Berlin Writers' Workshop

We founded the Berlin Writers' Workshop to build an open international writing community in the cultural capital of Europe. We believe great writers come from everywhere, and that literature doesn't begin or end in the university or private school. The heart of our community is the writing workshop, where students read and critique one another's work under the guidance of a professional writer. We offer monthly courses and weekend workshops in fiction, nonfiction, publishing, and translation, for professionals and hobbyists alike. We also provide manuscript consultation, one-on-one mentoring, editing services, and creative workshops in the workplace. Our instructors are working writers and translators. We've published books, taught in MFA programs and universities, reported news from around the globe, and written for the best magazines and literary journals in the English-speaking world. We decided to start our own workshop because we're zealous advocates for the workshop model and for creative writing as a way of life. "The instructors at the Berlin Writers' Workshop are among the best in the business: brilliant writers, thorough editors, thoughtful teachers, and insightful critics. That all this literary talent has descended on Berlin is tremendously exciting." — Carmen Maria Machado, author, Her Body and Other Parties