Stories by Therese Eiben and Cynthia Weiner Featured in Coolest American Stories 2024
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Stories by Therese Eiben and Cynthia Weiner Featured in Coolest American Stories 2024

Cynthia Weiner, Pushcart Prize-winner and assistant director of The Writers Studio, and Therese Eiben, former director of The Writers Studio Hudson Valley, have stories in the anthology Coolest American Stories 2024. Congratulations, Therese and Cynthia! To read Cynthia Weiner’s “A Castle in Outer Space” or Therese Eiben’s “Pass the Baby” in Coolest American Stories 2024…

Random House Publishes Student’s Debut Novel

Random House Publishes Student’s Debut Novel

“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…

Four Pushcart Nominations for Teacher’s Poetry Collection

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…

Teacher’s Debut Novel

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…