Fiction Writing

Enjoy free summer writing workshops held in our outdoor Reading Room.

Fiction is a conjuring act. The writer builds a bridge of words for the reader’s imagination to cross—a tricky collaboration, to be sure. Join us for a free workshop with Gotham Fiction instructor Susan Breen to get some grounded craft advice and work on your stories. Nothing beats playing make-believe on the page in the heart of summertime New York City.

About the instructor
Susan Breen is the author of the novels Merry (Alcove Press), The Fiction Class (Plume/Headline Review UK), and the Maggie Dove mystery series (originally published by Penguin Random House/Alibi and rereleased by Under the Oak Press). Her short stories have appeared in American Literary Review, the Chattahoochee Review, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, as well as the anthologies Best American Nonrequired Reading and Murder Most Diabolical, and she has won the Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition. She holds a BA from the University of Rochester and an MA in Economics from Columbia University.