Writing Events in New York

Check out happening writing events all around New York, NY

The Library for the Performing Arts Play Club [IN PERSON]

 Thu, 20 Nov at 06:30 pm Harvey Fierstein Theatre Lab Free

In Conversation: Srijon Chowdhury & Doreen St. Félix

 Fri, 07 Nov at 06:00 pm The FLAG Art Foundation Free

"The Indescribable Novel" Class Reading

 Sat, 08 Nov at 05:00 pm P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts Free

HOSSAM'S PEOPLE: a reading of texts from Gaza

 Mon, 15 Dec at 07:00 pm New Perspectives Theatre Company Free

Book Launch for Louise Bourgeois: ‘The Insomnia Drawings’ & ‘Knife-Woman’

 Sat, 15 Nov at 04:00 pm Hauser & Wirth Free

Dead Ladies Show NYC #37

 Thu, 13 Nov at 10:00 am The Red Room at KGB USD 13

The Spinach King: An Evening with John Seabrook

 Fri, 07 Nov at 08:00 pm The National Arts Club Free

Voices of Jewish Literary Giants: Hayim Nahman Bialik and Philip Roth

 Mon, 10 Nov at 07:00 pm 15 W 16th St, New York, NY, United States, New York 10011

Take an Upper West Side Stand-up Comedy Class - Tuesday Nights

 Tue, 04 Nov at 07:00 pm PianoPiano Rehearsal Studios USD 395

The City Reading Series

 Fri, 14 Nov at 06:30 pm P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts USD 7

Mark Z. Danielewski: Tom’s Crossing

 Thu, 06 Nov at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 48

Ageless Dancers- With Betti Franceschi

 Thu, 06 Nov at 07:30 pm The Drama Book Shop Free

MOCA PERFORMS - Brothers Paranormal

 Sat, 08 Nov at 03:00 pm Museum of Chinese in America Free

Author Talk: Fire in Every Direction

 Thu, 06 Nov at 06:00 pm Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Free

Candace Bushnell: True Tales of Sex, Success, and Sex and the City

 Fri, 05 Dec at 08:00 pm Adler Hall @ The New York Society For Ethical Culture USD 66 to 187

Student Lecture Series | Malkit Shoshan: Ecologies of Care

 Thu, 06 Nov at 06:30 pm The Cooper Union Library Free

Elena Bower + Yung Pueblo: Hold Nothing

 Thu, 20 Nov at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 31

MARSHA: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

 Thu, 06 Nov at 06:30 pm Event Oval, Diana Center Free

秋韻 To Autumn｜Japanese Ikebana Flower Exhibition in New York

 Sat, 08 Nov at 02:00 pm 40 Crosby St Free

To Chemnitz and Back Again

 Mon, 03 Nov at 06:30 pm Goethe-Institut New York Free

Creative Writing With Other Scriptures

 Tue, 04 Nov at 06:00 pm 18 W 21st St suite 900 USD 82

SLAM HOUSE: Poetry Slam + Open Mic (IV)

 Sun, 09 Nov at 03:00 pm Alke Cafe & Bar USD 0 to 29

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Terry Dactyl

 Wed, 19 Nov at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 23

Paul Muldoon in Conversation with Lucy McDiarmid

 Thu, 04 Dec at 07:00 pm Glucksman Ireland House NYU Free

Celebrating Mexican Storytelling: Soy Frankelda Screening and Conversation

 Fri, 07 Nov at 04:00 pm Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library Free

PEN Out Loud & The Strand Present: Kiran Desai

 Thu, 04 Dec at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 39

The Rest is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death

 Thu, 13 Nov at 06:00 pm Maison Française Free

Anika Jade Levy + Sam Lipsyte: Flat Earth

 Tue, 11 Nov at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 32

Art as Medicine Exhibition

 Thu, 20 Nov at 05:00 pm 722 W 168th St Free

Creating Theatre for Audiences that are Neurodiverse- with Dionne O'Dell

 Thu, 13 Nov at 07:30 pm The Drama Book Shop Free

We Had it Coming

 Wed, 12 Nov at 06:00 pm 40 Loisaida Ave Free

The LaLaHaHa Museum

 Tue, 11 Nov at 06:30 pm IRT Theater USD 16

New Short Musicals Debut: Across a Crowded Room Final Presentations

 Sat, 22 Nov at 11:00 am New York Public Library for the Performing Arts -Bruno Walter Auditorium Free

Margaret Atwood at Winter Garden Theatre - NY

 Tue, 04 Nov at 07:30 pm Winter Garden Theatre - NY

Sandy Skoglund: Enchanting Nature

 Wed, 12 Nov at 06:00 pm Rizzoli Bookstore Free

The United States v. Socrates

 Sun, 09 Nov at 02:00 pm New York Society for Ethical Culture Free

Collecting Jewelry Art in Crisis at NYC Jewelry Week 2025

 Thu, 20 Nov at 05:00 pm Ukrainian Institute of America Free

Salon 58 presents: A Gospel Evening with Damien Sneed and friends

 Sat, 20 Dec at 07:30 pm Midtown (exact address will be sent by email to ticket-holders a day before the event) USD 66 to 71

Megan Marshall on the Art of Biography, with Martha Hodes

 Thu, 04 Dec at 06:30 pm The Skylight Room: 9100 Free

Syncopated Stages Exhibition Gallery Tour

 Wed, 05 Nov at 11:00 am New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Free

Latihan - A Blindfolded Moving Meditation - New York!

 Wed, 19 Nov at 06:30 pm Tribeca Loft USD 49 to 90

David Sedaris at Town Hall New York

 Wed, 19 Nov at 07:30 pm Town Hall New York

Early 1800s Music and Competitive Dance Extravaganza!

 Wed, 10 Dec at 06:30 pm Middle Collegiate Church USD 13 to 18

The Other Almanac 2026

 Wed, 19 Nov at 06:00 pm 40 Loisaida Ave Free

Ava Reid + Lauren Puckett-Pope: An Archive of Romance

 Tue, 09 Dec at 07:00 pm Strand Book Store USD 14 to 28

Unsinkable Women: Stories and Songs From the Titanic

 Thu, 08 Jan at 07:30 pm The Drama Book Shop Free

Tantric Latihan - Journey Into the Unknown

 Thu, 18 Dec at 06:30 pm Tribeca Loft USD 40 to 90

Poetry Reading with Isabella DeSendi, Leila Chatti, & Eugenia Leigh

 Tue, 18 Nov at 06:30 pm P&T Knitwear Books & Podcasts USD 7 to 21

"We Have No Need of Other Worlds (We Need Mirrors)" by Graham Sack

 Fri, 09 Jan at 06:00 pm 394 Broadway USD 15

Writing Fashion

 Tue, 09 Dec at 06:00 pm 20 Cooper Sq Free

Gathering of the Ghosts 2025

 Mon, 10 Nov at 08:30 am New York Academy of Medicine USD 499 to 799

Nomad Walking Tour: The Gilded Age at NYC Jewelry Week 2025

 Wed, 19 Nov at 03:00 pm The Jewelry Library at Maison 10 Free

The Fairy Skull King at NYC Jewelry Week 2025

 Tue, 18 Nov at 10:00 am Museum of Arts and Design USD 13

Lecture | New Discoveries about Winston Churchill’s Autobiography

 Tue, 09 Dec at 06:00 pm The Grolier Club Free

The Creativity Workshop In New York - December 4-7, 2025

 Thu, 04 Dec at 10:00 am 20 River Rd USD 1,095

Literary talk with Yael Segalovitz

 Thu, 13 Nov at 12:00 pm 14A Washington Mews Free

Shaping Jewelry Collections in Museums at NYC Jewelry Week 2025

 Wed, 19 Nov at 10:00 am The Jewelry Library at Maison 10 Free

Cosmic Writers 4th Anniversary Young Writer Showcase

 Thu, 15 Jan at 05:30 pm Books of Wonder Free

Live podcast: Tracy Dobmeier + Wendy Katzman at Zibby's Bookshop Pop-up NYC

 Tue, 09 Dec at 05:00 pm Minnie Rose Free

M. E. O’Brien, Trans Childhoods and the Family Romance

 Mon, 16 Mar at 06:30 pm SVA, 133 W 21st St Free

Adam Gopnik on Learning to Draw

 Tue, 14 Apr at 06:00 pm The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery Free

Radiotheatre's 15th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Festival

 Sat, 29 Nov at 05:00 pm Under St Marks Theater USD 34

Broken Images

 Thu, 06 Nov at 07:00 pm Paradise Factory Theater USD 36

Groove Theory “The Marcellus Sessions”

 Wed, 05 Nov at 09:00 pm Groove USD 20 to 32

Drink 'N Draft: Creative Writing Workshop

 Wed, 22 Feb at 08:00 pm Book Club Bar USD 22

Taillor Open Mic

 Fri, 20 Jun at 05:00 pm Madame X USD 23

Stage Dive: Creative Writing Workshop

 Wed, 14 Aug at 08:00 pm Book Club Bar USD 22

MoMA Write in Response Collective

 Fri, 07 Feb at 10:00 am The Museum of Modern Art USD 7

On Cats and Dogs and Other Family Revelations

 Tue, 22 Apr at 07:00 pm Under St Marks Theater USD 29

KCB's Speech Bubble Open Mic

 Tue, 26 Aug at 06:30 pm Serendipity 3 - Upper East Side USD 18

Man Ray at The Met: Surrealist Dreams & Art Saturdays

 Sat, 27 Sep at 09:00 am The Metropolitan Museum of Art USD 0 to 150

Letters for Liberation: Building Community Via Collective Correspondence

 Sun, 04 Feb at 04:00 pm Bluestockings Cooperative Bookstore Free

New York City: Central Park Self-Guided Walking Audio Tour

 Mon, 26 Feb at 06:00 am Grand Army Plaza USD 15

BFPL Beyond The Pages: A Literary Series | Book Drop

 Tue, 03 Jun at 10:00 am Brookfield Place Free

Hudson Park Writers Workshop

 Tue, 07 Oct at 04:00 pm Hudson Park Library Free

Exhibition Tours | Richard Aldington: Versatile Man of Letters

 Thu, 18 Sep at 01:00 pm The Grolier Club Free

Writing at the Wallach Workshops

 Wed, 15 Oct at 01:00 pm The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University Lenfest Center of the Arts Free

Voza Rivers Legacy Series “Open-Mic” Competition-Playwrights/Screenwriters!

 Mon, 20 Oct at 06:30 pm 259 Convent Ave Free