Gotham Writers' Workshop


Gotham Writers Workshop is the United States's largest adult-education writing school. It was founded in New York City in 1993 by writers Jeff Fligelman and David Grae. It was one of the first schools to offer online education, launching its online creative writing classes in 1997.
The workshop offers courses in most of the major genres including fiction and novel writing, screenwriting and television, poetry, and several forms of creative nonfiction, including essay writing and memoir.
It also runs fiction and screenwriting classes in partnership with Zoetrope: All Story, the literary magazine founded by Francis Ford Coppola and Adrienne Brodeur and edited by Michael Ray.
Gotham Writers Workshop has produced three books, edited by school President Alexander Steele: Writing Fiction, Fiction Gallery, and Writing Movies. They've also been translated and published in several languages.
The workshop also publishes a monthly newsletter with writing articles by its faculty and others.
Gotham Writers Workshop has two classroom locations in New York: 1450 Broadway and 555 8th Avenue

Faculty

Gotham faculty are all working writers, published in their fields and experienced teachers. Recent faculty include: Novelist Susan Breen, playwright Richard Caliban, memoirist and novelist Kerry Cohen, novelist and former Random House senior editor Anita Diggs, longtime New York Times editor and author Francis Flaherty, travel writer and novelist James Bernard Frost, television writer Kellye Garrett, novelist Shari Goldhagen, fiction writer , screenwriter Doug Katz, young-adult novelist Kody Keplinger, Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Jennifer Lee, science fiction novelist Daniel Marcus, TV writer and comedian , short-story writer Kyle Minor, memoirist Julie Powell, science fiction writer Michaela Roessner, memoirist Domenica Ruta, fiction writer Hasanthika Sirisena, journalist Steven James Snyder, TV writer Laura Wolner, fiction writer and humorist David Yoo, and radio show host and author, .

Student body

Students who began work on successful projects at Gotham include memoirist Annette Berkovits, ; essayist Chloe Caldwell ; middle-grade novelist Josh Farrar, ; TV Writer Wendy Riss; fiction writer Chris Tarry, ; and screenwriter Kelly Winsa,.