“Thank You for the Tulips,” a Pushcart Prize-winning poem written by Writers Studio teacher Lisa Bellamy, was recently featured in LitHub’s “On Beauty and Its Opposite: On Writing Toward Aesthetic Force.” This essay was part four of a five-part series on the craft of writing by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante. Read the essay…
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…
Listen to Writers Studio founder and director Philip Schultz discuss his new book, Comforts of the Abyss, on Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon!
“Poet Schultz delves into the written expression of real emotion in this eloquent guide to ‘persona writing,’ or developing a narrative voice and viewpoint different from one’s own. Doing so, he writes, makes it possible to articulate difficult feelings and can provide a shield from the ‘shitbird,’ Schultz’s term for one’s sense of doubt and…
