“What’s Your Story” was chosen as the title of a six-week writing workshop co-hosted by Coming of Age and the NY Writers Coalition. Rhonda Zangwill of the NYWC offered a weekly prompt, allowed 15-20 minutes to write, and then invited participants to read their stories aloud.
Here are a few of the amazing pieces that display the talent, reminiscences and poignant emotions of the writers. The settings so descriptive that you feel you are right there with the narrator or your own memories are called up. Whether they be truth or fiction, you will laugh, sigh and perhaps shed a tear. Enjoy!
- Constance writes about the pink Spaldeen ball of her girlhood
- Jeremy’s poem highlights the present v. the future
- Judy is amazed to find the one true thing in a box of “lost things”
- Joan’s poem reflects on Ferlinghetti’s “The World is a Beautiful Place If…”
- Liliane composes an Ode to an Elevator
- Stephen free-writes on “Who Would Have Thought?”
- Paulette reminisces on a young girl in considering “The World is a Beautiful Place”
- Arthur’s memory produces an Ode to Marbles
- Pepita’s Ode is dedicated to Skin and senses