Nancy Connors Awarded 2023 Pushcart Prize
Nancy Connors, a Writers Studio teacher and student, has won the Pushcart Prize for her poem “To Cigarettes,” which will appear in The Pushcart Prize Volume XLVII (2023 edition), scheduled […]
Publishers Weekly Praises Writers Studio Method
“In this tour de force on the artist’s life, Philip Schultz takes us deeply and intimately into the many perils of the writer’s perpetually hovering shadow of self-doubt and self-loathing, […]
Writers Studio Spring 2022 Student Poetry Reading
Sunday, April 10 at 7 pm (ET) / 4 pm (PT) Writers Studio teachers and poets Lisa Bellamy and Peter Krass will host a free, virtual reading featuring original work […]
Writers Studio Spring 2022 Faculty Reading
Sunday, March 13 at 7 pm (EST) Join the Writers Studio for this free, virtual event featuring some of your favorite Writers Studio faculty reading from their original work: LISA […]
Reading Featuring 2022 Pushcart Prize Winners
Friday, January 21 at 7 pm (EST) Join the Writers Studio on Friday, January 21 at 7 pm ET for a celebration of the Pushcart Prize XLVI: Best of the […]
Edward Hirsch’s 100 Poems to Break Your Heart Celebration
Sunday, November 7 at 7 pm (EST) Join a star-studded lineup of poets, including Joy Harjo, Garrett Hongo, Yusef Komunyakaa, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, and Natasha Trethewey, to celebrate […]
Writing From Home–Online, Remote Live, and Hybrid Classes
Remote live classes take the place of classes normally scheduled for San Francisco, Tucson, NYC, Hudson Valley, and Rome. They meet via video chat in real time. They are committed [...]
Introducing The Writers Studio Italia
The Writers Studio Italia offers ongoing creative writing workshops entirely in Italian in Rome and Online using the tried and true method developed by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Philip Schultz […]
The Ralph Dickey Scholarship — The Results Are In
The Writers Studio is pleased to offer the Ralph Dickey Scholarship to Black aspiring writers. The scholarship is named in honor of Ralph Dickey, African American poet and dear friend […]
Coronavirus Update / Remote Learning For NYC, Tucson, San Francisco, and Hudson Valley Classes Until Further Notice
UPDATE Until further notice, all NYC, San Francisco, Tucson, and Hudson Valley writing classes are meeting by video remote at their scheduled times via video chat (with or without cameras […]
You’re Invited: Readings And Free Events
Readings, free classes, book fairs, and other literary events in NYC, Tucson, San Francisco, Hudson Valley, and more. Check it out and join us.
SF Student Cecile Barlier Wins Grace Paley Prize For Short Fiction
San Francisco Master Class writer, Cécile Barlier, has just won the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, for her manuscript, A Gypsy’s Book of Revelation. […]
The New Yorker Reviews Craft Class Teacher
James Lasdun’s new book, “Afternoon of a Faun,” is called “brilliant” by Katy Waldman in “The New Yorker” April 30, 2019 issue. James will discuss his technique with Philip Schultz […]
Teacher Wins Pushcart Prize!
“Wild Pansy,” a poem in Lisa Bellamy’s book, The Northway (Terrapin Books), has won a 2019 Pushcart Prize. The poem will appear in the next edition of The Pushcart Prize: Best […]
Advisory Board Member Elected to Academy of Arts and Letters
“The American Academy of Arts and Letters has elected Baruch College’s Distinguished Professor of English Grace Schulman, PhD, to become a member of its Department of Literature. According to the […]
New Advisory Board Member Nominated for Academy Award
Kimberly Reed, documentary film maker and alum of the NYC Master Class, made the shortlist for a 2019 Academy Award for her film “Dark Money.” Learn more about the film […]
Philip Schultz On Writing And Traveling
Read a recent interview in “Cagibi” here.
The Writers Room NYC
The Writers Room is New York City’s only nonprofit, shared work space for writers. We highly recommend this oasis of distraction-free quietude as a comfortable and inviting place for the […]
Four Pushcart Nominations for Teacher’s Poetry Collection
“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 […]
Alum and Advisory Board Member Named President of PEN America
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan became the new president of PEN America, taking leadership of the organization of writers as it mobilizes against mounting dangers for free expression rights in […]
Philip Schultz Writing Advice
At our school poets discover they’re really fiction writers and vice versa all the time. The right technique gives us permission to be wrong, and bad, and unfair, things we […]
Teacher Wins Award From Anne Tyler
Congratulations, Therese Eiben, whose story “Pass the Baby” was chosen by guest judge Anne Tyler as the Honorable Mention winner for the 2018 Curt Johnson Prose Award and will be […]
Teacher’s Debut Novel
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 […]
New Social Media App Features The Writers Studio
The world will be a better place when everyone is heard. Ense is the new platform for you to speak, sing, and shout to the world. Follow us @writerstudio. Download […]
Philip Schultz “Luxury” and “My Dyslexia” Recent Reviews
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 […]
Teen Writing Class This Summer
The Writers Studio Teen Workshop is a creative writing program geared specifically for the needs and passions of teens, based on the successful Writers Studio program for adults. It’s a […]
The Writers Studio at 30, an anthology of work by teachers, students, and advisory board is published by Epiphany Editions
The Writers Studio, the landmark school for creative writing and thinking founded and directed by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Philip Schultz, celebrates its 30th anniversary with the release of Epiphany […]
Philip Schultz “Googling Ourselves” in The New Yorker, October 23, 2017 issue.
“Googling Ourselves” by Philip Schultz, founder and director of The Writers Studio. October 23, 2017 Issue Googling Ourselves By Philip Schultz Audio: Read by the author. These strangers with my name,busy being […]
Beware The Shitbird
FIVE PIECES OF WRITING ADVICE FROM PHILIP SCHULTZ BEWARE THE SHITBIRD May 3, 2017 By Emily Temple In 1987, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Schultz founded the Writers Studio, which grew from a […]
Why We Write, Why We Teach Writing
Teaching Writing At the Writers Studio By John Maher | May 05, 2017 Photo courtesy of Philip Schultz For many poets, teaching, be it in high schools or M.F.A. programs, […]
Helping Students Write From A Place Of Vulnerability
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 […]
Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan credits The Writers Studio with her writing breakthrough.
Jennifer Egan, Writer “I don’t think I’ve ever felt more of a clear triumph, a sense of finally having crossed over a chasm. Published Jan 11, 2016 I was in […]
The New York Times, “New Yorkers & Co.; Open Your Checkbook, Then Just Open a Vein”
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 […]
Dyslexic Poet Wins Pulitzer, Writes Memoir
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 […]
A Poem For The Age Of Anger
FEATURED Philip Schultz in Mantua, September 9, 2016. (Basso Cannarsa, Luzphoto) 26MAR 201710:42 OPINIONS The poem by Philip Schultz helps us deal with the age of the anger Nicola Lagioia […]
Pulitzer Centennial Poetry Celebration features Philip Schultz
Philip Schultz reads with other Pulitzer Prize winning poets Rita Dove, Vijay Seshadri, Lisel Mueller, and others. October 27, 7 PM. Thea Great hall of The Cooper Union, NYC https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/pulitzer-centennial-poetry-celeb/
The Writers Studio Newsletter, “An Interview with Lesley Dormen”
Liz Kingsley interviewed the author of The Best Place to Be, published by Simon and Schuster. Lesley Dormen is a student in the Master Class and teaches Level IV in […]
Publishers Weekly, “Finding Grace-PW Talks with Lesley Dormen”
In her first collection, The Best Place to Be (Reviews, Dec. 11), Lesley Dormen creates a narrator who’s run the bases in life, work and love, and finds, at age 50, she’s arrived at last.
NPR and American Public Media, “The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor”
Philip Schultz Q: Would you tell us about the writing process for Living in the Past, how long it took to write, if the poems were written in order or […]
WNYC, “The Leonard Lopate Show”
Philip Schultz reads two selections from his recent book-length poem, Living in the Past. He’s the founder and director of The Writers Studio, and a former director of NYU’s Graduate […]
Poets & Writers Magazine, “Learning Fiction Online, Are You Ready to Workshop on the Web?”
(Excerpt) Four years ago, Lynette Brasfield was a full-time corporate writer and mother of two teenage boys who had never done any creative writing, “unless you count a short story […]
The New York Times, “New Yorkers & Co.; Open Your Checkbook, Then Just Open a Vein”
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 […]
Poets & Writers Magazine, “Trying on Voices for Size”
Phil Schultz waits while several students in his workshop make tactful criticisms about one of their peer’s weekly exercises. When they have finished, Schultz turns to its author, a nine-year […]
The Writers Studio Newsletter, “An interview with Philip Schultz”
FR: One of the unusual things about The Writers Studio is that there are different levels. Each one is very specific and students pass through these levels with a great […]