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  • Writer Spotlight

    Philip Schultz

    Writers Studio Founder & Director

    Publishes His Latest Poetry Collection ENORMOUS MORNING

    Read more: Philip Schultz Reads from His Latest Collection ENORMOUS MORNING [Watch the Video]
    Photograph of Writers Studio Founder & Director Philip Schultz
  • 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, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad (Alfred A. Knopf 2010)
  • People often ask me where they should go to study writing; hearing the diverse and remarkable readings from The Writers Studio faculty members, I know just what my answer will be.
    Julia Glass
    National Book Award winner for Three Junes (Random House 2002) and author of And the Dark Sacred Night (Pantheon 2014)

About The Writers Studio

For over three decades The Writers Studio has been helping students become stronger, more resourceful writers — with more craft at their disposal, more knowledge of what makes a piece of creative writing satisfying to a reader, and more access to the full range of their emotions and imagination.

We have developed our own teaching method, which gives students the opportunity to “try on” many different narrative approaches. In the process of studying and trying out the techniques found in a wide array of published work, students end up discovering their own material and voice. They also find a supportive community of like-minded classmates. The school is flexible enough to meet the needs of students at all levels of experience and commitment. Students can take a single six-or eight-week workshop, or proceed through a series of increasingly challenging classes.

“The most personal of the programs…”

– The New York Times

News and Updates

Writers Studio Student Pamela Wax Publishes New Poetry Collection
Every Single Beast of My Heart is the latest poetry collection by Writers Studio student Pamela Wax.  Her poems, published in over 60 literary journals, have received three Best of the Net nominations and awards from Crosswinds, Paterson Literary Review, Poets’ Billow, Oberon, the Ruben Rose Memorial Poetry Competition, and the Robinson Jeffers Tor House. “This…
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Writers Studio Teacher Kaecey McCormick Wins Wolfson Chapbook Prize
Writers Studio teacher Kaecey McCormick has won the Wolfson Chapbook Prize for her poetry collection The Physics of After, which will be published by Wolfson Press in 2027. “Here we have a wonderfully wrought account of a dying sister and all its attendant griefs,” writes contest judge Nancy Botkin. “While the book’s structure reaches for…
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Writers Studio Student Brigid Duffy’s Novel A GOOD FIND Is Now Available for Pre-order
“I have returned to [The Writers Studio] method again and again,” says former Writes Studio student Brigid Duffy. “Therese Eiben, Joel Hinman, and Cynthia Weiner were all instrumental in helping me write a publishable novel.” Brigid’s novel is available for pre-order and will be released by Sourcebooks Landmark on January 19, 2027. Congratulations, Brigid! Pre-order…
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