Writer, Educator, and Storyteller
Thrilled to announce that our first No, YOU Tell It! show of 2023 is at SYMPHONY SPACE. Save the date and share with friends!
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Happy 2022!
What an amazing year! We celebrated the 10-year anniversary of No, YOU Tell It! with three stellar shows you can still WATCH online.
In November, we also launched the No, YOU Tell It! Ten-Year Anthology 2022 with the first in-person event at The Astoria Bookshop since March 2020.
If you haven’t purchased your copy, the anthology is not just a powerhouse collection but provides behind-the-scenes insights into starting and growing a literary series over a decade.
Available at The Astoria Bookshop and Amazon. The eBook has links to listen to the live performances of all the stories via the No, YOU Tell It! podcast. Buy a copy and spread the word to support ten more years!
2022 also marked the return to my memoir-writing residency with the seventh graders in New Jersey.
Plus, new in-person creative writing workshops at Sunnyside Arts
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All my best this holiday season,
Kelly Jean
Please consider No, YOU Tell It! in your end-of-year giving
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By making a tax-deductible donation through our fiscal sponsor, The Field.
Join us tonight, 11/10 from 7-8 pm, at The Astoria Bookshop for a special IN-STORE, masked event celebrating the No, YOU Tell It! anthology with ME, and Queens contributors Ellie Dvorkin Dunn, and Jeff Wills. Plus, the chance to trade your own tiny true tale.
Tickets are limited as the bookshop keeps their in-person events super small. Click here for more information and to grab your $5 ticket (redeemable for $5 off any book in the store) to SAVE YOUR SPOT!
Can’t make it out tonight? Click here to grab a copy of the anthology from our friends at The Astoria Bookshop. You can also purchase online from Palm Circle Press.
What a decade! Thrilled to share the No, YOU Tell It! Ten-Year Anthology 2022 is a #1 New Drama Release on Amazon. Congratulations to all our contributors.
Help us keep the switched-up storytelling going by grabbing a copy and spreading the word. If you have a copy, please submit some stars and a review!
More news on upcoming No, YOU Tell It! book events soon.
Celebrate the culmination of a decade of helping people share in each other’s stories at No, YOU Tell It! “Punch Up” TONIGHT!! Click here for the show program.
Join us in person at Culture Lab, LIC or view the live stream here.
Plus, a chance to win the No, YOU Tell It! Ten-Year Anthology 2022, now available in paperback and eBook (with links to listen to live performances of the stories through the No, YOU Tell It! podcast).
THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2022 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL BOOKEND EVENT.
This show is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Big news! I’m proud to announce that I’ve been working hard on publishing a No, YOU Tell It! ten-year anthology collection with Palm Circle Press. In this anthology, you’ll find several stories from the past decade along with behind-the-scenes insights from storytellers and the NYTI creative team.
Coming in September! Stay tuned for more information!
Excited to once again be part of The Center for Fiction‘s stellar lineup of summer writing workshops. Online! Open to young writers (13-18) anywhere looking to write personal essays for their college applications and beyond.
MAY marks the official 10-year anniversary of No, YOU Tell IT! and my birthday month! Give a listen to our very first show from May 2012 available on Audioboom, or on your preferred podcasting platform.
Help create 10 more years of switched-up storytelling! Donate here toward our goal of $2,300 raised in celebration of our anniversary and my birthday on 5/23.
What does your tax-deductible donation support? So happy you asked!
What separates our series is the collaborative time put into each show. This extensive workshop process is a blessing, but the time commitment can also be a challenge for participants and the creative team.
Therefore, as we strive toward a new decade of No, YOU Tell It!, we are dedicated to compensating all of the artists involved. Any size donation is greatly appreciated and goes to the artists.
Don’t have the funds right now? Support our series with a FB like or Insta follow and share our podcast on your favorite socials.
Thank you to all who have been a part of a wonderful 10 years!
As part of The Center for Fiction’s NEA Big Read programming for Toni Morrison’s Beloved, I’m honored to lead this free close reading and personal narrative writing workshop for students in grades 11 and 12.
Held on Saturdays from April 30th through May 21st, students will examine the various ways memory takes shape in the novel and then mine their memories to create personal narratives. Students should apply by April 13th here.
Click here to read my new Medium piece “That College Essay on A Million Little Things isn’t Getting You into Yale” to avoid the college essay writing mistake featured on the ABC show.
