Philip Schultz On Writing And Traveling
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Philip Schultz Writing Advice
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…
Publishers Weekly Praises Writers Studio Method
“Poet Schultz delves into the written expression of real emotion in this eloquent guide to ‘persona writing,’ or developing a narrative voice and viewpoint different from one’s own. Doing so, he writes, makes it possible to articulate difficult feelings and can provide a shield from the ‘shitbird,’ Schultz’s term for one’s sense of doubt and…
Helping Students Write From A Place Of Vulnerability
The Writers Studio at Thirty by Christine Koubek NEWS AND TRENDS May/June 2017 4.12.17 In 1987 Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Philip Schultz started holding small, informal writing workshops in the living room of his tiny apartment in New York City’s West Village. In the thirty years since, these workshops have blossomed into the Writers Studio, an…
Dyslexic Poet Wins Pulitzer, Writes Memoir
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS ‘My Dyslexia’ Didn’t Keep Poet From A Pulitzer September 25, 20118:00 AM ET Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday How did someone who didn’t learn to read until he was 11 years old come to be a professional poet? The man who poses this question is also the one who can answer it. Host…
Why We Write, Why We Teach Writing
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…
The New York Times, “New Yorkers & Co.; Open Your Checkbook, Then Just Open a Vein”
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…