Our teenage students have used our teen workshops to win Scholastic Writing Awards, write personal essays for high school and college applications, and achieve creative fulfillment. The Writers Studio Teen Workshop is a creative ...

“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 ...

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....

Read a recent interview in “Cagibi” here....

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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....

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 ...