New York Writers Workshop - The portable MFA in creative writing: improve your craft with the core essentials taught to MFA students

PETER BRICKLEBANK thanks Sarah Van Arsdale for her editorial wisdom and for allowing him to clog her voice mail. He thanks Jessica Treat, Arlene Bensam, Deborah Ungar, JR Roessl, Lydie Raschka, Harriet R. Goren, Nicole Quinn, Darryl Graff, Kathleen Locke, Rosie Blitchington, and Barry Ramus, for their words and insights. And he thanks all his students, named or otherwise, who have worked, thought, and laughed right along with him.

RITA GABIS thanks her students and Donna Masini for her valuable input.

CHARLES SALZBERG thanks Helen Zelon, Nicole Tucker, Shannon Barr, Joslyn Matthews, and the rest of his students from whom he's learned so much. He also thanks Charles Leerhsen and John Lombardi for their skill as magazine writers and their generosity in allowing him to use their work. And he thanks Bill Glavin of the S.I. New house School of Public Communications, for giving him the opportunity to teach in the major leagues.

CHARLIE SCHULMAN thanks Ryan Dewit, Flora Prenga, and Laura Weiss, and especially thanks Juliet Bellow for her expertise and guidance.

For the opportunities they've given the New York Writers Workshop to conduct workshops abroad, TIM TOMLINSON would like to thank Vim Nadera, Director, Institute of Creative Writing, University of the Philippines, Diliman Campus, Quezon City, Philippines; Ed Lejano, Director, Film Institute, University of the Philippines, Diliman Campus, Quezon City, Philippines; Erich Sysak, Director, Professional Writing Program, Webster University, Cha'am, Thailand; Heng Li Lang, Senior Assistant Director (Capability Development), Industry Development Division, the Media Development Authority of Singapore; Tan Lay Ping, Senior Management Executive (Capability Development), Industry Development Division, the Media Development Authority of Singapore; Tony Chow, President, Digital Media Academy, Singapore; Linda Mironti and Michael Mele, Founders, Il Chiostro, New York and Tuscany, Italy. And for the opportunity she's given him to live, love, and work at home, he would like to thank Lourdes Barrion Rodriguez.

THE NEW YORK WRITERS WORKSHOP thanks Rabbi Joy Levitt, Isaac Zablocki, Karen Sander, and the rest of the staff of the JCC-Manhattan; Adele Heyman at the Open Center; Denis Woychuk, owner of the KGB Bar; Michael Neff of the Algonkian Workshop; and Ducts.org.

Also thanks to our agent, June Clark, without whom this book would not have been possible.

And a special thanks to editor Michelle Ehrhard who put up with five writers, when even one is sometimes too much.