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Sign-up for our “Sink or Swim” workshop at Q.E.D.

Want to switch-up your true-life tale inspired by the theme Sink or Swim? We’d love to work with YOU!

NYTI team members Kelly Jean and Erika are teaching another No, YOU Tell It! workshop at Q.E.D. in Astoria starting January 23rd and there are a couple of spots open for registration.

QED Workshop Collagephoto credit: Mike Dawson

WRITE your story and PERFORM someone else’s in a workshop showcase on the Q.E.D. stage. We’ll work with you to brainstorm your story in the first session, so you only need pen & paper to start!

Our page to stage process is beneficial to writers, performers, or anyone interested in trying their hand at storytelling. No, YOU Tell It! switched-up storytelling workshops combine theater and storytelling to help you find your voice AND hear it through someone else’s.

Questions? Email noyoutellit@gmail.com.  Click here for workshop details and to REGISTER TODAY.

Resolve to take our workshop at Q.E.D. in 2016!

Want to get your story down on the page? Gain more confidence on stage? It’s your time to do both!

QED Workshop Collage

Photos from our ‘Tongue-Tied’ workshop by Mike Dawson.

Registration is now open for our winter “switched-up” storytelling workshop at QED: A Place To Show & Tell and features:

  • A brainstorming session designed to kick-start your first draft, inspired by the theme “Sink or Swim.” All you need is a pen (or pencil, if that’s your thing) and paper to start!
  • Two story workshop sessions to help you refine your true-life tale on the page. Class size is limited to make sure every piece gets heard and every writer reads at each session.
  • An individual one-hour rehearsal with a No, YOU Tell It! director to work on your partner’s story.

Then you will perform on the Q.E.D. stage! The workshop finishes with a showcase where YOU, the writers, will swap stories and perform each other’s true-life tale for an audience.

Class dates are Saturdays 1/23, 1/30, 2/6, and 2/13 from 12-2 pm.

The workshop showcase is February 17th at 7:30 pm and open to the public.

$200  – Click here for more info and to register today!

Winners! Newtown Literary’s Book Trivia Night!

The No, YOU Tell It! team took a break from casting the pods this week to participate in (and win!!) Newtown Literary’s Second Annual Book Trivia Night in Astoria! We had so much fun and were happy to help raise money for Issue 7 of the journal, which comes out soon and includes our own Kelly Jean’s personal essay Waked.

Newtown Literary is published by Newtown Literary Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping support and promote new and emerging writers living in Queens, NY. Submissions are now open for Issue 8 until Jan 10th, 2016! Find out more here.

Pictured left to right is our wicked smaaat team: Erika Iverson, David Trudo, Jessica Cannon, Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons, and Mike Dressel. Speaking of podcasts, click here to give a listen to Jessica Cannon – literary savvy voice over artist and NYTI alum featured in Episode 6!

newtown book trivia

What do you win at a Book Trivia night? A bag of books from our friends at The Astoria Bookshop, plus TONS of other great local prizes! Thank you to Newtown Literary and everyone who worked on organizing the event.

Two weeks until our last show of 2015! See you at No, YOU Tell It! ‘Temper, Temper’ on 11/17 – 7 pm at Jimmy’s No. 43. FREE! RSVP via Facebook.

No, YOU Tell It! at The Brooklyn Book Festival

We had a great time at The Literary Review‘s booth today at The Brooklyn Book Festival.  TLR Associate Prose Editor and ‘3 Strikes’ switched-up storyteller Kahle Alford met with writers interested in submitting to TLR during Editor Office Hours while our own Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons took a less literary approach to the day…

Brooklyn Book Festival collage

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Visit Us & TLR at the Brooklyn Book Festival!

Thank you to everyone who came out to our special team-up show with The Literary Review on Wednesday at Jimmy’s No. 43.

TLR greats Kahle Alford (Associate Prose Editor) and Tim Waldron (Online Fiction Editor) ended up hitting it out of the park when they swapped their ‘3 Strikes’ stories.

3 Strikes Kahle and Tim

Sad you missed the show and the chance to win some literary swag?

Good news. Subscribe to our NEW NYTI Weekly PODCAST and you can hear Kahle and Tim’s stories when their episode airs this week. You can also visit us at The Literary Review’s booth at the Brooklyn Book Festival today – Sunday, September 20th. #246!

Preparing for our Team Up with The Literary Review

Preparations are underway for our special team-up with The Literary Review show! Don’t miss NYTI “3 Strikes” on September 16th. More info and RSVP here

Writing Residency at Fairleigh Dickinson Show

Last week, we were honored to do a No, YOU Tell It! show as part of the summer writing residency for Fairleigh Dickinson’s low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing.

No, YOU Tell It! “Stargazing” featured four alums of the program: Kahle Alford, Christopher Brown, Becky Fine-Firesheets, and Cory Johnston. They brought down the house with switched-up stories about an unexpected encounter at Comic Con, the limits of love, porcupines vs. wild turkeys, and an unfortunate ‘poop dance.’ Select audio from the evening will be available as part of our new NYTI podcast launching this fall!

Speaking of the Fall, SAVE THE DATE for NYTI “3 Strikes” on Sept 16th, 7 p.m. at Jimmy’s No. 43.

For this special edition, we are joining forces with The Literary Review, an international journal of contemporary writing published quarterly by FDU, to celebrate TLR’s new issue and the Brooklyn Book Festival. I am happy to announce that two of our switched-up storytellers are TLR greats:

Tim Waldron, the Online Fiction Editor of The Literary Review and author of the short-story collection WORLD TAKES published by Word Riot Press.

Kahle Alford, Associate Prose Editor of TLR who is back by popular demand after her amazing work both writing & performing in NYTI “Stargazing.”

They will swap nonfiction stories inspired by the theme “3 Strikes” with:

Jenn Wehrung, stand-up comedian and host of Laugh It Up, Astoria! 

Daniel Mahler, actor& co-founder of The Harborside Shakespeare Company

Want to keep up with all the No, YOU Tell It! happenings this fall?

Sign-up here for our monthly newsletter for info about upcoming shows, the podcast, and available workshops.

Thanks for coming to Fiction Edition


Thank you to everyone who came out to our very first NYTI Fiction Edition. Click to listen to the full show, or cue up the individual stories as listed below:

The Sleeping Season (6:00)
written by: Jim Cairl
performed by: Raquel I. Penzo

Breakfast with Nana in the Small Visitor’s Room (21:54)
written by: Raquel I. Penzo
performed by: Jim Cairl

Back to the Beach (43:50)
written by: Katie Johnston
performed by: Todd Faulkner

Clowning Around (59:00)
written by: Todd Faulkner
performed by: Katie Johnston

Thank you to everyone who came out to our very first NYTI Fiction Edition last week. Especially, our four fabulous switched-up storytellers who rocked the house:

Raquel I. Penzo

Jim Cairl 

Todd Faulkner

Katie Johnston

Audio of the night will be available soon. Also, a hearty clap for Larry Auerbach who took these stellar photos! 

We are getting ready to take a break and reboot for the fall. BUT, good news, you have one last chance to catch a NYTI show this summer!!

This Monday, 6/29, at Q.E.D. in Astoria the ladies from our “Tongue-Tied” workshop Lily Abra Burd,Vivian M. Chabrier, and Katie Johnston will take the stage to swap the true-life tales they’ve spent the last month developing on the page. PLUS special storytelling guest Mark Pagán!

Click here for more info and to RVSP.

Three Year Anniversary Show

Jun 17 2015 @ 7:00PM

MEET OUR SWITCHED-UP STORYTELLERS

Next week, June 17th!, is our three-year anniversary show and very first FICTION EDITION. Click here for additional info and to RVSP.

Now let’s get to know the four fabulous NYTI alums who switched-up their true-life tales with us previously and are now busy taking on this new genre.

Jim Cairl is an actor, writer, and does a mean karaoke of It’s
The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine). 
Some of the more
recent shows he’s appeared in are Richard III, Death of a
Salesman, Flowers of Uptown
and Himmelreich. Jim
also penned a (very) short film that will be shot in July.

Jim won on the
television quiz show Jeopardy!, which is a story that he will tell
to anyone who listens until the day he dies. Lastly, he’d like to thank
Madeline, Ava, and Finn (his three lovely children) and Victoria (his very
patient wife) for putting up with his odd schedules and needing to be alone in
a quiet room for a while.

Katie Johnston has a BA in Theatre Arts from
Jacksonville University, and has had the pleasure of working for several years
in regional theatre.  After a LONG
hiatus, Katie made her way back to the stage for the first time in February
with No, YOU Tell It!’s “Revelation” showcase.
She was so thrilled to be invited back for the very first NYTI “Fiction
Edition.”  Katie is currently studying
Integrative Nutrition and is so grateful for the NYTI family for welcoming her
in and giving her an opportunity to continue to create and perform.

Raquel I.
Penzo
 is a Brooklyn, NY, native of Dominican
descent who has carved a career for herself as a writer, editor, and literary
event curator. She hosts the New Voices Reading Series each quarter in NYC and
works as a copywriter at Brooklyn Public Library. Raquel authored the
self-published My Ego Likes the Compliments…And Other Musings on
Writing, and the short stories, “Grey Matter” (Blue Lake Review),
“Perspective on a Murder” (Mason’s Road), “On a Blue Day” (You
Should Be Here), and “Enfermos” (Rose Red Review). An
anthology of works from participants of her reading series was released
on April 2014. Visit Raquel online at RaquelPenzo.com.

Todd Faulkner is the co-creator of the upcoming podcast Uncanny County (paranormal
tales in the form of modern radio plays, learn more on Twitter @UncannyCounty).
He also recently directed and co-wrote (with his wife, Nicole Greevy) the
independent pilot EXTREME
Parenting
, a comedy about hyper-competitive urban parents, and the
supernatural comedic webseries Exorcists
Local 667
 (Official
Selection: LA Independent TV Festival, SharpCuts (Ontario)) He appeared in No, YOU Tell It’s second
production, which was ironically titled “Firsts.”  Todd is
deep in revisions on his first novel, The
Big Wake
, and is gearing up to tackle the next one. Love to Nicole and
Griffin.

www.toddfaulkner.com

Event Information

Jun 17 2015 @ 7:00PM

Jimmy's No. 43, East 7th Street, New York, NY

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