improve your business writing skills with this hands-on bootcamp that covers grammar and effective techniques to craft impactful messages for various forms of communication.

(742) All levels 18 and older
$695

3 sessions

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Advanced Business Writing

NYC Career Centers @ 185 Madison Ave, New York, NY & Virtually Online

Master the art of effective business communication and achieve your goals with Advanced Business Writing at NYC Career Centers. Enhance your skills in delivering policy memos, persuasive proposals, and more. Take your business writing to the next level and build an impressive portfolio along the way.

(679) Advanced 18 and older
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Level 1 Intro to Fiction and Poetry

The Writers Studio @ Instructor-led Online Learning, New York, NY

Explore the transformative power of persona writing in this introspective workshop at The Writers Studio. Discover how borrowing the voices of accomplished writers can unlock your most intimate stories and turn difficult subject matter into inspiration for fiction and poetry. Broaden your literary style and approach as you deepen your understanding of technique.

(7) Beginner 18 and older
$435

8 sessions

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Memoir Workshop

The Writers Studio @ Instructor-led Online Learning, New York, NY

Unlock the power of your personal story in the Memoir Workshop at The Writers Studio. Discover the techniques used by successful memoir writers to shape their charged experiences into captivating narratives. Emulate the voices of acclaimed authors and find your unique storytelling style in this immersive eight-week course.

(7) All levels 18 and older
$435

8 sessions

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Advanced Business Writing

NYIM Training @ 185 Madison Ave, New York, NY

Master the art of crafting complex, persuasive business documents with NYIM Training's Advanced Business Writing course. Gain valuable skills in outlining and formatting techniques for various documents such as proposals, schedules, project plans, and contracts. Take your business writing to the next level and create impactful documents that effectively communicate your message.

(742) Advanced 18 and older

Reading to Write with Myla Goldberg

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

What makes a good story tick? In this in-person class, Myla Goldberg will take you under the hood of contemporary realist and fabulist fiction to discuss stories from the perspective of craft. You'll plumb the mysteries of scene, point of view, character development and narrative arc, with each discussion culminating with an in-class guided writing exercise inspired by the story. This is not a workshop: rather than share writing, this class creates...

(1060) All levels 18 and older
$185

4 sessions

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Writing Sonnets

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

How can poets use sonnets to communicate a whole world of thought and emotion in just fourteen lines? Join Rachel Hadas for an immersive weekend looking at how writers have grappled with the sonnet—one of our most durable, versatile, challenging, and generative forms—throughout its long and still evolving history. Each day begins with looking at a wide range of Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets, followed by writing a sonnet of your own.

(1060) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$400

2 sessions

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First Responders (A Dance Writing Course)

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

What is dance writing, and what can it be? How are dance critics responsible for being responsive, and what are the forms this first response, and further responses, can take? Why and how do we accept the challenge of writing about an ephemeral artform? First Responders invites you to journey into dance with some of its most gifted, committed artists as your guides. Through writing exercises and assignments, you will track your perceptions, explorations,...

(1060) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$385

5 sessions

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Memoir-Writing with Betsy Bonner

92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY

This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program. If we are able to offer an in-person version of this class in the coming months, we will contact you and make both options available to you.  Memoir is not autobiography, which is intended to cover the whole life to date, but a short and significant stretch of a life—like a novel.  It’s also different...

(1060) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$385

4 sessions

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How to Write Your Autobiography

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Each of us has a story to tell. But finding the words and voice to tell it with is an art and craft specific to each storyteller.  This course will concentrate on each student’s unique approach to telling his or her tale. Not for the shy or faint of heart.

(1060) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$260

8 sessions

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Writing from the Senses

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

The smell cinnamon rolls baking the oven; the texture of a well-worn coat; the reprise of a certain once-loved song—the sensory details of everyday experience can add richness and spark to what we write. Using delightful sensory prompts, Laura will show you how to tap into your best material, enriching memory and story with imagery and detail. All levels

(1060) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$105
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Polish Your Kids' Book Manuscript

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Full Course Name: Polish Your Kids’ Book Manuscript: A Work-in-Progress Workshop Do you have a children’s book in you that’s just dying to get out? Join other writers and illustrators for an intensive review-and-redo workshop on the book you’re writing—whatever stage it’s at. Engage in specific analysis, critique and revision in a group environment to create a polished manuscript.  All registrants must have a manuscript. Due...

(1060) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$240

6 sessions

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Write and Rhyme Like Dr. Seuss

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Forget free verse, you’ve no excuse, come learn to rhyme like Dr. Seuss! Do you reflexively string words together when you walk? Do you like a tight Scrabble game? Do you wince at rap’s and free verse’s “near-rhymes?” Then this course is for you! We address rhythm, rising/falling meter, scansion and all kinds of rhymes. For newbies and veteran word-clangers alike. If you've read to the end of this rant and you buy it, risk rhyming!...

(1060) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$200

5 sessions

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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...

(1060) All levels 18 and older
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Writing for the Web

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Gain hands-on experience in reporting, researching, and writing for the web and breaking into publications like Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Slate and Salon. 

(1060) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$195

6 sessions

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YogaProse

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Unlock your creativity and find inspiration through the powerful combination of yoga and writing. Join yoga teacher and writer Jennifer Lang for a day-long urban retreat that will guide you through breathwork, movement, meditation, and writing exercises. Discover the connection between these two practices and learn how to tap into your own stories and bring more depth to your writing.

(1060) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$150
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Boost Your Confidence as a Writer

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Art serves as both an outlet for and an invocation of childhood traumas, making writing arguably one of the most powerful art forms. Join author, therapist, and NYU professor, Sherry Amatenstein, as she leads a supportive environment filled with laughter and expression. With the use of exercises, handouts and take home suggestions, you will learn to spend less time worrying about rejection and more on building your body of work.

(1060) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$120

4 sessions

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Showing Up: A Poetry Intensive with Emily Skillings

92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY

In this uncertain and unsettling time, finding groundedness inside practice is both rewarding and necessary for us as writers. Instead of following the traditional feedback-based workshop model in which poems are written outside of class, this 3-week generative course will focus on creating a rigorous space for the practice of poetry. Each 2-hour session will begin with a mini craft lecture or guided close reading, followed by a series of structured...

(1060) All levels 18 and older
No upcoming schedules
$300

3 sessions

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Fall Ferments

92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Fermentation is one of the oldest food processing methods still used today. Scientifically known as zymology, it is the conversion of carbohydrates into alcohols, carbon dioxide, yeast or bacteria. Beer, miso, sourdough, kefir, kimchi and many other delicious foods we love are the product of fermentation. In this course, we will explore fermentation with a focus on the basic science behind making sauerkraut and why it’s good for you. Plus, we’ll...

(1060) All levels 18 and older
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