A GORGEOUS EXCITEMENT by Writers Studio Assistant Director Cynthia Weiner is available in paperback at Barnes and Noble.
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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.
We are pleased to share that Writers Studio student Kelly Beard published her poem “The Heft of a Soul” in Five Points literary magazine. Read the poem 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.”…
Congratulations to Writers Studio teacher Susan K. Tatiner on the publication of her chapbook Traitor’s Bluff. Susan Tatiner’s poetry has appeared in Artemis, Litchfield Review, Voices Project, Front Porch Review, and other publications. She is currently completing a second manuscript.
“I had never taken a fiction writing class before. For one of our first class assignments, I wrote a short piece about an older Indian man, recently divorced, who was experimenting with Internet dating, and navigating a complicated relationship with his adult daughter and ex-wife. I have returned many times to that fictional character and his family. In fact, I wrote a…
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…
