Writers With Attitude

Writers With Attitude is a free, community-based creative writing workshop in NYC. We are a vibrant collective of both emerging and experienced writers from all backgrounds, united by a shared passion for storytelling, self-expression, and refining our craft. We gather biweekly on Sundays to write, discuss literature, and support one another in a safe, inclusive, and creatively charged space.

For the 2026-2027 literary year, our theme is Writing Across the Diaspora. We will explore the ways literature preserves, challenges and reimagines our understanding of identity, memory, and belonging across cultures, generations, and geographies. Drawing from a mix of poetry, fiction, memoir, translated literature, and spoken word, we will study the works of many BIPOC writers such as Joy Harjo, Li-Young Lee, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Mahmoud Darwish, Octavio Paz, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Elizabeth Acevedo, Jhumpa Lahiri, Major Jackson, Lesley Nneka Arimah, and other distinguished literary voices whose writing traverses Indigenous, African, Caribbean, Latin American/Latinx, Middle Eastern, and Asian diasporic stories. This year, we will examine how identity, migration, language, memory, family, love, resistance, and concepts of “home” shape both individual and collective narratives. Together, we will explore the literary techniques and writing styles through which writers render deeply vulnerable experiences into stories that resonate and inspire generations and cultures across the world. 

We hope to see you at one of our workshops one day!