ALUMNI

The Writers Studio is proud of the success of its students. Alumni include Jennifer Egan, Pat Mangan, Jenny McPhee, Martha McPhee, Walter Mosley, Martha Southgate, Jeff Friedman, Jane Avrich and Jean Godfrey-June .

Read all about the latest success stories of our teachers and students with publications that include: Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Open City, Five Points, Harpers, The Paris Review, Glimmer Train, A Gathering of the Tribes, Blind Man's Rainbow, The Blue Moon Review, Rainbow Curve, Alaska Quarterly Review, New Orleans Review, Texas Poetry Review, a Fiction Award from the Ironweed Press, a Mac Dowell Fellowship, a Writing Grant from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, a text read on National Public Radio, an Emmy Award for an HBO movie and a Pushcart Prize.

“Every week, I presented a new story. Finally something did click, the very thing that's their specialty at The Writers Studio, emotional content. Before, my work was dead. When I brought in my breakthrough story, I felt I was carrying a weird animal in my bag. It was the first story I sold.”

-JENNIFER EGAN, former student at The Writers Studio, National Book Award Finalist for Look At Me (Doubleday 2001)