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Writopia Brooklyn, Quick Facts
Workshops are held at Freebird Bookstore and Goods, located at 123 Columbia Street. Please call Yael at 212-222-4088 or email her at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information or to register. Workshops (ages 8-18) are divided into small, age-based groups. Workshops culminate in a small public reading at the bookstore. Participants who complete a piece during a summer workshop are invited to read their work at Bryant Park or Barnes & Noble at NYC Writopia events. Our intensive workshops meet five days in a row for three hours a day during school breaks.
WEEKLY WORKSHOPS
Wednesday
Tuesday
Saturday
Sunday
SUMMER WORKSHOPS
June 11th-15th
June 18th-22nd
June 25th-29th
July 2nd-6thNo Workshop on July 4th. Workshops this week will run for four hours on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Workshops will run for three hours on Friday.
July 9th-13th
July 16th-20th
July 23rd-27th
July 30th-August 3rd
August 6th-10th
August 13th-17th
August 20th-24th
August 27th-31st
WHO WE ARE
CATHLEEN BELLInstructor
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RACHEL EPHRAIMInstructor
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Rachel Ephraim teaches fiction and memoir at Writopia Lab year-round in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Westchester and spearheaded the establishment of Writopia Brooklyn. Rachel's fiction, "Please Send a Published Copy to 101 Harris Road," was published in the Fall 2008 edition of the Apple Valley Review and is currently being taught by Professor Harry Youtt in UCLA’s undergraduate writing program. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in The Barcelona Review, Word Riot, Listen Party, The New York Spirit, and the Park Slope Reader. In 2009 and 2010, Rachel's students were honored at the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards with both regional and national awards. Through Writopia, Rachel has led workshops at MS 51, PS 58, Friend's Seminary, and Bryant Park. She also runs a monthly reading series at FreeBird Books and Goods in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. In 2010 Rachel was accepted as a resident to La Muse Inn, an artists’ residency in the south of France. In 2011, she will attend Vermont Studio Center on a Writer’s Grant. She is currently pursuing her MFA at Columbia University and working in the editorial department of The New Yorker. JEN MILLERInstructor
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ANYA YURCHYSHYNInstructor  Anya Yurchyshyn began teaching teen workshops at Writopia in the fall of 2009. She is finishing her MFA in fiction at Columbia University, where she is also a teaching fellow. In addition to working with undergraduates, she’s spent two years teaching fiction, poetry, and dramatic writing to advanced high school students through Columbia University’s Summer Program. She’s written non-fiction and book reviews for Esquire, Budget Travel, Modart, and Ploughshares, among many other publications. Her fiction and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Noon, Guernica, The Adirondack Review, On the Bus, and Elimae.
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Cathleen is the author of two novels for young adults, 
Jennifer Miller is a fiction, memoir, and journalism instructor at Writopia Lab. She is the author of the forthcoming novel,