The Workshop prides itself on being a safe, nurturing space for writers of all levels and ethnicities to develop artistically and professionally. Novelists Min Jin Lee, Ed Lin, and Monique Truong first began to find their ways as writers via our writing workshops and literary enrichment programs. Our writing workshops are affordable and intimate, a space where one builds friendships that often last longer than the duration of the class. Former Poet Laureate of Queens, Ishle Yi Park has said, "The Workshop nurtured and raised me. A home away from home, a nest, a gathering place, a refuge, a resource. Word."

How to Sign up for a Creative Writing Workshop

(1) If you're interested in signing up for a writing workshop, you can do so either at the website for that specific workshop (see below) or by calling us at (212) 494.0061. We want you to be able to try out a class to see if you like it, so your credit card will be charged a non-refundable deposit for the first class only. (For one-day sessions, you will pay the full price of the session.) Unless otherwise noted, workshops are at The Asian American Writers' Workshop, 110-112 W. 27th St, Ste. 600, New York, NY 10001

(2) Assuming you like the class, we'll then charge you for the remainder of the fee for the course.

• If you paid via telephone, your credit card will be charged the remainder of the fee for the course, unless you bring an alternative form of payment (cash or check) on the first day of class.
• If you paid online, please bring your preferred form of payment to the first class (credit card, cash, or check).

In either case, receipts will be given to you at the second session. Should you decide to drop the class, please notify us via telephone by 7pm on the business day following the first class. There are no refunds for classes missed voluntarily. We hope you enjoy the class!

 
Sunday, September 12, 2010 1-4 PM
Writing Poetry through Dance & Drawing with Mong-Lan

Write poetry from your body; dance from the heart; draw from your mind’s eye and from your imagination. Explore different ways of connecting with your inner core through what you see with your eyes, the world drawn with your hands. Unleash writers block through dance & art.

We will be exploring movements from contemporary dance and tango, and writing from what these movements bring to mind. We will be dancing alone and with a partner. No dancing experience needed! The dance moves are to bring back memories to you, buried memories. What does your body say to you? Are you in touch with your body? What does your mind say when you are going through certain movements? What memories come to mind from the depths of your cells? We will use the dance movements as jumping pads from which to write poems.

Bring your drawing pen/pencil and drawing pad! No drawing experience needed! Now that we have looked inside your body for inspiration, let’s look outside of the body. Have you really looked at the world recently? Have you ever drawn a still life to see what shapes and forms are in front of you? What do you see, and how does this inform your writing? We will be drawing a still life, training the eye and the hand, and using this as a jumping pad to write poems. 


Register here.
$50 Members
$60 Non-members

@ The Workshop
110 West 27th Street, 6th Floor
Between 6th and 7th Avenues

American poet, writer, painter, photographer, dancer and and teacher of the Argentine tango, Mong-Lan left her native Vietnam on the last day of the evacuation of Saigon. A Wallace E. Stegner Fellow in poetry for two years at Stanford University and a Fulbright Fellow in Vietnam, Mong-Lan received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona. www.monglan.com

Workshops, unless otherwise noted, will be held at The Asian American Writers’ Workshop

As of May 2010:
The Asian American Writers' Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, Sixth Floor
New York, NY 10001

Location:
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
Flower District, Midtown Manhattan, near Herald Square, Penn Station and the Empire State Building

Subway:
N, R, Q, W, F, B, D, V trains to 34th Street/Herald Square
4, 5, 6 trains to 33rd Street
1, 2, 3 trains to 34th Street