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"I have taken many writing courses over the past few years, but this is the first that has ever inspired me to write every single day. This course helped me to stretch my writing muscles beyond anywhere they'd ever been before."

- Lisa Benwitz
Owner, Court Reporting Firm

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One-Day Workshops

Free Events - All Events

Wednesday, Mar 17
Barnes & Noble - Lincoln Center
Free Fiction Writing Class
Wednesday, Mar 24
BookCourt
Free Memoir Writing Class
Wednesday, Mar 24
Barnes & Noble - East 86th Street
Free Children's Book Writing Class

Become a Fan of Gotham

Welcome to Gotham Writers' Workshop. Teaching more than 6,000 students a year, Gotham is the leading creative writing school in NYC and the United States.

New workshops begin frequently Online and in New York City.

Gotham creative writing classes deliver unsurpassed quality and exceptional value. Enroll in a 10-week level I or level II writing workshop this winter for the same tuition we charged in 1997.

NEW CLASSES FEATURING <I>THE NY TIMES</I>

NEW CLASSES FEATURING <I>THE NY TIMES</I>

Learn to write and sell articles in premium classes—including a new Food Writing workshop—presented in collaboration with The New York Times Knowledge Network.

Only participants in these online classes will have access to a professional writer and an editor from The New York Times. New courses begin soon. Learn more at NYTKN.WritingClasses.com.

SELL YOUR WRITING - LEARN HOW

Join an industry expert in an online seminar to learn strategies for finding success with your writing. Comprehensive four- and five-week seminars begin on March 17 in:

How To Get Published - taught by NY literary agent
How to Freelance - includes a Q&A with a NY Times editor
How To Blog - write and launch your own blog
Nonfiction Book Proposal - essential for nonfiction book authors
How to Sell Your Screenplay - learn to perfect your 'pitch'

You've invested countless hours crafting your work. Isn't it time you started learning how to sell it too? Enroll today!

GOTHAM EARNS IACET CERTIFICATION

The International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) has certified Gotham as an Authorized Provider of Continuing Education Units (CEUs). We now offer IACET approved CEUs to students who successfully complete ten-week and some six-week classes either in NYC or via the Internet.

MARCH WRITING TIPS, CONTESTS, AND MORE!

Check out Gotham's March newsletter for writing tips, contests, events, and books. You'll learn how you could win one of three great books for writers - Page Fright: Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers by Harry Bruce; Is Life Like This? A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months by John Dufresne; and A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition.

SHORT-STORY CONTEST - CALL FOR ENTRIES

Gotham has partnered with The Writer to bring you its 2010 Short-Story Contest.

This esteemed competition offers exceptional exposure for the winners and other great prizes. The finalist judge is Susan Breen, author of The Fiction Class, Gotham instructor, and frequent contributor to The Writer. (For inspiration, check out Susan's article "What Short Story Writers Can Learn from Novelists, And Vice Versa.")

> Learn more and enter online here.

For over 25 years, Robert McKee's Story Seminar has been the world's ultimate writing class for over 50,000 screenwriters, filmmakers, TV writers, novelists, industry executives, actors, producers, directors and playwrights.

In March, you'll have a rare opportunity to attend McKee's Story Seminar (he's only presenting it twice this year in the U.S.) Learn more and register here.

FREE SAMPLE CLASS TOUR

New to Gotham? If so, we invite you to tour a sample online class. You can take a quick Video Tour or a Self-Guided Tour of one or more Free Sample Classes.

With a nod to the newest film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Gotham has partnered with Writing.com to present an Acrostic Writing Contest.

Prizes include a 10-week writing workshop, premium membership at Writing.com, and more.

Entry is free! Enter online here.

ANOTHER STUDENT SUCCESS

Dear Gotham,

I’m a physician in Washington DC who was introduced to Gotham Writers’ Workshop through a local course that used the GWW book, Writing Fiction. It was so good, I started to plan trips to New York to take some of your one-day intensives. My first one, in 2008, was on essay writing, taught by Kelly Caldwell.

Kelly is a superb teacher. Her down to earth style combined with huge enthusiasm made the class last far longer for me than the hours I spent in class. Months afterward, I contacted Kelly once more for help composing a query letter. She generously gave her time and expertise.

This year, I've taken her excellent teaching to heart and published opinion pieces—on medical and non-medical issues in the news—in several outlets, including the New York Times, McClatchy News, the Stockholm daily The Local, and, most recently, the Washington Post.

It’s been a good year for writing for me, and I’d like to thank Gotham Writers’, and especially Kelly Caldwell.

With best wishes,

Andrea Meyerhoff MD
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To read more Letters to Gotham, visit Dear Gotham

TEACHER'S MEMOIR PUBLISHED

Gotham teacher Matthew Davis has just seen the release of his memoir, When Things Get Dark: A Mongolian Winter’s Tale, which is about Matthew’ experience teaching English in a remote village in Mongolia. Part travelogue, the book reveals a forbidding land, so unknown to most, as it strives to transform from it's traditional past into something more modern. Part personal experience, we follow the writer on a downward spiral into drink and violence that takes him farther away from home than he ever imagined.

> Check out an excerpt from the book here.
> Order your copy of When Things Get Dark here.
> Read excerpts from other books by Gotham faculty here.

WRITING TIPS, NEWSLETTERS, AND MORE

For a toolbox full of free writing resources including articles, tips, newsletters, and more, click here.

CREATIVE NEW OPTION FOR TEENS

Teen Ink, a national literary magazine, has partnered with Gotham to present six-week online creative writing courses created exclusively for teens, 13 to 19 years old.

These classes are all about helping younger writers discover and develop their unique voices. There are no grades, no exams, and no wrong answers. Learn more at TeenInk.com.

DID YOU KNOW?

Gotham offers you the opportunity to work one-on-one with a professional writer in NYC or online. To learn more, check out our Private Instruction, Mentorship Program, Script Doctoring, and Book Doctoring services.

GOTHAM GOES INTERNATIONAL

Since 1997, aspiring writers from 114 countries have studied online with Gotham Writers' Workshop. As our reputation has expanded internationally so has interest in our methods.

We are pleased to announce that our first book, Writing Fiction, is now available in an Italian edition, Lezioni di scrittura creativa, published by Dino Audino Editore. Learn more at audinoeditore.it.

This joins the German language edition, Romane und Kurzgeschichten schreiben, which debuted in 2004. (The German edition can be ordered from Amazon.de.)

Tuesday, Mar 9, 2010