WritopiaLab is a NYC-based national community of young writers, ages 8-18. If you love the idea of developing your first short story or memoir, or if you are already a prolific writer who is thrilled by the idea of polishing exceptional short stories, journalistic pieces, personal essays, poetry, and dramatic and comedic scripts, join our year-round afterschool, weekend, and summer intensive creative writing workshops... we'll come to your town or city!

Our students enter at different levels... and leave with at least one piece of polished, original prose!

Why WritopiaLab works: our workshops meet daily in the summer (and weekly during the school year); we limit enrollment to a maximum of six participants per workshop; and we place a strong emphasis on developing, completing and polishing stories, often using exciting events such as the Scholastic Writing Awards to inspire us...

Every six months, participants can choose to read their polished pieces in public!!

"The one change that most needs to happen to make American education realize its potential as an engine of opportunity and economic growth is not better math and science instruction but a writing revolution that puts language and communication in their proper place in the classroom'. More out-of-school time should also be used to encourage writing, and specifically, writing workshops for the students." (National Commission on Writing in America's Schools and Colleges, "The Neglected 'R': The Need for a Writing Revolution '06.)