Beware The Shitbird
FIVE PIECES OF WRITING ADVICE FROM PHILIP SCHULTZ BEWARE THE SHITBIRD May 3, 2017 By Emily Temple In 1987, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Schultz founded the Writers Studio, which grew from a casual workshop in a West Village living room to an established school with four locations, online programs, a reading series, and a nonprofit branch that…
Why We Write, Why We Teach Writing
Teaching Writing At the Writers Studio By John Maher | May 05, 2017 Photo courtesy of Philip Schultz For many poets, teaching, be it in high schools or M.F.A. programs, is an occupation rather than a vocation—the most sensible way to use their literary knowledge and skills to earn a living. But for Pulitzer Prize–winner…
Helping Students Write From A Place Of Vulnerability
The Writers Studio at Thirty by Christine Koubek NEWS AND TRENDS May/June 2017 4.12.17 In 1987 Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Philip Schultz started holding small, informal writing workshops in the living room of his tiny apartment in New York City’s West Village. In the thirty years since, these workshops have blossomed into the Writers Studio, an…
Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan credits The Writers Studio with her writing breakthrough.
Jennifer Egan, Writer “I don’t think I’ve ever felt more of a clear triumph, a sense of finally having crossed over a chasm. Published Jan 11, 2016 I was in a writing group, and we would read work aloud every week. And we paid a modest sum to the leader. It was actually Philip Schultz,…
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…
Dyslexic Poet Wins Pulitzer, Writes Memoir
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS ‘My Dyslexia’ Didn’t Keep Poet From A Pulitzer September 25, 20118:00 AM ET Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday How did someone who didn’t learn to read until he was 11 years old come to be a professional poet? The man who poses this question is also the one who can answer it. Host…