Voices From War

WELCOME!

Winter-SPRING

2023 Registration OPEN!

Voices From War’s

Winter OPEN HOUSE & Social

online

Sunday, FEBRUARY 12, 4:30 pm

rsvp for link: info@voicesfromwar.org

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Thank you to our WINTER SHOWCASE readers, supporters, audience!

And thank you to our fabulous Fall Instructors and participants!

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Winter-Spring 2023

REGISTER NOW

Voices From War’s

Writing Workshops for Veterans

Offering writing workshops and related programming for veterans and family members since 2013.

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Workshops SPRING 2023…

Starting… FEB 22nd (Wednesdays) & FEB 25 (Saturdays)

• Learn from published writers and fellow veterans and family members.
• Read engaging fiction, memoir, essays, and poetry on the subject of war…
• Discuss practical strategies and create deeper content for writing the stories and poetry that express your vision and/or experiences.
• Add to a more diverse representation of veteran stories.
• Come participate in a community of diverse, veteran & military family #writers.

Questions: info@voicesfromwar.org

Missed our latest NEWSLETTERS? . . .  Stop by HERE

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We are thrilled to have co-Instructors Siobhan Adcock and  Duncan Murrell continuing in the Voices From War (14Y-remote) classroom this Spring with Jeremy Warneke continuing in the Bronx (remote) classroom. Thank you to our Voices From War team!

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Learn more on our Instructors page and through our Newsletters and Blog.

REGISTER NOW

WEDNESDAYS:    Click HERE

SATURDAYS:   Click HERE

Join us for

Voices From War’s

Winter 2023 OPEN HOUSE & Social

Sunday, FEB 12th, 4:30 pm (online)

rsvp:    info@voicesfromwar.org

for Zoom link

More DETAILS on our Workshops Page

WEDNESDAYS:    Click HERE for SPRING Registration

with Siobhan Adcock & Duncan Murrell  (14Y – NYC – online)

SATURDAYS:   Click HERE for Spring Registration

with Jeremy Warneke (NYPL – Bronx – online)

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THANK YOU to our Voices From War

Winter 2021 SHOWCASE participants and guests! 

Voices From War’s WINTER SHOWCASE 2021

Reading & Virtual Reception featuring work from our 2021 workshops

Veterans and family members share new work!

Featuring excerpts from new fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, and poetry from 2021 . . . traveling through memory, back into war zones and present-day Covid-19, looks back to childhood and passages into parenthood, in uniform and out, across neighborhoods, across the U.S., across countries, experiences of racism, times of loss and grief, into community.

Thank you for joining us for an evening of community and writing, veterans’ stories, family members’ experiences, times of war and conflict, and times looking for peace, making sense through narrative.

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Veterans Week – in person

FRIDAY, November 12, 2021, at 3:00 pm

Voices From War at the New-York Historical Society

https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/veterans-day-2021

Five women veterans shared about their military service and experiences of writing afterwards. Thank you for joining us on November 12th for short readings and a moderated panel discussion with five talented writers, all veterans, working in different professions and engaging with narrative to help share veteran experiences. More and more veterans go on to use the arts to explore and explain their time in the military and afterwards—hear directly from this accomplished panel of women who served.

Featuring:

Elana Duffy, Nicole Goodwin, W.S. Klein,

Bathsheba Monk, & Nina Semczuk,

with Moderator, Kara Krauze

Voices From War is grateful for grant support from The Rona Jaffe Foundation and workshop programming support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC.net) and Poets & Writers’ Readings & Workshops.

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Thank you to our Winter-Spring 2021 Instructors! We were thrilled to have Dewaine Farria and Jessica DuLong join the Voices From War team!  Learn more on our Instructors page and through our Newsletters and Blog.

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Thank you for joining us for BLACK HISTORY MONTH

BMCC’s “Black Veterans Unsilenced”

Including READINGS from VOICES FROM WAR

Thursday, FEBRUARY 11, 2021, 2:00-4:00 pm

More DETAILS – HERE

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REGISTER NOW – SPRING 2023

SATURDAYS (Morris Park NYPL)  Online:  12:30 pm.   FEB 25 – MAY 6       (6 sessions)

WEDNESDAYS (14th Street Y)  Online:  7:00 pm.  FEB 22 – MAY 10       (8 sessions)

Learn more about our INSTRUCTORS … Here

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Community events:

Thank you for joining us in launching Columbia University’s “The Line” Literary Review, a new not-for-profit journal exclusive to veteran writing on January 27th at 7pm EST.

Including Miko Yoshida and Naiomy Mendez from Voices From War’s Fall 2020 workshops (Writing & Reading War Stories and The Craft of War Writing).

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Thank you for sharing in our FALL 2020

EVENTS

Elizabeth Lewes on OCTOBER 25th

FALL SHOWCASE on DECEMBER 6th

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FALL SHOWCASE

Sunday, DECEMBER 6 at 5:00 pm

Event on Zoom

Featuring excerpts from new fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, and poetry from 2020 . . . glimpses into war zones and present-day Covid-19, looks back to childhood and history, experiences of racism, times of loss and grief, acceptance of periods of solitude and loneliness, transitions, and alighting on moments of communion. Community.

Thank you for joining us for an evening of community and writing, veterans’ stories, family members’ experiences, and considerations of a complicated year.

THANK YOU to our Voices From War SUPPORTERS
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC)
NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council
Poets & Writers, Inc. / NYSCA
The Rona Jaffe Foundation
YOU! ~ Individual Supporter Contributions

We are grateful to our community partners / workshop hosts!
14th Street Y (Manhattan)
NYPL – Morris Park (Bronx)

We appreciate your support!

Please consider Voices From War in your charitable giving. Your donation of any size helps support our ongoing programming.

Secure Online Donations: Voices From War

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GUEST AUTHOR Event    

Sunday, OCTOBER 25, 2020, 5:00 pm

Voices From War welcomed Elizabeth Lewes

Author of Little Falls

READING & DISCUSSION with ELIZABETH LEWES

Voices From War, offering writing workshops for veterans and public events since 2013, was pleased to welcome veteran and writer Elizabeth Lewes to read from her debut novel LITTLE FALLS, a mystery set in Eastern Washington State, where Sergeant Camille Waresch returns after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. Elizabeth Lewes expertly threads together this taut narrative unraveling the mystery of a small town murder, while navigating difficulties of single-parenthood and complicated memories of war.
Publishers Weekly praised Lewes’ “outstanding debut” with its “tight, well-constructed plot” and “searing portrait of Camille as she deals with the guilt she feels over her daughter and her general rage at the world.”
Reading followed by discussion (with moderator Kara Krauze, Voices From War founder) about writing, PTSD, and veteran experiences, followed by questions from workshop participants and our audience.

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PROGRAMMING Continues ONLINE – COVID-19 Adjustments

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 Winter-SPRING 2023: Our programs continue via an online learning platform!

Connecting LIVE for the SPRING season during our regularly scheduled class times.

Join us for our Winter OPEN HOUSE – via Zoom

Online:  SUNDAY, FEB 12, 4:30-5:30 pm

RSVP: info@voicesfromwar.org

WORKSHOPS start FEBRUARY 22 & 25 – Online via Zoom

REGISTER NOW – Details on the WORKSHOPS Page

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We are so grateful for our fantastic hosts, both centers of community engagement, the 14th Street Y, serving Manhattan’s East Village for many years, and the Morris Park Library, part of our amazing NYC (NYPL) public library system. Both locations are now open again for some activities. Due to Covid-19 precautions, Voices From War workshops moved online beginning March 11th, 2020, and will remain online through the Spring 2023 season, using the Zoom platform.

While we love and miss our in-person community — we also want to report our successful online community gathering and ongoing engagement with our participants, their writing, literary discussion, and shared conversations! Having a way to continue community engagement–though remote for the time being–is all the more important during these difficult times. Twice a week Voices From War continues to be socially connected “live” in real time through our virtual classrooms.

We look forward to meeting you (or seeing you back) and sharing discussions  in our online classrooms.

 

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Stop by the Workshop page for DETAILS

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ARCHIVES –>

Thank you for joining us for TWO fantastic Events in November!

And THANK YOU for YOUR SUPPORT for Voices From War programming!

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You can make a secure online DONATION any time!

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MORE PICTURES up on our BLOG

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24th, 5:00 pm

Voices From War FALL SHOWCASE

at the 14th Street Y

 

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THANK YOU for a great event on Veterans Day weekend!

New-York Historical Society

VETERANS DAY WEEKEND 2019

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9th, 2:00 – 4:00 pm

Voices From War: Stories & Conversation on Transitions

MORE DETAILS on the EVENTS Page

Voices From War’s “Writing & Reading War Stories” is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Learning, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by LMCC.

LMCC serves, connects and makes space for artists and community.

CONTRIBUTORS

THANK YOU to our Voices From War SUPPORTERS
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC)
NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council
Poets & Writers, Inc. / NYSCA
The Rona Jaffe Foundation
YOU! ~ Individual Supporter Contributions

We are grateful to our workshop hosts!
14th Street Y  (Manhattan)
NYPL – Morris Park (Bronx)

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REGISTRATION OPEN

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Thank you to our READERS & Guests!

THURSDAY, May 23rd, 2019, 6:30 pm

Thank you to our Supporters & Participants!

Saturday, DECEMBER 8th

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THANK YOU to our Veterans Day Weekend READERS and the Latimer House Museum!

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Thank you for joining us for…

Voices From War’s 2018 Events

         

 

THANK YOU to our Voices From War SUPPORTERS
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC)
NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council
Poets & Writers, Inc. / NYSCA
The Rona Jaffe Foundation
YOU! ~ Individual Supporter Contributions

We are grateful to our hosts!
14th Street Y  (Manhattan)
NYPL – Morris Park (Bronx)

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THANK YOU to our participants and audience for making our 2018 Programming such a success!

   

Make sure you’re on our mailing list for future updates!

Please see the sidebar to FOLLOW posts on our Blog, catch our UPCOMING NEWS, and to sign up for our NEWSLETTER. 

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Thank you! 

Tuesday, MAY 15^th, 2018, 7:00 pm

Voices From War at the Poets & Writers Connecting Cultures Reading

Hosted by the Center for Book Arts

THANK YOU to Poets & Writers (& the Center for Book Arts for hosting)… a wonderful evening of readings!!

And thank you to all of the excellent readers, including our two VOICES FROM WAR participants!

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Thank you to The Rona Jaffe Foundation for ongoing support 2016-22!

Thank you to the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council for support in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, & 2022!

Thank you to Poets & Writers for support for our workshops since 2013!

Thank you to Amazon Literary Partnership for past grant support in 2017 – 2019!

                   

     

We are grateful to our workshop hosts!

The 14th Street Y, hosting Voices From War since 2013!

The Morris Park NYPL, hosting Voices From War’s Bronx collaboration, The Craft of War Writing, since 2016!

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VOICES FROM WAR’S Writing & Reading War Stories is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Learning, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. LMCC.net

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council empowers artists by providing them with networks, resources, and support, to create vibrant, sustainable communities in Lower Manhattan and beyond.
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This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

       

       BRONX - The Craft of War Writing -  w/ Jeremy Warneke

"The Craft of War Writing" is offered in collaboration with VOICES FROM WAR, offering writing workshops for veterans since 2013, and with support from the Morris Park NYPL.
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     JUNE 3, 2018

     JUNE 25, 2017

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2017

NYC – 14th Street Y

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**  YOU, our SUPPORTERS, help make Voices From War workshops and events possible. Grant support alone does not cover all programming and events.

Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to directly support our instructors, costs of materials, and Voices From War programming! ** 

**  If you are interested in joining our list of workshop collaborations or want to be involved as a volunteer or possible Voices From War chapter or partner…please contact us at info@voicesfromwar.org  Partner involvement, and your energy and support, make our expansion possible! Broadening opportunities for veterans and family members to share their stories and deepen awareness of the wide range of veteran experiences, from earlier generations to the most recent. **

THANK YOU for your role — veterans, family members, and engaged civilians.

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Listen to VOICES FROM WAR Founder Kara Krauze talk about founding Voices From War and her personal story – in the TANGO ON THE BALCONY “Meet Our Partners” series:

And be sure to visit the Tango on the Balcony website for their news and to learn more about this important narrative film.

**  Please visit our WORKSHOPS page for details about upcoming workshops!  **

 Want to learn more about our Manhattan or Bronx Workshops & other upcoming VOICES FROM WAR NEWS?

Click HERE & Be sure to join our MAILING LIST!
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Voices From War

Empowering veterans to craft their stories.

Propelling veteran stories into sight.

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You can make a tax-deductible donation through our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas.

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THANK YOU to the 14^th Street Y, host of Voices From War’s writing workshops for veterans since Season 1, Fall 2013!

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ADDITIONAL DETAILS on our EVENT Page:  https://voicesfromwar.org/events/

We appreciate your support for Voices From War’s workshops and programming as we sustain our workshops at the 14^th Street Y (entering our seventh year!) and expand, including collaborations in the Bronx and additional projects in process! EACH contribution makes a difference.

THANK YOU for your support!

You can always make a tax-deductible donation through our Fiscal Sponsor – Arts Organization FRACTURED ATLAS.

https://www.fracturedatlas.org/site/fiscal/profile?id=10933

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Click HERE to be part of Voices From War’s ongoing success — and make a difference.

NEXT STEPS:  Sustainability and Scalability. Contact us if you are interested in collaboration or partnership.

 

For additional DETAILS: Click WORKSHOP

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QUESTIONS?

EMAIL: info@voicesfromwar.org

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And be sure to join our MAILING LIST!

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VETERANS WEEK 2014

What a night…

on November 9th, 2014!

Voices from War joined Veteran Artist Program for the 2nd VAP Veterans Week Showcase – 2014!

We had a fantastic audience – more than 200 attendees! – for the Voices from War Literary Showcase  followed by  The Telling Project!

Visit the EVENT page for more details.    

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What we do…        

WRITING:         For yourself or a broader audience.
STORIES:           Remembered and factual or creation of fiction.
                                Our truths are complex.

CRAFT:                 Through Reading, Writing, and Community.
COMMUNITY:   Through Workshops and Stories.
AUDIENCE:        Through Events, Conversations, and Publication.

 

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Voices From War…

• Offers opportunities for expressing experiences of war through writing workshops for veterans with attention to individual stories, existing literature, and craft…

• Builds community among veterans…

• Builds bridges of experience and expression between veterans and civilians by creating and nurturing wider opportunities for diverse dialogue and events…

“If you succeed [in storytelling], you replace the fragments of memory with something that has its own shape and meaning, a separate thing that has value in itself.”     
                     - Tracy Kidder & Richard Todd

Spring 2020  ▪  NYC Season 14  ▪  Starts FEB 26

We are proud and excited to be in our SEVENTH year of workshops!  Thank you to each and every one of you – all of our remarkable participants – for these first SIX YEARS.

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Voices From War‘s

Writing Workshop for Veterans       

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Writing and Reading War Stories in the 21st Century

In this workshop we write our own narratives, while reading excerpted fiction and non-fiction by veterans, military spouses, and select civilians.  Each week, we share student work, learning from each others’ strengths and successes, while also discussing ways we can come closer to the stories we want to tell, whether just for ourselves or for a larger audience.  The course is team-taught by two writers, a civilian and a veteran.

This is a free workshop for veterans.

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We could use YOUR support! Contact us about getting involved…
as a sponsor, partner, donor, or volunteer.

Email: info@voicesfromwar.org           

*  Voices From War is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.  Please visit the sidebar or bottom of this page for details and to make a secure online donation. *

 ♦♦ Check back for more information about our first Voices from War anthology and future NYC Reading dates. We look forward to introducing more readers to these talented writers!  ♦♦

Questions? Email:  info@voicesfromwar.org

                                      

VOICES FROM WAR’S Writing & Reading War Stories in the 21st Century is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Learning, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. LMCC.net

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council empowers artists by providing them with networks, resources, and support, to create vibrant, sustainable communities in Lower Manhattan and beyond.

This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

This class is supported and hosted by the 14^th Street Y.

Thank you to The Rona Jaffe Foundation for ongoing support 2016-2023!

Thank you to Poets & Writers for support for our workshops since 2013.

Thank you to Amazon Literary Partnership for past grant support from 2017 – 2019!

Thank you to the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council for support from 2017 to 2022!

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