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.

Give us the first line of your imagined novel coming out in the year 2052 for the chance to win a free Gotham class! v2.writingclasses.com/contests/fut...

"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!

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!

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. ✍️🍁 wp.writingclasses.com/courses/writ...

Razor submissions are open thru the end of the year!! Send us your flash fiction and flash cnf!

"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

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! v2.writingclasses.com/scholarships...

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

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

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!

There are no screenwriting rules. There are conventions, patterns, paradigms. Know them, but don’t let them constrain your creativity. #screenwriting #scriptsky

A house isn’t a home without an excessive amount of books. 🏡📚

"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"

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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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!

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!

He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List. 📚 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...

Look, I love "They shoot the white girl first," and "The first time I cheated on my husband, my mother had been dead exactly one week" as much as anyone. But a beginning doesn't have to be a Big Hook, a Grabber Lede, to be good. blogs.gothamwriters.com/2025/07/15/l... #writingcommunity

that liminal thing when you're reading and falling asleep and start to hallucinate words on the page that aren't on the page, i love that

Dalia Pagani, one of my @gothamwriters.bsky.social colleagues, said recently that what she calls the Big Hook opening (aka the Grabber Lede) might be over-emphasized. And you know what? She's right! blogs.gothamwriters.com/2025/07/15/l... #WritingCommunity

Heads up NYC-area writers: we will be back at the Bryant Park Reading Room with a free 90-minute writing class all about Flash Fiction & Nonfiction this Thursday, 7/17 at 6:30 pm. Come write with us!

Bluesky! We're here! We're no longer posting on that other website (you know the one). Give us a follow if you like. We're excited to be in this writerly space with you.