September
25 - JHS 13, Central Park East Middle School, East Harlem, Manhattan, Grade 7, Greg Neri, Chess Rumble
Poetry Writing Workshop
October
10, 23 – CS 21, Crispus Attucks School, Bedford-Stuyvesant, ELSI*
Grade 2, Paul DuBois Jacobs & Jennifer Swender, My Subway Ride
*Elementary School Initiative — a series of workshop sessions for children to create a book
20, Nov 6 – Brooklyn Community High School of Communications, Arts, & Media, Bedford-Stuyvesant
Grade 9, Coe Booth, Tyrell
Fiction Writing Workshop
23 – DeWitt Clinton High School, Norwood, the Bronx
Gr. 11 & 12, Sarah Schulman, Rat Bohemia
WITT Seminar
30 – Harvey Milk High School, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Gr. 11 & 12- Collaboration with The Moth – a storytelling organization
Intro Session
November
3 - DeWitt Clinton High School, Norwood, the Bronx
Gr. 11 & 12, Colum McCann, This Side of Brightness Literary Criticism Seminar (2 classes)
5 – CS 21, Crispus Attucks School, Bedford-Stuyvesant Kindergarten, Irene Smalls, My Nana and Me
5, 12, 19, 26 – CS 21, Crispus Attucks School, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, ELSI*
Grade 2, Marc Tauss, Superhero
*Elementary School Initiative — a series of workshop sessions for children to create a book about superheroes.
6, 18 – Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning & Social Change, Harlem Grade 9, Rita Williams-Garcia, Like Sisters on the Homefront
Fiction Writing Workshop
12, 13, 20, 25, 26 – Harvey Milk High School, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Gr. 11 & 12- Collaboration with The Moth – a storytelling organization
12 – DeWitt Clinton High School, Norwood, the Bronx
Gr. 11 & 12, Suheir Hammad, Breaking Poems
WITT Seminar
21 – JHS 13, Central Park East Middle School, East Harlem, Manhattan, Grade 8, Charles Smith, Jr. Chameleon
Narrative Writing Workshop
December
2, 18 – Brooklyn Community High School of Communications, Arts, & Media, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Grade 9, Rita Williams-Garcia, Like Sisters on the Homefront
Fiction Writing Workshop
3, 4, 5, 16 – Harvey Milk High School, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Gr. 11 & 12- Collaboration with The Moth – a storytelling organization
4, 11, 18 – PS116, William C. Hughley School, Jamaica, Queens, ELSI*
Grade 2, Marc Tauss, Superhero
*Elementary School Initiative — a series of workshop sessions for children to create a book about superheroes.
4 - DeWitt Clinton High School, Norwood, the Bronx
Gr. 11 & 12, Andre Aciman, False Papers
Literary Criticism Seminar (2 classes)
10 – Brooklyn Community High School of Communications, Arts, & Media, Bedford-Stuyvesant
Grade 11, Kevin Powell, Some Day We’ll All Be Free Rhetoric and Oratory Workshop (Jo)
11 – Harvey Milk High School, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Gr. 11 & 12, Martha Southgate, Third Girl From the Left
Literary Criticism Seminar & culmination of collaboration with The Moth
11, 18 - JHS 13, Central Park East Middle School, East Harlem, Manhattan
Grade 7, Todd Strasser, Boot Camp
Narrative Writing Workshop
17 – Harvey Milk High School, Greenwich Village, Manhattan Gr. 11 & 12– Performance at Jimmy’s 43
January
16, 23, 30 – PS116, William C. Hughley School, Jamaica, Queens, ELSI*, Grade 2, Susanna Pitzer, Not Afraid of Dogs
Writing workshop focusing on fears
22 - DeWitt Clinton High School, Norwood, the Bronx
Gr. 11 & 12, Martha Southgate, Third Girl From the Left Literary Criticism Seminar (2 classes)
28 - JHS 13, Central Park East Middle School, East Harlem, Manhattan, Grade 6, Zetta Elliot, Bird (Chris)
Poetry Writing Workshop ;
