New York Story Night

Beware of Scams: Someone has been hard at work impersonating us via email (through multiple email accounts using María’s and NYSN’s name). Here’s a few things you should know:

• Participating in New York Story Night is free.
• We do not charge writers to read or attend.
• We will never request monetary contributions or donations.
• We do not offer featuring/marketing packages.
• We do not host hybrid or virtual events.
• All event dates are posted only on MeetUp (if you don’t see it listed here it is not happening).
• Any special features or collaborations are coordinated only through our official email: newyorkstorynight@gmail.com.
• And lastly, we are not a book club.

If you are contacted from an email account that is not the one above, please do not engage and let us know!

⭐️🎙️PSA: LAST EVENT OF THE YEAR WAS HELD ON NOVEMBER 17. WE WILL BE RETURNING IN 2026 WITH MORE STORY NIGHTS!

New York Story Night is a literary community event based in Manhattan and it was founded on the vision that all creative writers in the New York area, amateur and professional alike, will have a stage to share their stories on and an audience to road test their works with. Open mic for stand-up tragedy, stand-up horror, stand-up drama if you will!

The ultimate purpose of New York Story Night is to test a story against an audience. Are people laughing, gasping, grimacing, crying, or simply enchanted by your words where you want them to? Are there chuckles, sighs of relief, nervous shifting in the chairs from the audience at points of your story where you didn’t expect them to? These are signs that tell a writer where to dig deeper and where perhaps they’ve overlooked hidden gems. This is beta testing - an opportunity to engage with readers before the pages get binded.

And for people who just love stories and perhaps don’t have ready-to-present work yet, this is also a grassroot community that engages with New York’s literary culture on the ground-level, where like-minded people meet and share a drink. Workshops are formed here. Book clubs are formed here. More importantly, motivations and inspirations are sown here. We would love more people to join us because we believe in the virtue of a story well told and we believe great writing is important to the ethos of a society just as it has been for all the ones that came before.