Maurya Kerr Wins 2022 Tom Howard Poetry Prize
We are proud to share that Maurya Kerr, poet and Writers Studio San Francisco student, has won the 2022 Tom Howard Poetry Prize! Congratulations, Maurya! Read “Orion,” her prize-winning poem, here.
Edward Hirsch’s “I Was Never Able to Pray” Featured in NYC Park
NYC Parks and the Poetry Society of America Launch Park Poems “I Was Never Able to Pray”–a poem written by Edward Hirsch, Writers Studio Advisory Board Member–is featured in the NYC Parks’ Park Poems series. The poems appears at Valentino Pier in Red Hook just in time for National Poetry Month. “NYC Parks and the…
Jennifer Egan Shares What She Learned at The Writers Studio
When Jennifer Egan, Writers Studio Advisory Board Member and former student, spoke with The New Yorker, she had this to say about The Writers Studio: “I joined a workshop with Philip Schultz—the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, who now has a kind of institute called the Writers Studio…. It was a fantastic, reasonably priced workshop…. I realized…
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 for publication in November. “To Cigarettes” was originally published in Stonecoast Review Issue 14. Nancy writes fiction and poetry, and is a student in Philip…
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.
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…