Student Success
Here are letters from Gotham students writing to thank us for helping them achieve success with their writing. We call these “Dear Gotham” letters, for obvious reasons.
If you are a student with publication/production news for us, send the info to Dana Miller, dana at gothamwriters dot com.
2026
Mark Farrington
Novel—Loss of Life
Haley Fullerton
MFA Program—American University
Minyong Cho
Memoir—Wall Down Ramallah
Amelia Franz
Short Story Collection—The Longest Man-Made Beach in the World: Biloxi Stories
Lenna Jawdat
Poetry Collection—70,000
Hafeez Lakhani
Novel—Abundance
Hannah Thurman
Novel—Mercy Hill
Razan Abdin
Children’s Picture Book—Splendidly Sawsan
Jane Buyers
Memoir—Eight Septembers: A Woman on Wall Street from 9/11 to Lehman
Dave Bartell
Novel—Signal Code
Michele Giannusa
TV Series—Ripple
2025
Brian Schaefer
Novel—Town & Country
Julia Richardson
Short Story—“Turn, Turn, Turn”
Mike Matzdorff
Science Fiction Novel—The Universe
Peter J. Herzer
Play—“Wedding Cake”
Uttama Kirit Patel
Novel—Shape of an Apostrophe
Alex Foster
Novel—Circular Motion
Tessa Boardman
Short Story—“The Bloom Room”
Kate Woodworth
Novel—“Little Great Island”
Anna Rasche
Novel—The Stone Witch of Florence
