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We invite you to take your writing to the next level by enrolling in a creative writing class selected "Best of the Web" by Forbes. New classes begin soon!
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Also noteworthy: One-day Intensives on May 19 and Creative Writing for Teens.
SPRING FACULTY
> For writers teaching online, click here.
> For NYC faculty, click here.
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 select classes either in NYC or via the Internet.
Dear Gotham,
It’s been two years, ten days, seventeen hours and thirty minutes since that day. The day when I finally sat down and decided: “Ok, so I’m writing a book.”
During four days I hardly ate nor slept, and then 80 pages were done. And then, I did nothing. Until two months later, when my boyfriend and me took six weeks off work, flew to New York, and took a Creative Writing 101 class at Gotham Writers’ Workshop.
My wonderful teacher Stacy Parker Le Melle, my boyfriend, the classmates, the time off work and New York City proved to be exactly what I needed. While struggling with writing in English for class, I literally felt how all the creativity was just dying to ”get out” in Swedish. So I wrote. And wrote.
Two months later it was time to pack our bags and go back to Stockholm. Thanks to New York, I did it with some excess baggage. Thanks to Gotham Writers’ Workshop, I did it with a 240-page book.
I spent the summer rewriting, finishing, polishing, editing. And then it was 430 pages long and I sent it out. A publisher liked it, wanted it, handed me a contract, and soon after, a deliveryman rang my doorbell and handed me the very first book from the very first edition of Fadersmord (in English, Patricide).
So Gotham…
From the bottom of my heart:
Thank you for being such a big part in making this happen.
All the best,
Carina Bergfeldt
Stockholm, Sweden
www.fadersmord.se
Read more Letters from Gotham Students here.
America's leading monthly writing magazine, The Writer, is now accepting entries for the 2012 Travel Essay Contest. First prize is $1,000, publication in the magazine, and more. Deadline is June 15.
Are you ready to take the leap and transform your manuscript to a published book and/or ebook? At the all-new uPublishU at Book Expo on June 3, aspiring writers and authors will learn from industry experts tips and tactics and all about the tools and technology to help them self-publish a print book or an ebook. This is the conference to attend for anyone interested in self-publishing. Conference price is only $99 before May 21.
> Learn more and register here.
Gotham Songwriting teacher Jody Gray’s father worked on steamship lines, designing cruises and tours, which came with several fringe benefits—one of which was exposure to world music. His father brought records back from Sweden and the Caribbean and everywhere in between. Later the family moved to Ireland where as a teenager Jody frequented pubs near Dublin, experiencing a wide variety of live music.
Jody then spent almost a decade experiencing European music in and around the UK, Ireland, Germany, and Holland. The more he traveled, the more musical influences Jody found. He was interested in literary and poetic traditions as well. “When I was a kid I got sidetracked into writing,” Jody says. “Then I realized girls wanted musicians, not dark poets sitting in the corner.” (Continue reading here.)
> Meet other Gotham Faculty
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. Teen classes also offered in NYC.
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Gotham teacher Evan Rail has just seen the release of his e-book Why Beer Matters. (It’s part of the Kindle Singles series. These are works that are longer than the typical article or short story but shorter than books. Usually 30-90 pages. The works in this series are chosen by Amazon.) Why Beer Matters covers all kinds of information about beer, a subject upon which the author has written extensively in such publications as Saveur and the New York Times.
Take a sip of the opening:
When I first started writing about beer, I wasn’t expecting much of a response. At the time I was working for a small, English-language weekly very much on the sidelines of life in the Czech Republic, and contact from readers was a relative rarity for most of the staff, often creating the impression that we were printing newspapers which no one actually read. But once I began covering beer, things changed remarkably. More and more locals started contacting me, asking my opinion of one brewery or another, or if I’d ever heard of some rare lager from way out in the backwaters of Moravian Silesia. I began getting emails from around the world, including from beer writers whose work I knew and admired. Acquaintances would tell mutual friends that while they’d always “liked” my other writing, they greatly preferred the beer articles, and they’d love it if I’d give up everything else and just focus on the pivo, a backhanded compliment that caused simultaneous grins and the gritting of teeth more than once.
> Read an excerpt.
> Order your copy of here.
> Read excerpts from other books by Gotham faculty here.
Gotham proudly offers classes in collaboration with the New York Times Knowledge Network. Only these premium courses feature a week-long Q&A with a Times editor. Classes include Travel Writing, Food Writing, Article Writing, and How to Freelance.
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.
Our first book, Writing Fiction, is now available in several foreign language editions including: Italian Lezioni di scrittura creativa; German Romane und Kurzgeschichten schreiben, and Hungarian Kezdő írók kézikönyve.
Gotham's acclaimed books on the craft of writing, Writing Fiction and Writing Movies, are now available in Kindle and NookBook editions.
Now you can read these essential guides on your iPad, Kindle, or Nook for less than $10.00.
> Shop at Amazon or Barnes & Noble today!
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