Writing Workshop Question

toliver said Yes, I have some questions or rather would you do a post about the benefits of writing workshops and what to look for, the cost and who runs good ones?

Benefits

When I was first starting to write stories to submit to magazines, I think workshops helped me a lot. The ones I did as a student were back in the late 80s and 90s. They were really pre-web, pre-internet to a large extent, so they were one of the best ways to get information on what publishing was like, how to submit stor...