Hey Writers!

Join us for our fifth and final meeting of 2024, “Family Ties,” on Sunday, December 8, 2024 from 1:30-3:30pm at Powered by Us studio. We will examine the importance of familial love and friendships as catalysts to fostering a loving community. We will explore how the love ethic attributes to creating a strong foundation for community love. Furthermore, we will challenge ourselves by creating characters and stories that find loving community within friends and family.

As a treat, we will chat and write around a “campfire” and make smores. ;)

Mandatory reading: Chapter 8 of bell hooks, All About Love 

Think about: 

What type of family dynamic do you have?

Why are forgiveness and sacrifice important in creating a loving community?

Why are friendships important to creating a loving community?

We will also begin workshopping our writing this meeting! Please collect a few pieces you would like to submit for peer review. We’ll be reviewing these pieces as potential submissions for our upcoming issue of our lit mag, LUNA. We are only accepting submissions that reflect this year’s theme of Love. We will workshop poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, personal essays and short scripts. All bodies of work must not surpass three pages in length. Once you RSVP, email your pieces to us at writerswithattitudenyc@gmail.com. The subject must include your name, date & title. An RSVP is mandatory before emailing your pieces to us.

Workshopping will be available at our in-person meetings only. Virtual options are not available at this time. 

Members will have access to a free digital copy of bell hooks', All About Love as well as other supplemental readings! If you're interested in joining us, learn more here: https://writerswithattitude.com/membership1

All our love,

Cofounders, Krystalina and Jordanne

Hey Writers! Join us for our fourth meeting this year on Sunday, November 24, 2024 from 1-3pm at Powered by Us studio. We will examine how cultural norms and societal expectations influence our understanding and experience of love. We will also discuss ways we see love depicted in literature, film and media.

Mandatory reading:  Chapters 6-7 of bell hooks, All About Love 

Think about:

How does the media affect the way we see love? 

Do you think as a society we can rise above the patriarchy and experience love? 

How does fear play a part in how we love as a society?

What does literature and media show us about love through its stories?

We will also begin workshopping our writing in DECEMBER! Please begin gathering potential pieces that you want workshopped. We will workshop pieces that reflect our annual theme of Love. We will workshop poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, essays and screenplays. All bodies of work shouldn’t surpass three pages in length and must include a name, date & title. Works must be approved to workshop a week prior. We will discuss this in detail at our next meeting on 11/24.

Members will have access to a free digital copy of bell hooks', All About Love as well as other supplemental readings! If you're interested in joining us, learn more here: https://writerswithattitude.com/membership1

All our love,

Krystalina and Jordanne

Hey Writers!

Join us for our third meeting this year on Sunday, November 10, 2024 from 1-3pm at Powered by Us studio. We will examine and write about the importance of self-love, healing from past traumas and fostering emotional well being, including spirituality.

Mandatory reading: Chapters 4-5 of bell hooks, All About Love

Think about:

• What are ways we can love ourselves better? 

• According to bell hooks, how does spirituality allow us to put love into practice? 

• Do your characters have a good sense of self-love? In what ways do they show it?

• How can we make self-love/the love ethic symbolic in poetry?

Members will have access to a free digital copy of bell hooks', All About Love as well as other supplemental readings! Join here: https://writerswithattitude.com/membership1

RSVP to attend our third meeting, “Love in Practice” below.

Limited seats available.

21+

Light refreshments provided

Hey Writers!

Join us for our second meeting this year on Sunday, October 27, 2024 from 1-3pm at Powered by Us studio. We will examine and write how love is taught in childhood and how it affects our adulthood. 

Mandatory reading:  Chapters 2-3 of bell hooks, All About Love 

Think about:

What are ways you were shown love as a child? What were you taught about lying? 

Do the characters in my story have a similar childhood upbringing? How might it differ? 

How can I paint a picture through poetry to show children and/or adults exhibiting love or hindering love? 

Members will have access to a free digital copy of bell hooks', All About Love as well as other supplemental readings! Join here: https://writerswithattitude.com/membership1

RSVP to attend our meeting, “Growing Pains” below.

Limited seats available.

21+

Light refreshments provided

“Writers, the time has come!! Join us for our first meeting this year on Sunday, October 13, 2024 from 1-3pm. We will discuss the overview of bell hooks’ definition of love and her critique of pop culture’s portrayal of love, and begin to explore our own definitions of love.

Mandatory reading: “Introduction” & “Chapter 1” of bell hooks, All About Love 

Members will have access to a free digital copy of bell hooks', All About Love as well as other supplemental readings! Join here: https://writerswithattitude.com/membership1

RSVP to attend our meeting, “Introduction to bell hooks, “Theory of Love.”

Limited seats available.

21+

Light refreshments provided

Join us at our Meet & Greet for W.W.A’s, “Navigating Love in Verse, Prose, and Narration” workshop this year! Our cofounders will host a panel presentation about the creation of Writers With Attitude, what our meetings look like, our events, our literary magazine, and more. Afterwards, there will be a brief Q&A and mixer with music and light refreshments.

This is a great opportunity to learn about our plans for the year and meet new & returning members. We encourage everyone to come, whether you’re an experienced or amateur writer, a writer that just likes to journal, a writer that writes fan-fiction, a writer with imposter syndrome, or a creative who wants to try something new– you have a space to learn and grow here.

Be there on Saturday, September 28, 2024 at 1:00pm at Powered by Us headquarters in the Bronx. Be sure to arrive ten minutes prior since the panel will begin promptly.

RSVP below. Limited seats available!

Hello Writers!

On Saturday, June 12, 2021, we will host our third workshop on Setting and Metaphor in poetry! We will focus on the use of temporal, environmental and individual setting in poetry while examining the use of metaphor used to capture these settings. We’ll examine works from various poets from the nineteenth century to contemporary poetry. 

The readings will be distributed via email by Friday, June 4th.

ALL WRITERS AND WRITING STYLES WELCOME! 18+

This event is FREE with a reservation. RSVP below.

Grab a pen (and a drink) and let’s talk!

Hello Writers!

On Saturday, April 24, 2021, we will host our second workshop of the year on P.O.V in poetry! We will focus on the less common points of view including second person, personification and the unreliable narrator. We’ll examine works from various poets from the nineteenth century to contemporary poetry. 

The readings will be distributed via email by Friday, April 16th.

ALL WRITERS AND WRITING STYLES WELCOME! 18+

This event is FREE and requires an RSVP via Eventbrite.

Grab a pen (and a drink) and let’s talk!

Hello Writers!

On Saturday, March 27, 2021, we will host our first workshop of the year on writing femininity in poetry! We will focus on femininity through the lenses of self, symbolism, and sexuality. We’ll examine works from classic writers such as Maya Angelou and Pablo Neruda, as well as contemporary poetry and spoken word pieces from LGBTQIA+ and international poets.

The readings will be distributed via email by Friday, March 26th.

ALL WRITERS AND WRITING STYLES WELCOME! 18+

This event is FREE and requires an RSVP via Eventbrite. Link below.

Grab a pen (and a drink) and let’s talk!