Nightwork is a writing workshop based in Brooklyn, New York and run by the writers Erinrose Mager, Alec Niedenthal, and Cora Lewis. Classes are held virtually but may be held in person in the future.
Alec Niedenthal’s stories can be found in The Paris Review, The Drift, The Baffler, Joyland, and other venues, and his debut novel The Kaufmanns is forthcoming in July 2027 from Ecco in the US and Jonathan Cape in the UK. He has taught fiction writing at Brown University, where he received his MFA, and at the Center for Fiction.
Erinrose Mager is the author of Hot Fruit. Her work appears in Prelude, DIAGRAM, jubilat, Fence, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She teaches at The Brooklyn Writers Foundry MFA Program at St. Joseph’s University and has taught at The University of Denver, where she received her PhD, Washington University in St. Louis, where she received her MFA, and Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
Cora Lewis is a writer and reporter whose novella, Information Age, was named a Book Book of 2025 by the New Yorker. Her fiction has appeared at The Yale Review, Joyland Magazine, Epiphany, and elsewhere. She has taught at Center for Fiction and Washington University in St. Louis, where she received her MFA. She currently works at the Associated Press.
‘Nightwork’ gets its name from the book Nightwork by Christine Schutt.
