Gotham Writers
@gothamwriters.bsky.social
Gotham Writers Workshop offers creative writing classes in New York City and online, with a wide selection of courses in all types of creative writing.
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Hey, #WritingCommunity! If you know any young writers (ages 13 to 18), we @gothamwriters.bsky.social have the contest for them!
Tell us a story about a scar.
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Tell us a story about a scar.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Hey, #WritingCommunity! If you know any young writers (ages 13 to 18), we @gothamwriters.bsky.social have the contest for them!
Tell us a story about a scar.
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Tell us a story about a scar.
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Writers of color! Only a few days left to apply for our Creative Writing Scholarship! Winners receive a 6-week class, a 10-week workshop, and 2 Intensives of their choice, plus a 12-hour mentorship package! Apply below... 👇📝
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Creative Writing Scholarship - Gotham Writers
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November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Writers of color! Only a few days left to apply for our Creative Writing Scholarship! Winners receive a 6-week class, a 10-week workshop, and 2 Intensives of their choice, plus a 12-hour mentorship package! Apply below... 👇📝
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Congratulations to our September #StoriesEverywhere winner, Kris Knapp! The theme was "Progress Report":
“Dating apps? Really?”
“Bows and arrows are inefficient. Don’t you appreciate initiative?”
“I appreciate results. Get back out there,” Venus said, handing Cupid his quiver.
“Dating apps? Really?”
“Bows and arrows are inefficient. Don’t you appreciate initiative?”
“I appreciate results. Get back out there,” Venus said, handing Cupid his quiver.
October 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Congratulations to our September #StoriesEverywhere winner, Kris Knapp! The theme was "Progress Report":
“Dating apps? Really?”
“Bows and arrows are inefficient. Don’t you appreciate initiative?”
“I appreciate results. Get back out there,” Venus said, handing Cupid his quiver.
“Dating apps? Really?”
“Bows and arrows are inefficient. Don’t you appreciate initiative?”
“I appreciate results. Get back out there,” Venus said, handing Cupid his quiver.
Give us the first line of your imagined novel coming out in the year 2052 for the chance to win a free Gotham class!
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Future First Line Contest - Gotham Writers
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October 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Give us the first line of your imagined novel coming out in the year 2052 for the chance to win a free Gotham class!
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"Encouragement" by Angela Lam, an artist and writer. She sells her artwork at Made Local Marketplace and teaches creative writing @gothamwriters.bsky.social. #encouragement #concussion #sofa #useless #mute #son #catalogue #paper #nevergiveup #determination #micromemoir
October 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"Encouragement" by Angela Lam, an artist and writer. She sells her artwork at Made Local Marketplace and teaches creative writing @gothamwriters.bsky.social. #encouragement #concussion #sofa #useless #mute #son #catalogue #paper #nevergiveup #determination #micromemoir
Calling writers ages 13-18!
Are you on Bluesky? Probably not! But perhaps people who know you are.
We are running our very first teen writing contest, and would love to read your stories. The winner will receive a $400 Gotham gift card, a $50 gift card to Bookshop, and publication on our site!
Are you on Bluesky? Probably not! But perhaps people who know you are.
We are running our very first teen writing contest, and would love to read your stories. The winner will receive a $400 Gotham gift card, a $50 gift card to Bookshop, and publication on our site!
Leave Your Mark: Teen Contest - Gotham Writers
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October 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Calling writers ages 13-18!
Are you on Bluesky? Probably not! But perhaps people who know you are.
We are running our very first teen writing contest, and would love to read your stories. The winner will receive a $400 Gotham gift card, a $50 gift card to Bookshop, and publication on our site!
Are you on Bluesky? Probably not! But perhaps people who know you are.
We are running our very first teen writing contest, and would love to read your stories. The winner will receive a $400 Gotham gift card, a $50 gift card to Bookshop, and publication on our site!
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It’s wonderful how a writing deadline focuses the mind…on every little thing that’s dirty in your house.
September 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It’s wonderful how a writing deadline focuses the mind…on every little thing that’s dirty in your house.
Next Wednesday, September 24th! The last Wednesday of every month is always our favorite, thanks to @nycwriterscircle.bsky.social!
If you’re around in NYC next week…
#writingcommunity @gothamwriters.bsky.social @therightsfactory.bsky.social
#writingcommunity @gothamwriters.bsky.social @therightsfactory.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Next Wednesday, September 24th! The last Wednesday of every month is always our favorite, thanks to @nycwriterscircle.bsky.social!
Writers in/around NYC: there are only a handful of spots left in our in-person Write-In happening this Friday, 9/12! There'll be exciting prompts, great instructors, and time to mingle with your fellow writers. Perfect September evening if you ask us. ✍️🍁
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Write-In NYC
Mingle and write with fellow writers.
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September 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Writers in/around NYC: there are only a handful of spots left in our in-person Write-In happening this Friday, 9/12! There'll be exciting prompts, great instructors, and time to mingle with your fellow writers. Perfect September evening if you ask us. ✍️🍁
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Razor submissions are open thru the end of the year!! Send us your flash fiction and flash cnf!
Our submissions are officially open! Send us your best fiction or nonfiction under 1.5k words! We will pay you for your writing! Heck, we'll even pair your story with custom artwork and audio narration by a real human voice actor! Look through the "About" page on our site for more info!
September 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Razor submissions are open thru the end of the year!! Send us your flash fiction and flash cnf!
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"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. Words can be used thus paradoxically because they have, along with a semiotic usage, a symbolic or metaphoric usage."—Ursula K. Le Guin
August 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. Words can be used thus paradoxically because they have, along with a semiotic usage, a symbolic or metaphoric usage."—Ursula K. Le Guin
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James Baldwin has become as much an icon as a public intellectual can be—a status that risks obscuring the richness and variety of his body of work, which explores race, homosexuality, family, and more. Hilton Als shares a few essential books.
Hilton Als’s Essential James Baldwin
Looking closely at a few of the legendary writer’s works.
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August 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
James Baldwin has become as much an icon as a public intellectual can be—a status that risks obscuring the richness and variety of his body of work, which explores race, homosexuality, family, and more. Hilton Als shares a few essential books.
Writers of color! If you have a book manuscript (or nonfiction book proposal) ready to start pitching, there are two days left to apply for our Publish a Book Scholarship for Writers of Color!
Click thru ⬇️ to learn more about application guidelines and submit!
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Click thru ⬇️ to learn more about application guidelines and submit!
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Publish a Book Scholarship - Gotham Writers
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August 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Writers of color! If you have a book manuscript (or nonfiction book proposal) ready to start pitching, there are two days left to apply for our Publish a Book Scholarship for Writers of Color!
Click thru ⬇️ to learn more about application guidelines and submit!
v2.writingclasses.com/scholarships...
Click thru ⬇️ to learn more about application guidelines and submit!
v2.writingclasses.com/scholarships...
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Sub by 3/6 for the Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize, judged by Simon Rich! Winning work will be performed by an actor in spring 2026 & published on @electricliterature.com. Winning writer will receive $1000 & a free 10-week course with @gothamwriters.bsky.social. Details: bit.ly/3GE3N0b
August 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Sub by 3/6 for the Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize, judged by Simon Rich! Winning work will be performed by an actor in spring 2026 & published on @electricliterature.com. Winning writer will receive $1000 & a free 10-week course with @gothamwriters.bsky.social. Details: bit.ly/3GE3N0b
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When students tell us they can't possibly write about their family, teachers like me usually say, deal w/that later, or, yeah, it can be really fraught.
Actually, says @teresawong.bsky.social, you SHOULD write them. Here's why.
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Actually, says @teresawong.bsky.social, you SHOULD write them. Here's why.
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#writingcommunity
Faculty Article: Why Write Your Family’s Story?
For much of my childhood in the 1980s, my mother served up Chinese fast food from a stand in a second-rate suburban mall. Her customers were...
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August 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
When students tell us they can't possibly write about their family, teachers like me usually say, deal w/that later, or, yeah, it can be really fraught.
Actually, says @teresawong.bsky.social, you SHOULD write them. Here's why.
www.writingclasses.com/toolbox/arti...
#writingcommunity
Actually, says @teresawong.bsky.social, you SHOULD write them. Here's why.
www.writingclasses.com/toolbox/arti...
#writingcommunity
This Thursday, 8/14 we will be back at the Bryant Park Reading Room for the final installment of our free Summer workshops! Join us from 6:30-8pm for a free Fiction Writing class!
August 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This Thursday, 8/14 we will be back at the Bryant Park Reading Room for the final installment of our free Summer workshops! Join us from 6:30-8pm for a free Fiction Writing class!
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There are no screenwriting rules. There are conventions, patterns, paradigms. Know them, but don’t let them constrain your creativity. #screenwriting #scriptsky
August 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
There are no screenwriting rules. There are conventions, patterns, paradigms. Know them, but don’t let them constrain your creativity. #screenwriting #scriptsky
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A house isn’t a home without an excessive amount of books. 🏡📚
August 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A house isn’t a home without an excessive amount of books. 🏡📚
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"I stand here like some ashes that used to be a clown, looking out quietly from my face to watch the failure of these words to be those things." —Denis Johnson, "For Jane"
August 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"I stand here like some ashes that used to be a clown, looking out quietly from my face to watch the failure of these words to be those things." —Denis Johnson, "For Jane"
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I not-so-secretly love it when the stores put out their back to school displays. Something deep within my soul is soothed by an orderly aisle full of colorful notebooks, pens, and backpacks
August 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I not-so-secretly love it when the stores put out their back to school displays. Something deep within my soul is soothed by an orderly aisle full of colorful notebooks, pens, and backpacks
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Timeline cleanse!
Celebrate with @gothamwriters.bsky.social as our own Stuart Pennebaker's debut novel releases Tuesday!
Here, GWW Pres Alex talks to Stuart—director of publishing guidance—about how she guided her book to publication.
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Celebrate with @gothamwriters.bsky.social as our own Stuart Pennebaker's debut novel releases Tuesday!
Here, GWW Pres Alex talks to Stuart—director of publishing guidance—about how she guided her book to publication.
blogs.gothamwriters.com/2025/07/30/h...
#WritingCommunity
August 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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What words were first used in the year you were born?
Time-Travelling with Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary
I was born in the year of “parachute pants” and “stepparenting.” I graduated from college in the year of “chillax” and “clickbait.”
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August 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
What words were first used in the year you were born?
Hey writers! Due to rain we are moving tonight's FREE Memoir Writing class indoors. We'll be at 5 Bryant Park, on the 24th FL at 6:30 pm. Hope to see you there!
July 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Hey writers! Due to rain we are moving tonight's FREE Memoir Writing class indoors. We'll be at 5 Bryant Park, on the 24th FL at 6:30 pm. Hope to see you there!
NYC writers! We will be back at the Bryant Park Reading Room tomorrow, 7/31 for a FREE Memoir Writing class! Come write with us!
July 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
NYC writers! We will be back at the Bryant Park Reading Room tomorrow, 7/31 for a FREE Memoir Writing class! Come write with us!
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He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List. 📚
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He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List.
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July 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List. 📚
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...
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