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Our Original Method Sets Us Apart

Our students have won Pushcarts, a Pulitzer, Emmys, admission to top MFA programs, and too many book and magazine publications to list. Become one of our students!

  • Writer Spotlight

    Philip Schultz

    Writers Studio Founder & Director

    Publishes His Latest Poetry Collection ENORMOUS MORNING

    Read more: Philip Schultz Reads from His Latest Collection ENORMOUS MORNING [Watch the Video]
    Photograph of Writers Studio Founder & Director Philip Schultz
  • Every week, I presented a new story. Finally something did click, the very thing that’s their specialty at The Writers Studio, emotional content. Before, my work was dead. When I brought in my breakthrough story, I felt I was carrying a weird animal in my bag. It was the first story I sold.
    Jennifer Egan
    former student at The Writers Studio, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Visit from the Goon Squad (Alfred A. Knopf 2010)
  • People often ask me where they should go to study writing; hearing the diverse and remarkable readings from The Writers Studio faculty members, I know just what my answer will be.
    Julia Glass
    National Book Award winner for Three Junes (Random House 2002) and author of And the Dark Sacred Night (Pantheon 2014)

About The Writers Studio

For over three decades The Writers Studio has been helping students become stronger, more resourceful writers — with more craft at their disposal, more knowledge of what makes a piece of creative writing satisfying to a reader, and more access to the full range of their emotions and imagination.

We have developed our own teaching method, which gives students the opportunity to “try on” many different narrative approaches. In the process of studying and trying out the techniques found in a wide array of published work, students end up discovering their own material and voice. They also find a supportive community of like-minded classmates. The school is flexible enough to meet the needs of students at all levels of experience and commitment. Students can take a single six-or eight-week workshop, or proceed through a series of increasingly challenging classes.

“The most personal of the programs…”

– The New York Times

News and Updates

Writers Studio Tucson Teacher Alice Hatcher Wins Robert and Adele Schiff Award
Alice Hatcher, Writers Studio Tucson teacher, has won Cincinnati Review‘s Robert and Adele Schiff Award for her essay “Legacy Tree.” “Alice Hatcher’s ‘Legacy Tree’ is a moving excavation of and reflection on the legacy of a complicated father,” writes literary nonfiction judge Michael Griffith. “Our readers loved both what father and daughter planted together decades…
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The Writers Studio Celebrates The Pushcart Book of 21st-Century Poetry & Prose
On Sunday, October 4th at 5 pm ET / 2 pm PT, The Writers Studio will celebrate the publication of The Pushcart Book of Twenty-First Century Poetry and Prose with a free, virtual reading featuring acclaimed Pushcart Prize-winners Joyce Carol Oates, Charles Baxter, Lisa Bellamy, Pam Houston, Diane Seuss, Danez Smith, Patricia Smith, and Arthur Sze….
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