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Gifts For Writers 		WRITE HERE! WRITE NOW! 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.

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REGISTER NOW FOR FALL CLASSES AugSunFall is a great time to begin writing or take your craft to the next level. With more than 150 different workshops starting this fall, covering more than a dozen forms of writing, you are sure to find a class that fits your writing needs.

As class size is limited and fall is our most popular term, many classes fill early. Enroll today to reserve your place in class.

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.

LEARN HOW TO SELL YOUR WRITING You spend countless hours creating your work. So you owe it to yourself to spend some time learning how to sell it.  Now we invite you to join an industry expert in a comprehensive online seminar that focuses on finding marketplace success with your writing:

How To Freelance - With Cindy Price
Learn the most effective techniques for developing a freelance writing career from someone who knows—professional freelancer Cindy Price. Cindy is a regular contributor to the New York Times Travel and Escapes sections. Though she has written primarily on food and travel in recent years, she has covered a range of topics for the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Dining section, Gotham, FHM, and the New Leader.

How To Get Published - With Stephen Barbara
Learn the most effective steps and techniques for getting a book published from a true insider, literary agent Stephen Barbara, in this four-week online seminar. Whatever your specialty, fiction or nonfiction, you will gain a realistic understanding of how to get published.

These four-week online seminars begin September 3. Space is limited.

NEW BOOKS BY GOTHAM FACULTY Looking for a good read? Then check out these recently published books written by Gotham faculty:



Beautiful Children by Charles Bock 
The Compound by SA Bodeen 
The Fiction Class by Susan Breen  
Have You Found Her: A Memoir by Janice Erlbaum  
The Soul of Creative Writing by Richard Goodman  
Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian
by Scott LaCounte 
How Not to Write a Novel
by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark 
The Sky Isn't Visible from Here: Scenes from a Life
by Felicia Sullivan  
After Hours at the Almost Home by Tara Yellen 

Read excerpts from other books by Gotham faculty here.

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ANOTHER STUDENT SUCCESS Dear Gotham,
 
I admit that Gotham’s Writer’s Workshop was not my introduction to writing; I had taken classes with Shawna McCarthy in Science Fiction & Fantasy and with Elaine Edelson in Memoir at the New School here in NYC.  However it had been fourteen years since I had last written a short story, during which time I had been in the Ph.D. program at CUNY, met and married my husband and became a mom at the age of forty.
 
Marta Randall, who teaches Science Fiction and Fantasy writing at Gotham, is a phenomenal teacher.  Her warmth and willingness to extend herself to her pupils helped me greatly.  I wanted to write an Urban Fantasy novel and her guidance and support allowed me to work on it and finish it within a relatively short period of time.  I signed up for her course again and again. In her classes I completed two short stories which became my first professional magazine sales since the early nineties.  In the years since I took Marta’s course, I have continued to write.  I have sold three short stories to anthologies, two of them soon to be released in Northern Haunts and Terrible Beauty, Deadly Symmetry.
 
I have returned to Gotham this semester to study with Stephen Barbara who teaches a class in how to be published.  Though I’ve sold five short stories, that Urban Fantasy novel I originally wrote in Marta’s class has only gotten rejects.  Time to learn something new, like creating the perfect query letter for agents!  Hopefully the next time you hear from me it will be about the sale of my novel, Chasing the Trickster.
 
A big thank you and hugs to Marta and all the wonderful teachers at Gotham for giving me such great information and support upon my return to the writing world.
 
Best regards,

Avril Dannenbaum, (writing as April Grey)

> To read more Letters to Gotham, 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.

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.

PRAISE FOR <i>WRITING MOVIES</i> Written by members of Gotham's screenwriting faculty, Writing Movies: The Practical Guide to Creating Stellar Screenplays, continues to garner enthusiastic reviews.

"Writing Movies is a valuable and accessible manual on all aspects of screenwriting."
—The Writer

"an excellent resource for anyone considering writing a screenplay; highly recommended" —Library Journal

Preview chapters and learn more at WritingMovies.info.

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.

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