We are delighted to share that Bridget Rohde, Writers Studio teacher and student, has won ATLANTA REVIEW‘s 2025 International Poetry Prize for her poem “On Worms and Other Things.”
Congratulations, Bridget!
We are delighted to share that Maurya Kerr, a Writers Studio San Francisco student, has been named a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellow. Congratulations, Maurya! The NEA awards creative writing fellowships of $25,000 in alternating years in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry. These grants allow recipients the time…
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…
Alice Hatcher, Writers Studio Tucson teacher, wins first prize for the 2026 Prime Number Magazine Award for Short Fiction for her story “A Wreck of a Place,” which will appear in Issue 293 of Prime Number Magazine, Sept-Dec 2026. Judge Jodi Paloni had this to say: “As the judge, I had the privilege to read…
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…
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…
“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…
