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OPEN HOUSE – This Sunday – NEW Season Starts FEB 22 & 25

February 11, 2023Blog - In the media, News & Updates - VfW, Writing Workshop for Veterans#morevoices, #workshops, 14th Street Y, Afghanistan, Iraq, LMCC, military family, Poets & Writers, Rona Jaffe Foundation, The Craft of War Writing, veteran experiences, veterans, Vietnam war, war experiences, war writing, writingKara Krauze

Voices From War’s SPRING 2023 SEASON

REGISTRATION OPEN!

OPEN HOUSE this SUNDAY, FEB 12!

Open House: SUNDAY, FEB 12, 4:30 pm

RSVP: info@voicesfromwar.org for ZOOM LINK

VoicesFromWar.org/workshop

WEDNESDAY or SATURDAY

Join us this SPRING to explore diverse forms of storytelling (through fiction, memoir, poetry), discuss, and work on your own writing. Each season, we welcome recent veterans and those who served years prior, active duty and family members. Come work on your writing in a supportive veteran-focused community, explore your experiences and others, and enhance your writing skills, whether a new writer, or one revising previous work. QUESTIONS? Email: info@voicesfromwar.org

Voices From War has been offering writing workshops for veterans (and family members) since 2013, with two workshop options through the Winter-SPRING season (Wednesday or Saturday).

REGISTRATION now OPEN
Details: https://voicesfromwar.org

Literature and the act of writing, our own stories and others, brought from the shadows, given voice instead of silence, offer opportunities for community, for grace and personal insight, for discussion and shared understanding. The darkest and most difficult realities multiply through silence, whereas giving voice — searching for words, for narrative, for structure from fragments — increases resilience, diminishes shame, and offers opportunities for artistic creation, dialogue, and connection.

You can learn more about our instructors on the Instructors page and check out previous Newsletters HERE.

Missed our RECENT NEWSLETTERS? Catch up HERE!

OPEN HOUSE: Sunday, FEBRUARY 12, 4:30 pm (online)

OPEN HOUSE – This Sunday – NEW Season Starts this month!

September 10, 2022Blog - In the media, News & Updates - VfW, Writing Workshop for Veterans#morevoices, #workshops, 14th Street Y, Afghanistan, Iraq, LMCC, military family, Poets & Writers, Rona Jaffe Foundation, The Craft of War Writing, veteran experiences, veterans, Vietnam war, war experiences, war writing, writingKara Krauze

Voices From War’s FALL 2022 SEASON

REGISTRATION OPEN!

OPEN HOUSE this SUNDAY!

Open House: SUNDAY, SEPT 11, 5pm

RSVP: info@voicesfromwar.org for ZOOM LINK

VoicesFromWar.org/workshop

WEDNESDAY or SATURDAY

Join us this FALL to explore diverse forms of storytelling (through fiction, memoir, poetry), discuss, and work on your own writing. Each season, we welcome recent veterans and those who served years prior, active duty and family members. Come work on your writing in a supportive veteran-focused community, explore your experiences and others, and enhance your writing skills, whether a new writer, or one revising previous work. QUESTIONS? Email: info@voicesfromwar.org

Voices From War has been offering writing workshops for veterans (and family members) since 2013, with two workshop options through the FALL season (Wednesday or Saturday).

REGISTRATION now OPEN
Details: https://voicesfromwar.org

REMEMBERING 9/11

9/11, and all of those so deeply impacted, is on our minds each year at this time. You can read remarks from Voices From War founder Kara Krauze on the 20th anniversary last year…

HERE
2022: 21 years

You can learn more about our instructors on the Instructors page and check out previous Newsletters HERE.

We are thrilled to have SIOBHAN ADCOCK return to the Voices From War 14Y classroom, with JEREMY WARNEKE continuing in the Bronx (remote) classroom, and welcoming DUNCAN MURRELL as he joins the Voices From War team!

Learn more on our Instructors page and through our Newsletters .

Missed our RECENT NEWSLETTERS? Catch up HERE!

Plus SAVE the DATE for our 2022 Winter SHOWCASE! … Sunday, DECEMBER 11, 6pm (online)

NEW Season Starts This WEEK!

February 23, 2022Blog - In the media, News & Updates - VfW, Writing Workshop for Veterans#morevoices, #workshops, 14th Street Y, Afghanistan, Iraq, LMCC, military family, Poets & Writers, Rona Jaffe Foundation, The Craft of War Writing, veteran experiences, veterans, Vietnam war, war experiences, war writing, writingKara Krauze

Voices From War’s Winter-SPRING 2022 SEASON – Starts THIS WEEK!

VoicesFromWar.org/workshop

WEDNESDAY or SATURDAY

Join us this spring to explore diverse forms of storytelling (through fiction, memoir, poetry), discuss, and work on your own writing. Each season, we welcome recent veterans and those who served years prior, active duty and family members. Come work on your writing in a supportive veteran-focused community, explore your experiences and others, and enhance your writing skills, whether a new writer, or one revising previous work. QUESTIONS? Email: info@voicesfromwar.org

Voices From War has been offering writing workshops for veterans (and family members) since 2013, with two workshop options through the SPRING season (Wednesday or Saturday).

REGISTRATION now OPEN
Details: https://voicesfromwar.org

You can learn more about our instructors on the Instructors page and check out previous Newsletters HERE.

We are thrilled to have Jeremy Warneke continuing in the Bronx (remote) classroom and to have Nina Semczuk return to the Voices From War 14Y classroom and to welcome Timothy Kudo as he joins the Voices From War team!

Learn more on our Instructors page and through our Newsletters .

Missed our RECENT NEWSLETTERS? Catch up HERE!

NEW Season Starts This WEEK!

September 20, 2021Blog - In the media, News & Updates - VfW, Writing Workshop for Veterans#morevoices, #workshops, 14th Street Y, Afghanistan, Iraq, Jeremy Warneke, military family, The Craft of War Writing, veteran experiences, veterans, Vietnam war, war experiences, war writing, writingKara Krauze

Voices From War’s FALL 2021 SEASON – Starts THIS WEEK!

VoicesFromWar.org/workshop

WEDNESDAY or SATURDAY

Join us this fall to explore diverse forms of storytelling (through fiction, memoir, poetry), discuss, and work on your own writing. Each season, we welcome recent veterans and those who served years prior, active duty and family members. Come work on your writing in a supportive veteran-focused community, explore your experiences and others, and enhance your writing skills, whether a new writer, or one revising previous work. QUESTIONS? Email: info@voicesfromwar.org

Voices From War has been offering writing workshops for veterans (and family members) since 2013, with two workshop options through the FALL season (Wednesday or Saturday).

REGISTRATION now OPEN
Details: https://voicesfromwar.org

Save the Date! For our WINTER SHOWCASE Sunday, DECEMBER 12, 2021

You can learn more about our instructors on the Instructors page and check out previous Newsletters HERE.

Missed our RECENT NEWSLETTERS? Catch up HERE!

On writing—and war stories we want to read

March 20, 2014Blog - In the media, Writing Workshop for VeteransAfghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq, Jennifer Percy, Jennifer Vanderbes, Kenan Trebincevic, Marines, Phil Klay, Redeployment, Susan Shapiro, veterans, war stories, writingKara Krauze

Today, some words of wisdom from wonderful writer and former U.S. Marine Phil Klay, author of the acclaimed new short story collection Redeployment.

“When I came back I had all these questions to think about that were interesting or important for me, and writing the book was one way for me to grapple with both what the experience meant to me and what the war in Iraq meant to our country and culture.”

– Phil Klay, author of Redeployment

*interviewed by Kirkus Reviews (Megan Labrise)

Redeployment powerfully encompasses multiple perspectives and experiences of war. The collection recently received a fabulous review (an engaging read in itself, while informative about the qualities that recommend the review’s subject), by Dexter Filkins, author of The Forever War, in the New York Times Book Review.

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In April, The Center for Fiction, in midtown Manhattan, near Grand Central, hosts Phil Klay on Redeployment and Jennifer Vanderbes, whose new book The Secret of Raven Point, is about a brother and sister, soldier and nurse, stationed in Europe during World War II.

That’s April 10th at 7:00 p.m. in NYC.

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War literature is also coming up at Franklin Park’s Reading Series. You can catch Jennifer Percy, author of Demon Camp, about a returning Afghanistan veteran, along with Kenan Trebincevic and Susan Shapiro, writing about Trebincevic’s experiences as a Bosnian émigré and his trip back after the war in The Bosnia List, plus Liza Monroy, author of The Marriage Act, and essayist Melynda Fuller.

That’s this coming Monday, March 24th at 8:00pm – Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden.

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** A huge THANK YOU to Poets & Writers and The New York State Council on the Arts for supporting another season of Voices from War, A Writing Workshop for Veterans. And an ongoing THANK YOU to the 14th Street Y, supporter and sponsor, welcoming the workshop and its participants each week; and building Voices from War. **

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Start telling your story.

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Voices from War’s Writing Workshop for Veterans – Winter-Spring 2014 is running now.

Stay tuned for summer options.

Come work on your story in a supportive community of fellow vets.

Space Limited.

Next Class (#6 of Season 2): March 23rd.

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Writer Roxana Robinson on the civilian-military divide

September 2, 2013Blog - In the mediaIraq, literature, Roxana Robinson, The Iliad, veterans, war stories, war writing, writingKara Krauze

Writer Roxana Robinson picks her five favorite war books for The Literarian, and writes of researching her new novel Sparta:

“I became fascinated by the world of the military—how different it is from the civilian world, how differently it’s structured, and how powerful and compelling and complex and ancient it is. Suddenly, I couldn’t get enough information about it. I read and read, and I went to veterans’ gatherings, and I interviewed veterans. I was caught up in the drama of a movement that was deeply connected to our lives, but which had nothing to do with them. I was struck by this fact—how separate the two lives are, and how impossible it seemed to be, to connect them. And I was struck by the way this seemed to have been true always, going back to The Iliad.”

See more at: http://www.centerforfiction.org/magazine/issue-13/roxana-robinsons-five-pack/#sthash.UrM4XpSG.dpuf

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REGISTRATION open for Voices from War’s Writing Workshop for Veterans – Fall 2013.

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