Written by Elsa Bermúdez, Associate Director of Specialty Programs We had the honor of hosting the Scholastic Gold Medal winners Open Mic at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square on June 10th from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM. We loved connecting with winners before the event with some editing notes (to meet the 1-minute time …
Written by Elsa Bermudez, Associate Director of Specialty Programs We had a beautiful end-of-trimester reading at the Brooklyn Public Library in Park Slope for our Brooklyn Lab writers on May 27th. For some of our readers, it was their first time sharing their work out loud for an audience. For others, they have read their …
By Elsa Bermudez, Associate Director of Specialty Programs On Friday, March 28th, 2025, Malcolm and I led the Open Mic for Scholastic Award winners at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC! The event was beautiful: 40 teen writers shared innovative, heartwarming, powerful, and often funny excerpts from their 2025 Scholastic Art & Writing gold …
Written by Elsa and Matthew, Camp Co-DirectorsAdditional comments by workshop and elective instructors Malcolm, Jem, Peter, Rita, & Will We ran our 6th annual winter retreat at Camp Mariah over Presidents Day weekend this year! A smaller, more wintry version of WriCampia, our winter writing retreat (for tweens and teens) is a long weekend of …
Written by Elsa Bermudez, Rita Feinstein, Tasnim Hussain, and Matthew Jellison On Superbowl Sunday, Writopia Lab NYC and DC ran our 8th annual essay conference! Writers from grades 7th-12th participated in both our NYC and DC conference, and some writers even flew in from California and Toronto to participate in our NYC conference! Their excitement …