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The Writer’s Mind with Emma Stephenson

August 7, 2025, 6:30pm–8:00pm

Improve your writing skills at free workshops in the park's outdoor Reading Room.

Explore some unexpected techniques for applying your most important writing tool—your own mind. You’ll learn a little craft, do a little writing, and maybe find some strategies for making the writing process a bit easier.

Pre-registration is recommended. Register here

Emma Stephenson is Gotham’s Director of Communications & Events, the editor of Gotham’s literary magazine The Razor, and a co-creator of The Writer’s Mind course. She has published prose poems in Bullshit Lit’s 2nd Anthology, Masks Literary Magazine, and Passing Through. She has also served as education coordinator for Symphony Space’s Thalia Kids Book Club Camp. Emma holds a BA from Emerson College.

Produced in partnership with Gotham Writers

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