We now have our dates for our Fall Reading Series!

Thursday 9/22 4pm-6:00pm
Thursday 10/20 4pm-6:00pm
Thursday 11/17 4pm-6:00pm
Thursday 12/15 4pm-6:00pm

Stay tuned for more details!

Come to our finale reading celebrating a year of fabulous writing!

Where: The Courtyard Gallery at the World Financial Center, 220 Vesey Street New York, NY 10281

• 4:30pm-5:30pm (ages 8-12)
• 5:30pm-6:30pm (ages 13-18)

The Readers: All Writopia Lab Winter and Spring Writers

Why the Financial Center?
Some of the most powerful pieces of art submitted to the 2011 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards will be on display at the Financial Center this June. Writopia teen writers won more 2011 Scholastic Writing Awards than any other group of kids in the country! The Scholastic Awards has invited those writers, in additional to all of our writers to read in the same event space. It sounds spectacular.

Please let Kathleen ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) know if you will be there, and how many people you may bring.

We're hosting a poetry reading! This event will run from 2pm-3:30pm at the Charles P. Rogers show room located at 55 West 17th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenue). Because April is National Poetry Month, Time Out New York Kids will be listing our reading in an article about poetry opportunities for kids in the city. This reading will be open to poets beyond Writopia, and should be a very exciting event.

We're hosting a fiction and memoir reading! This event will run from 5pm-6:15pm at the St. Agnes Library at 444 Amsterdam Avenue (between 81st and 82nd Street). All workshoppers who complete (or who have completed) an original piece of creative writing this winter during a holiday intensive or during a weekly winter workshop are invited to read a two-minute excerpt at this exciting event. (Fall workshoppers who were unable to take part in the fall reading at Barnes & Noble are invited to participate in this event as well.) We will help current writers prepare, but parents of younger writers may wish to help identify their children's favorite 2-minute excerpt, and help them practice reading it aloud.

Our eighth and final reading of 2010 was one of our biggest readings yet, and a fantastic success.  Both our youngest and our oldest Writopian read.  It was held at Lincoln Center Barnes & Noble.  All of the readers finished a polished piece of original writing during a fall workshop. Congratulations to our readers:

• Kate John
• Katie Goldenberg
• Maya Rackoff
• Theo Canter

• Marc Schorin
• Maya Morrison
• Drew Arnum
• Lena Beckenstein
• Kayla Ryan
• Drew Beasely
• Gideon Lieberman
• Jinny Park
• Josca Zahn
• Victoria Testa
• Lexie Ryan
• Jason Liu
• Sophia Gunluk
• Rebecca Shubert
• Aly Moreno
• William Faba
• Rushaid Unia
• Emily Jenkins
• Lena Church
• Hannah Rudt
• Carly Sorenson
• Max Church
  Gemma Sorenson

On November 20th, 2009, our older readers took the stage at Barnes & Noble to read excerpts from their memoir, poetry, and prose. Family and friends not only enjoyed hearing the readers' stories, they enjoyed the sense of community that the readers had created for one another. Congratulations to our readers:

• Rebecca Shubert
• Julie Byrnes
• Sam Levine
• Abby Savitch-Lew
• Luca Milstein
• Ena Lee
• Kily Wong
• Jonathan Evans
• Nora Miller

At Writopia's first 2010 reading, young readers impressed their family and friends with the quality of their fiction, memoir, poetry, and drama. All of the excerpts they read were from original pieces of work that they polished during summer and fall workshops at Writopia Lab. Congratulations to all of the readers:

At our third reading of 2010, teen readers took the stage at the 82nd Street Barnes & Noble to read excerpts of their writing for their friends, their family, and each other. Their fiction, poetry, and memoirs were written and polished during summer and fall Writopia workshops. Congratulations to our readers:

• Angelica Modabber
• Anjali Raghunathan
• Anna Miller
• Boat Lynch
• Charlotte Ahlin
• Ena Selmanavic
• Jack Mullan
• Jessica Zalph
• Lauren Conrad
• Lena Beckenstein
• Noa Bendit-Shtull
• Peter Cohen
• Rachel Berger
• Sasha Bronfman
• Sasha Gayle-Schneider
• Sofia Johnson
• Chris Williams
• Sarah Dash

Readers at the January 29th reading finished original pieces of writing in winter, fall, and summer workshops. Much to the delight of their friends and family, they read excerpts from their fiction, memoir, and poetry at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe. Congratulations to our readers:

• Charlotte Lee
• Lucie Bandouveris
• Alex Cohen
• Riley Pearsall
• Ena Lee
• Amanda Kelly
• Alice Markham-Cantor
• Ana Henry
• Haley Sherif
• Sofia Warren
• May Treuhaft-Ali

Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Center hosted our February reading. Writopians read the fiction, memoirs, and plays that they developed during fall and winter Writopia workshops. Congratulations to all the Writopians who completed their goal of finishing a polished, original piece of writing, and to our readers:

• Amanda McCullough
• Angelica Modabber
• Jenan Jacobson
• Leah Mabey
• Riley Pearsall
• Shira Ben-David
• Arden Wolf
• Bella Muti
• Charlotte Lee
• Alessandra Moreno
• Jane Herz
• Mack Mudofsky
• Mollie Reid
• Nina Josephson
• Victoria Testa
• Jake Taylor

Fall and winter workshoppers who finished original pieces of writing read their work to their friends and family on March 16th. Hosted by the St. Agnes Library, the readers drew inspiration for their future writing from their surroundings and their peers. Congratulations to our readers:

• Dalia Wolfson
• Boat Lynch
• Julia Case-Levine
• Allie Quan
• Isabel Udo
• Maya Osman-Krinsky
• Emma Goldberg
• Coby Goldberg
• Carly Sorenson
• Felix Freeland
• Walter Graham
• Ayumu Nishikubo
• Ryo Nishikubo

At our seventh reading of 2010, our readers ranged from 9-year-old new Writopians to 16-year-old old timers! The younger readers were excited to read with their role models and the older readers were happy to listen to the inspired writing of the younger Writopians. All of the readers finished a polished piece of original writing during a summer intensive workshop. Congratulations to our readers:

• William Faba
• Arden Wolf
• Ruby Kahn
• Maya Osman-Krinsky
• Chloe Levine
• Jack Carlos Mindich
• Jane Thier
• Simon Idelson
• Emily Frost
• Hannah Rudt
• Ena Lee
• Sofia Johnson
• Sean Yang
• Orli Cohen
• Alexa Ringer
• Drew Arnum
• Sarina Gupta

On May 17th, 2010, Writopia Lab partnered with Casita Maria Center for the Arts to host an invitational reading celebrating New York City's Scholastic regional key winners. Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Center not only hosted the reading but supported us with a book fair. Over 50 people read excerpts from their regional key-winning writing. The writers read before their proud friends and family and got to hear the work of their peers.

On May 4th, Writopia readers took the stage at Book Culture on West 112th Street. Each reader had completed a polished, original piece of writing in a fall or winter workshop. We were proud that these young writers reached their goals and excited to hear them read their short stories aloud for their friends and family. Congratulations to our readers:

• Madison Parham-Murray
• Josca Zahn
• Ari Firester
• Gabi Banda
• Benjy Firester
• Olivia Sahid
• Lena Church
• Max Church
• Joelle Windmiller
• Nola Nelson
• Nico Miller
• Ariella Kahan
• Hannah Young
• Alina Kulman
• Sarina Gupta
• Ben Lowenstein