Immigrant Women Writing Series – Writing the Self

Immigrant Women Writing Series – Writing the Self is New Women New Yorkers’ latest storytelling initiative, which was piloted during the Fall 2022.

Writing the Self focuses on skill-building, and importantly – the joy of writing. Each participant will gain new skills, a greater knowledge of themselves as a writer, tips on how to maintain a good writing practice, and several memoir pieces that will be developed throughout the program, through drafting and discussion. 

The program culminates with a public event and celebration that features the presentation or reading of a selection of writings from the program, and a panel of immigrant women writers about their lived experience.

Immigrant Women Writing Series – Writing the Self is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Learning, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and administered by LMCC. LMCC serves, connects, and makes space for artists and community.

2022 pilot program

13 immigrant women from Albania, Bangladesh, Belarus, China, Georgia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Korea, Mexico, Peru, Russia, and Turkey have joined our 2022 program. Workshops will be facilitated by Serbian-Australian writer and storyteller Sofija Stefanovic.

About Sofija Stefanovic

Sofija Stefanovic is a Serbian-Australian writer and storyteller based in Manhattan. Her memoir, MISS EX-YUGOSLAVIA is a sometimes funny, sometimes dark story about being an immigrant kid during the Yugoslavian Wars. She is the editor of Alien Nation: 36 True Tales of Immigration. She hosts This Alien Nation—a celebration of immigration at the Public Theater. She’s a regular storyteller with The Moth, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times among other publications. Follow her on Instagram or Twitter.