New York Writers Coalition, decades-old creative writing hub, to close its doors
The New York Writers Coalition, a well-known city workshop, will be shutting its doors after 22 years of providing free writing workshops to a city teeming with literary hopefuls, the organization announced on Thursday.
Zimmerman said several factors contributed to the financial difficulties. The organization expanded its services online during the COVID-19 pandemic and received emergency funds, which have since dried up. Zimmerman also said philanthropic foundations that once generously donated money for the arts are now giving less and less.
Prior to the pandemic, the organization ran around 30 workshops at different sites all over the city taught by artists it trained. Once in-person activities shut down in 2020, only some of those workshops initially moved to Zoom. Then the organization began to ramp up its online operations — including its Black Writers Program, which managed to immediately fill 120 slots across 10 workshops.
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