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Trumpet Fiction
New York Writers Resources
puts the
FUN
back in
FUNdraiser!
Join us for an evening of comedy and light refreshments.
LAUGH ’til it hurts!
GIVE ’til it FEELS GOOD!
Hosted by Ophira Eisenberg
Featuring comedy stars
Angela LaGreca, Jon Fisch, Emily Heller,
Babes in the Woods (Cynthia Babak and Michael Huston)
and the comic song stylings of
Michael Garin and Mardie Millet.
Also:
Silent Auction, Raffle and Discounted Books
When and where …
Thursday, June 14th, 2012
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
at
The Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
at Lincoln Center
144W. 65th Street
Tickets $50
New York Writers Workshop in Shanghai, April 2012
Register at colorboxarts@gmail.com
http://www.colorboxarts.com/en/index.php
Enrollment is limited to 12 students per workshop.
Workshops:
Entry Points for Fiction and Memoir
Following Through: the Next Steps in Fiction and Memoir
Story World: Fleshing Out Place & Time in Fiction and Memoir
Entry Points for Fiction and Memoir
Thursday, April 12, 7:00-9:00pm, 200rmb
Where do you begin a story effectively? What do you do once you’ve entered the story world? Entry Points for Fiction and Memoir is a craft-based workshop that considers these questions through example, then exercise. Participants write, share (as time allows), and discuss work generated by exercises that are Incident-based, Character-based, and Setting-based; participants leave the workshop with three story openings, and suggestions for the next story steps. Through out, the conversation remains focused on issues of craft.
Following Through: the Next Steps in Fiction and Memoir
Saturday April 14 1:00-4:00pm, 300rmb
You have your story premise, your character/s setting, and opening events? now what? Following Through: the Next Steps in Fiction and Memoir picks up where Entry Points for Fiction and Memoir left off. Through example and exercise, the workshop focuses on scene dynamics, with particular attention paid to types of dialogue. Participants move stories forward through the construction of scenes and summary narration. Progression of conflict, elaboration of theme, and effective use or discovery of symbol are also considered.
Story World: Fleshing Out Place & Time in Fiction and Memoir
Saturday April 21, 1:00-4:00pm, 300rmb
One of the most neglected aspects in the imagination of stories (in both fiction and memoir) is setting in place and in time. An inordinate amount of focus is placed on character and event at the expense of description and history. But character and event can’t be fully persuasive, fully dimensional, unless they’re situated in a well- established context. This workshop session identifies strategies for opening up story world through model and exercise. By session’s end, your characters will be engaged with events in places and times that help complete the story picture.
Tim Tomlinson is a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop, and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. Recent fiction and poetry appear or are forthcoming, online and in print, in Asia Writes, Caribbean Vistas, InterlitQ,Mandala Journal, The New Poet, the New York Quarterly, Pank, Prick of the Spindle, riverbabble, Salt River Review, and in the anthology Long Island Noir (Akashic Books). He was featured poet in Saxifrage Press (Dec 2011). “Blue Surge, with Prokoviev,” in Sea Stories, was nominated for Best of the Net 2011. Tim has been running workshops since 1991, and he’s taught or consulted in the US, the UK, Italy, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, and now China. He’s lived in London, Florence, Paris, Cha’am (Thailand), Manila, Boston, Miami, New Orleans, Andros Island (the Bahamas), and now Shanghai.
Thank you to sixty-one participants, six editors, four agents, and five New York Writers Workshop instructors.
Next Perfect Pitch Fiction Conference, April 27-29, 2012.
Sponsored by the NYWW and Ducts.org
Trumpet Fiction is a reading series
held on the second Saturday of the month,
October-June, at:
The KGB Bar 85 East 4th Street
Jonathan Kravetz, host
The next reading will be:
Saturday, Jan 14
at 6:45 pm
(TIP: Get there early to score a seat!)
Our readers are …
- BRIAN KIM Brian Kim is secretly from the South, but it’s a secret, so don’t tell anyone (especially him). He graduated this past June from Queens College with an MFA in Creative Writing. He focuses on short fiction. He was a 2011 writer-in-residence at the Louis Armstrong House Museum Archive, where he learned several dirty jokes—many of which you will hear during his performance. He’s currently an adjunct professor at Queens College.
- NINA CAMP Nina Camp lives in New York City, where she writes personal essays and vitamin catalogs. She also writes the chapters for her first novel which is currently much anticipated by Nina. Her recent publishing credits include a wildly successful and colorful magazine selling an herbal remedy for prostate enlargement, published by Best Life Herbals, and a personal essay about love and craziness in New York, published by White Whale Review. Another of Nina’s essays, about love and cupcakes in New York, attracted an encouraging form letter (“We remain interested in your work and would like to see more”) from The Paris Review.
- HARRY J. GETZOV In his new book gOld, Getzov introduces us to many of the extraordinary senior citizens he has interviewed as part of the Eldercationproject he created to promote the concept of positive aging. He has also worked as an attorney in the music and entertainment business, counseling artists in the music, theater, literary, television and motion-picture industries. He served as personal manager for several well-known entertainers, including The Jerky Boys, who achieved international success under his guidance. Getzov’s articles have appeared in the New York Daily News, Newsday, The Dallas Morning News, The Kansas City Star and amNew York, and he has been a guest on radio across the country. He speaks frequently about Eldercation and inter-generational communication.
Jonathan Kravetz, host and founder of Trumpet Fiction (1999) is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the literary webzine DUCTS.org. His play, Better Lucky Than Smart, was produced by Manhattan Theatre Source in August/September, 2010. His play, Prayer, was produced to sold-out houses at the New York City Fringe Festival, 2008. Prayer was a semi-finalist in the annual Reverie Productions Play competition in New York, 2008. Violins, a ten-minute play, was one of the winners of the Bite-Sized International Playwriting Competition and was performed at the Brighton Fringe Festival in spring, 2008 and was an audience favorite at the InGenius festival, New York, New York. His plays, Get Bruised, Parts 1 and 2, played at the TestoGenius festival in New York and were selected audience favorites. His play, Jim and Dana, was a 2009 finalist in the Oxford, MS Ten-Minute Play Contest. He has several published short stories and has written a dozen science non-fiction books for children. Mr. Kravetz has edited and ghostwritten several essays and and one memoir, The Missing Cub, the story of Chicago Cub lefty Darcy Fast. Mr. Kravetz is one of the founding members of the prestigious Writers Forum at the Manhattan Theatre Source in New York. Jonathan holds a Masters Degree in Cinema Studies from NYU and teaches fiction, memoir and screenwriting in New York City. He is currently pursuing his MFA in playwriting at Queens college.
and
Greenpoint Press publication
of the powerful new book,
We’re Not Leaving:
9/11 Responders Tell Their Stories of
Courage, Sacrifice and Renewal
by Benjamin Luft, M.D. Dr. Luft
Dr. Luft will be joined by some of the responders who contributed their stories and he will show clips from his oral history project and sign copies of the book. (You can see him again on 60 Minutes on September 11th at 7:00 p.m. on CBS.) Benjamin J. Luft, M.D.
NYWW’s instructors, authors and members will also be on hand to tell you about workshops, readings and other upcoming events and help raffle off valuable prizes to support Dr. Luft’s work and ours. Come toast the book, meet Dr. Luft and help NYWW kick off another exciting season at JCC Manhattan! No cover, donations welcome.
Location and Directions:JCC in Manhattan
Beit Midrash Room, 7th Floor
334 Amsterdam Ave @ 76th St
New York, NY 10023
646-505-4444
Subway: 1/2/3 train to 72nd Street