Alex Wolfe

Proud to share my first @nytimes story today. I walked the proposed Interborough Express route with my good friend @tomwilsonnorthamerica and wrote about what we saw, heard, and felt, paired with his beautiful photographs.
 What does it mean to walk a train line that doesn’t exist yet? Tom invited me to join him to find out, knowing the neighborhoods would be forever changed if the light rail were completed.
 We walked over 20 miles, from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn to Jackson Heights, Queens, talked to people along the way (many of whom didn’t make it into the piece), and tried to understand how this new route might reshape the communities it touches.
 It was an honor to walk with Tom and document the experience. Thanks to editors @_eslahlahlah and Anna Marks for believing in the work 🚂 
Walking is living!

𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 is back! Next month, in person @moving.school A five-week generative writing workshop exploring how public space can spark new ideas. Through walking, loitering, shopping, and commuting, we’ll treat sidewalks, parks, and transit as sites where attention, memory, and story intersect. Open to writers and artists of all levels. 📅 May 20–June 17
⏰ Wednesdays, 6:30–9:00 PM
📍 Hosted in public spaces across Manhattan Limited spots + scholarships available. Link in bio.

I’m running a third session of 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 this May!
 A six-week generative writing workshop exploring walking as a way of making new work.
 Participants will be encouraged to walk between sessions and gather material to bring back to class. Open to writers and artists of all levels. 
Held on weekends, with EU-friendly hours 🌍
Hosted through @moving.school 
 📅 May 17 – June 21
⏰ Sundays, 1:30–4:00pm ET (7:30–10pm CEST)
📍 Online
 Scholarships available.
Link in bio to register.

🚨 [*FULL*] - Please DM for May session waitlist • Announcing: Walking as Practice — a new generative writing workshop! @moving.school 

We’ll explore walking as a way of making new work. Through discussion, short readings, and generative prompts, we’ll consider how movement shapes attention and how those observations can be developed into writing on and off the page. Students will be encouraged to walk between sessions and gather material to bring back to class.
 Open to writers and artists of all levels. International students welcome 🌎 
 📅 Mar 24 – Apr 28
⏰ Tuesdays, 7–9:30pm ET
📍 Online
 Limited spots. Scholarships available. Link in bio to register.

I spoke with Katie Anania @thevillagecharlatan about her new book, 𝘖𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳, for @bombmag We touched on ephemera, William Anastasi’s subway drawings, making sense of where you’re from, and walking, among other things 🍃 /articles/2025/12/11/katie-anania-by-alex-wolfe/

Excited to announce Writing En Plein Air, a walk and writing workshop with @pppedestrian and @moving.school aka Alex Wolfe, Sunday 11/23, 1pm—4pm. Writing En Plein Air is a generative writing walk led by Alex Wolfe in collaboration with The Last Straw. This walk invites you to step outside and gather writing material directly from the landscape. Over the course of the afternoon, you’ll move through both cityscape and nature, using what you notice to spark new ideas or deepen pieces already in motion. Your observations will become the seeds for meditative episodes, quiet digressions, and stream-of-consciousness vignettes that explore the meeting point between the outer world and your inner life. Alex Wolfe is a writer and artist based in Brooklyn. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, and he has led walks for Princeton University, the Swiss Institute, the Municipal Art Society of New York, Parsons School of Design, and Salomon, among others. RSVP on Luma (link in bio), $5 entry and a pay what you can at the conclusion of the event. This event is capped at 30 participants.

🚨 Announcing 𝘐 𝘙𝘌𝘔𝘌𝘔𝘉𝘌𝘙, a five-week generative writing workshop exploring how memory can serve as source material for new writing @moving.school 

Through discussions, readings, and generative prompts, we’ll experiment with documenting, archiving, reimagining, and transforming our recollections of past experience. Our explorations will draw on journals, found materials, online archives, and personal histories—alongside examples from literature, art, film, music, and oral histories.

Nov 5 – Dec 10
Wednesdays, 7–9pm EST
Online on Zoom (No class Nov 26) 
Link in bio to enroll!

Index instructor @pppedestrian just published a great piece in @nytimes about walking the 14-mile stretch of New York’s outer boroughs where the planned Interborough Expressway will soon break ground. That’s what Alex does! He walks. He writes. In this upcoming one-day workshop, you’ll do the same. After a short walking meditation, participants will choose something in New York to write a tribute to. In a city defined by eternal change, we’ll spend an afternoon reminiscing and preserving memories of people, places and the eras that have defined our lives in New York. Register at the link in bio!

[*FULL*] - Please DM for waitlist! 🍃 Less than three weeks until Writing in Public Space begins. Spots are filling! A five-week generative writing workshop exploring how public space can spark new ideas. Open to writers and artists of all levels. Guaranteed to be a good time. 📅 Sept 3 – Oct 1 ⏰ Wednesdays, 6:30–9:00 PM 📍 Across public spaces in Manhattan Limited spots + scholarships available. Link in bio to register.

Writing in Public Space is back! 🚨 Join me for the next edition of my generative writing workshop, held in public spaces across Lower Manhattan. How can walking, loitering, shopping, or commuting inspire new writing? That’s what we’ll explore in this five-week workshop on sidewalks and lobbies, ferries and subways, stores and public parks. Through guided exercises, prompts, and on-site writing sessions, we’ll examine how everyday environments and activities can spark new work rooted in movement, memory, and attention. Perfect for writers and artists curious about slowing down, paying attention, and finding meaning in the mundane. All levels welcome. You’ll leave with new writing, sharpened observational tools, and a renewed awareness of how the world around you shapes your creative practice. Starts September 3rd [*FULL*] - Please DM for waitlist! 🍃

Sharing the first of many pieces from a new body of work developed during my residency at @latitudechi in June 💌 This envelope features directly printed photographs and typewritten text, drawn from a walk with @_willrose through his hometown of Bellport, NY a few years ago. Once completed, each envelope is documented and mailed. Inside is a cardstock insert, typed on a typewriter and marked with my thumbprint. It records a date, time, place, and a brief narrative fragment. Each one reads like a logbook entry or dispatch, rooted in a specific geography and moment in time. • 09.03.22 (Bellport, NY) 9.5 × 4.125” 1 of 1

Hi everyone, I’m excited to share 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘵—a new series of group walks I’m co-leading with Laurel Schwulst @roombaghost Together, we’ll explore how the internet isn’t some ethereal, untouchable thing, but a physical network—connected by underwater cables and powered by data centers filled with real computers around the world. At the same time, we’ll ask: how can meandering, drifting, and getting lost offline bring new life to our understanding of the internet—and how might the internet, in turn, shape how we move through the world? The series will take place over three consecutive Saturdays, each in a different part of Manhattan: 🔵 July 19 – Times Square 🟠 July 26 – Midtown 🟢 August 2 – FiDi Link in bio to RSVP! @library_of_light