Jim Sieyes, a Writers Studio student who publishes under the name Jim Ellis, has published five historical fiction novels that have been added to the National Library of Scotland’s collection. Jim started by taking Online workshops, and has written these novels in a series of successful tutorials.
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…
When Jennifer Egan, Writers Studio Advisory Board Member and former student, spoke with The New Yorker, she had this to say about The Writers Studio: “I joined a workshop with Philip Schultz—the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, who now has a kind of institute called the Writers Studio…. It was a fantastic, reasonably priced workshop…. I realized…
The Writers Studio—in partnership with Dyslexic Advantage—is sponsoring the 10th anniversary Karina Eide Young Writers Awards. Over $1,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to K-12 young dyslexic writers. Applicants must be dyslexic, and submissions may be from 17 to 700 words. We accept poems, short stories, fan fiction, and excerpts from longer works. Student…
Cynthia Weiner, Pushcart Prize-winner and assistant director of The Writers Studio, and Therese Eiben, former director of The Writers Studio Hudson Valley, have stories in the anthology “Coolest American Stories 2024.” Congratulations, Therese and Cynthia! To read Cynthia Weiner’s “A Castle in Outer Space” or Therese Eiben’s “Pass the Baby” in “Coolest American Stories 2024”…
We are proud to share that Maurya Kerr, poet and Writers Studio San Francisco student, has won the 2022 Tom Howard Poetry Prize! Congratulations, Maurya! Read “Orion,” her prize-winning poem, here.
“Googling Ourselves” by Philip Schultz, founder and director of The Writers Studio. October 23, 2017 Issue Googling Ourselves By Philip Schultz Audio: Read by the author. These strangers with my name,busy being kidnapped, embezzled,honored and dying at a frightening rate.The cross-dressing exterminator convicted of rapein Kensington, Ohio, sentencedto 72 years without bail, the policeman killedstopping a burglary…
