News and Updates

Sunday, April 23 at 5 pm EDT / 2 pm PDT Join the Writers Studio Reading Series on Sunday, April 23 at 5 pm ET / 2 pm PT for a reading of original work from our faculty. During this virtual reading, teachers from our New York City, Tucson, San Francisco, and Rome branches will share their…

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.

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…

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…

Sunday, March 5 at 5 pm EST Join the Writers Studio Reading Series on Sunday, March 5 at 5 pm ET for a reading of original student work. Students from across The Writers Studio’s branches will be reading. Come to hear poetry, fiction, and memoir from Katie Gleason, Victoria Mack, Tessa Pagones, Tamara Schuyler, Ritish Thalla, Lenore…

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…