Forthcoming
October 17, 2020 - 9:30am - 12:30pm
Write to Change the World is a generative workshop that helps storytellers sharpen their skills for social good.
November 1-7, 2020
The Bluest Eye at 50! Let’s Celebrate Toni Morrison‘s debut with an EPIC read along featuring Nikki Giovanni, Imani Perry, Tatyana Ali, Mahogany L. Browne and others.
November 15-22, 2020
Before Thanksgiving is a virtual festival honoring and celebrating Native Americans today by reimagining Thanksgiving. Joy Harjo, US Poet Laurette, is our keynote speaker.
November 15, 2020 - 3pm
Sunday Salon Virtual Reading featuring Benjamin Garcia, Cleyvis Natera, Nicole Shawan Junior, and Irvin Weathersby. Curated by Ru Freeman.
Past Events
Calladitas No More: Latinx Writers on Girlhood, Friendship and Trauma featuring Christine Kandic Torres, Lorraine Avila, Sonia Alejandra Rodrigues, Kimberly Reyes, and Jossie Ortiz-Bynum (October 9, 2020)
Moderated by Cleyvis Natera
Sponsored by Queen Council on the Arts
Write to Change the World Part Three: Generative workshop for writers of all levels focused on building skill as literary activists (August 1, 2020)
Let's Dismantle White Supremacy: Love As a Kind of Cure's Virtual Freedom Festival (July 12-19, 2020)
Write to Change the World Part Two: Generative workshop for writers of all levels focused on building skill as literary activists (June 13, 2020)
Write to Change the World: Generative workshop for writers of all levels focused on building skill as literary activists (May 16, 2020)
Let's talk Covid 19 x Inequity at Love As a Kind of Cure's Inaugural all virtual festival (April 19, 2020)
Let's Celebrate our Queen: The Inaugural Toni Morrison Festival at Brooklyn Museum (February 18, 2020)
The Dark Tower Reading (March 15, 2020 Von Bar, NYC)
The 11th Annual DARK TOWER Reading. 3PM @ Von Bar, 3 Bleecker St.
AWP Conference 2020 Panel (March 2020, San Antonio, TX)
Do Words Heal? Writers on the Power and Difficulty of Writing Pain & Trauma (Alison C. Rollins, Marita Golden, Mitchell Jackson, Susan Kim Campbell - Facilitated by Cleyvis Natera)
Writing Our Lives Celebration of Our Stories (December 21, Starr Bar, Brooklyn, NYC)
Celebration of our stories and the audacity it takes to write them.
Write Your Story: Truth, Lies, and Fiction (November 12th, Shakespeare & Co, NYC)
Workshop to explore magical realism, surrealism, and the fantastic through reading and writing. For details and registration, e-mail events@shakeandco.com
Us Against Alzheimer's (Anthology): Langston Hughes House (October 24th, Harlem, NYC)
Book Launch in New York: Contributors Marita Golden, Elizabeth Nunez, Julie Otsuka and Cleyvis Natera
Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival (September 7th, Brooklyn, NYC)
Emergent Writer's Competition: Winner and Short Listed Writers Read their winning short stories
Movement and Power at The Pursuit Series (September 19-22 - North Carolina)
Writing Workshop for Athletes: Write to Change the World!
This Alien Nation - Joe's Pub (June 12 - NYC)
Each month at the legendary Joe's Pub, Sofia Stefanovic welcomes some of her favorite people for a celebration of immigration. Hear anecdotes about language barriers, cultural missteps, rumbles, romance, and more! This Alien Nation
dominican-ish: The First Annual Dominican Writers Conference (May 4, 2019 - City College, NY)
Craft Workshop: Lay a Successful Path to a Writing Career
October 17, 2020 - 9:30am - 12:30pm
Write to Change the World is a generative workshop that helps storytellers sharpen their skills for social good.
November 1-7, 2020
The Bluest Eye at 50! Let’s Celebrate Toni Morrison‘s debut with an EPIC read along featuring Nikki Giovanni, Imani Perry, Tatyana Ali, Mahogany L. Browne and others.
November 15-22, 2020
Before Thanksgiving is a virtual festival honoring and celebrating Native Americans today by reimagining Thanksgiving. Joy Harjo, US Poet Laurette, is our keynote speaker.
November 15, 2020 - 3pm
Sunday Salon Virtual Reading featuring Benjamin Garcia, Cleyvis Natera, Nicole Shawan Junior, and Irvin Weathersby. Curated by Ru Freeman.
Past Events
Calladitas No More: Latinx Writers on Girlhood, Friendship and Trauma featuring Christine Kandic Torres, Lorraine Avila, Sonia Alejandra Rodrigues, Kimberly Reyes, and Jossie Ortiz-Bynum (October 9, 2020)
Moderated by Cleyvis Natera
Sponsored by Queen Council on the Arts
Write to Change the World Part Three: Generative workshop for writers of all levels focused on building skill as literary activists (August 1, 2020)
Let's Dismantle White Supremacy: Love As a Kind of Cure's Virtual Freedom Festival (July 12-19, 2020)
Write to Change the World Part Two: Generative workshop for writers of all levels focused on building skill as literary activists (June 13, 2020)
Write to Change the World: Generative workshop for writers of all levels focused on building skill as literary activists (May 16, 2020)
Let's talk Covid 19 x Inequity at Love As a Kind of Cure's Inaugural all virtual festival (April 19, 2020)
Let's Celebrate our Queen: The Inaugural Toni Morrison Festival at Brooklyn Museum (February 18, 2020)
The Dark Tower Reading (March 15, 2020 Von Bar, NYC)
The 11th Annual DARK TOWER Reading. 3PM @ Von Bar, 3 Bleecker St.
AWP Conference 2020 Panel (March 2020, San Antonio, TX)
Do Words Heal? Writers on the Power and Difficulty of Writing Pain & Trauma (Alison C. Rollins, Marita Golden, Mitchell Jackson, Susan Kim Campbell - Facilitated by Cleyvis Natera)
Writing Our Lives Celebration of Our Stories (December 21, Starr Bar, Brooklyn, NYC)
Celebration of our stories and the audacity it takes to write them.
Write Your Story: Truth, Lies, and Fiction (November 12th, Shakespeare & Co, NYC)
Workshop to explore magical realism, surrealism, and the fantastic through reading and writing. For details and registration, e-mail events@shakeandco.com
Us Against Alzheimer's (Anthology): Langston Hughes House (October 24th, Harlem, NYC)
Book Launch in New York: Contributors Marita Golden, Elizabeth Nunez, Julie Otsuka and Cleyvis Natera
Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival (September 7th, Brooklyn, NYC)
Emergent Writer's Competition: Winner and Short Listed Writers Read their winning short stories
Movement and Power at The Pursuit Series (September 19-22 - North Carolina)
Writing Workshop for Athletes: Write to Change the World!
This Alien Nation - Joe's Pub (June 12 - NYC)
Each month at the legendary Joe's Pub, Sofia Stefanovic welcomes some of her favorite people for a celebration of immigration. Hear anecdotes about language barriers, cultural missteps, rumbles, romance, and more! This Alien Nation
dominican-ish: The First Annual Dominican Writers Conference (May 4, 2019 - City College, NY)
Craft Workshop: Lay a Successful Path to a Writing Career