MY WORKSHOPS

Looking to move your writing life forward? Get words on paper? Build community with other writers? Writing to timed prompts can increase your powers of observation, catalyze new ideas, unearth buried stories, and facilitate profound breakthroughs. Dive into your writing life with guidance and encouragement. This is a non-critique class –and is open to writers of all genres.

Whether you are working on your latest article, poem, novel, etc, this workshop series is your opportunity to carve out dedicated time to explore your voice using the freedom and the structure of timed prompts. In addition, this workshop will also invite participants to share their current projects (500 words max) every other class including a final showcase salon.

Join professional writer and writing coach Kim Nagy, where you will:

Discuss your writing goals
Carve out consistent time to write
Invigorate your writing with themed prompts
(Optional) Read your work aloud in community and receive constructive feedback.
Avoid the pitfalls of critiquing your work before your writing has fully germinated.

I am also available to facilitate workshops in the New York Metropolitan region. I often partner with Emma Lapsansky, author, historian, community builder and beloved mentor, who runs the extraordinary Literary Bed & Breakfast, Minerva’s. We are running a September 2026 workshop in beautiful Barnegat Light, New Jersey!

“Writing… is 90 percent listening. You listen so deeply to the space around you that it fills you, and when you write, it pours out of you…You don’t only listen to the person speaking to you across the table, but simultaneously listen to the air, the chair, and the door. And go beyond the door. Take in the sound of the season, the sound of the color coming in through the windows. Listen to the past, future, and present right where you are. Listen with your whole body, not only with your ears, but with your hands, your face, and the back of your neck.”

― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

I’m a writer, developmental editor as well as a copywriter for a college. I have contributed to Scientific American, the New York Daily News, Your Teen for Parents, and Ravishly, among many other publications. But mostly I’m someone who believes that words can wield incredible powers. Language and all forms of expression can create or renew a vital energy, expand your consciousness, increase your sense of wonder and your sense of agency. Moreover, the act of reading aloud (and listening to others) can widen your perspective, remind you how connected we all are and, in doing so, help you experience life more deeply.

In 2021, I became a certified Gateless writing instructor, an approach based on the research of Suzanne Kingsbury, and a method that helps writers

break through creative blocks and experiment with their voices without critique. The structure is designed to relax the critical mind and generate free-flowing writing.

Every time I facilitate or participate in writing workshops, I notice how important it is to set the right conditions for our truest voices to emerge. My approach? I seek to create an open, friendly space where we write to prompts for a set time (I’ve been awestruck by the material that has emerged from a 20-minute prompt!), let loose on the page, and time permitting, read aloud and provide feedback that strengthens and encourages. I have been the beneficiary of so many wise teachers who modelled that kind of writing environment for me.

Find out more about workshops with Kim!

Kimberly Nagy was an incredible guide when it came to navigating the tricky waters of nailing my first TEDx talk. Kim is a genius at mining the writer’s mind. She used her extraordinary skills to help me hone my idea, write a compelling narrative for marketing purposes, and create a powerful through-line for my talk. Of 25 speakers, only two got standing ovations and I was one of them. Kim is more than simply talented, she’s a find.
– Jill Sherer Murray, Client, TEDx Talks

“I attended Kim’s writing/yoga retreat at Minerva’s by the Sea in Long Beach Island, NJ in February. The workshop was professionally led with enthusiasm, strength, and encouragement. I’d wholeheartedly endorse Kim as a mentor of many talents that will grow you personally, professionally, and creatively.” – Lauren Johnson, Editor of The Nurtured Community & Writer for Edible New Jersey