Anthologies
Every anthology is filled with essays, poems, comics and stories from the young writers and artists of upper Manhattan. Purchase them online from Word Up Community Bookshop, or in person at Buuni, Dutch Baby Bakery, and Forever Coffee.
Guaranteed to give you all the feels, every book sold supports our Pay-What-You-Can Tuition Policy, helping Uptown Stories provide space for all children from our economically diverse neighborhood.
Ready to Join a Workshop?
Tired of being inside? Do you want to be wild and break out of the limitations that are always being set? Poetry is the answer. We’re strapping on our shoes, grabbing our pens, and meeting at the P.S. 187 school yard to go on a poet’s adventure! Poetry is a way of seeing things outside the boxes they are always being put in. We'll be rejuvenated by the nature of Ft. Tryon park and emboldened by our resilient neighborhood. We'll explore the wilds of language out in the world, allowing a stream of poetry to flow from the river of possibility.
We’re calling on the brave and bold for a writing adventure! This semester, we’ll be writing stories that have multiple choices for the reader - different storylines lead them down alternative paths or to alternative endings. We’ll take inspiration from a few examples like Jason Shiga’s Meanwhile and Ryan North’s To be or not to be, then we’ll build worlds of our own. We’ll dig into key writing techniques and learn some new approaches while we forge our own way – whether it be fiction or nonfiction, the choice is yours. Which way will your adventure go?
Are you Team Peeta or Team Gale? Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah? Katniss has us almost ripping out pages to find out who she picks, and Belly has us almost ripping out our hair. Whatever team you rep, we can all agree romantic relationships are at the core of many of our favorite stories. In Romance Unleashed we’ll teach you how to woo your readers and leave them wanting more. We’ll explore how love and desire drive plot forward, craft characters with greater depth, and make our love stories epic. Whether you want to create outlandish romantic fantasy or real and true love, the skills you learn in Romance Unleashed will add a new dimension to your writing.
Isabella
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Graydon
Alumnus
Annie
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Lori
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Nina
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Gerry
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Kimberly
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Anna
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