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 of Writers Studio founder/director and Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Philip Schultz. Full tuition will be covered for beginning and more advanced students who successfully progress […]
100 Poems To Break Your Heart Celebration
Celebrate the award-winning poet Ed Hirsch’s wonderful new collection “100 Poems to Break Your Heart” with a Writers Studio reading featuring these distinguished poets: Joy Harjo, Sharon Olds, Yusef Komunyakaa, Naomi Shihab Nye, Natasha Trethewey, and Garrett Hongo. The reading is set for November 7th. For more information get on our mailing list by clicking […]
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 to preserving the best things about in-person classes -- interactivity, energy and surprises, faces and voices, laughter and groans. We continue to get feedback from [...]
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 since he founded the school in 1987. The idea for The Writers Studio Italia originated in 2016 at the Festivaletteratura in Mantua, when Stas’ Gawronski, […]
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 enabled) or by calling in to the live chat with your phone. Your exercises will be shared electronically, and the format of the live class […]
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. Dan Chaon, this year’s Paley Prize judge, begins his comments, saying “This collection has an astonishing range of styles and subject matters—it seems that there’s […]
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 in the Craft Class on May 7. James is also a longtime member of The Writers Studio Advisory Board.
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 of the Small Presses, which is known as “the most honored literary series in America.” Lisa teaches Online Classes and NYC Advanced Poetry.
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 American Academy of Arts and Letters, the honor of election is ‘considered the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in this country’.” Grace Schulman […]
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 here. Learn more about Kimberly Reed here.
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 pursuit of serious creative writing. More information here.
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 Pushcart Prize. Read a review in Compulsive Reader here. Purchase the book here. Lisa teaches NYC Level 2. Details here. Read more Writers Studio success stories […]
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 the United States and worldwide. PEN America also announced the completion of a planned unification with an existing PEN center in Los Angeles that will […]
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 perhaps always longed to be; it allows us to be ourselves, irrevocably. — “Five Pieces of Writing Advice From Philip Schultz,” in Literary Hub. Read more […]
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 published in december magazine’s issue 29.2 this coming November. Therese is co-director of The Writers Studio Hudson Valley. See available Hudson Valley classes here. Learn more […]
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 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 […]
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 on the App Store or get it on Google Play.
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 Star. My Dyslexia: “On reading My Dyslexia, or five reasons I love this book” in Dyslexic Library.
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 fun, supportive space for young people to explore fiction and poetry. Every week, students will practice a narrative technique from some of the best contemporary […]
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 Edition’s 400-page anthology, The Writers Studio at 30. The book is a compilation of fiction and poetry by current and former faculty and students, as […]
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 kidnapped, embezzled,honored and dying at a frightening rate.The cross-dressing exterminator convicted of rapein Kensington, Ohio, sentencedto 72 years without bail, the policeman killedstopping a burglary […]
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 casual workshop in a West Village living room to an established school with four locations, online programs, a reading series, and a nonprofit branch that […]
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, is an occupation rather than a vocation—the most sensible way to use their literary knowledge and skills to earn a living. But for Pulitzer Prize–winner […]
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 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 […]
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 a writing group, and we would read work aloud every week. And we paid a modest sum to the leader. It was actually Philip Schultz, […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 , writer In recent weeks, the poet and American novelist Philip Schultz was in Italy for a brief round of introductions. Pulitzer Prize Winner in […]
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 New York. Liz Kingsley: How have the workshops at The Writers Studio helped you understand your writing process? Lesley Dormen: I started in Level I […]
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 if the order came later, where you like to be when you write, and so on. I’ve always been fascinated with the material of this […]
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 Creative Writing program. His work has been published widely, in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, The New Republic and other magazines and journals. Music: […]
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 about a cow called ‘Daisy Mae LeRoux,’ written when I was twelve,” she says. Now she’s a full-time fiction writer whose first novel, Nature Lessons, […]
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 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 […]
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 veteran of his Writers Studio program who has published stories in several literary journals, and asks her, “What were you feeling when you wrote this?” […]
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 deal of consideration and concern. Can you talk more about these stages? PS: Yes. I’ve taught people in their 30s, 40s and 50s alongside people […]