News and Updates

Thursday, February 16 at 7 pm EST Buffalo Corner Reading Series will present an evening of poetry with Philip Schultz, Writers Studio found and director, and Carl Dennis, Writers Studio Advisory Board Member. To receive a link to attend this event, featuring two Pulitzer Prize-winning poets, on Thursday, February 16th at 7 p.m., please visit…

Sunday, January 29 at 5 pm EST Save the date! Join the Writers Studio Reading Series on Sunday, January 29 at 5 pm ET for our first reading of 2023. We will be celebrating the Pushcart Prize XLVII: Best of the Small Presses 2023. This free, virtual reading will feature poetry and fiction from this 47th annual…

Writers Studio student Jay Kidd’s All the Beauty explores and illuminates the life of a poet writing in midlife, reflecting on how he has lived and what he has lived through. His poems portray the emotional impact of an unsettled childhood, a young adulthood overtaken by an epidemic and the impact of having survived it, the satisfaction…

Listen to Writers Studio founder and director Philip Schultz discuss his new book, Comforts of the Abyss, on Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon!

Give a writing class or tutorial as a gift to a parent, young adult, or any loved or liked one. Please write to Liz at liz@writerstudio.com or call (212) 255-7075 for personal, thoughtful gift-giving. Check out available classes here. Send a copy of Comforts of the Abyss, by founder and director Philip Schultz, which tells the…

“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…