New York Writers' Intensive

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Are you ready to prioritize your writing?

Story

Storytelling classes and writing workshops in NYC for writers, entrepreneurs, and other creative people.

The New York Writers Intensive specializes in teaching people how to use storytelling techniques to captivate your readers or your audience.

Since the principles storytelling are universal, we’ll explore the work of brilliant storytellers in a variety of genres—from writers like Ernest Hemingway, Joan Didion, and Tina Fey to stand-up comics like Louis CK and Mike Birbiglia. We'll watch scenes from movies (The Bourne Identity, Up, Casablanca) and TV (Louie, Breaking Bad, True Detective), and we'll read pages from graphic novels like Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.
We'll listen to stories from The Moth and This American Life and read from the journal Spike Lee kept while he was writing Do The Right Thing. And yes, we will talk about Hamilton.

Through all of this, we’ll break down the principles of good storytelling—vulnerability, suspense, goal/obstacle, action/reaction, cause and effect—and you'll learn how to apply those same techniques in your own writing, whether you want to write fiction or nonfiction, stories or essays, a Moth story or a TED talk.

ABOUT JAY DIXIT
Jay Dixit is an award-winning writer, storyteller, and writing teacher whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Slate, Wired, and Psychology Today. As an interviewer, Jay has spoken to Spike Lee, Tim Roth, Willem Dafoe, and Tony Robbins. Jay also conducted George Carlin’s last interview—which George Carlin called "the most complete interview" of his life.

Jay has taught creative writing at Columbia University and leads storytelling classes and writing workshops. Jay is also the winner of The Moth, a live stage storytelling competition based in New York, and his story "My Father's Love" appears on The Moth Radio Hour and NPR. He can be reached at [email protected].