Writers Workshop at Bryant Park 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.