Former Writers Studio Student Bill Eville Publishes Memoir
Bill Eville, former Writers Studio student, publishes his memoir and shares how The Writers Studio method of persona writing freed him up to write. Read more here.
Bill Eville, former Writers Studio student, publishes his memoir and shares how The Writers Studio method of persona writing freed him up to write. Read more here.
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…
Maurya Kerr, a student in the Writers Studio San Francisco Master class, has published her first chapbook “Muttology” with Small Harbor Publishing. Congratulations, Maurya! Maurya is a bay area-based writer and artist. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, appears in multiple journals, including “Magma Poetry” and “Poet Lore,” and is anthologized in “The…
“The Northway,” a full length collection of poetry and prose poems by Lisa Bellamy, is now available from Terrapin Books. Four poems from this collection have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Read a review in Compulsive Reader here. Purchase the book here. Lisa teaches NYC Level 2. Details here. Read more Writers Studio success stories…
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…
Congratulations, Christopher Shade “The Good Mother of Marseille,” the debut novel by Christopher X. Shade, will be published by Paloma Press in early 2019. In the book, it is Marseille’s summer of 2013, and an ensemble of Americans wander and sightsee this dangerous, impoverished yet seductive city in the year of its designation as the…
Writers Studio student Jay Kidd’s All the Beauty explores and illuminates the life of a poet writing in midlife, reflecting on how he has lived and what he has lived through. His poems portray the emotional impact of an unsettled childhood, a young adulthood overtaken by an epidemic and the impact of having survived it, the satisfaction…