We are delighted to share that former Writers Studio student Sean Sutherland has won the James Dickey Prize for Poetry for his poems “My Neighbor’s Dreams,” “Resisting Sleep” and “Recuperation,” which will appear in the fall 2025 issue of FIVE POINTS journal.
Congratulations, Sean!
Read more here.
Philip Schultz, Writers Studio founder and director, appeared on Mitzi Rapkin’s First Draft: A Diaologue on Writing podcast to discuss the craft of writing and the writing Enormous Morning, the latest poetry collection. Listen to the full hour-long interview here.
Eleanor Kedney, former Writers Studio Tucson Director, has published Twelve Days from Transfer, her new poetry collection, “about womanhood—how it is defined, celebrated, and feared.” Kedney’s narrator is this powerful collection is described as “teeter[ing] on a fulcrum between a desperate desire to give birth and the complex emotions surrounding the inability to do so.”…
We are pleased to share that Writers Studio student Ann Chinnis has won a Pushcart Prize for her poem “How to Be a Cowgirl,” which appeared in Issue 26 of Sky Island Journal. Congratulations, Ann!
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…
Writers Studio teacher Lisa Bellamy will publish her latest chapbook BEE FREQUENCY with Black Sunflowers Press. She was selected as one of Black Sunflowers Press’s 2026 poets. Congratulations, Lisa! Find the 2026 list of Black Sunflowers Chapbook Poets here.
Luxury: one of “The Best Poetry Collections To Read This Month.” See the review in The Washington Post. “The Whole Story,” review of Luxury by Dan Giancola in The East Hampton Star. My Dyslexia: “On reading My Dyslexia, or five reasons I love this book” in Dyslexic Library.
