NPR and American Public Media, “The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor”
Philip Schultz Q: Would you tell us about the writing process for Living in the Past, how long it took to write, if the poems were written in order or if the order came later, where you like to be when you write, and so on. I’ve always been fascinated with the material of this…
WNYC, “The Leonard Lopate Show”
Philip Schultz reads two selections from his recent book-length poem, Living in the Past. He’s the founder and director of The Writers Studio, and a former director of NYU’s Graduate Creative Writing program. His work has been published widely, in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, The New Republic and other magazines and journals. Music:…
Poets & Writers Magazine, “Learning Fiction Online, Are You Ready to Workshop on the Web?”
(Excerpt) Four years ago, Lynette Brasfield was a full-time corporate writer and mother of two teenage boys who had never done any creative writing, “unless you count a short story about a cow called ‘Daisy Mae LeRoux,’ written when I was twelve,” she says. Now she’s a full-time fiction writer whose first novel, Nature Lessons,…
The New York Times, “New Yorkers & Co.; Open Your Checkbook, Then Just Open a Vein”
The developing short story Bill Eville took to writing class that night was so personal he might as well have shown up naked. Based on a terrifying experience he had when he was 11 and his brother was 13, the story describes two boys who go hitchhiking one summer night for a kick, only to…
Poets & Writers Magazine, “Trying on Voices for Size”
Phil Schultz waits while several students in his workshop make tactful criticisms about one of their peer’s weekly exercises. When they have finished, Schultz turns to its author, a nine-year veteran of his Writers Studio program who has published stories in several literary journals, and asks her, “What were you feeling when you wrote this?”…
The Writers Studio Newsletter, “An interview with Philip Schultz”
FR: One of the unusual things about The Writers Studio is that there are different levels. Each one is very specific and students pass through these levels with a great deal of consideration and concern. Can you talk more about these stages? PS: Yes. I’ve taught people in their 30s, 40s and 50s alongside people…