Write Your A** Off!

Friends, we're fast approaching the Write-a-Thon, the spring charity event for the New York Writer's Coalition, and I need your help if I'm going to have any chance of becoming the top fundraiser.

Young poet Najaya Royal from East New York is beating the pants off me! So far she has raised over $1,500!

Don't let age lose out to youth! Don't make Queens bow to Brooklyn! Sponsor me (if you haven't already) and please be generous!

The New York Writer's Coalition provides free, unique and powerful creative writing workshops throughout New York City for people from groups that have been historically deprived of voice in our society, including at-risk youth, adult residents of supportive housing, seniors and others.

Some of the other things your money can be used for:

• With $1000 the NYWC can provide 13 weeks of workshops for 10 teenage girls at high risk of gang involvement in Bedford-Stuyvesant through the Blossom Program for Girls.
  
  
• With $500 they can provide 7 weeks of workshops for 10 homeless LGBT youth at the Ali Forney Center in Manhattan.
  
  
• With $250 they can print 150 copies of 14th Street Gold, their anthology of writing by seniors at the 14th Street Y.
  
  
• With $100 they can buy two digital recorders for students at the Urban Academy for their documentary book project, the New York City Neighborhood Story Project.

The Write-A-Thon is Saturday May 17th, and you too can "Write Your A** Off" for a very worth cause! For those of you in NYC, it’s not too late for you to sign up yourself!

Thanks in advance for your generosity and support! (and thanks Dante for letting me use your space)