What
stories will
your summer hold?

The world
needs
your story.

How can
you
empower them?

01/05

Digital Journalism

The internet is a crazy place, but it gives us powerful tools to tell our stories. Digital Journalism is all about using the digital world to our advantage! Through writing, video, and audio, we’ll learn the fundamentals of storytelling, reporting, and online journalism in unconventional ways.

The Nature of Poetry

Join our vibrant group of young poets as we venture out into upper Manhattan’s flourishing summer landscapes and find poetry in the world around us!

All Workshops

Uptown Stories offers workshops for fiction writing, poetry, writing & drawing comic books, and so much more!

We empower young people to write their own stories.

Every child should experience the joy of writing—with no financial barriers.
3,604
Attending Kids
381
Workshops
15,854
Pages of Student Work Published

Read Our Stories

Check out our beautiful anthologies, as well as our digital magazine, Uptown Ink, and other fantastic student writing projects. And yes, all our students are published authors and artists!

Uptown Ink

Discover our online magazine filled with new fiction, poetry, essays, comics, and news articles from our writers. Want to contribute? Submit your work to Uptown Ink!

Take a Look!

Students of
the Sidewalk

A project by the students of Columbia Secondary School, full of articles that inform, inspire, and make you laugh.

Take a Look!

Untold Uptown

A joint collective of youth in NYC who are using their voices to empower and take on different issues prominent throughout the city.

Take a Look!

Meet Our Teachers!

Master teachers and artists are at the core of Uptown Stories. Learn about who they are, and what they love!

Jane LeCroy

Jane
Fun Facts About Me!

Jane fronts the band The Icebergs and was a part of Sister Spit, the famed west coast women’s poetry troupe!

Stacy Davidowitz

Stacy
Fun Facts About Me!

Stacy once sang the National Anthem solo for a NY Jets game! She was 16 at the time.

Dorkys Ramos

Dorkys
Fun Facts About Me!

When she's not at US, Dorkys spends her time painting and illustrating!

Miss Lasko-Gross

Miss
Fun Facts About Me!

Miss once played a zombie in a low-budget horror movie.

Kate Reuther

Kate
Fun Facts About Me!

Kate is a lifelong New Yorker and has lived in Washington Heights since 2003 with her two kids.

Dave Roman

Dave
Fun Facts About Me!

Dave is a former editor at Nickelodeon Magazine, current editor for First Second’s Science Comics and History Comics series...and he loves waffles!

Alejandra Ramos Riera

Alejandra
Fun Facts About Me!

Alejandra achieved a 2021 Emmy nod for Voice Over Actress in La Cucarachita Martina’s Musical Adventure!

Tess Michaelson

Tess
Fun Facts About Me!

Tess has an identical twin!

Nicholas Forker

Nicholas
Fun Facts About Me!

Nicholas worked as a production specialist in Takashi Murakami and Frederico Solmi’s studios!

CJ Gardella

CJ
Fun Facts About Me!

CJ has served as a producer's assistant at Robert Altman's Sandcastle 5 Productions and assisted world-renowned director Noah Baumbach!

Luis Rivera Figueroa

Luis
Fun Facts About Me!

Luis’ first job was at Cold Stone Creamery where he performed mini ice cream ball juggling shows while preparing orders!

Amanda Alcántara

Amanda
Fun Facts About Me!

Amanda really like mermaids, she's trilingual, and she made a rap song once!

Ally Kloster

Ally
Fun Facts About Me!

Ally played a bad guy on TV, has three cats, and is good at basketball (minus the stamina part).

Yannick Florest

Yannick
Fun Facts About Me!

Yannick can't help but tell dad jokes.

Cassidy Guinada

Cassidy
Fun Facts About Me!

Cassidy has been to the midnight release of every Hunger Games movie.

Nicco Diaz

Nicco
Fun Facts About Me!

I LOVE science, incorporating it into my writing often, and once memorized the Periodic Table of Elements.

Nelson Diaz-Marcano

Nelson
Fun Facts About Me!

The first time I ever came up with a story was because I was afraid of a pig!

Kat Li

Kat
Fun Facts About Me!

I met Pelé once and even shook his hand (on a soccer field in Rio de Janeiro).

Rosy Douge-Charles

Rosy
Fun Facts About Me!

I appear in a episode of Raising Kaanan for like 5 seconds. I can show you a clip I swear.

Daemond Arrindell

Daemond
Fun Facts About Me!

In a previous life I was a life guard at Jones Beach!

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