Awesome Cause, Awesome Idea: Write Your A** Off

June 5th, 2007 by Larry Smith

250235189_bb8fda34f9_m.jpgThis weekend: Our friends at the NY Writers Coalition invite you to Write You A** Off at its second annual Write-A-Thon this Saturday, June 9.

Simple notion: Get your friends and family to donate in support of your day of writing. The dough goes to support NYWC’s creative writing programs for at-risk youth, the homeless and formerly homeless, the formerly incarcerated, seniors, among others who have a story and want to tell it. All writers at all levels are welcome, as long as you raise at least $100 to attend, which, let’s face it, you can do with two trips to your local Internet cafe.

Special guest: Chris Baty, the author of No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days, and runs the org which brings us National Novel Writing Month and its screenplay cousin, Script Frenzy (which SMITH’s assistant editor Miles van Meter is doing now and says is the best thing that ever happened to his flick dreams).

Prizes, tons of them, for top pledge-getters: a manuscript review by Patricia Mulcahy of Brooklyn Books (former Editor-in-Chief at Doubleday); free memberships to Paragraph, the writing space on 14th Street and the Brooklyn Writers Space, the writing space in Brooklyn; Mets tickets; a poker lesson from Matt Matros; an astrology reading from writer/astrologer Emily Trinkaus; a private yoga session from writer/yoga instructor Shaina Feinberg (note: we love her!); dinner for two at Song in Park Slope; subscriptions to the Bellevue Literary Review; a gift package of official Major League Baseball merchandise from MLB.Com (even if you choose not to write about doping).

Click here for lots more information and registration.

Writing sample from Flickr’s Churl.

 
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