NYC Writers Network

An organization connecting and supporting writers in New York and beyond! Of writers. By writers. For writers.

[ᴰᵉᵉᵖⁱᵏᵃ @_deepershades_]

Like water inside a camel's hump, my soul holds your name.
Like a beautiful painting, on the walls of an ancient cave.

Like the age-old script, waiting to be deciphered.
I fly back in time, like a hummingbird flying backwards.

♡

[Damien Tillman @DamienTillman9]

This Friday, 7pm I'll be in the building! Come pick up a copy of my new book! #learningtoquotemyself #nywritingclub #supportlivingartists #writingcommunity #author #poetrycommunity #amwriting #poetry #openmic #queens #nyc

[Danez @Danez_Smif]

Don’t overthink it. Send your best work. Send work you feel shows who you are/who you’re becoming. Send the work you’re proud and pushed by. There’s no secret formula. No fee, 25K. Deadline is Monday. Poets 21-31, you have nothing to lose/a lot to gain! https://t.co/A3i2DIdssg

[Brandy Jensen @BrandyLJensen]

working on an essay and have a quick question: how do you put the right words in the correct order so that it is good, rather than bad

[Kelli Russell Agodon @KelliAgodon]

Poems sometimes happen because I close down the rest of the world and sit with a blank page for minutes, hours, days. What is a waste of time to one person is what saves me, what keeps me moving forward.

[Britni Danielle @BritniDWrites]

Who else reads their writing out loud while they write?

[Poetry Foundation @PoetryFound]

Welcome the first day of spring with our collection of verdant poems. https://t.co/arayEiFxvD

[Well-Read Black Girl Festival ™ @wellreadblkgirl]

“don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.” ― Lucille Clifton

[Script Anatomy @ScriptAnatomy]

It’s Sunday. You can write 2 pages. Work on an outline or read a script. Do something for your writing career no matter how small.

[NYC Writers Network @NYCWN]

This is a writer's #unboxing dream! Congrats @tomi_adeyemi! 📖🙌🏿👏🏾 https://t.co/3U4RcJqhyz

[New York Times Books @nytimesbooks]

What doesn't work when writing about sex? Ocean metaphors. https://t.co/ykAGiKnW3v

[CG Drews @PaperFury]

WHAT WRITERS DO WHEN NOT WRITING
• think up new projects we shouldn't be writing
• speak to other humans so they remember we're still alive
• lurk in tunnels beneath an opera house and scream
• go on twitter
• just kidding we go on twitter when we're writing too

[Aaron Vallely @Vallmeister]

"There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities."

~ Ursula K. Le Guin, who died today. 🙏