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The Isabelle Deconinck Scholarship
The Writers Studio is pleased to offer a scholarship in memory of beloved Writers Studio student and teacher Isabelle Deconinck. A gifted writer, Isabelle Deconinck was awarded fellowships in fiction from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation (Taos, NM) and her fiction appeared in “Five Points,” “Epiphany” and “KGB Lit.” She was dedicated to The Writers Studio, as both a teacher for…

The Writers Studio at 30, an anthology of work by teachers, students, and advisory board is published by Epiphany Editions
The Writers Studio, the landmark school for creative writing and thinking founded and directed by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Philip Schultz, celebrates its 30th anniversary with the release of Epiphany Edition’s 400-page anthology, The Writers Studio at 30. The book is a compilation of fiction and poetry by current and former faculty and students, as…

Teacher Wins Award From Anne Tyler
Congratulations, Therese Eiben, whose story “Pass the Baby” was chosen by guest judge Anne Tyler as the Honorable Mention winner for the 2018 Curt Johnson Prose Award and will be published in december magazine’s issue 29.2 this coming November. Therese is co-director of The Writers Studio Hudson Valley. See available Hudson Valley classes here. Learn more…

Advisory Board Member Elected to Academy of Arts and Letters
“The American Academy of Arts and Letters has elected Baruch College’s Distinguished Professor of English Grace Schulman, PhD, to become a member of its Department of Literature. According to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the honor of election is ‘considered the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in this country’.” Grace Schulman…

Lisa Bellamy Awarded Second Pushcart Prize
We are pleased to share that Lisa Bellamy, a Writers Studio teacher and student, has won her second Pushcart Prize for her poem “Thank You for the Tulips,” which originally appeared in the New Ohio Review and will appear in The Pushcart Prize Volume XLVIII (2024 edition). Congratulations, Lisa! Lisa Bellamy is the author of…

Lynn Schmeidler to Publish Debut Short Story Collection
This spring Lynn Schmeidler, former Writers Studio student, will publish her debut short story collection “Half-Lives,” winner of Autumn House Press’s Rising Writer Prize. Matt Bell, author of Appleseed, says, “Lynn Schmeidler’s Half-Lives is an extraordinary debut, an endlessly smart, endlessly cool, endlessly moving collection full of evocative desire and wonder.” Congratulations, Lynn! Half-Lives is available for…