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Moved indoors

Memoir Writing with Kelly Caldwell

July 31, 2025, 6:30pm–8:00pm

Free summer writing workshops held in our outdoor Reading Room.

Please note: Today's event has been moved to an indoor location at 5 Bryant Park, 24th floor, NY, NY 10018.
Use the midblock entrance on 40th or 41st Street between Sixth Avenue and Broadway.

Learn how to bring your life to the page in this introductory workshop. You’ll learn a little craft, do a little writing, and get to hang out with your fellow memoirists in the heart of the city. Produced in partnership with Gotham Writers.

Register here

Kelly Caldwell is the dean of faculty at Gotham Writers Workshop. Her nonfiction has appeared in Vox, House Beautiful, SugarSugarSalt, Pacific Standard, New York Newsday, Time Out New York, The Writer, and Essay Daily, and been named Notable by the editors of the Best American Essays series. She's also been anthologized in If These Walls Could Talk: Thoughts of Home (Hearst) and Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction (Hippocampus Books).  She holds a BJ from the University of Missouri and an MS from Columbia University.

July 10
Screenwriting with Doug Katz

July 17
Flash Fiction & Nonfiction with Arlaina Tibensky

July 24
Creative Writing with Cullen Thomas

July 31
Memoir with Kelly Caldwell

August 7
The Writer's Mind with Emma Stephenson

August 14
Fiction with K Hank Jost

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