Student Quotes

Gotham has found the perfect balance of freedom, knowledge, insight, and support.

This instructor is the best I have ever had, including all of my professors in both undergraduate and medical school.

It helps you distinguish between the various types of nonfiction writing to determine where you are on the spectrum and what to study next.

The course helps you immerse yourself in the cogs and gears of what makes for great SF.

It's like learning from a best friend, that's how comfortable I was.

I have tried before to get a handle on the children's book writing process. I have taken a course elsewhere, read books, visited websites, and have been frustrated. I started in this course a little unsure, but finished with renewed confidence and an almost complete children's chapter book.

This course explores, quite successfully, the elements of craft one needs to acquire to elevate one's playwriting skills.

You'll be blogging by the end & learning how promote your blog. I highly recommend it.

I honestly loved the critiques of my instructor. She used praise but at the same time gave feedback, in a good way, on what to work on.

A course with great content and a great instructor, that makes us love writing even more than we already do.

The feedback from our instructor as well as classmates was specific, insightful, encouraging, and essential in taking a project that had existed only in my head before the class and getting it onto paper with some degree of hope and confidence that it's actually worth pursuing.

A real-world look at the business of writing for television that gave me the tools and motivation to write my first spec script. I'm confident that I can use what I learned to break into the industry.

I came out of the class with a short story that, after a few revisions, I will feel confident in submitting to a publication.

A fun introduction to the elements that come together to make a successful screenplay.

An absolute necessity if you wish to become a children's books author.

This course made me a better writer, without a doubt.

I feel like I've made my story so much better in just a few short months. Thank you!

For the firs time, in a long time, I got back into the habit of writing. My only regret is not being able to take the actual classes in New York and have ongoing in person dialogue. But my geographical location and sliding Canadian dollar is no fault of the workshop - unless of course, the workshop is neck-deep in some international financial conspiracy aimed at yours truly. You guys don't seem like the types to do that though - but that almost gives you the perfect alibi.

I understand now that to be taken seriously I must perfect all business communications and edit, edit, edit.

This course was exactly what I needed. Now I feel so inspired and motivated to keep writing, hopefully to the point where I'll eventually complete my first book. The instructor's down-to-earth, informative, and very encouraging style of teaching made all the difference. Was well worth it. Can't wait to do it again!