At our school poets discover they’re really fiction writers and vice versa all the time. The right technique gives us permission to be wrong, and bad, and unfair, things we perhaps always longed to be; it allows us to be ourselves, irrevocably. — “Five Pieces of Writing Advice From Philip Schultz,” in Literary Hub. Read more here.
Teaching Writing At the Writers Studio By John Maher | May 05, 2017 Photo courtesy of Philip Schultz For many poets, teaching, be it in high schools or M.F.A. programs, is an occupation rather than a vocation—the most sensible way to use their literary knowledge and skills to earn a living. But for Pulitzer Prize–winner…
Read a recent interview in “Cagibi” here.
(Excerpt) Four years ago, Lynette Brasfield was a full-time corporate writer and mother of two teenage boys who had never done any creative writing, “unless you count a short story about a cow called ‘Daisy Mae LeRoux,’ written when I was twelve,” she says. Now she’s a full-time fiction writer whose first novel, Nature Lessons,…
In her first collection, The Best Place to Be (Reviews, Dec. 11), Lesley Dormen creates a narrator who’s run the bases in life, work and love, and finds, at age 50, she’s arrived at last.
The developing short story Bill Eville took to writing class that night was so personal he might as well have shown up naked. Based on a terrifying experience he had when he was 11 and his brother was 13, the story describes two boys who go hitchhiking one summer night for a kick, only to…
FEATURED Philip Schultz in Mantua, September 9, 2016. (Basso Cannarsa, Luzphoto) 26MAR 201710:42 OPINIONS The poem by Philip Schultz helps us deal with the age of the anger Nicola Lagioia , writer In recent weeks, the poet and American novelist Philip Schultz was in Italy for a brief round of introductions. Pulitzer Prize Winner in…
