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Sunday, Aug 2

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Sunday, Jul 12
McNally Jackson Books
Free One-Hour Screenwriting Writing Class
Wednesday, Jul 15
Barnes & Noble - Lincoln Center
Free Creative Writing Class
Thursday, Jul 23
Barnes & Noble - Greenwich Village
Free One-Hour Memoir Writing Class

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.

Register for one of the many creative writing workshops that begin in July and you'll be astonished how much writing you get done by Labor Day.

What are you waiting for? Sign up today!

ENROLL IN 2009 AT 1997 TUITION

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

Gotham Writers' Workshop is pleased to announce an exciting collaboration with the New York Times Knowledge Network.

Learn to write and sell articles in three Premium classes featuring The New York Times. The innovative online How to Freelance seminar and the Article Writing I and Travel Writing I workshops will each give students access to a professional writer and an editor from The New York Times.

Click here to learn more and to register.

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 can now offer IACET approved CEUs to students who successfully complete ten-week and some six-week classes either in NYC or via the Internet.

ANOTHER STUDENT SUCCESS

Dear Gotham,

I wanted to let you know that I recently published my first book, The Pale of Settlement (University of Georgia Press, 2007). It won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction.

It’s been a while since I first picked up one of Gotham’s newsprint flyers from a sidewalk box and enrolled in Adam Sexton’s fiction class back in 1995. But without Adam’s encouragement and the support of my Gotham classmates, I would never be writing today. Adam’s class inspired me to quit my job and leave New York City to get my Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of Utah. I now teach creative writing at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio, as well as in the low-residency MFA program at Queens University. My stories and essays have appeared in such literary journals as Conjunctions, The Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, The Western Humanities Review, and many others. Thanks to Gotham, writing is now my life and my career.

I have recommended Gotham to many friends, as my class there was one of the best writing classes I’ve taken. It’s the model I still hold in my head as I teach today. There is nothing better than a smart, supportive, challenging group of writing peers.

Thanks so much.

Keep up the great work!

Margot Singer
www.margot-singer.com
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To read more Letters to Gotham, visit deargotham

NEW BOOKS BY GOTHAM FACULTY

Looking for a good read? Then check out these recently published books written by Gotham faculty:

The Devil, The Lovers, and Me: My Life in Tarot
by Kimberlee Auerbach
The Compound by SA Bodeen
Loose Girl by Kerry Cohen
Mexican WhiteBoy by Matt de la Pena
Sons and Other Flammable Objects by Porchista Khakpour
Who Can Save Us Now?:
Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories
edited by Owen King and John McNally
Binding Energy by Daniel Marcus
Bob, or Man on Boat by Peter Markus
Not Keeping Up with Our Parents:
The Decline of the Professional Middle Class
by Nan Mooney
How Far is the Ocean From Here by Amy Shearn
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
America Eats! by Pat Willard
After Hours at the Almost Home by Tara Yellen

Read excerpts from other books by Gotham faculty.

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.

Students will explore a variety of fiction's forms, including memoir, personal essay, and article writing. Every week, they will engage in conversations about writing craft, partake in writing jam sessions, and have the chance to get feedback on their work. Plus, students will have the opportunity to submit work for review by a Teen Ink editor for possible publication in the national magazine and web site. All students will also receive a one-year subscription to Teen Ink magazine.

For information and registration visit 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.

ASA SEMIFINALISTS ANNOUNCED

The semifinalists in the American Screenwriters Association's 12th Annual International Screenplay Competition were announced on May 20, 2009 by Gotham Writers' Workshop, co-sponsor of the contest.

The 12 semifinalists were selected from more than 1,100 entries. They represent six different states and five countries, including: Australia, France, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The semifinalists are posted here and on MovieBytes.com.

TEACHER'S BOOK PUBLISHED

Gotham Travel Writing teacher David Farley has just seen the publication of his book, An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church’s Strangest Relic in Italy’s Oddest Town.
David spent a year in the Italian hill town of Calcata researching the relic, which is none other than the foreskin of Jesus Christ. And therein lies a tale no less byzantine and page-turning than the Da Vinci Code (but this one is all true). Kirkus Reviews calls it “Genre bending at its best,” and noted author Tom Bissell says of the book, “Christianity has never seemed weirder to me, and it seemed plenty weird before.”

Read an excerpt of the book here.
Order your copy of An Irreverent Curiosity here.
Read excerpts from other books by Gotham faculty here.

FREE NEWSLETTER FOR WRITERS

Gotham's free monthly e-newsletter is filled with writing tips, workshop news, community events, faculty profiles, special offers, student news, and more. Sign up today.

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.)

WRITER RESOURCES JUST A CLICK AWAY

You can access many online resources directly from your Gotham home page. Simply roll over the Resources tab at the top of this page for quick links to expert advice, articles, books for writers, reading lists, and more.

Friday, Jul 3, 2009